Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Sunday | August 29, 2004
The spirit of patriotism
THE EMOTIONAL highpoint of the Athens Games came for many Jamaicans last Wednesday. It was triggered by the tears of golden girl Veronica Campbell as she received her 200-metre gold medal at the victory rostrum in the Olympic stadium. The tears rolled..
FOR SEVERAL hours on Thursday, large sections of the Corporate Area and rural St. Andrew were blanketed under a pall of acrid smoke reportedly the result of an out-of-control fire set illegally at the Riverton City landfill in...
THE TELEVISION news is awash in the blood of murder too frequently, and on a scale none could have imagined. The statistics are killing, and deeply shameful. According ...- DAWN RITCH
IN 1948 and 1952 there was no television to allow us to watch our athletes live as they chased gold in the Olympic Games in London and Helsinki. We had to wait for a ... -HARTLEY NEITA
NINE HUNDRED and mash people dead! Tell me! Is this not one of the most violent places in the world? Of course there is reason to fear. Maybe one of these days ...
