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Jamaica Gleaner In Focus
published: Sunday | January 21, 2007

Lock up child molesters
Actions speak louder than words. So you have to wonder if, despite all the public lamentations, Jamaicans really want to change anything in this country.

The class structure of politics

Jamaica has always had a strong tradition of voluntary service. The strength ebbed and flowed according to the level of inspiration which flowed from the mission or the vision of the time.


POLITICS OF OUR TIME: MLK and the rights movement today

January 15 was a national holiday in the United States to commemorate Martin Luther King's (MLK) birthday.


Polls, prophets and palmists

Malaria aside, there is also the trace of election fever in the air, and although it is the season to be silly I would advise both friends and foes alike to neither exult nor be depressed by the inevitable diagnoses of the psephologists and their opini


Private sector accountability

If we buy in to the vision that Jamaica can and must be transformed to a true paradise for all, then we must acknowledge and honour the role of all sectors of the society.


Fighting crime: What's missing?

Jamaica's low social capital, particularly its low levels of trust and consensus-building, remains a primary obstacle to fighting crime successfully.




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