Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Friday | January 14, 2005
Editorial - Where Marley belongs
BOB MARLEY'S death in 1981 was an international news event and reports that his widow, Rita, planned to exhume his body from Nine Miles in St. Ann and re-inter the remains of Jamaica's most famous citizen at Shashemane in Ethiopia were no less so.
"I HAVE CONSISTENTLY said that if the social issues that fuel some of the major crimes are not addressed our best efforts would be futile." The retiring Commissioner of Police, Francis Forbes, reiterated these comments in a draft press brief...
A LOT HAS been said about the decent Jamaican. And even more about the decent, law-abiding Jamaican. And, of course, the most spoken about Jamaican is the criminal Jamaican.
Consumer madness and holiday spending
A BRITISH Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reporter has been complaining that Easter eggs had appeared in shops in Britain in the last few days.
