Letters
December 24, 2025
Many Rivers to Cross Jamaica
THE EDITOR, Madam: The Jamaican governments do not wield the power people think it does. More than half of the expectations placed on it are beyond its control. The power lies with the two per cent…
December 24, 2025
Give priority to the issue of shelters
THE EDITOR, Madam: Given the current disruptions to the schools that are still facilitating Hurricane Melissa victims, permanent and practical solutions must be found. In this era of climate…
December 24, 2025
Renaming, scripture, and cultural memory
THE EDITOR, Madam: Attorney-at-law Bert Samuels raises an important and timely concern about language, power, and identity in post-emancipation societies. His reference to Roots, adapted from the…
December 23, 2025
Letter of the Day | When public works becomes public inconvenience
THE EDITOR, Madam: Government institutions such as the National Water Commission (NWC) have perfected the art of turning necessary infrastructure upgrades into exercises in human suffering. Too…
December 23, 2025
What’s in a name?
THE EDITOR, Madam: Alex Haley’s TV series Roots casts his slavery re-enactment story around the renaming of an enslaved young man through cruel flogging. Kunta Kinte – called ‘Kunta’ by his parents…
December 23, 2025
More on desalination
THE EDITOR, Madam:
December 22, 2025
Letter of the Day | Delroy Chuck and the long test of justice reform
THE EDITOR, Madam: Few public officials in modern Jamaica have served as long in a single portfolio as Justice Minister Delroy Chuck. Such longevity invites neither praise nor condemnation by…
December 22, 2025
Caribbean travel ban – Some more equal than others
THE EDITOR, Madam: It was recently announced by the United States administration that they have imposed travel bans against citizens of countries like Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan and…
December 22, 2025
Unheeded ‘Gulf Lesson’
THE EDITOR, Madam: The US has been involved with Venezuela since oil was discovered there about a century ago, and, for a time, major American companies controlled 98 per cent of the production.…