Editorial - Transparency required
IT MAY well be that the context in which it became necessary to appoint the Parliamentary Salaries Review Committee has been forgotten.
Crime and the rule of law
The following is an extract from an address given by Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, A.J. Nicholson on the occasion of the swearing in ceremony of Justice Paul Harrison as president of the Court of Appeal on November 3, 2005.
... Mandatory death considerations
LAST WEEK, one of my distinguished Gleaner colleagues wrote about aspects of the death penalty as administered in Jamaica. He was particularly scathing about the mandatory death penalty law that was in place in this country from the early 1990s until...
Portia in a class by herself
AS SUCCESSIVE opinion polls have shown year after year, Portia Simpson Miller is the most popular politician among the Jamaican electorate. What was always an open question was whether or not her own party was anywhere near as keen.
'Fuelling' the fire
ESSO, ESSO is that so so? We went on the verge of a national strike of petroleum distributors, fuelled by a disagreement between service station operators and Esso Jamaica Ltd., a subsidiary of U.S. oil giant Exxon Mobil...
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