The writing is on the wall - Equipping citizens for life
THE PROTRACTED strangle-hold that crime and violence has on Jamaica is most distressing. The range of crime stretches from the proverbial white collar to kidnapping, murder, arson, extortion, rape, and, by now, there is a virtual army of the 'missing'.

Black Jesus
ON WEDNESDAY, Donald 'Zekes' Phipps was convicted of the brutal mutilation and murder of two men who were his associates. The details of the evidence make one cringe but I better stop here because 'cock mouth kill cock'.

Globalisation and the cross
IN MARTIN Scorsese's controversial film The Last Temptation of Christ, there are several scenes in which Jesus, while suspended on the cross, drifts into a dreamlike state and envisions things as they would be without the crucifixion.

Emigrés with water guns
TWO REVEREND gentlemen, Jamaican exiles overseas, it seems, have written to the editor chastising me for saying overseas Jamaicans should keep themselves quiet. Rev. Dr. Ralston Nembhard can barely whisper the word 'remittances' in his letter...