Editorial - JLP confab and Jamaica's future
IN THE spirit of the country's political traditions, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) wraps up its annual conference today with a public session in Kingston. Perhaps the mood will be indicative of quiet, growing confidence encouraged by some of the recent..
Organised crime and social disorder
Recently, panellists on the Breakfast Club interviewed Horace Levy and Anthony Harriot of the University of the West Indies on the current crisis of crime and violence in Jamaica.
Finally, something to celebrate
FOR THE first time in all these years, The Gleaner Honour Award Committee has finally done something sensible. They've given the award to the spirit of volunteerism among faith-based organisations in the country.
'Til debt do us part?
OH, OH! Or is it, Owe, owe? Recent data revealed that Jamaica's total debt is more than 150 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP). For the uninitiated, GDP is the total value of goods and services produced within a country in a year.
Education of persons with disability
WITH THE International Day of Persons with Disabilities, December 3, coming so close to the World HIV/AIDS day, there is the possibility that the issue of disability will be overshadowed in our effort to digest the data relating to the AIDS pandemic.
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