Prisons, football and justice

LAST WEEK, the Jamaican society continued to throw up issues concerning what it means to be just to fellow human beings. Naturally, the first point of business in this regard was about what Dr. Notice noticed. - Stephen Vasciannie

Fiddling while Rome burns

TRADITION HAS it that Nero, the uncaring Caesar, played the fiddle while Rome was burning. Certainly the series of ongoing crises we are experiencing would seem to indicate that Jamaica like Rome is burning.- Alfred Sangster

Crime - time to take stock

Imagine living in a city in which the murder rate has decreased year after year and has now reached its lowest point since the year 1970. That's the story coming out of New York. But the decline is even more dramatic when one considers that the number...

That was in poor taste, Mark Wignall!

I SUSPECT that I know a good writer, and Observer columnist, Mark Wignall is one. But good grief! What happened to Mark in his column of June 1 titled "In praise of younger women"? - Desmond Allen