Editorial - Hail to our own Sir Willard
THE CONFERRAL of a knighthood by the Queen of England upon Jamaican-born bass-baritone Willard White may not be cause for mass excitement in our age of dancehall, neither do knighthoods from the Queen generate widespread applause...
Shaw looks to the future
In Friday's Gleaner, Audley Shaw, Deputy Leader of the Jamaica Labour Party, warned his party colleagues against challenging the position of Party Leader Edward Seaga at the upcoming Annual Conference, and spoke of his own leadership aspirations.
Too many runners for PNP top job
MRS. PORTIA Simpson Miller, Dr. Omar Davies, Dr. Peter Phillips, Dr. Karl Blythe, Mr. Bobby Pickersgill and Mr. Paul Burke all want to become president of the People's National Party. I suppose they will say that this is democracy in action. But I don't.
Jamaica's unofficial apartheid
LAST WEEK, I told you about the reaction by the South African Govern-ment to Jamaica's decision in 1959 to ban trade with that country. As we look back in time, what was interesting was that there were unofficial apartheid practices in Jamaica then.
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