EDITORIAL - Defusing the Cockpit controversy
Local environmentalists have been energised in their lobbying efforts in recent weeks amid reports of plans to carry out mining and exploration for bauxite in the Cockpit Country.
Malaria fire
I grew my young years in a mid-Clarendon district where sooner or later everyone, young and old alike, suffered from malaria. The fever is a fire that burns every tissue in your body. Your skin burns red-hot like an iron heated in a pile of blazing coal.
A friendly kill-zone?
Now in the Friendly City that became a raging kill-zone, there was an uprising in an inner-city community and the lawmen were caught in the midst of the protestation for some of the citizens were accusing them of executing heinous folly upon the people...
Issue: The rabble 'unseated' an MP
It has become very clear to me as a young female professional (I am a graduate of Moneague College and a teacher) that misbehaviour and "badmanism" receive promotion in Jamaica and good discipline and respectfulness are worth nothing.
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