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Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
published: Saturday | April 23, 2005

Editorial - Rescuing the hostages
THE NOTION of inner-city residents being hostages of crime rather than protectors of criminals has been posited by Opposition Leader Bruce Golding, returning in his elevated role to the House of Representatives.

'Chaka-chaka' of the UWI, Mona campus
ONE OF my history teachers at Jamaica College during the 1940s took a group of us once to nearby August Town to the Alexander Bedward Chapel. I do not remember his name; he did not return to the school after that term.


Ignore proper land use to our peril
THE EDITOR, Sir: LAND USE planning had its inception in Jamaica in 1947 with the introduction of the Town and Country Planning (TCP) Act (1947) and the establishment of the Town Planning Department (TPD).


On dispensing 'praedial justice'
THE EDITOR, Sir: EVERYONE IS expected to live by the letters of the law (wherever laws are established) and even though some of us may not want to violate accepted and accepted laws, it is more than a challenge to conform to restrictive rules...














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