Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Sunday | July 6, 2003
Paternity leave stirring debate
NEW SOCIAL paradigms over the past half a century have placed more mothers in the workplace, forcing governments and employers to re-examine policies as they relate to making for a more productive environment for all stakeholders. When the Michael...
DPP problems at boiling point
IT REALLY is an indictment on 'the powers-that-be' who have allowed the problems simmering at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for the last 14 months to come to a boil, with the prosecutors staging a sick-out last week.
THERE HAS been remarkably little analysis in the media of the resounding victory of the Jamaican Labour Party at the recent Local Government polls. All the usual pundits seem dumbfounded. Figures are being trotted out, but nothing startling is pulled...
ONCE UPON a time we paid tribute to our masters by naming roads and buildings and places in their honour. And so there is the Princess Margaret Hospital and the King George VI Memorial Park. There is even the Cinchona Gardens named after a Countess of...
THE ISSUE of religion was never expected to be an agenda item on a regional Heads of Government meeting. Unfortunately, in the thinking of many, religious ideas and religious affiliation are not sufficiently important to detain the serious business of...
