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Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
published: Wednesday | May 30, 2007

EDITORIAL - A whole new world for the weed
We suspect that preoccupation with campaigning for the coming general election has affected the urgency with which Parliament should deal with its routine work of making and amending legislation. Hence, our editorial commentary last week about the foot-dragging....

The infrastructure for care has to be expanded

While searching for information about the recent death of Yolanda King the daughter of Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King, I read about the concept of survivorship which has meanings in law and of course in relation to trauma and chronic illness. - Hilary Robertson-Hickling

A matter of trust

Good human relationship is based on trust. When we trust our doctor, banker, lawyer, pastor, colleague and, I dare say, government, it becomes easy to believe and have confidence in what they say or do. Trust is usually cemented over time but can be destroyed... - Delroy Chuck

Political dropouts

The Battle of the pollsters is now on in earnest! The Bill Johnson poll has the PNP seven percentage points ahead, the Mark Wignall poll has the JLP seven percentage points ahead, and the Don Anderson poll has a statistical dead heat. - Peter Espeut

NOTEWORTHY - Double standard

I think it is more than a double standard when our television stations are allowed to broadcast movies that are laced with curse words and all types of violence and nudity, while entertainers are charged or censored for using curse words in their songs...





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