LETTER OF THE DAY: Cultural conundrums
The Editor, Sir: On November 19, a newspaper report told us that the executive director of the Jamaica Broadcasting Commission, Cordel Green, had asserted that there were mercenaries in the country's pop culture.

Cool it, Mayor McKenzie!
The Editor, Sir: Understandably elated over his one-horse victory in the race for the Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) Area Council Two chairman post, Kingston mayor Councillor Desmond McKenzie is reported to have signalled his intention to target the seven strongholds controlled by the People's National Party.

Production and nation building
The Editor, Sir:I am convinced that at the heart of every successful organisation are the employees who will work to their best to get the job done or those who are just workaholics.

Distressing juror-bribery reports
The Editor, Sir: Our legal system has come a far way despite the arguments that some of our laws are outdated.

Damaging bleaching practice
The Editor, Sir: I refer to the articles published in The Sunday Gleaner, Nove-mber 22, on skin bleaching.

NOTE-WORTHY
I, as well as all other well-thinking Jamaicans, salute the prime minister's invitation to the Opposition to meet to attempt to arrive at solutions to the country's "unfixable" problems, but I respectfully beg to disagree...