EDITORIAL - Another unnecessary task force
Dr. Peter Phillips has named a panel of distinguished persons, chaired by Dr. Herbert Thompson, president of Northern Caribbean University, to conduct another review of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF). We are fast losing track of the reviews, analyses, studies...
Populism and the US economy
It's election season in the United States. That means that, as they tend to do every four years, Democrats talk a populist line on the economy. As surely as George W. Bush connected with the Republican 'base' - conservative Christians... - John Rapley
Seaga, quashee & campaigning
Edward Seaga's last Sunday Gleaner column confirms - and frightens. I find its sub-text, "The voter/citizen as simpleton", highly offensive. The general drift of Mr. Seaga's view is that it is the masses of simpletons who determine election victories... - Martin Henry
By their email names we shall know them
None of us choose the names we are first and almost indelibly known by. We can, like middleweight boxer Marvellous Marvin Hagler, legally add a name before the given first name that we believe sums up our abilities, or like heavyweight Muhammed Ali... - Melville Cooke
NOTE-WORTHY: Shame of violence
Come on Jamaica, is it not time to let the old-fashioned political strategies remain in the 20th century and let the 21st century acknowledge our lives and well-being and bring new beginnings for our children and our loved ones...
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