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Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
published: Thursday | October 20, 2005

Deregistration of UWI students
THERE IS still a strong, persistent feeling of entitlement to 'free' education, a hangover from the governmental policies of the 1970s. But the ground has shifted. With budgetary cuts to the University of the West Indies (UWI)...

Saddam on trial
WHAT SHOULD have been a moment of triumph in the construction of a new Iraq has become another symbol of the country's deteriorating state. Saddam Hussein stood defiantly before the tribunal that, nobody doubts, will sentence him... - John Rapley


Wrapping with Wilma
WHEN WE left Kingston for our long Heroes Weekend on Friday afternoon it was already raining. But we had no idea that a late season tropical depression was to become the record-tying 21st named storm... - Martin Henry


A trainable society
I DID not know that it was possible to drive past the middle section of Knutsford Boulevard, near where it takes a deep bend before heading towards Oxford Road, without being at the mercy of the 'profilers'. - Melville Cooke
















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