Ceding turf to terrorists

The New Year began with a loud bang ­ just not the sort of bang we would have hoped for. The headline read "Terrorists kill 3 at KPH". This is one day after injuring four other persons in a drive-by shooting. - Daniel Thwaites

When the GG preached

TREASURE BEACH: THE PICTURESQUE St. Peter's Anglican Church in the deeply rural district of Pedro Plains, St. Elizabeth, had one of its most enduring never-to-be forgotten moments in its spiritual life recently, when an overcrowded... - Desmond Henry

Too much taken for granted

LAST WEEK'S column was written in New Jersey, US and this one was begun there. With 29 inches of snow (depth) on the ground outside and an ice-covered walkway on which I slithered dangerously to the car, it dawned on me ­ again... - Geof Brown

On mangoes and sick soil (Second of a series on "The decline of agriculture")

MY SECOND job, after graduating from St Andrew High School in 1967 and before proceeding to UWI, St Augustine to study agriculture in October 1968, was that of being a Laboratory Technician/Assistant to an African Entomologist... - Marjorie Stair