EDITORIAL - Careful with fingerprints
We repeat our reservation, if not yet disquiet, at the suggestion that the fingerprint database now in the control of the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) should be made available to the police as part of their crime-fighting arsenal....
The quest for reparations
March 25, 1807, marks the 200th anniversary of the passing in the British Parliament of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. It made it illegal for British subjects to capture and transport slaves. In 1827 Britain declared that slave... - Garth Rattray
Globalisation and culture
Last Thursday, the University of the West Indies (UWI) served as the venue for another in the series of presentations offered in connection with the publication entitled The Jamaica Human Development Report 2005. - Stephen Vasciannie
Election countdown
October, 2007, is the month in which the next parliamentary general elections are due. The Prime Minister has the option of an additional three-month period to call these elections. However, the People's National Party (PNP) has traditionally... - Beverley Anderson-Manley
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