Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Thursday | January 13, 2005
Urgent remedial action needed
THE FIRE at King's Plaza in a section of Kingston's busy uptown commercial district earlier this week, which caused extensive damage to a number of businesses, might have been brought under control more speedily and with less destruction had the Fire...
NOBODY UNDER 50 can remember malaria in Jamaica. Doctors trained at the UWI over the last generation would only have met textbook cases. The disease, still present in scores of countries, was eliminated here in 1963. Many other infectious diseases have...
THE YEAR 2005 has got off to a shaky start for the U.S. economy. After analysts predicted a continuation of the late-2004 rally, stock markets have slid. Meanwhile, oil prices have resumed climbing and the dollar is back in decline. The economy as a...
