Requiem for Haiti
THE LAST few months have been fraught with pain and anguish, as I have watched my country descend into an abyss of anarchy, and teeter on the brink of civil war. (Desulme)
Case of a failed democracy
HAITI'S PRESIDENT, Jean-Bertrand Aristide recently said, "There have been 32 coups d'etat in Haiti in 200 years of Independence, but we must now go from one democratic election to another democratic election." (Buddan)
Why Ja needs a social partnership
ONE OF Jamaica's most critical needs at this time is for a deepening of the levels of trust, cooperation and partnership between the various stakeholders in the society. We cannot achieve economic development without this. (Boyne)
G2K policy focus - Understanding the MoU
THE MEMORANDUM of Understanding (MoU) between the government and the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU) on wage restraints in the public sector is an unprecedented move toward the formation of a social partnership...
Cybersex - more of the same in a different space
MOST OF the literature that speaks to the differences between men's and women's attitude towards and expectations of sex point to the fact that women tend to find it difficult to disengage sex from their need to be emotionally attached... (Simms)
In search of the great black hope
WHEN THE sleek, black shaven-headed Jack Johnson defeated the white heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries in 1910, it set off a yearning among white people, which in many ways continues to this day, for a "great white hope". (Bartley)
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