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Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
published: Sunday | May 29, 2005

An absence of leadership
I AM A great believer in organised mass demonstrations myself. When a thousand Jamaicans can gather in a common cause, this is a major public achievement. Jamaicans are not by nature joiners of bodies and groups. - Dawn Ritch

PSOJ, police and poverty
SO, THE Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) has spoken. Three days of emphatic demonstration brought the attention of the public to the crime crisis. - Orville W. Taylor


The gathering storms
THE CLEAREST glimpse of things to come is not always to be found in plush board rooms. Instead it is in the streets, in the communities, in the bars, in the barber shops and beauty parlours, and on construction sites. - Herbert Lewis


Dismantling the garrisons
OF ALL the issues raised in the historic action taken by the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica at Emancipation Park on Wednesday, the issue of dismantling the garrisons is the most crucial and most difficult.














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