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The timing of America’s public designation of retired senior police officer Reneto Adams, and five members of his long-disbanded Crime Management Unit (CMU), is a bit curious. And it would have carried far more weight if it had been done under a presidency other than Donald Trump’s in its waning days. But no matter who the messenger is, this development ought to be a reminder of the primacy of human rights in a liberal democracy, a commitment which requires more than pious declarations of s...

File photo of returned Jamaicans in a police service vehicle following the arrival of a deportation flight earlier this year. National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang and Foreign Affairs Minister, Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, have moved to defend the decision of the Government to accept a flight from the United Kingdom on Wednesday, with 13 deportees aboard. Apart from the potential risk posed by COVID-19 by persons entering the country, the Jamaican government was accused of being silent wh...