According to the April 21 issue of the Gleaner, Phillip Paulwell is pushing for telephone number portability. Number portability would be beneficial to consumers as it would allow them to maintain the telephone number that they initially paid for, while seeking out the best plans and rates offered by any telephone provider.
The Reverend Billy Hall has questioned my "intellectual integrity", chastised me for "perfuming" the Rastafari, and even declared me a heretic in a piece in The Sunday Gleaner of April 18.
Maurice Tomlinson of Jamaica AIDS Support for Life has accused the Jamaican Parliament of "wanting gays dead" because of Parliament's retention of anti-sodomy laws in the 2009 Sexual Offences Act.
The Editor, Sir:While I am alarmed at the rapidly mounting murder toll, your front-page headline leaves me wondering what I can do about it.I do not have the benefit of the statistics - where the murders are taking place, the motives behind the murders...
The Editor, Sir:The murder rate in Jamaica is spiralling out of control; and, as you rightly put it in The Gleaner, it seems as if nobody is accountable.You honestly feel like an orphan child with nobody looking out for you or protecting you from this...
The Editor, Sir:Congratulations on taking a stand. The last time you did this you retreated in the face of criticisms from the ostrich brigade. Please, please continue to keep it in our faces until we rise up and insist "No more!"
The Editor, Sir:I suggest that the Government establish a "criminal" TV station that operates 24/7, repeating all the unsolved murders, abductions, etc, inclusive of photographs statistics of all wanted people.The solution to Jamaica's crime problem is...
The Editor, Sir:In his contribution to the Senate, Basil Waite charged that 1,500 students, or just over 16 per cent of the more than 9,000 who sought funding assistance from the Students' Loan Bureau (SLB) in 2009, were turned down.
The Editor, Sir:In recent weeks, there has been much ado in the media about the 'walk' in Montego Bay to draw attention to the high level of intolerance towards persons vulnerable to, living with and...
I watched with interest the live streaming of the tourism minister's presentation to the 2010-11 Budget Debate and must commend the prime minister for taking a bold step to include tourism in the Budget Debate for the first time.
Internet social networks such as hi5, MySpace, Twitter and Facebook have gained popularity recently, basically as a 21st-century phenomenon. They attract users for many reasons...
Dr Heather Little-White's experience as a survivor of the terrible crime wave, which has driven some of our most productive citizens overseas or driven them into their homes early in the evening, is really devastating.
Judging from the talk shows, the most contentious issue emerging from Portia Simpson Miller's Budget presentation were comments on the PATH beneficiaries in a recent Government public-relations exercise.
Two very inspiring history lessons were published last Thursday. The first was from Devon Dick entitled 'Woman time now'. He addressed our varied denominational cultures in Christianity that have not been able "to determine whether what we read in the Old Testament was meant to be descriptive or prescriptive".
Your Sunday article on teen drinking has certainly resonated with me. It has been a personal concern of mine for some time now. Much of what we see as abhorrent, teenage delinquency seems to have its roots in substance abuse at times.
There seems to be no plan in place by the National Water Commission for the scheduling of water lock-offs in some areas of the Corporate Area including Aylsham where I live. Often the water is turned on for two or sometimes three consecutive days of the week. And then there is no water at all for the next four days or so.
The Editor, Sir:Shirley Richards of the Lawyers Christian Fellowship has so far not commented on the recent spate of domestic violence being perpetuated against our women by men from all walks of life, including entertainers.
The Editor, Sir:Having recently been a victim of the National Water Commission's policies, I am in total agreement with the sentiments expressed in the letter entitled 'Extortion by the NWC' in The Gleaner of April 13.Like the letter writer, I have...
The Editor, Sir:How does a government credibly assert its right to throw the book at tax dodgers, while at the same time unilaterally breaching wage agreements with its own workers in the public sector, and with such bravado?How reasonable is it for the...
The Editor, Sir: I write from the standpoint of a totally dissatisfied employer who is forced to pay three per cent of my gross earnings towards the HEART Trust/NTA.
The Editor, Sir:Having read a report in your publication of April 14, titled, 'It's not about the money; police seek help from minister to quell dispute with high command', I am compelled to take serious issue with the report.
The Editor, Sir:Last Wednesday in Parliament, Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett announced triumphantly that the tourism sector was projected to pull in gross earnings of over US$2 billion this year.As usual, what Minister Bartlett omitted to clarify was...
The Editor, Sir:Since the Ananda Alert (response to a missing child report) was launched last year, I've noticed a gradual decline in the timely publishing and disseminating of information on missing children.
