THE EDITOR, Sir: Last week, the nation breathed a sigh of relief when National Security Minister Robert Montague confidently assured us that additional troops were headed to St James and that that should ease the crime problems there. By the end of what The Sunday Gleaner calls ‘Hell Week’, 15 persons had died violently in …
THE EDITOR, Sir: On Wednesday, persons turned up at the Denham Town Police Station with food and toiletries for their loved ones incarcerated at that facility. This is when they were told – quite dismissively – that nothing would be taken from them that day. To the casual observer, this might appear to be a …
THE EDITOR, Sir: Permit me to add my 10 cents’ worth to the ideas of Dr Glen Christian, outlined in the Public Affairs article ‘Bold plans for downtown’ (Sunday Gleaner, September 18, 2016). For decades, we have been hearing of plans to redevelop downtown. This did not surprise me as, from time immemorial, countries have …
THE EDITOR, Sir: Many years ago, long before the information age was what it is today, I was in New York when there was a power outage that lasted about half a minute. This was in the morning and the event dominated the news for the rest of the day. I found that strange as, …
THE EDITOR, Sir: There are calls from some religious quarters for the Reverend Al Miller to give up the leadership of his church following his conviction for attempting to pervert the course of justice. He was found with fugitive Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke in his car and was charged several days later. But who are the …
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There is a dark, sooty cloud of controversy hovering over the reopening of the Alpart bauxite plant at Nain. It seems to stem from the fact that the new owners, a Chinese company, plan to use coal-fired processing to generate the energy needed by the plant. From the Chinese point of view, this is understandable. …
National Security Minister Robert Montague is mad. Like the rest of us, he is worried about the apparent impunity with which lives of Jamaicans are being snuffed out. Minister Montague announced that there is to be a significant increase in resources devoted to stemming the murders. I gather western Jamaica is to be saturated with …
THE EDITOR, Sir: I read your article ‘Mona madness’ in The Sunday Gleaner and can empathise with the Mona residents. But the robberies are not confined to Mona. Several weeks ago, I was in an upstairs room at my house watching TV in the early afternoon. Into the room stepped a gunman. He cocked the …
The Editor , Sir: When PM Holness announced his Cabinet, I was concerned that he had given elder statesmen like Karl Samuda and Mike Henry so much to do. Now I understand why. It seems that this was done in order to reduce the workload of younger persons like AG Malahoo Forte. US Embassy flags …
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THE EDITOR, Sir: Allow me to comment on Shawna Kay Williams’ Letter of the Day in The Gleaner titled ‘Highway robbery at Hellshire’ (May 26, 2016). She was lamenting the cost of fish there. She has spared me much embarrassment as I had been saving for months to make a similar trip on Saturday. But …
