Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Thursday | July 14, 2005
Guarding against disaster
THE EARLY indications that this will be a very active hurricane season gives added urgency to Prime Minister Patterson's call for legislation to empower Government to remove persons from flood-prone areas of the island...
WE HAD hardly finished expressing condolences to Britain over the London bombings when blasts went off in Port of Spain. As the London Police Chief and others have frankly stated, it was only a matter of time... - Martin Henry
US PRESIDENT George W. Bush has run a tight ship in his White House, keeping lips sealed and thereby preventing the sort of gossip that constantly hampered his predecessor. - John Rapley
BOMB, whether it is toted in a knapsack, dropped from an aeroplane or is an aeroplane, is a bomb. The death of civilians, especially, by a bomb, is atrocious, whether that bomb is delivered by foot or jet engine. - Melville Cooke
