Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Sunday | November 16, 2003
The anti-terrorism debate
WORLD TERRORISM and international narco-trafficking are 21st century facts of life (and death) which challenge democracies how best to balance state security against the need to preserve civil liberties and the rule of law; a conflict which has taken...
PUBLIC AFFAIRS - Renewing the JLP
THE RESISTANCE of Edward Seaga to the recent election of James Robertson and Dr. Horace Chang to deputy leadership positions in the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) shows just how difficult and painful the process of political renewal in Jamaica is.
THIS IS not the time for technical language or politics even. Jamaica cannot afford to wait until there is a change of government in order to put things right. Not just the people but, above all, the Jamaican establishment needs to get up and demand...
ONCE UPON a time there was an opposition political party that lost consecutive elections. The party members began wondering if they would ever win an election again. 'Maybe the problem is our leader' some of them said. So they asked the people who the...
TWO SATURDAY mornings ago the Norman Manley Law School had what must have been one of its finest learning sessions with a panel of instructors versed in the subject matter and a compact audience anxious for solutions to the present state of lawlessness...
