Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
Published: Monday Thursday | January 1, 2009
EDITORIAL - A call to bold leadership
Usually, nothing fundamental is changed from the 24 hours preceding the start of one day, the past week, the past fortnight or the past month. But no matter how bad things were, the start of a new year tends to bring with it a sense of optimism that somehow things...
Sabbath myths
Eric Spence, a hero from Portland, was reported as saying that he broke the Sabbath to save lives. Two letters to the editor on December 24 responded to Spence's comment, one was helpful (Claude Wilson) and the other continued ... - Devon Dick
Punish, pity and pastor this teenage mother
The reported incident of a 19- year-old mother abandoning her baby in an old animal shelter off Spanish Town Road in Kingston has cut to the very core of our emotions. My initial response was simply to condemn the mother as being an uncaring, inhumane person behaving... - Roy Notice