Editorial - Listening with a third ear
THE GROWTH of cellphone use among the Jamaican population has been nothing short of phenomenal, confirming our well known reputation of volubility. Even street people living on the sidewalk have been seen reclining on an elbow, a cellphone stuck ...
High toll stymies rationale for highway
I TOOK my wife and mother for a drive to see what the expensive new highway was all about. The surface was remarkably smooth and comfortable. There was minimal road-noise and, except for one shanty-town-looking community, the scenery was relaxing...
UN-settled?
AMID THE ruin and destruction and death that the Second World War left behind, 51 nations banded together in 1945 to form the United Nations. Now, nearly 60 years later, amid charges of corruption and irrelevance, the world body is trying to remake...
Halo effect around the EU
THERE IS a kind of halo effect around the European Union. Even though the EU doesn't actively push its values on its neighbours, the mere fact that a majority of Europeans already live in this zone where democracy works...
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