Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Friday | December 10, 2004
The bizarre JLP saga
EVEN THE most hardened cynic would be hard-pressed to craft the script for the Jamaica Labour Party's continuing ugly internecine fighting. Reports earlier yesterday suggested that a rapprochement had been reached between the Pearnel Charles and Bruce...
IT APPEARS that there is a growing number of persons who have come to accept as inevitable the imminent death of the sugar industry. This perception has been fed to a large extent by the recent WTO ruling against the European Union's Sugar regime.
TODAY WE celebrate the 80th anniversary of the birth of Michael Manley, second President of the People's National Party and Jamaica's fourth Prime Minister. In remembering him today, I want to relate a few memories that I think demonstrate the...
Honour killing what honour?
AS I listened to BBC radio earlier this week, I was distressed to hear about the travails of a young British woman who at age 15 had refused an arranged marriage by her Pakistani parents. She was pilloried by her family and became an outcast...
