Category: Editorial

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Jamaicans, 2013 is a time to GO!

Anthea

Important arts, culture and creative events happening around the world, especially in Jamaica on January 1. Power to the creative minds I am so not into New Year’s Resolutions. No Way. I rather Jamaicans especially to set clea clear cut objectives, and a timeline. Then seriously embark on your journey to your own personal success. SEE MORE LATER!

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2013 New year’s Message from Jamaica G-G

Administrator

My fellow Jamaicans and Friends of Jamaica, We begin each year with the joys, burden, sorrow, or triumph of the past year still etched in our minds. That past and the way it influences us will determine how we live in the ensuing year. The questions before each of us are, how well have we learned the lessons of the past and how shall we use our failures and mistakes as stepping stones to progress in this New Year! Today we come to this new page of our history, as…

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Jamaica traffic ticket travesty on the run

Anthea

Webmasters Make $$$ DEAR EDITOR, OVER THE past few days, tax offices have been teeming with thousands of motorists rushing to pay outstanding tickets before the amnesty expired. Many complained that they had attended court and had been exonerated or they had paid the fines and their names were still on the traffic authority’s website as having outstanding tickets. A tax office official admitted on television that they had no way of verifying these complaints as there was no link between the tax office records and the courts. But almost…

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‘Don’t mess with Jamaica Press!’

Anthea

Ian Boyne, GLEANER Contributor If you are a person struggling to make ends meet and you feel you have been personally hurt and treated unfairly by our media, what avenues of redress do you have, besides taking out a lawsuit or hoping (no guarantee) for a brief letter to the editor to be published? If you are a public official who has been unfairly, prejudicially and consistently misrepresented in media, suffering damage to your hard-fought reputation, should you really have to wait for years for a libel case to be…

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Shut the door, leave God off Jamaica buses.. Absurd!

Administrator

Webmasters Make $$$ DEAR EDITOR: I AM totally disturbed about the fact that Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Radcliffe Lewis has warned that persons who preach the gospel on public transportation would be prosecuted. It’s absurd; Jamaica is in turmoil. We are in a spiritual warfare with the devil. So when SSP Lewis and the management of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company are banning preaching on the buses, they are opening the society to the devil and shutting out God. I guess we all know what happens when you shut…

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