LETTER OF THE DAY - New approach to agriculture needed
THE EDITOR, Sir: Dr Marshall Hall's practical prescriptions for agriculture appearing in The Sunday Gleaner of August 2 coincided with those of John Maxwell in another newspaper of the same date.

What is keeping Jamaicans down
THE EDITOR, Sir: ARE WE Defeated not by the weapon of our enemies, but at the hands of our pessimism? Following Independence and Emancipation celebrations, I have heard much sound-off regarding the 'mental slavery' to which we Jamaicans are still...

The low-down on S&P credit rating
THE EDITOR, Sir: STANDARD & POOR (S&P) is a United States-based financial services company which offers, among its many services, credit ratings whereby it assigns credit scores to issuers of certain types of debt obligations, as well as...

Congratulations, Ian Boyne, OD
THE EDITOR, Sir: Congratulations to your outstanding columnist Ian Boyne for being conferred the national honour of Order of Distinction, Commander class.

National crime conference needed
THE EDITOR, Sir: YOUR LETTER of the Day 'Crime, not diaspora, conference needed' (August 7, 2009), written by Mr Hero Scott, makes a solid suggestion about the need for a national conference on crime.

NOTE-WORTHY: Where is the independence?
It has been 47 years since Independence, but where is the independence for Jamaica?The colonial powers still hold the yoke around Jamaican people's necks.