Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Sunday | May 18, 2003
Collaboration and the dollar
THE LATEST sharp fall in the value of the local dollar vis-a-vis its U.S. counterpart has sent the money and foreign exchange markets into more than a tailspin. Consider this. On Friday the dollar closed past the $70 mark. By the end of the week it...
CCJ referendum call - The Opposition smells blood
GOVERNMENT SENATOR Kern Spencer, not well-known for his oratorical skills, was making a wonderful contribution to the debate in the Senate two weeks ago regarding the proposed Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) when he whether inadvertently or...
I MISS my friend, the late Morris Cargill, tremendously. Over a long and happy friendship, I crashed the same Jeep twice while under the influence. Morris didn't even mind. He still looked forward to my collecting him. He said the Cherokee was no damn...
HUGH LAWSON Shearer celebrates his 80th birthday today. And if you ask him how he is, he will reply as he has done for over 50 years to this question: 'Fine, up to now'. It is difficult to write about 80 years of life in a column of this size. In fact...
IT CUTS across all socio-economic classes and across every community, and there is no denying it. There is a crisis of parenting in Jamaica and it seems to me that immediate action must be taken to prevent irreparable damage. What we have now is what...
