Editorial: Searching for consensus
THIS IS the first day of the last month of a year of historical events too tentative to call as the best of times, the worst yet - or somewhere in between. Because it is December the focus will sharpen in anticipation of the impending...
Applying intelligent force to fighting crime
THERE IS an old idea, which dominates most of our many reports on crime that current Jamaican crime has to do primarily with out-of-control "corner" gangs, garrison communities and political tribalism. This view has been overtaken by events. All serious..
Not worrying about the murder statistics
THIS IS now official bedlam. Nearly 1,000 people will be dead by Christmas if not more, yet the police advise Jamaicans "...not to be overly worried because the murders are not random". We must be careful, not fearful said Assistant Commissioner of...
Let's make a covenant with life
I DO NOT claim to be zealous Christian. I believe there is a God, but I do not see God as a He or a She or as someone who is watching me day and night and recording my indiscretions, as some would have us believe. What I comprehend - if that is...
The statistics of terror
IF WE thought about the "war on terror" in the same way as we think about the "war on crime", we'd realise that we are winning it. Nobody imagines that a "war on crime" can end in complete victory, with no more crimes being committed. Success is...
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