EDITORIAL - Gross inefficiencies in court system
This newspaper has sympathy with much of the argument advanced by Attorney-General A.J. Nicholson as to why it has been difficult to carry out executions in Jamaica. The mindset of the Privy Council is decidedly against capital punishment....
Two misguided laws
A couple of laws have been big in the news over recent weeks. They are the Minimum Wage law and the Age of Consent law. Both are ostensibly designed to protect the weak and vulnerable. But they are both poor pieces of legislation.. - Martin Henry
The white minority
It was a very small thing that got me interested in the declining white population somewhere in the mid-1990s. In one of a number of short quotes that Time magazine carried, the mayor of an Italian village said he had tried... - Melville Cook
Pining after Russian glory
Russian President Vladimir Putin once called the Soviet Union's collapse a catastrophe. This past week, he lamented that the world now has only one superpower - and it isn't Russia. At home, he has locked up some of the oligarchs... - John Rapley
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