LETTER OF THE DAY - Call the JPS's bluff
The Editor, Sir: This is an open letter to the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR).I won't wait until your public forums to make known my opinions on the JPS's submission for a 23 per cent average rate increase to the Jamaican consumers of electricity...
Many teachers back performance-based pay
The Editor, Sir: I am a teacher and I support performance-based pay for teachers. I have listened to the discussions, read the arguments and applied them to my own experiences. I am confident that all I have witnessed and heard about in the education system...
What is education?
The Editor, Sir: Your columnist, Peter Espeut, in his column of March 13 asked a very pertinent question, "What is the vision for education (in Jamaica)?"It would be useful, however, in attempting to answer that question, to first ask ourselves...
Nationality and top posts
The Editor, Sir: A retired colonel of the Jamaica Defence Force has raised the issue of non-Jamaica-born persons being excluded from holding the top post in the army, based on a policy decision which he said was made by the Defence Board in the 1970s....
McKenzie's unhelpful grandstanding
The Editor, Sir: On Sunday afternoon, I happened to be driving along Argyle Road when, on reaching a spanking new apartment complex, I saw a man diligently watering a patch of beautiful green grass that was growing inside the kerb wall....
Frustrating snail mail
The Editor, Sir: Last year, one of my sons was married in New York and, if it was up to the Jamaican Post Office, I would not have been at his wedding, nor would I have known the date. The invitation took four months to reach me!
Society on a slippery slope
The Editor, Sir: I reached for my March 2009 Essence magazine with great delight. Going through the pages I saw 'Jamaica' and, of course ,the fact that there was something about Jamaica in an international magazine meant I had to stop and read.
Thank you
The Editor, Sir: We at the Women's Resources and Outreach Centre (WROC) thank you for the front page report in The Gleaner of March 12 which highlights the work being done in St Thomas under the EU/WROC/Christian Aidlivelihoods project....
Hungry for 'yard' food
The Editor, Sir: When one is away from Jamaica, he or she wants to continue to have a taste of Jamaica. We normally search the web, listen to online radio and read the newspapers online...
Carnival prejudice?
The Editor, Sir: I was made to feel like a second-rate citizen several weeks ago when I attended the opening of Bacchanal Fridays at Mas Camp.
Poor parental conduct
The Editor, Sir: A kind of frenzy seems to have taken hold of the minds of some of our parents. It has now become commonplace for some of them to padlock school gates and parents and students ...