Congrats PM Medal awardees
THE EDITOR, Sir: CONGRATULATIONS ON that heartwarming front-page photograph in Thursday's Gleaner, in which you represented your distinguished organisation for the well-deserved Prime Minister's Medal of Appreciation.

Fix the hospital road
THE EDITOR, Sir: I AM calling on the relevant authorities, i.e., Parish Council, or National Works Agency, to immediately appoint someone to evaluate and repair the road leading to the Port Antonio Hospital in Portland.

Backward solutions!
THE EDITOR, Sir: BOTH ERNIE Smith and Sharon Hay-Webster made presentations in the House of Parliament on Tuesday, and went back nearly 50 years in their idea for solving two very serious problems in our society.

Origins of Half-Way Tree
THE EDITOR, Sir: HAVING REGARD to the fact that I recently declared myself as a "product" of Half-way Tree, I feel a certain obligation to respond to Mr. Vernal Bankersingh's question which appeared in The Gleaner of July 25...

Judging our youth
THE EDITOR, Sir: WHAT IS expected of the Jamaican youth?...

Who pays for 'terrorism'?
THE EDITOR, Sir: THERE ARE not many Nelson Mandelas left around the world and when 9/11 occurred we knew that someone would have to pay for it...

Priorities and punishment
THE EDITOR, Sir: IN A country ridden with crime and an allegedly overburdened justice system and police force, these authorities have nothing better to do than charge Sean Paul for some indecent language at Sumfest?...

Expensive books
THE EDITOR, Sir: I HAVE just finished purchasing books for my six-year-old who will be going into second grade this September, and I was shocked at the prices I had to pay for these books.

Commentary or comedy?
THE EDITOR, Sir: I FINALLY realised the real purpose behind the editorial board allowing the publication of Melville Cooke's "commentary": to fill the COMEDIC void, isn't it? Or is it the bigotry void? Either way, the paper's goal is always...

Pounds, not kilos please
THE EDITOR, Sir: JAMAICANS AND other people living in the USA do not use the metric system to communicate height.