Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Sunday | September 21, 2003
The law is above everyone
POLICE SPECIAL squads, anywhere, usually run into trouble unless they are carefully selected, well-trained, led by the best of experienced professionals and are continually and closely supervised. In some jurisdictions, they are critically evaluated...
SPECIAL POLICE squads are often formed when violent crime or the perception of it is at its worst and the populace is fearful. The prevailing mood among the citizenry, usually brought on by recently-committed barefaced and senseless murders such...
MELVILLE COOKE has asked whether or not I consider myself a member of the black race. Clearly not, but what does that prove? Through DNA analysis and research, scientists have now proven that everybody on the planet earth is 99.99 per cent the same.
MUMPS. MEASLES. Chickenpox. I have had them all. Not once, but twice each in my lifetime. The first time, I was told, was shortly after my baby years. I don't remember those bouts, but I was told subsequently that I was quarantined for three weeks.
ONE OF my friends told me that earlier this week, her 10-year-old daughter spoke out quite angrily, and to no one in particular: "a don't want to hear no more news about no shooting an' no killing, about no kicking off doors and no dead people".
