Why Doha is so critical
THE RESULTS of the Doha Development Round and the negotiations at the Hong Kong Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) are far more crucial to Jamaica's development prospects than who wins the leadership contest in the People's...

Santa Claus is everybody's father
NOW THAT Christmas is just around the corner, one pot-bellied, white-bearded fictionalised man takes on a larger than life role as the father figure for countless boys and girls in Christian communities throughout the entire world. The legendary Santa...

Tookie and Raskolnikov
'TWO OLD ladies hacked to death!' is the kind of headline that makes even bleeding heart liberals instinctively cry out 'Bring back hanging!' But in Dostoevsky's classic novel Crime and Punishment, the hero Raskolnikov gets sentenced to less than 10...

Coming home to research
AS A student at the University of the West Indies, Indianna Minto made a powerful impression on her teachers. So it came as no surprise to them that when she finished her master's degree in public administration, she was quickly recruited into the...