Worthy women in the canefields
A BIT of a 'storm in a teacup' was stirred up in recent days with the claim that women who participated in the annual All Island Jamaica Cane Farmers' Association's Cane (AIJCF) Cutters Competition AIJCF) were denied the same level of prize money as...
Fire protection: The way forward
IT IS pointless that the owners of businesses continue to squabble about the inadequacies of the Jamaica Fire Brigade when the facts are known as to what must be done to alleviate the problem. This has been an age-old argument that is...
The tower of Babel
EVERYBODY KNOWS that Bruce Golding was not my choice for leader of the Jamaica Labour party (JLP). But it has happened, and it must be said. The 62nd Annual Conference at the National Arena where he was crowned was reconfigured and dressed to the...
Equal rights, justice and security
"EVERY ONE is crying out for peace. No one is crying out for justice. We want equal rights and justice." Lest anyone starts calling me 'Old Pirate', those are Peter Tosh's lyrics and the words are true. Crime, justice and equal rights are intimately...
Economic growth and standard of living
THE GLEANER'S editorial of February 21, 2004, entitled 'Wage Cost and Economic reality', said, "It is time the Jamaican workforce gets accustomed to two per cent and three per cent pay rise as is the norm in Europe and America. This would set a...
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