EDITORIAL - Moves to break the crime-politics nexus
Long overdue legislative action to break the suspected relationships between crime and politics is embodied in a document outlining a National Security Policy for Jamaica, tabled in the House of Representatives on Tuesday by Dr. Peter Phillips, the Minister of National Security....
The end of cheap money
Talk about a globalised economy. Last week, when New Zealand's central bank raised interest rates, bond markets around the world plunged. New Zealand's banking system - hardly a global epicentre - may be like the proverbial Chinese butterfly of chaos theory. - John Rapley
The Post Office
How would you like to receive your mail six weeks after dispatch, minimum? Assuming that you still bother with snail mail at all. There have been horror stories of mail, in the bad old days, taking weeks to just cross Kingston. - Martin Henry
Immaterial differences
It is 4:42 a.m. on Tuesday and, behind a door to the left of the cluttered (to put it mildly) desk I use, a television is on. It is the time of morning when advertorials targeting insomniacs, night workers, seekers and early risers are running at length... - Melville Cooke
NOTE-WORTHY: Cruelty to animals
I am writing to complain about the animals being treated cruelly. Our animals are horribly treated, they are beaten, cut up, given little food and water, and being kept locked up in a small cage all day.
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