Amnesty - insulting, feisty

SO AMNESTY International has provided a rationale for gunmen to kill police. Not that they have said so explicitly, but it is clearly implied. For if the police are engaged in murdering people in cold blood then it must be... - C. Roy Reynolds

A coarsening citizenry

EVIDENCE MOUNTS that the Braeton represents the blooding of Jamaica into the public acceptance of unspeakable state brutality. Post-Braeton Jamaica will thus be a more ungentle and unkind place. Let me, then, for the first time in... - Cecil Gutzmore

'Duppy know who fi frighten'

IF THE reports are accurate then I have a serious problem with the mannerisms displayed by Amnesty International. First of all I must lay the foundation by categorically stating that I do not agree with any executions of any kind... - Garth A. Rattray

Where Amnesty Int'l might have gone wrong

THE KILLING of the 'Braeton Seven' and the subsequent furore generated by the Amnesty International report on the autopsies, provides a very 'ticklish' issue for journalists. We don't believe in people being murdered by anybody... - Desmond Allen

Waiting in vain?

IN JAMAICA a Coroner's inquest is not the easiest case to dispose of - if it ever gets off the ground. And for several reasons. And even when an inquest actually starts, there is no telling when it is likely to be concluded. - Lloyd williams