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Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
published: Friday | August 19, 2005

Discriminatory benefits
PERHAPS IN a modern democracy, discriminatory benefits should be considered to be as verboten as discriminatory taxation. The constitutions of many countries prohibit the latter and, on moral grounds, the former can be seen as a violation of distributive.

Preparing for death
ONLY UNDERTAKERS like to bury the dead. Families wish they never have to face the reality of burying a loved one. And certainly there isn't a politician who has not had to assist with the burial of the dead. - Heather Robinson


No message from the Queen?
USAIN BOLT aside, I am feeling pretty good about being Jamaican right now. I mean there are so many things going wrong with our country, yet sometimes we manage to get it splendidly right... - Dennie Quill
















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