THE EDITOR, Sir: Over the past four years, a trend has developed where everybody and his wife in this country is making outrageous demands and demanding that they be met. Or else … . In many of these cases, those making these demands betray an embarrassing ignorance of the circumstances or consequences of what they …
THE EDITOR, Sir: Permit me to join John Maxwell (‘Keep vuvuzelas away from Champs’, Saturday, March 2, 2012) in voicing concern about this annoying noisemaker, the vuvuzela. Last week, I was at the Gibson Relays. Someone was blowing one behind me and I was, literally, going crazy. What proved to be the last straw for …
THE EDITOR, Sir: Finance Minister Peter Phillips has painted a bleak picture of our economic prospects for the immediate future. He said the fiscal programme of the previous government went “disastrously off-track in the second quarter of the fiscal year”, leaving a fiscal gap of $10 billion. As a result, he is warning us to …
THE EDITOR, Sir: Questions have been raised about the appropriateness of former PM Holness being eligible to receive a PM’s pension after only spending two months in that position. I am unable to find – anywhere – a time frame for prime ministers to ‘qualify’ for a pension. To the best of my knowledge, Mr …
