Flood disaster
WITHOUT MAKING landfall in Jamaica Hurricane Michelle has dealt a devastating blow to sections of the island with more than a week of flood rains. The full extent of casualties and property damage is still being assessed; but the scale of obvious...
More jobs, less crime
THE NATIONAL Committee on Crime and Violence has submitted its report and, hopefully and expectantly, the recommendations will be examined and discussed, modified or abandoned and, ultimately, supported and implemented. - Delroy Chuck
Environment vs development
LAST WEEKEND, environmentalists and journalists from around the region were treated by the Sandals Group to a seminar on Eco-Journalism. Two of the speakers were the British husband and wife team of Frances Cairncross... - Peter Espeut
How the media should treat Dr Phillips
BY THE time this column is published, Dr. Peter Phillips would have taken on the mantle of National Security Minister. Hardly anybody is going to envy him for this job. And the media, in particular, is going to be watching him... - Desmond Allen
Pakistan: candidate for pre-emption
LET ME say that all our nuclear weapons are in very, very safe hands," said Pakistan's dictator General Pervez Musharraf recently on CNN's 'Larry King Live'. But General Richard Myers, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said... - Gwynne Dyer
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