Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Sunday | June 22, 2003
Editorial - New directions in Local Government
THURSDAY'S LOCAL Government elections have presented the country with the dynamic for a new level of maturity in how we conduct politics. Indeed the JLP victory is a tonic for the two-party system after the unprecedented four consecutive terms of PNP...
SO EDWARD Phillip George Seaga has - for the first time at last - debunked the myth...that the JLP could never again win national elections with him as its leader. (Williams)
The white man's burden
"WE CONGRATULATE ourselves on having given him (the black man) freedom from tribal raids and security of life and property, on having mitigated the effects of bad harvests by providing food which can be carried to distressed areas..." (Ritch)
THE TRAGIC deaths of two small boys and their 12-year-old sister, mowed down by a motor car this past Monday in St. Thomas, brings to the fore once again the vulnerability of our country's children.
