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Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
published: Wednesday | March 22, 2006

Preventing school violence
THE HIGH level of endemic violence in the society has spilled over into the school system and is having a significant negative impact on the health care system. In just under one year in one small rural hospital, nearly 100 trauma cases, 15 of them...

Secure your right to vote
THE ELECTORAL Office of Jamaica is busily preparing for the next General Elections, which it surmises could come as early as June. It is trying to clean up the voter's list, removing dead persons, changing addresses of voters... - Delroy Chuck


The Rasta revolution
THIS WEEK I find myself on a Caribbean island of 12 square miles and 4,000 residents with a very interesting history. In 1979 it had no secondary school and no hospital; a doctor visited the clinic once each month. - Peter Espeut


Time to clean up our own mess
WE HAVe made a mess and we have to clean it up ourselves. This is not to say that others have not helped to create this situation but the toxicity and unpleasantness is killing us and affecting us and our wellbeing. - Hilary Robertson-Hickling




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