Have guts! - Unmask accusers or refuse extradition requests, some lawyers say
Local legal eagles believe Jamaica should be bold enough to deny an extradition request from its powerful northern neighbour, the United States of America, when the accusers are not named. Veteran attorney-at-law Barry Frankson, who was called to the Bar more than 30 years ago...
We want and deserve more
Jamaica is ill-served by a public bureaucracy that has retreated from its responsibility to manage. The problem is compounded by politicians who believe not only that the job is theirs but that they are capable of doing it...
Justice: resolving conflict and contradictions
A country of contradictions. People defining themselves within systems that creak with age, seeking escape from the grips of crime and corruption, searching for truth and meaning through integration and education...
Doomed - Sector leaders predict failure of public-sector facelift
Some sector leaders are warning that public-sector reform might be doomed to fail because the role of Government in providing services to the Jamaican people has not been clearly defined. "Public-sector transformation has got to have as its number one...
Munroe pleads for more talk
Professor Trevor Munroe has appealed for greater consultation between management and workers in reforming the public sector. "So far it has been top down, a ministry paper laid in the Parliament, the prime minister speaking ...
Conflict of roles could stifle reform
Influential participants in the struggling social partnership initiative have warned that the disharmony in functions of the political directorate and the civil service is too sharp to bring about effective public-sector reform...
CCJ judges: Quality, method of appointment debated
Robust and sometimes fiery debates erupt when there is an argument about Jamaica making the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) its final court of appeal, replacing of the Privy Council. Questions of jurisprudence come to the fore in these debates which seem set to rage...
'Jamaica would seek extradition of US citizens if ...'
A SENIOR member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) says Jamaica would move with alacrity to request the extradition of a United States citizen if there was strong evidence linking such a person to trade in illegal firearms locally...
Shore up judicial independence - lawyers
The relationship between the judiciary and the executive has come in for scrutiny by members of the legal fraternity. While acknowledging that the Constitution makes provisions to secure impartiality and independence, lawyers argue that there is room...
Politicians speak on gangs, dons and corruption
THE CLOCK is ticking and with every passing second, the chance to halt or reverse the devastating and persistent effects of organised crime and corruption in Jamaica appears to be waning.Professor Trevor Munroe, director of the National Integrity Action...
The evolution of the Jamaican posses
More than 14 years after the bold intervention of then Opposition Leader Edward Seaga and former member of Parlia-ment Heather Robinson, in exposing criminal activities in their constituencies, the nature of the crime monster has taken on frightening...
Governments put party, not country, first - MacMillan
COLONEL TREVOR MacMillan, a retired soldier, former commissioner of police and senator who had a short stint as national security minister, says the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the People's National Party (PNP) have put party ahead of the country....