State power vs civil liberty
DR. OMAR Davies has tabled in Parliament the Money Laundering Amendment Bill and the Financial Investigation Divisions Bill, both of which are designed to fight financial crimes and make it more difficult for drug money to be laundered back into the...
PUBLIC AFFAIRS - How literate are we?
IN EUROPE and North America more systematic means are being used to measure literacy levels. When Statistics Canada conducted an International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) during the 1990s, literacy skills were tested in three domains...
A society out of control
ABOUT THE only thing I've changed my mind on over the course of a lifetime is the death penalty. As late as the 1990s anybody who opposed the death penalty was a bleeding-heart liberal. A touchy-feely person getting in the way of justice.
Learning from Yasser Arafat
HIS NAME was 'Arafat' not 'Ararat.' Ararat is where Noah's ark is supposed to have landed after the flood. This time the flood has not yet happened but it is imminent. We are on the verge of an international cataclysm and a perhaps local...
Kingfish or King spin?
LIKE ALL law-abiding citizens I would like to see the success of Operation Kingfish. The Jamaican people deserve security in their home, at work and on the street. For too long the criminal dons and crime bosses have operated as if they...
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