Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Thursday | December 9, 2004
Editorial - Outsourcing medical technology
PRESUMABLY THE Jamaican Government has checked carefully on the bona fides of its American partners in the United States off-shore college specialising in a range of medical specialities, which is to commence operations in Kingston next year.
WHAT A difference a couple years makes. In the earlier part of this decade (which is already at the midway mark), we were inundated with stories about white farmers being killed and chased off their farms in Zimbabwe.
IN THE cartoon of award-winning cartoonist Las May last Thursday, Miss Erotica, obviously not a bedroom slave but rather business-like condoms at hand, is ready to engage her next 'client'.
DURING THE Cold War, it was a truism that while the Soviets could match the Americans militarily, their economic influence on the planet paled in comparison to that of their superpower rivals.