@SOFTNEWSMAG - Crime, Politics

Crime, Politics

In politics, law and order refers to demands for a strict criminal justice system, especially in relation to violent and property crime, through harsher criminal penalties.

February 2013
Of Darkness, and Bears I am generally an optimistic person. I think some of my friends would call me “feisty,” in fact (in Jamaica, this is pronounced “facety.”) But yesterday was one of those days when that positive energy seemed to fade away. The stars withdrew into their deepest holes, and it became dark. Full dark. In June of last year, I [...]
January 2013
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Many years ago, the “three R’s” were Reading, Writing and Arithmetic. But now – at least for the last twenty years or so – they mean “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.” Has our little island of Jamaica adopted this mantra, over the years? I would answer with a resounding “NO.” The island has been slowly disappearing under [...]
December 2012
November 2012
Tightening circles Every day this Government is finding itself with less legitimate room to manoeuvre. The citizenry is creating ever tightening circles, restricting the movement of agendas detrimental to our nation. Many say the reason Trinidad and Tobago's citizens don't mobilise against crimes committed against us by political and capital elites is because we've never fought a war for Independence. Nobody ever spilt any blood...
Barbados Police competence, brutality, in spotlight as ‘wrongful’ rape charges explode in worldwide news “Signed confession after suffocated and beaten by police” “Rachel Turner, 30, and Diane Davies, 63, are adamant that Derick Crawford, 48, was not the man who attacked them in Barbados. Mr Crawford said he was overseas at the time of ...