Proposed INS changes for visitors and students
THE EDITOR, Sir: A MAJOR policy change is on the way for persons who wish to enter the United States as visitors or students. The policy change has taken sometime to be announced by the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (INS) but those who had been..

We have abandoned the old values
THE EDITOR, Sir: WE WERE not like this in the past many pre-Independence babies will argue today. Boys will pull their knives at teachers, a girl gives mother a tongue-lashing and tells her in a meeting with her teacher that a certain private part of her.

RGD defends its record
THE EDITOR, Sir: THE REGISTER-GENERAL'S Department (RGD) notes an article in The Gleaner of May 22, 2002 from Roy Alphanso of Kingston 6, suggesting that the Fair Trading Commission should examine the RGD. We are unable to respond to Roy Alphanso...

Seaga should act like a statesman
THE EDITOR, Sir: THE LEADER of the Opposition, the Hon. Edward Seaga, has a despicable history of consistently and maliciously attacking institutions and individuals of noted service who display independence of thought and whom he perceives to oppose...

Thanks to 'Good Samaritans'
THE EDITOR, Sir: IRRESPECTIVE OF the perception that the country is beset with corruption, crime and social turmoil, it is heartening to know that there is light at the end of the proverbial tunnel, and that there is still kindness and compassion among...

Reducing flood-related problems
THE EDITOR, Sir: WE ARE embarked, once again, as a nation, on the never-ending treadmill of crises. Round and round we go. Year after year we sing the same songs, cry the same tears and generally fiddle our thumbs over the same very wet issues. Rain in..

Accepting responsibility for litter
THE EDITOR, Sir: I JUST want to state my disgust to the public of Jamaica in regards to the pile-up of garbage in the drains and gullies, and also along some of the roadsides at times. I heard people saying that the government should see to it that the...