LETTER OF THE DAY - Why can't the Jamaican security forces prevail?
THE EDITOR, Sir: Some time ago, one newspaper carried a photograph of a policeman helping an elderly woman to pack her belongings into a handcart as she sought to flee a violence-torn area of Kingston.
Don't postpone election again
The Editor, Sir: The local government election should not be postponed again. It's time for all Jamaican citizens to go to the polls, and moreover, the Prime Minister of Jamaica needs a mandate from the people to continue to govern.
Fix the road, please!
The Editor, Sir: A bridge has been built near my home in order, the authorities said, to lift the road. Since then, whenever it rains, my gateway is flooded, sometimes to more than two feet deep.
Non-voters are losers
The Editor, Sir: Voting on election day is the right option for those of us who are of voting age and are enumerated. The people who stay home are really the losers. In God's design for a nation, civil government...
A neglected great house
The Editor, Sir: There is a social 'upheaval' and heritage suicide taking place in Belle Plain, Clarendon, where a great house, a piece of our history, sits in a state of neglect. The alarming reality is that the edifice is occupied...
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