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Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
published: Wednesday | January 9, 2008

EDITORIAL - Bartlett as the stalking horse for casinos
We hope that Edmund Bartlett, the Tourism Minister, is playing the role of the stalking horse and has the support of Prime Minister Bruce Golding for his recent remarks about interest groups and their stance on casinos....

Full freedom?

Freedom has been a clarion cry in Jamaica for centuries, until today when the focus centres more on the mental kind. People want to be free to invest their money where they want to, to smoke what they want to, and have sex with whom they want to, and to have as many children... - Peter Espeut

Reflections in this sudden new year

In childhood, a year is a very large part of a lifetime - long. By old age, a year has become fragment - brief. A 75th part of life seems miniscule short. So, the passage of time quickens as life goes by, like a torrent going faster as the chasm's edge approaches. - Ian McDonald

NOTE-WORTHY: Grave national crime

The amazing disappearance of thousands of vinyl records and compact discs from the archives of the defunct Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation (JBC) is very sad news.According to the newspaper report, "the music library, which was under the watch of the National Archives...





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