Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Wednesday | August 9, 2006
Soap opera in the Portland Parish Council
We sense from the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and its councillors in the Portland Parish Council a feeling that they were hard done in last week's overturning of JLP leadership of the council...
With elections in the air, the government will soon unveil its many promises. For the 1972 General Election, it promised 'better must come'; but, in the '70s, the people of Jamaica experienced one of the worst, if not the worst... - Delroy Chuck
Eric Williams in his epochal treatise traced the history of our part of the world from Columbus the Genoese conqueror, to Fidel Castro whose ancestry traced in part to the same Spain that Columbus represented. - Hilary Robertson-Hickling
Jamaica as an independent nation is now 44 years old, but what does that mean in real terms? Just exactly what did that stroke of a pen mean 44 years ago? Has lowering the Union Jack and raising the Black, Green and Gold made. - Peter Espeut
