Flawed deportee study
National Security Minister Dr. Peter Phillips recently tabled in Parliament a report, 'A Study on Criminal Deportation'. The study's claimed central finding is deportees returned to Jamaica ... are significantly responsible for Jamaica's violent crime...
Making Jamaica prosperous
Political parties largely jostle over who is better able to deliver the economic goods, but very little of the scholarly research actually makes its way into the propaganda war. It is here that the media have a critical role.
Romantic but wrong, repulsive and right
Augusto Pinochet and Fidel Castro both ruled with iron fists. They suppressed all opposition and did not allow freedom of speech or multi-party elections. Pinochet is now dead and the likely terminally-ill Castro's political career is probably over.
Unpredictable politics
We have little proper knowledge of small democracies, especially mini and micro-democracies. We tend to generalise, say, about voting behaviour, the role of government, or the impact of personalities across democracies even..
A world of uncertainty
This is the final excerpt from Brian Meeks' inaugural professorial lecture delivered at the UWI, Mona, on November 28.
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