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Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
published: Saturday | October 15, 2005

Bird flu alert
HEALTH EXPERTS are warning that it is not a matter of if, but of when, where, and how badly people will be affected, as the global alert for Asian bird flu intensifies. The bird flu virus, which first emerged in intensively reared poultry in South-East...

The trauma of courting
SOMETIMES I wonder how young men and women of my earlier years ever got married. The journey from meeting through dating and engagement was full of obstacle courses. - Hartley Neita


Merchants from the East upon the land
NOW IT came to pass that Jamdowners were in a tailspin for much was not kosher in their national life and between their politics, their economics, and their ethics, they were sipping a cocktail of woes, and to top it all off... - Mai'khi C'Nia


THE ISSUE: About crime and visas
Why do young men gravitate to guns? The first time I passed the Gun Court on South Camp Road in the '80s, I wondered why anybody would be ever caught with a gun. Those razor-thin wires and sentry boxes with massive rifles hanging out were enough to scare

















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