Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Tuesday | February 1, 2005
Public safety and justice
THE RECENTLY-opened Centre for Studies in Public Safety and Justice at the University of the West Indies has its work cut out for it. In the face of the country's horrendous murder rate and the perpetual cry for justice, there is hardly an area of...
THE HONOURABLE Minister Horace Dalley should resign over the mishandling of the minimum wage matter. It appears that he misled the country, did not keep his word to the Parliament, and failed to respond to the executive Director of the Jamaica...
THE CAMPAIGN for the leadership of the Peoples National Party (PNP) began on a relatively high plane. Omar Davies' soft launch in early December, 2004 was the first formal announcement. Prior to this Portia Simpson Miller used the occasion of a Press...
NO ONE is foolish enough to believe that the new police commissioner, Lucius Thomas, can work miracles when it comes to reducing crime over all and the number of murders in particular. Crime has rooted itself deep within the subculture of our society....
