Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Monday | January 3, 2005
Focus on road safety
A RASH of fatal road accidents late last year was a jarring reminder that danger still lurks on Jamaican highways. Indeed Paula Fletcher, executive director of the National Road Safety Council (NRSC), indicated in an article in yesterday's Sunday...
Window of opportunity in Iraq
AS THE Bush administration often says, "failure is not an option" in Iraq. It is an accomplished fact. - Gwynne Dyer
I NEVER give up on New Year resolutions. Year after year I make them and, usually quite quickly, I break them. But I do not despair and again this year I tell myself that 2005 will be different. - Ian McDonald
THE ACADEMIC pecking order rises to the level of professor and stops there. True, at some universities there is an attempt to have a higher academic level, namely that of Distinguished Professor ... - Stephen Vasciannie
OLD GEOLOGISTS never die, they just keep on finding faults. If this were true, every one of us is a geologist of advanced years. It is a human tendency, never more pronounced that when disaster strikes ... - Tony Deyal