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Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
published: Monday | August 25, 2003

Inflation woes
DERICK LATIBEAUDIERE, Governor of the Bank of Jamaica, is forecasting that Jamaica's inflation rate for the current fiscal year may reach 13 per cent. This is not good news.

Naked and unbound
You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care/nor your nights without a want and a grief/But rather when these things girdle your life/and yet you rise above them naked and unbound - Kahlil Gibran...


The unclothed truth
IN BIARRITZ, St. Tropez and other places on the French Riviera, vacationers enjoy the legal right to nudity. In Jamaica, not even statues are allowed that statutory right. - Tony Deyal


The back-to-school blues are here again
THERE IS a certain predictability about back-to-school time. The Ministry of Education will issue a statement to the effect that most schools are ready to proceed. - Stephen Vasciannie














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