Commentary

DURING THIS time when we are analysing the garrison phenomenon to death, looking at how they began and trying to figure out how to dismantle them, I believe we are forgetting two factors contributory to garrison formation which, if not addressed, could...

As a people, we do not have much regard for our cultural heritage. Of course, we pay a lot of lip service to the idea and successive governments have, on occasion, made the correct sounds, but when a serious look is taken, the Government, corporate Jamaica, and most private citizens do not care two hoots about this vital part of our society.

It is perhaps more than symbolic that the Jamaican authorities had no objection that Governor General Sir Patrick Allen this week administered the oath of office to Professor Winston Anderson as a judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), and that Prime Minister Bruce Golding spoke in appreciative, though measured, terms of the performance of the CCJ in its five years.

WHETHER HE has been pushed or is going of his own volition as he claims, Kern Spencer, the People's National Party (PNP) member of parliament (MP) for North East St Elizabeth, should have come to this decision a...

AS THE dust over Tivoli Gardens slowly settles, the anger and disappointment of the Jamaican people continue to rise. The outcry of civil society for accountability, oversight bodies and resignations, are but a knee-jerk reaction of a nation in deep crisis.

Any time in human history when God decides to draw humans' attention to Himself, He will create a scene and He is always the great actor. In most cases, the scene begins with negatives which culminate in the positives. He stirs up the enemies to cause mayhem. This puts His children and/or a nation in what seems to be catastrophe or danger.

The REV Al MIiller's letter to Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, published in the June 13 edition of The Sunday Gleaner seems both self-serving and insincere. Did Rev Miller not meet with Mr Coke some weeks ago? How did they make contact? The public knew of their meetings after they happened. Why not use the same methods of contacting him now?

IT IS AN ineluctable reality that since the joint police-military operation in west Kingston, the overall approach to crime and criminality has taken a paradigm shift. Now more than ever, our security forces seem to move with such stealth, speed and renewed stamina to crush those antagonists who were holding civil society hostage.

PARENTS WHO have had to change their babies diapers will understand the significance of the statement, 'a big mess for a small country' as it relates to the extradition affair and its sequelae. We all know that our 'baby' (our relatively, neonatal nation) soiled itself a long time ago but no one was willing to clean it up ... perhaps until now.

NO BOTHER mek mi get ignorant, yaa, Maasa. How yu mean, "Which Bruce?" Is how much 'Bruce' yu know so, a bawl to yu morning, noon an night a beg fi deliverance? Cho, man, no treat mi so bad. Mi cyaan tek di crosses. Tongue cannot tell. Di people dem all bout dis a wash dem mout pon mi. Yu no see di joke dem pon di Internet?

ON THURSDAY, there was a funeral for Keith Clarke, the brother of former minister of government and a regular columnist in this newspaper, Claude Clarke.

SHARP CLASHES OF opi-nion have so far characterised debate in the Lower House on the six anti-crime bills now before Parliament.