Editorial: 2003 - The year of budget woes
THE YEAR 2003 can best be described as the year that the economy had to face the realities of its fiscal crunch - the shortfall of Government's revenue to finance its expenditure.
Patterson could decide pace of Golding's return to House
SO THE young (and not-so-young) reformists of the Jamaica Labour Party are well on the way to draining the swamps of the loyalists and capturing the party leadership, come annual conference which is scheduled for November 2004....
Wanted: A new UN convention on drugs
THE SOLICITOR-GENERAL has warned the Government that any move to decriminalise marijuana would find Jamaica in breach of the international conventions which it ratified and would place the country at odds with its treaty obligations on drug...
Reflections on Christmas
FOR 10 DAYS this month, leading to this last week towards Christmas Day, I was away at a conference, held in Geneva, Switzerland, dealing with water and sanitation. I had left at a time when the Christmas heat was building up and had a lot to deal with.
As the new comes, the old goes
MY FATHER was a Mico man. I do not know the exact years he attended this college, but it must have been in the 1920s. He was the only son of a small farmer in St. Catherine. The farm was named "Corisoe".
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