EDITORIAL - Leadership in a time of crisis
Dr Omar Davies, when he served as finance minister, used to be very good at lecturing the Opposition against hyperbole in diagnosing problems in Jamaica's financial markets. For, as Dr Davies used to point out with eminent good sense, markets turn as much on confidence...
The wisdom of the people
I spent Monday riveted to the television, watching the US House of Representatives vote on the government's proposed bailout bill. After hours of debate, during which capital markets around the world were jittery, the news came that the vote would start....- John Rapley
The 60-day experiment
Some people could not digest their dinner last Sunday night after watching the gruesome story surrounding the discovery of the remains of another child, killed and dumped in bushes like an animal. I know because I was one of them... - Dennie Quill
Portia and Prejudice
In June, I completed my Ph.D. studies on the Native Baptists and I cannot help but perceive parallels between the treatment meted out to the Native Baptists by English Baptist missionaries and that to the Most Honourable Portia Simpson... - Devon Dick
The reign of folly
This is not the Crash of 1929 revisited, and we are not heading into a second Great Depression. No developed country this time round is going to face the 25 per cent unemployment rate that the United States experienced in the 1930s... - Gwynne Dyer
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