Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Sunday | October 3, 2004
The Haitian situation
THE PLIGHT of Haitian refugees in Jamaica is posing a challenge to the national sense of hospitality particularly to those in distress. That kind of challenge evoked a positive response earlier this year when a stream of Haitian boat people began...
THE GLEANER of Monday, August 9, 2004 carried a very interesting story under the headline, "Rethinking the Security Sector". It reported on the review being done by the National Security Strategic Review Committee of the Government, to...
THE MOST Honourable Prime Minister has set up an Office of National Reconstruction (ONR), reporting to himself in response to hurricane damage. Overnight he has created a new institution to handle the relief and rebuilding effort in those areas that...
OUTRAGE!! THIS is both the name of the 'gay rights' group campaigning against dancehall artistes and what I feel as the saga goes on. Peter Tatchell, its founder, remarked that they have 'dragged' reggae into "a cesspit of homophobia and misogyny."
THE BELIEF that we can entreat God for intervention in our crisis is central to Christian and Jewish belief and piety. As examples from the Bible will show (e.g. Genesis 18:23-33; II Kings 20:1-6), God is prepared to change His intention and His mind...
