Clarifying the environmental levy
We agree with Audley Shaw'sinsistence that a transparent system of accountability be put in place for the environmental levy, which the Government plans to introduce on June 1.This newspaper has complained long and loudly about the poor health...
An aberration in the justice system
Reporters covering the Corporate Area Criminal Court at Half-Way Tree have been complaining these last few weeks that the acting Senior Resident Magistrate there, Ms. Judith Pusey, has been denying them use of the seats they usually occupy at the front of her courtroom. - Barbara Gayle
Too much tax dialogue
The frequency and hysteria of proposals from the private sector on tax reform have begun to irritate. Because of Dr. Omar Davies, Finance Minister, who can make no tax stick, the private sector apparently believes that taxation is open to, as they call it, 'dialogue'. - Dawn Ritch
Danger on campus
He walked across the street, kicked down the door and fired indiscriminately, killing several innocent people, whom he considered not human enough to live. - Orville W. Taylor
Language development
This is in response to the letter by my French teaching colleague and president of the Jamaica Association of French Teachers (JAFT), Desrine Bogle-Cayol, published in this newspaper on Saturday, April 14. - R. Anthony Lewis
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