Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Sunday | December 21, 2003
The tragedy of Lee Boyd Malvo
THE CONVICTION of Jamaican-born Lee Boyd Malvo on murder charges in the United States last Thursday is a poignant lesson on a teenager's life gone awry. It also highlighted the many ironies in this unhappy saga of a breakdown in a family unit...
When should unions be kept out?
SOME LEADING trade unionists have flatly rejected suggestions that infant industries and enterprises be granted a moratorium from the involvement of organised labour while they are being fully established.
THE FIRST things to realise about anti-ganja laws is that they are both hypocritical and useless. Ruthless tyranny upon the poor man and his spliff. Ridiculous bonfires of public wealth in billions of dollars whenever the bales and fields of marijuana...
I DID all these, and more, but have so far failed to persuade anyone in authority to postpone Christmas. Within 24 hours of making my first appeal three weeks ago, I began hearing Christmas carols on the radio stations. Except on Wilmot Perkins'...
WHEN WE contemplate the sorry state of affairs in our nation, many are asking where does the solution lie? Ideally what we need in this country is a major spiritual revival to help turn things around where, as a nation, we return to some of the...
