Commentary

Fear of God lacking - It doesn't surprise me why people are killing children, why demon-possessed men are raping children, both girls and boys.

THOSE WHO come after us will read and interpret the last week of May 2010 as a turning point in the history of Jamaica.

THE QUESTION has to be asked if our governor general, Sir Patrick Allen, was a lubricated conduit in relation to the signing of the casino bill. Obviously, the office of the governor general is a lubricated conduit because the bill was signed...

LAST WEEK was not a good one for Jamaica. Her bloody and battered face gripped the attention of the world. For the clumsy handling of the extradition request for Christopher Coke to the deathly incursion in Tivoli Gardens...

Given the history of poor relations between law enforcement and the residents of Tivoli Gardens, we are not surprised by claims of abuse against the security forces during last week's necessary incursion...

May God have mercy on us all - I regret profoundly the loss of human life as a consequence of the impasse between the Government and the Tivoli Gardens community of west Kingston.I pray that when the dust has settled...

There are Cabinet members who represent constituencies with active criminal gangs and political thugs with, to put it politely, influence over far more votes than their own - sometimes to the benefit of ministers. Ministers, in this...

TRUTH COMMISSION CALL - The call for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission similar to the one held in post-apartheid South Africa, has fallen on deaf ears.

A few years ago, I visited the world- famous Tivoli Gardens amusement park in Copenhagen and brought back one of the beautiful brochures for Eddie Seaga.

Americans living in the Gulf States have taken a staggering blow to their economy and ecology from the BP oil rig explosion and spill, the effects of which are likely to be felt for many years.

Once, in a faraway land, a popular and long-serving prime minister who had led his party to many election victories decided to call it a day.

Since the prime minister's announcement that the process for the extradition of Christopher 'Dudus' Coke would take place, not only have we witnessed the physical and mental destruction of a community, but we have witnessed an intentional onslaught by the security forces on a poor, innocent and misled people.