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Editorial
Looking past the State of Emergency
June 27, 2010
THE excitement generated by the capture and subsequent extradition of Mr Christopher Coke and the related legal complications now facing the Rev Al Mi...
Editorial
Humble yourself, Reverend Miller
June 26, 2010
WE sense that like that 15th century saint, Sir Thomas More, the Reverend Al Miller is convinced that his first allegiance is to his conscience as opp...
Editorial
Crunch time in World Cup 2010
June 25, 2010
It's down to the nitty gritty. After two weeks of sometimes joyful, sometimes boring football and plenty of excitement off the field, the FIFA World C...
Editorial
Let’s pray for the backsliders too
June 24, 2010
Can somebody tell us what has changed between May 18 when Government Senator Mr Tom Tavares-Finson withdrew from the record as Mr Christopher 'Dudus' ...
Editorial
We know how ‘Dudus’ can redeem himself
June 23, 2010
One of the common threads running through all of the world's great religions is the concept of forgiveness. No man is beyond redemption. Not even Mr C...
Editorial
Diaspora getting politically organised
June 22, 2010
WHILE we are understandably preoccupied with local events, we must not lose sight of important events in that part of the Jamaican nation that lives a...
Editorial
What took you so long, Mr Coke?
June 22, 2010
Page one editorial The capture of fugitive Christopher 'Dudus' Coke will, hopefully, signal the end of thug rule over Jamaican communities like Tivoli...
Editorial
Professor Trevor Munroe’s truth
June 21, 2010
The view expressed by Professor Trevor Munroe that the "powerful sign" and "signal indicator" of a resignation by Prime Minister Bruce Golding — as pr...
Editorial
Like it or not elections beckon
June 20, 2010
AT one level, the muted public response to the Government's self-serving decision to postpone Local Government elections speaks to widespread doubt re...
Editorial
Great expectations, indeed
June 19, 2010
ON reading the words that Justice Minister Dorothy Lightbourne chose to welcome Mr Ian Murray back into the Senate, we couldn't help wondering which w...
Editorial
Let’s preserve the beautiful game at all cost
June 18, 2010
HAVING got off to a rather slow and ultra cautious start, we are happy to see the 2010 FIFA World Cup Finals in South Africa picking up pace in qualit...
Editorial
Up the ante
June 17, 2010
We find the report in yesterday's edition about seizure of a CCTV system in Tivoli Gardens most instructive, if only because it illustrates for the um...
Editorial
Man cannot live by bread alone…
June 16, 2010
THE US$20,000 reward being offered by the police for the capture of former Tivoli Gardens don, Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, has inevitably stirred debate...
Editorial
The United States is back!
June 15, 2010
IT is said that a friend in a time of need is a friend indeed. This is the case of the United States in last week's reaffirmation of friendship and en...
Editorial
JPS should act out of enlightened self-interest
June 14, 2010
We share the outrage at the just-approved increase in electricity rates expressed in the Sunday Observer by Mr Omar Azan, the president of the Jamaica...
Editorial
The importance of restoring law and order
June 13, 2010
THE article 'Tough road ahead for Tivoli's Transformation' in yesterday's Sunday Observer should be a must-read for everyone. It provides valuable ins...
Editorial
It’s time to get real
June 12, 2010
We note, with amazement, the comfort that Mr Patrick Robinson, the president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, says he...
Editorial
Don’t give in to the red herrings
June 11, 2010
According to Wednesday's edition of this newspaper, lawyers representing Mr Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, the former strongman of Tivoli Gardens who is no...
Editorial, News, Politics
Is it possible to ‘take back Jamaica?’
June 9, 2010
LAST Sunday, a group of about 100 mostly young, professional Jamaican men and women assembled at the University of Technology to launch their Solution...
Editorial
A crisis is a terrible thing to waste
June 8, 2010
THE current security crisis spawned by the Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke affair has jerked the society out of a paralysing complacency. But at the same tim...
Editorial
Those naïve, unthinking voices against security
June 7, 2010
Opposition to the push by the security forces against gangs and criminal enterprises has been coming fast and thick since the May 24 operation in Tivo...

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