LETTER OF THE DAY - An assessment of Jamaican education
The Editor, Sir: In response to the headline story 'Virtually illiterate', published last Friday, please consider these thoughts. Maybe Jamaican children don't feel like they should really care about education because the images of the 'successful people' that they can relate to...

JCSA's view of PSC imbroglio
THE EDITOR, Sir: No other topic in recent memory seems to have gripped the attention of the population more than the imbroglio involving the Public Service Commission (PSC) and the Government. The opinion pages of all the daily and weekly newspapers...

Tribute to Ashenheim
THE EDITOR, Sir: After Sir Neville Ashenheim was appointed Jamaica's Ambassador to the United States in the early 1960s, his son Richard succeeded him as legal adviser to the Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ), the national body of professional journalists....

The true spirit of Christmas
THE EDITOR, Sir: WE ARE fast approaching the Christmas season, and the air is filled with the perennial selling and buying frenzy. The daily activity is so frantic that many Christians seem to have lost the real significance of the nativity that has characterised Christmas Day.

Why all this rigmarole?
THE EDITOR, Sir: I AM confused. Is it that the Prime Minister has no say in who works for him as a solicitor general? And, if the appointment of Mr. Stephen Vasciannie is a recommendation, why is this being foisted on the Prime Minister? Let's say, for example...