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Jamaica Gleaner In Focus
published: Sunday | May 22, 2005

Dons and garrisons under pressure
WHEN THE power elite in Jamaica decides that enough is enough and is willing to rally its troops and the entire nation to its cause, the political elite trembles in its boots. The planned islandwide shutdown of businesses this Wednesday, plus the two...

Golding's dilemma
BRUCE GOLDING has finally succeeded in becoming president of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Leader of the parliamentary Opposition, Member of Parliament for Western Kingston and ceremonial head of Tivoli Gardens. Within his own Party there are those...


Human wolves and garrisons
DISMANTLE THE garrisons! The cry is getting louder from all quarters. Significantly Bruce Golding's request to the Prime Minister for all parties to 'address the question of garrison politics' is the first such call I can remember from a senior...


Taxes and social responsibility
IN 2004, Finance Minister Omar Davies said that Jamaicans owed the Government $15 billion, 80 per cent of which was unpaid General Consumption Tax (GCT).






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