Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Wednesday | November 9, 2005
Conflagration in France
ANYONE WHO has ever visited a French low-rent housing complex can attest to the problems that have long lain beneath the surface of French society - poverty, marginalisation, ethnic tension. But even jaded observers would probably be shocked...
IT WAS interesting to see the reaction among the 'Clansmen' and their supporters to the statement by Minister of National Security, Peter Phillips, congratulating the police for locating and neutralising their leader. - Peter Espeut
EXTORTION IS so prevalent that it has become the norm and accepted practice in many urban communities. Businessmen, taxi operators, bus drivers, informal commercial traders, tradesmen, contractors and, in fact, many others pay... - Delroy Chuck
