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Letter of the Day | NaRRa’s $120-million office bill is an insult to taxpayers

THE EDITOR, Madam: If reports are accurate that the National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority (NaRRA) is set to spend $120 million a year renting office space at Digicel, the Government owes Jamaican taxpayers a serious explanation. At a time when NaRRA is expected to be at the centre of rebuilding and restoring communities, infrastructure and livelihoods, how can anyone justify spending $10 million every month simply to house an agency? This is not just a question of money; it is a question of judgement, priorities, and respect for the Jamaican taxpayer.

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07 Oct, 2026 0

Build gates in Jamaica’s payment firewall

THE EDITOR, Madam: I am a Jamaican creative, consultant, and writer. Some of my clients are in the United States. We have embraced the promise of globalisation and the call to think globally while…
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07 Oct, 2026 0

Answering Warmington’s question

THE EDITOR, Madam: Recently, Everald Warmington, in his usual provocative way, asked a question that made many people uncomfortable: If Africans sold other Africans into slavery, why does Jamaica…
06 Oct, 2026 0

Letter of the Day | Speak out against corruption!

THE EDITOR, Madam: I am writing in support of Dr Dwayne Vernon’s commentary, ‘Trust deficit: Corruption, good governance and the way forward’. His central warning is correct: corruption corrodes the…
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06 Oct, 2026 0

Teachers deserve fair compensation

THE EDITOR, Madam: The continued failure of the government and the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) to reach a satisfactory wage settlement raises serious concerns about how educators are valued…
06 Oct, 2026 0

Let’s not get tone deaf to killings

THE EDITOR, Madam: The aftermath of the Lindsay Clancy case, with some women in the United States now insisting that they have the right to kill their children, reminded me of an incident that Os…
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06 Oct, 2026 0

High school sports has lost its purpose

THE EDITOR, Madam: Gone are the days when children from the same neighbourhood, who ended up attending different high schools, could have good-natured conversations about which school was better at…
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05 Oct, 2026 0

Letter of the Day | Build engines of growth

THE EDITOR, Madam: It would be a great pity if the core of Dane Smith’s letter, published on September 30, was lost because of its BPO context. That context is important but, much more so, as well as…
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05 Oct, 2026 0

Do not extend school hours!

THE EDITOR, Madam: Opposition Spokesman on Education Damion Crawford recently shared on Smile Jamaica his belief that Jamaica’s education system needs to increase instructional time by an additional…
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05 Oct, 2026 0

Can we build faster without sacrificing quality?

THE EDITOR, Madam: “When will it be finished?” It is a question many people ask when they pass a construction site that seems to have been there for months. There is a question worth asking: When the…