EDITORIAL - Jury service and civic duty
Civic organisations and human rights activists have long complained of a flawed process in the country's justice system that has resulted in the rise of a cadre of 'professional jurors'...
Still waiting for election trumpet to sound
In those days, the comrades rallied together to make Sista P's first general conference as party president a memorable affair, and the pundits were at one saying that only the late great conceptualiser himself hath pulled a larger multitude...
Issue: Contractor General and the PAC
Contractor General Greg Christie has come under fire for his stance in the Sandals Whitehouse matter. In particular, a complaint he made that many public sector bodies flout government procurement guidelines and more still simply ignore requests...
Slingshots and guns
It was in 1944 that every Jamaican - men and women - over age 21, could vote for the first time. Before then, only persons who paid more than 10 shillings per year in taxes, or who earned more than a certain salary or owned a certain amount of property...
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