WHAT JA NEEDS NOW
IT WAS an awful paradox. While Finance Minister Omar Davies was delivering his most comfortable Budget speech in 11 years, reeling off accomplishments, citing buoyant investment prospects and growing private sector endorsement, scared residents from...
Regionalism - the Caribbean's only Future
A FEW issues of recent weeks have brought the FTAA and the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) to public attention. In a speech to the Rotary Club, U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica Sue Cobb, sought to convince the Caribbean that its interests lie more...
Good Journalism in a global environment
THE COMMONWEALTH Journalist Association couldn't have chosen a better and more textured place to be headquartered. For here, there are always more than two sides to every question.
Dangers of personality cults
DEEP AT the root of Jamaica's political culture is a munificent obsession known generally as hero worship and internationally as the cult of personality.
Nobody's doll!
DOLLS ARE introduced to little girls at a stage when they are developing their linguistic and thinking skills. It is also a time when they are making sense of things and the world around them. It is normal therefore for little girls to identify with...
Education in a fragmented society
AS JAMAICA is such a fragmented society, culturally and economically, the mission of teachers is made all the more onerous.
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