Commentary

The REV Al MIiller's letter to Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, published in the June 13 edition of The Sunday Gleaner seems both self-serving and insincere. Did Rev Miller not meet with Mr Coke some weeks ago? How did they make contact? The public knew of their meetings after they happened. Why not use the same methods of contacting him now?

IT IS AN ineluctable reality that since the joint police-military operation in west Kingston, the overall approach to crime and criminality has taken a paradigm shift. Now more than ever, our security forces seem to move with such stealth, speed and renewed stamina to crush those antagonists who were holding civil society hostage.

PARENTS WHO have had to change their babies diapers will understand the significance of the statement, 'a big mess for a small country' as it relates to the extradition affair and its sequelae. We all know that our 'baby' (our relatively, neonatal nation) soiled itself a long time ago but no one was willing to clean it up ... perhaps until now.

NO BOTHER mek mi get ignorant, yaa, Maasa. How yu mean, "Which Bruce?" Is how much 'Bruce' yu know so, a bawl to yu morning, noon an night a beg fi deliverance? Cho, man, no treat mi so bad. Mi cyaan tek di crosses. Tongue cannot tell. Di people dem all bout dis a wash dem mout pon mi. Yu no see di joke dem pon di Internet?

ON THURSDAY, there was a funeral for Keith Clarke, the brother of former minister of government and a regular columnist in this newspaper, Claude Clarke.

SHARP CLASHES OF opi-nion have so far characterised debate in the Lower House on the six anti-crime bills now before Parliament.

THE EDITOR Sir:IN MY school days, I was taught that the Kingston Harbour was one of the most beautiful in the world.

THE EDITOR, Sir:THE SEEMINGLY harsh measures proposed to tackle criminality and gangsterism are commendable.

"In a democracy, the people get the government they deserve" (attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859).JAMAICA SUFFERS from a deficit of leadership.

I know not the man - My home was recently raided and searched by the security forces in their hunt for fugitive Christopher Coke.

I SPENT the last few weeks adjusting my armchair to find the best comfort zone from which to watch the World Cup. The chair has been moved a thousand times, the TV constantly shifted to a better angle...

THE BABEL coming out of the babble since the events of Labour Day, prescribing solutions to our political crisis, ranges from a quasi-military solution to the problem of crime and violence, to cleansing the political deck...