Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Wednesday | October 22, 2003
Wanted: deportee restrictions
YESTERDAY'S FRONT page lead story carried alarming news about the role of deportees in Jamaica's escalating crime crisis.
HAVE YOU ever stopped to think that most of those we honour as National Heroes took up arms to fight against an oppressive state apparatus? If a search was on at the time to select National Heroes, the names would all have been different. - Peter Espeut
THE EVENTS, last week, in Canterbury, St. James, in which gunmen allegedly traded shots with the police for the better part of nine hours, highlight the tough and unenviable task of the Police Force to bring crime under control. - Delroy Chuck