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Commentary

60 years of national service
Hugh Lawson Shearer joined the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union on January 5, 1941. Elsewhere in this edition the union pays him tribute for 60 years of unbroken service to the workers and people of Jamaica. That service began under the watchful eye of.

Guns of wrath, guns of grief
In 2000 all of 536 people in Jam-aica were murdered by the gun, the police say. In addition, there were 1,012 reports of shootings. With this situation, the Gun and Drug Interdiction Agreement signed by the United States and the Jamaican Governments..

What's right with Jamaica
Perhaps if Jamaicans were the descendants of a penal colony like Australians, our country would be orderly and prosperous. Unfortunately, most Jamaicans would not then be as physically beautiful as we are. I know that beauty is...Dawn Ritch

No blood on the screen!
The perception I have without doing any serious research is that the news presented by our two senior television stations, TVJ and CVM, is about murder and blood, demonstrations and protests, fire and floods, and the misdemeanours of the Government and...










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