Surviving calamity
THE METEOROLOGICAL Service issuing a hurricane warning yesterday morning was the routine notification that Hurricane Ivan was indeed heading for Jamaica.
Time and distance
I GREW up in my early years in elementary school with an exercise book which told me twelve inches, one foot; three feet, one yard; 22 yards, one chain, and 80 chains or 1760 yards, one mile.
If not Phillips and Forbes, who?
THE COMMISSIONER of Police, Francis Forbes, stated last week that every September there is a call for his resignation. This call is usually made after the murder statistics for the preceding eight months are released and discussed.
The economic costs of crime
THE JAMAICAN economy faces a crisis due to the high level of crime in the society. While the high rate of criminal offences includes those against persons (murders, shootings, sexual offences, felonious woundings) and those against property.
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