Walking the tightrope
THE $328 billion expenditure budget presented by Finance Minister Omar Davies last Wednesday comes at a time when the economy seems interestingly poised on a knife-edge. The economy is positioned between continuing in the vicious cycle of debt, high...
What JLP 'leadership crisis'?
THE HIGHLY engaging columnist Claude Robinson has taken me to task for suggesting that the media usually frame issues surrounding Mr. Seaga in a negative light, and that there is, indeed, a media bias against the Opposition Leader. Let me reiterate...
Easter: More than bun, cheese and bunny rabbit
TYRONE REID, in the March 28, 2004 edition of The Sunday Gleaner reported that more than 30 churches had already rented Palace Amusement Cinemas in order to facilitate their followers' viewing of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ.
Antiguan elections and democracy in the Caribbean
ANTIGUA AND Haiti represent contrasting pictures of politics on both cultural sides of the Caribbean. In Antigua, opposition parties waited for 28 years to gain power, preferring to follow the constitutional method of democracy no matter how long it...
Aristide furore widens
MORE THAN a month after his abrupt departure from Haiti, former President Jean-Berrand Aristide quietly rests in the serenity of Lydford Park, faithful to the promise made to his Jamaican hosts, to keep a low profile. The storm of...
How the Jesuits changed my life
THERE ARE millions of men and women who have received the benefit of a Jesuit education over the years, whether on the secondary, tertiary, or graduate level. I am one of them. I can honestly say it has changed my life at its very...
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