Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Wednesday | May 25, 2005
A call to action
INDICATIONS ARE that today's planned shutdown of businesses in Jamaica to protest against rising crime will receive widespread support. This is good in so far as it demonstrates a determined resolve by the business sector...
THE RECENT killings of two prominent May Pen businessmen, Maurice Azan and Lloyd Phang, inter alia, have spurred the business community to call for three days of protest against the escalating criminality. - Delroy Chuck
IN HIS column in The Sunday Gleaner three days ago, my colleague Ian Boyne called for a truce between us. "For too long the criminals and terrorists have had us in civil society warring with one another... - Peter Espeut
