EDITORIALS - Post-election upheaval in Kenya
Our worst fears, sadly, are being realised in Kenya. More than 200 people have been killed in post-election violence, and the country seems in danger of the kind of ethnic upheaval that has elsewhere led to civil war and long-term instability.
Adrian Strachan
They may find someone who is as good as, but hardly better than, Adrian Strachan to fill the role of Auditor General. Mr. Strachan, 63, has retired. The difficulty is not with the technical skills. That, really, is the easy part. Where it comes harder is finding someone...
A year of hope
We Jamaicans have shown ourselves to be a patient and tolerant people. This August will be 170 years after full freedom and still the wrong of slavery has not yet been even nearly fully righted. Slavery was about inequality and injustice, about one set of people... - Peter Espeut
NOTE-WORTHY: New Year wishes
I have some public new year wishes for 2008. I have lived on Barrington Drive in Havendale since 1982. The area could best be described as an orphan or one which has a 'wicked stepmother'. So, for 2008, I wish that the area is adopted or there is a change of heart.
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