Drifting to a Close
FROM THE BACKBENCH By Ronnie Thwaites
Mike Henry is reading his contribution to the Sectoral Debate on Tuesday afternoon as this is written. He says he has ordered a wheelchair to facilitate his intended long stay in his present seat. Morais Guy is suggesting that Pearnel be engaged to push him around!
Why [...]

Jamaicans breathed a sigh of relief when the security forces dismantled the blockade of Tivoli Gardens and overran the urban criminal militias that had openly confronted the authority of the state.
After the horrendous rate of killings last year and in the first months of this year, the drop in major crimes that followed eased [...]

ROPER’S PERSPECTIVE
BY GARNETT ROPER
It is becoming clear that the outcomes we want and the processes we have in Jamaica are working at cross-purposes. The motion to extend the state of emergency for a third month consecutively, was defeated because there were insufficient Government members in the Parliament to support the motion brought by [...]

BY DAVID P. ROWE
The controversial release of Vybz Kartel suggests that this Government is not as serious about crime control, as they appear. Why would the Golding administration release an individual who uses his so-called freedom of speech to promote perverse violence among young people in Jamaica.
Vybz Kartel’s music carries with it an ideology [...]