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Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
published: Saturday | March 26, 2005

The snare of illiteracy
THE REPORT in Wednesday's Gleaner that more than 60 per cent of the recent applicants to the Canadian Farm Work Programme were unable to read and write is but one more evidence of the myriad problems that need urgent attention in this country.

The dog's best friend
WE MEN will soon be physically living in the dog's house. What is even more frightening is that we are about to become our dogs' best friends. - Hartley Neita


Doubts about police
THIS EDITORIAL WAS PUBLISHED ON MARCH 24, 2004 THE SPATE of protests over the acquittal of a police constable tried for manslaughter in the death of 13-year-old Janice Allen raises serious questions about the Police Force itself.













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