Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Monday | July 11, 2005
Crime and the health sector
THE IMPACT of violence on the health sector is a two-edged sword that hurts even as it cramps the capacity to heal. Health professionals have been struggling for years to treat injuries caused by violence without adequate resources to cope.
AS DENNIS moved from being a small boy tropical storm, to a big man hurricane, and as he progressed, like W.B. Yeats' overrated rough beast towards Jamaica, I thought for a split second about the law of defamation. - Stephen Vasciannie
COMPROMISE, IT has been said, makes a good umbrella but a poor roof. Little more than a month ago, 14 senators from both sides of the political aisle crafted a compromise that forestalled the so-called nuclear option...Dan Rather