Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Thursday | June 2, 2005
The art of grandstanding
MANY JAMAICANS, trying to eschew cynicism and clinging to the important virtue of hope, will have been disturbed by Mr. Richard Azan's outburst in Parliament against that section of the Emancipation Park Declaration calling on politicians...
THE HURRICANE season began yesterday with memories of Ivan still fresh in our minds. And Sunday is World Environment Day. The Met people are predicting another hyperactive year of hurricane formation in the Atlantic. - Martin Henry
FRANCE'S REFUSAL to ratify the proposed European Union (EU) constitution in Sunday's referendum, while expected, was still dramatic. To read the tea leaves which have popped up in public debates and opinion surveys... - John Rapley
IT IS all getting a bit hard, is it not, to keep up with, these proposed adoptions, proposed distancing of politicians from gunmen, proposed naming of extortionists... - Melville Cooke