Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Thursday | May 5, 2005
Assault on the society
THE VIOLENT death of three policemen in a span of less than 12 hours has sent shock waves throughout the nation. This scale of killing from criminal conspiracy has never happened here before, as far as we have been able to ascertain.
HOORAY FOR Education! The National Housing Trust, which resides now, not in the Ministry of Water and Housing but in the Office of the Prime Minister, is to put up $5 billion "to transform the education system once and for all." - Martin Henry
THE COALITION of Corporate Sponsors which recently announced a ban on supporting events on which Beenie Man and Bounty Killer are slated to perform face what I call the John Crow's prekeh. - Melville Cooke
BRITONS GO to the polls today in a general election widely expected to return Tony Blair's Labour government to office. Labour, unaccustomed to power when Mr. Blair took over the party in the 1990s, will probably set a new record... - John Rapley
