EDITORIAL - Hard decisions needed on Windies cricket
We might have been tempted to be sympathetic, seeing them as typical of Caribbean youth, displaying the symptoms of a dysfunction so common across the region. Except that, for the most part, these are no striplings, but mature young men.
A case of slave resistance
Thanks to historian Douglas Hall for bringing to public life and light the archived diary of Thomas Thistlewood. Thistlewood came to Jamaica in 1750 to be a backra plantation overseer, mostly in Westmoreland, where Douglas Hall in more recent times would be born... - Martin Henry
Home stretch in French elections
MARSEILLE, France:An election campaign that began with promise, looking like substantive change would finally be entertained in a moribund French political system, has descended to farce. As other countries reinvent themselves in a global age... - John Rapley
'Hiding' homos
It must be a Tuesday thing. Or, to adapt the parlance of the streets where two is supposedly an unhappily gay number, it must be a 'Twosday' thing. For two (there we go again) weeks running, on a 'Twosday' the Star has carried stories in which male homosexuals have taken a hiding... - Melville Cooke
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