Opportunity amid setbacks
DESPITE A rise in consumer and business confidence measured by surveys conducted in Jamaica by the University of Michigan, the real economy continues to suffer from the loss of jobs. The latest episode is in the garment sector involving some 2,000 free...
A mudslide and a tsunami
BEWARE: STATISTICS lie ahead. Somewhere between Saturday, September 18, and Sunday, September 19, 2004, the hills around Gonaives, Haiti's third largest city, moved. - Melville Cooke
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
SOME WILL remember Edward Seaga as Dr. Jekyll. Others as Mr. Hyde. The former were his political opponents while those who saw him as Hyde were mainly his political colleagues and the many friends he made in the cultural field.
A master plan for Ocho Rios
THE EDITOR, Sir: THE NEWS item in Monday's Gleaner under the headline 'Cash crunch hits St. Ann Parish Council' prompts me to underline an even bigger dilemma faced by the council, the government and the chamber of commerce in relation to St. Ann, and...
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