Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Tuesday | July 29, 2003
Welcome home 'Miss Lou'
THE CHOICE of the Hon. Louis Bennett-Coverly, known throughout Jamaica and the diaspora as 'Miss Lou', to participate in some of the Emancipation and Independence celebrations as an official guest of the Government, is a most felicitous one.
NO ONE can deny the fundamental responsibility that every country has to ensure the proper education and development of the children who are wards of the state. - Garth Rattray
AS WE prepare to celebrate emancipation from slavery, it is important to be emancipated from poor family life. It is well known that under slavery, our fore-parents were not encouraged or allowed to get married. - Devon Dick
"ACCOUNTABILITY IS taking responsibility before the fact rather than after the fact - when those who are accountable are right, they take the credit, when they are wrong they (should be prepared) to take the heat". - D.K. Duncan
