EDITORIAL - The botched Woolmer probe
Try as hard as one might, it is hard to find any silver lining behind the cloud of embarrassment surrounding the investigations into the death here in Jamaica of Bob Woolmer, coach of the Pakistan cricket team. The country's image has been seriously besmirched.
Barely surviving
The love of the poor, so eloquently claimed by misguided and visionless politicians, should not extend to keeping them poor, or making more people poor. Poverty is not a blessing. It is a curse, from which good and caring leaders should extricate their followers. - Delroy Chuck
Failing education
Spot quiz: name the profession where, of the roughly 260 working days in the year, you are only required to work for about 190, which means that you have about 70 days vacation (about two and a half months) per year? And on top of that, out of the 190... - Peter Espeut
Father's Day
Congratulations to all those Jamaican men who take their role as fathers seriously, and best wishes for their good health and happiness. There are many factors which promote health and happiness which we need to identify for those who are currently... - Hilary Robertson-Hickling
NOTE-WORTHY - Capital punishment
Capital punishment - The JLP has taken a really bold step in trying to reduce the crime rate of Jamaica. But is it really going to work? What the JLP needs to do is study the crime rates of the countries that practise this type of punishment.
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