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Commentary

Pruning the Civil Service
WHILE CIVIL servants worry about their jobs, citizens are more concerned about improvements in the quality of public services and about the balancing of the Budget which would lead to an easing of the heavy tax and debt burdens on our backs. A...

Environment, economy and ethics

THE DIANA McCaulay led Jamaica Environ-mental Trust (JET) invited me to a candlelight vigil with secondary school students for Kingston Harbour on the night of May 11.

The Windies pass second test

A FEW weeks ago I asked the question that is on every cricket lover's mind in the Caribbean, Has the West Indies Team hit rock-bottom? Is the West Indies Team on the way up or do we have further to fall? I decided to set up three hurdles that the team...

The Gleaner weighs in

WE HAVE seen that the new Constitution of 1944 was not exactly something graciously bestowed by the British Governor and gratefully received by the people of Jamaica. Instead criticism and charges flowed from various sources throughout much of 1944.

Norman Manley and the birth of a nation
THE SUNDAY Gleaner of May 7, published my article headed "Fairclough, Blake secure Blacks' respect". And I am grateful to the many Jamaicans who called me by telephone from other parts of the world on that very day to say they were happy to read it













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