LETTER OF THE DAY - Ganja link to violence unfounded
THE EDITOR, Sir: CLAIMS THAT ganja use and violence are inherently interconnected ('Ganja to blame for crime', November 25) are unfounded. No credible research has shown cannabis use to be a causal factor in violence...
Seeking answers on crime
THE EDITOR, Sir: I READ with interest a letter from a Leslie Bennett published in The Gleaner earlier this month under the title 'Dialogue on crime'. I am a Jamaican in the first year of a dual master's degree programme in Child Development...
Brazil offer unwelcome
THE EDITOR, Sir: THE RECENT EU ruling on sugar is not unexpected, given the EU's headlong rush to have a position ready to satisfy the U.S. at the upcoming WTO Hong Kong Ministerial Meeting.
When do we become brutes?
THE EDITOR, Sir:I WRITE in response to Hilary Robertson-Hickling's Sunday Gleaner commentary where she expresses hope that "...the adversities that many Jamaicans have suffered over many generations have not yet turned us into brutes."
The pinch of reproach
THE EDITOR, Sir: WITH ONLY a month to draw the curtains of 2005 down, the murder rate in Jamaica has catapulted to a record high of nearly 1500 human beings. For a country such as ours, with the most churches per square mile...
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