Dabdoub, disunity and doubts
THE JAMAICA Labour Party (JLP) seems to be jinxed. Or the People's National Party (PNP) supremely blessed. Every time the JLP seems to be assuaging people's doubts about its capacity to unify itself, another row erupts. Just when everyone's attention...
Coming to terms
IT IS very obvious that at this point in Jamaica's political history, there is great confusion around the terms 'gender' and 'sex'. This confusion can be picked up from many of the articles in the print media, the discourse on the airwaves and by the...
Defining Portia: masculine and feminine leadership
SOME FEMALE leaders resign themselves to being women in a man's world. They see their role as women doing a man's job. They don't believe they can change the masculine way men organise the world. Men organise things in a command (top-down) way rather...
Jamaica and the Atlantic slave trade - Pt I
IN 2007, a significant part of the international community, led by Ghana, will observe the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade. Last December the Government of Jamaica established a national committee to plan and implement a...
Funding the Jamaican Economy Project
EARLY IN the life of the Jamaican Economy Project, when it remained little more than a brainchild and a few documents, the committee behind its creation confronted the question of how such a project would be funded.
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