THE usual suspects were lined up in recent weeks to condemn public service unions and trot out their public versus private creation in a thinly veiled apologia for those who created our economic mess.

IT is very disturbing that the taxi trade continues to fail to address the issue of racism affecting the trade and some of its drivers.

YOUR feature (June 8) asked ‘How fair is fair trade?’ and went on to cite various criticisms of fairtrade that have been made in the media over the past year.

ON February 2, a national ballot of 40,000 nurses and midwives indicated a 96% vote in favour of a campaign of action in pursuance of certain priority claims, including a 35-hour week.

THE Government has put its money where its mouth is with regard to the Aids pandemic.