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Commentary

Crucial Enquiry
THE DECISION to establish a Commission of Enquiry into the shocking episode of brutal beatings at the St. Catherine District Prison last week is appropriate. It will be useful to get all the facts not just about the violence which transpired but also...

Prison beatings and brutality

IT WOULD seem a rather stupid question to raise as to whether the dreadful beatings of prisoners now much in the news, was or was not brutality. But I do raise the question for a couple of reasons which also have implications we cannot ignore. Geof Brown

Should a holiday be any day?

TREASURE BEACH: I GOT caught with my holiday pants down. I could have sworn that by now we had standardised all our national holidays (except the religious ones) to be observed on Mondays, so that the country,...- Desmond Henry

Seaga's annual resignation threat

A LEAKED letter indicates that Seaga's annual resignation threat has come a bit early this year. As reported, the letter indicates that unless there is an effective.. - Daniel Thwaites

Settled at last

THE NEW Constitution of 1944 like everything else in Jamaica, was heralded by much controversy. The bickering persisted right up to the day when finally the document was approved by the Legislative Council.











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