EDITORIAL - JLP manifesto: Impressive first step but ...
Election manifestos are, perforce, statements of intent, which are useful in providing voters with the deliverables for which they can hold political parties accountable once they accede to government. But because they are promises, undertakings for the future...
A new promise every day
The darling of media, Bruce Golding, Opposition Leader, has been making promises left, right and centre. He's even made promises to illegal taxi men. The press sits back and looks adoringly into his eyes and writes down everything he says... - Dawn Ritch
'The Gleaner' and Deacon Thwaites
I cannot recall any previous occasion - maybe I am not old enough - when the editor of The Gleaner castigates one of his own columnists in an editorial. Last Friday, my editor wrote that Christians should "find disconcerting … the attempt by Mr. Thwaites'... - Peter Espeut
NOTE-WORTHY: Russian ships
It is absolutely amazing how our stupidity travels full circle at times and comes back to haunt us. How many of us remember that, within general election campaigns of the past, the rallying cry was centred on 'Russian ships'? Well, in the current campaign...
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