How crime creates poverty
WHEN NATIONAL Security Minister, Peter Phillips, signalled recently that he would be deploying the army in certain inner-city communities, human rights activists became alarmed. When he went on to say that there was no departure timetable, they were...
Scarce benefits and spoils or Mafia-style racketeering?
THE TAWDRY world of Jamaican politics, the model of "scarce benefits and spoils" which governed the victor's behaviour and fuelled the expectations of their supporters for nearly four decades, is being subtly supplanted. Objectively, scarce...
The new parliament and representation
AS A MEMBER of the University of the West Indies (UWI) community, I should congratulate those who served in teaching and research at UWI and won seats to Parliament in the last general elections: Maxine Henry-Wilson, Peter Phillips, Omar Davies, Paul...
A chat with a Bible translator
REV. JACK D. Popjes is executive director of Wycliffe Caribbean: Partners in Bible Translation. It is one of about 50 national organisations that make up Wycliffe Bible Translators International. Wycliffe has as its mandate the assisting of the...
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