Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Monday | January 24, 2005
Compulsory youth service
RETIRED COLONEL of the Jamaica Defence Force Allan Douglas has revived commentary we published last November relating to a proposed compulsory youth service. Building on what the Government was contemplating, Colonel Douglas has suggested in a letter...
CLEARLY, A camel is a horse made by a committee at a long meeting; but why, then, are we always so keen on committees and long meetings? And take it further: why do we always believe that majority views are correct, even when they pertain to things...
ALTHOUGH ABORTION supporters insist that it is questionable that the child in the womb is human, medical textbooks, such as Before we are Born, on the other hand, agree that the life of every human being begins at conception. Human life is a continuous...
THE YEAR was 2001, and it seems as if it were decades ago: A new American president, only a few months into his term, is suddenly tested by his first foreign-policy crisis. No, not 9/11 -- that was still well beyond the horizon. Think instead back to...
