Letters
December 26, 2025
Sensible legal reform for adolescent sexual justice
THE EDITOR, Madam: We join Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) in calling on legislators to introduce a narrowly defined statutory close-in-age defence to Jamaica’s sexual offences framework. Such a reform…
December 26, 2025
Readers’ reactions
Winsome Callum | Why electricity bills increased — and how volatility can be fixed
December 24, 2025
Letter of the Day | Whose oil is it – Venezuela’s or US’s?
THE EDITOR, Madam: ‘Trump’s ‘oily’ reasoning is not entirely unreasonable, as it is ExxonMobil that added their technology to the raw material to create Venezuela’s wealth from oil in the finding and…
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: