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Columns
The Latest from our Jamaican Columnists
It's not an easy road
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
MY favourite cable television advertisement currently running in prime time is a dramatic 30-second promotion of XFINITY's Internet service starring Usain Bolt. A close second is yet another 30-second commercial for the cool new Samsung Smart Camera NX300, also featuring Bolt. If I needed any convincing that Bolt's s ...more
Commission of enquiry not adequate for Tivoli incident
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Three years after the security forces' operation in Tivoli, which resulted in the deaths of at least 73 people, some Jamaicans and so-called human rights organisations still do not recognise that what happened was a crime against humanity, which req ...more
IMF gives us reality check
Monday, May 20, 2013
Rev Ronnie Thwaites' contribution last week to the Sectoral Debate was a speech that previous ministers of education may have dreamed of making, but may have been stopped by the risk of losing the favour of 20,000 influential Jamaicans -- our teacher ...more
Caribbean talks conservation on Branson's island
Monday, May 20, 2013
NECKER ISLAND, British Virgin Islands (AP) — Surrounded by a turquoise sea and a menagerie of exotic animals on a billionaire's private island, political and business leaders gathered Friday to back an initiative aimed at expanding protection f ...more
Strengthening the ties that bind
Sunday, May 19, 2013
A lightly edited address by former Prime Minister P J Patterson at the Institute for Global Dialogue in Pretoria, South Africa on April 26, 2013.
I welcome this pleasant occasion which allows me to address the Institute for Global Dialogue, a thrivi ...more
Wanted: A collateral strategy for economic recovery
Sunday, May 19, 2013
There can be little doubt in anyone's mind that the country is now in a precarious economic situation and is facing a daunting future.
In spite of some prevailing chatter, this situation has not been brought on by the International Monetary Fund (IM ...more
Joyce Robinson was good for Jamaica
Sunday, May 19, 2013
THE great spirit of generosity exhibited this past week by a number of individuals and institutions in tribute to the life and work of Dr Joyce Robinson, who made her transition last Sunday at the age of 87, is a welcome reminder that there still exi ...more
When a simple 'to rahtid' will not do
Sunday, May 19, 2013
KINGSTON'S mayor, Angela Brown Burke, is fluent in three or four languages: English, Jamaican, Spanish and French, but chose to tweet the very American phrase "What the F..." when her political sensibilities were affronted by the presence of two Oppo ...more
Not a Caribbean man?
Sunday, May 19, 2013
TENSION is developing toward the Caribbean Community and Common Market (Caricom) from some quarters in Jamaica. This was exemplified by a column in the Gleaner newspaper written by an Immigration attorney, Mr Ronald Mason. I believe it is fair to sum ...more
Conservative party politics hits Shaun Bailey
Sunday, May 19, 2013
In the months leading up to the 2010 British general election, few Conservative parliamentary candidates got more publicity than Shaun Bailey, who has Jamaican heritage. Every newspaper and magazine you opened seemed to feature him. He was heavily pr ...more
Answering for bloodthirsty crimes against humanity
Saturday, May 18, 2013
RONALD Reagan once described him as "a man of great personal integrity and commitment". Erfaín Ríos Montt, in the course of a long military career dating back to the early 1950s, displayed very little integrity but certainly a lot of co ...more
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