Editorial - Time to put Jamaica first
THE DELEGATES of the People's National Party (PNP) have spoken and finally a new party president has been chosen. We congratulate Portia Simpson Miller on having emerged victorious and now urge the new president, the rivals and all those persons...
From Stonewall to Brokeback Mountain - A rising flood not easily dammed
SEVERAL AMERICAN historians and sociologists trace the modern militancy in gay activism to a fight in a bar in New York City's Greenwich Village in June 1969.
A Charter of Wrongs? The best and worst of times for human rights
JAMAICA IS going through a period of the 'best of times and the worst of times' for human rights. Whoever decided that Cabinet meetings should be held in secret knew what he was about.
Why BoJ secrecy?
AN INIQUITOUS situation is developing at the Bank of Jamaica (BoJ). According to a proposed new law, what the central bank does is to be kept secret for 20 years.
Losing the 'race'
IT'S THE last Sunday in Black History Month and of course, we are preoccupied with the results of the drawn out two-year race. Unfortunately I was not there yesterday when the results were announced, primarily because I was watching a series of races...
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