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Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
published: Friday | February 10, 2006

Embracing criminality
THE CONFLAGRATION in Spanish Town, St. Catherine, over the past two days after the killing of Andrew 'Bun Man' Hope is but another example of the deep social malaise abroad in the country, perhaps moreso than an obvious outbreak of criminality.

The death of ice
I TAKE no pleasure in causing concern, especially when that concern comes closer to our Guyana home than to most homes in the world. After all, we have quite enough big worries already - gun crimes accelerating... - Ian McDonald


Taking a retrospective look
ON WEDNESDAY night I watched portions of the re-broadcast of the funeral service of Coretta Scott King. I heard President William Jefferson Clinton's message as well as that of Senator Hillary Clinton. - Heather Robinson


A call for respect and calm - Joint message from Spain and Turkey
WITH GROWING concern, we are witnessing the escalation in disturbing tensions provoked by the publication, in European newspapers, of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed which Muslims consider deeply offensive.















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