Editorial - Do unto others...
JAMAICA, AS a neighbouring territory to the beleaguered nation of Haiti, finds itself facing the challenge of accommodating refugees who have braved the rough seas which lie between our country and theirs, hoping to find safety here, from the civil...
No balm in Gilead?
I CANNOT for a fleeting moment understand the thinking of those bureaucrats who have shamelessly suggested that Jamaicans in these perilous times should have more parliamentarians to represent the interests of the country... (Jones)
How can Haitians get more?
BFORE THE Haitian Revolution began, and it took a dozen years, "... most of the land and almost all the 500,000 Negro slaves had been owned by 30,000 Frenchmen. By 1804 most of the French had fled or been killed, ... and the Negroes... (Ritch)
Nobody now knows my name
MOST OF US do not have a name when we are born. It is only then that mother and father look at the infant, one saying he looks like a John and the other saying no, he looks like a James. Finally they find a name with which both are happy. (Neita)
Suspend Haiti from CARICOM
...If President Aristide is overthrown
HAITI'S UPRISING occupied much of the news last week. It has been the focus in Jamaica because of the growing number of boat people seeking refuge here and because of the key role that Jamaica is playing in trying to avert a coup... (Thomas)
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