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Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
published: Thursday | February 23, 2006

Losing our best-educated
AN INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) working paper confirms the sad news that the Caribbean has lost some 70 per cent of its workforce to emigration, among the highest emigration rates in the world.

Church: Part of the problem and solution
RECENTLY, THE Church of England made a profound confession. That church communion repented for the role the Church of England played in the evil system of slavery. They recognised that they benefited from slavery... - Devon Dick


Why autocracy doesn't work
RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin has turned post-communist Russia on its head. In the heady 1990s, as Russians tasted their new-found freedoms, the economy imploded. Privatisation enriched a handful of oligarchs... - John Rapley


The chains of Black humour
THE FIGURATIVE chains of mental slavery do not obviously bind and drag as did the literal ones before 1834. Sometimes they glitter in the jewellery store, there are different patterns bouncing on the chests of the insufficient... - Melville Cooke















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