Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Wednesday | March 19, 2003
Ultimatum to war
ON MONDAY night, President George W. Bush, in a calm but determined television broadcast to the world, gave Saddam Hussein and his sons 48 hours to leave Iraq or face a military invasion by American and British troops. That ultimatum expires at 8 o'clock.
ACROSS JAMAICA, well-thinking people are deeply troubled and overly concerned about the increasing incidents of injustice and continuing human rights abuses. - Delroy Chuck
LAST SUNDAY on my way to lead worship in Guy's Hill, St. Catherine, I passed a group of men setting up a roadblock on the Linstead bypass to protest the shooting by the police of a man in Bog Walk going about his private business. - Peter Espeut
