EDITORIAL - Policing the airwaves
The renewed push by the Broadcasting Commission to clean up the airwaves, as reported in yesterday's Sunday Gleaner, will no doubt be welcomed by persons concerned about the increasing incidents of gratuitous violence, profanity and soft porn in prime time...
Penalty, parole and penance
When I watched newly released life-sentence parolee and ex-death row inmate, Earl Pratt, strutted out of prison resplendently attired in a three-piece suit, hat and accessorised cellular telephone, I truly thought that he looked clownish. - Garth Rattray
Media bias? ... yawn
One day in the run-up to the 1980 elections, there was a clash between PNP and JLP supporters in Gordon Town Square resulting in the shooting death of Roy McGann, the PNP's candidate for East Rural St. Andrew. The Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation... - Colin Steer
Stop the black-on-black violence!
As an African-American mother and grandmother, the black-on-black crime in America and throughout the world troubles me that we are not in a state of outrage against the robberies, drugs, gangs and violence that is destroying our youth and our communities. - Liz Bishop-Goldsmith
NOTE-WORTHY: UN and gun control
I read recently where the United Nations will be implementing gun control in Jamaica. However, the only effective gun control will be made whenever the U.N., etc., wakes up and remembers that Jamaica does not manufacture guns.
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