PUBLIC AFFAIRS - Children need protection now
WITHIN ONE week seven children lost their lives in violent incidents causing much lamenting and grief. Our children seem to be under attack daily, from a barrage of situations that pose a serious threat to their survival... - Carol Samuels

An endemic discontented society
NOW THAt the euphoria of Portia Simpson Miller's historic selection as president of the People's National Party is over, and in a matter of weeks, she will become the first female Prime Minister of Jamaica, I would like... - Roderick R. Hewitt

Adding insult to cement injury
THE CARIB Cement Company, like every other institution in Jamaica, is but a shadow of its former self. But nobody in the trade can remember them carpeting the country before with rotten cement. Carib Cement became a publicly listed... - Dawn Ritch

Hang on?
A WEEK ago, young Jordano Flemming was killed as he tried to defend his property. Then, with the greatest irony, on International Women's Day, Vilma Mais was slaughtered like an animal after praying at her church building. - Orville W. Taylor

Breaking down barriers
ON TUESDAY last we celebrated Peace Day all over Jamaica. On Wednesday, it was the day to celebrate the struggles and achievements of our Jamaican women and their counterparts globally. Yet, on Wednesday, an elderly woman... - Lambert Brown