Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Tuesday | June 7, 2005
That State Dept report
THE JAMAICAN government has reacted with predictable and perhaps justifiable outrage to the U.S. State Department's low rating of Jamaica in its annual Human Trafficking Report released last Friday.
ON SATURDAY,a relative, Millicent Maxwell, a Jamaican who has lived in England for 40 years,told me that "obeah is in the mind".She related that while in England "things happen" that, in Jamaica, would have been attributed to obeah...-Devon Dick
DO YOU remember the very sad and mysterious case of Claudia Kirsch-hoch the American travel editor who went missing from Negril on May 27, 2000? An American news team reported that she was a victim...-Garth Rattray
EARLIER THIS year, Lawrence Summers,the president of Harvard University, jumped unwisely into a pot of hot,if not boiling, water. He noted that women were under-represented in the fields of science and engineering...-Stephen Vasciannie
