THOSE POLITICIANS calling for state funding of elections take us for idiots. 'Dem tink we bawn backa cow' to use a forthright Jamaican expression. They want us to help them to sucker us. (Bartley)
THE RACE card has for long been a convenient and handy tool in the game of oppression, scapegoating, denial of human rights and egomaniacal rule. Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe is merely the most recent to play that hand. (Boyne)
JOHN CHRISTOFFERSON of the Associated Press informs us in the October 31, 2003 edition of the Edmonton Journal that the term "affluenza" was introduced by author John de Graaf in his book, Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic.(Simms)
THE DEMOCRATIC presidential nomination campaign is in full swing in the United States. The states will begin voting in January next and the party expects that a nominee will be determined by early March. ((Buddan)
The following is an edited version of a speech by Senator Trevor Munroe at the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation Civic Function held at the Hilton Kingston on Friday, November 28, 2003.
