Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Thursday | October 14, 2004
One year later...
ELSEWHERE ON this page we publish an extract of the editorial of October 14, 2003. It presented an analysis of Jamaica's then murder rate at 44 per 100,000 among the highest in the Americas and the new sophisticated levels to which contract.
NEW ZEALAND leads the world in ease of doing business. This according to the World Bank/International Finance Corporation report 'Doing Business in 2005: Removing Obstacles to Growth'.
LAST WEEK, a senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon revealed in a newspaper interview that Sharon's plan to withdraw Israel from the occupied Gaza Strip was designed to "freeze" the political process between Israel and Palestine.
LAST WEEK Thursday, 21-year-old Sheneika Smith and 18-year-old Janice Burgess were sentenced to life imprisonment (15 years before parole) and 18 years at hard labour respectively.
