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Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
published: Thursday | April 27, 2006

Efficiency, please, Dr Davies
IN INFORMING the country of how the budget will be financed, Dr Omar Davies, the finance minister, has a task that is not to be envied. We would urge him not to take the easy and damaging approach. There is something to build on.

Planting trees and reading
SOME SMALL things can be very important. Although 15 hectares of land is really not that small, that's the area of land replanted in hardwood trees in the Wallenford/Silver Hill area up in those spectacular St. Andrew hills... - Martin Henry


Beating children in public
Within seven days, I have been to two places where there was a high concentration of children, the first being this year's National Pantomime last Thursday and the annual student intake for a primary school in St. Andrew. - Melville Cooke


An American illusion ends
A MIGHTY American illusion, born in the 1990s, is now coming to an end. Dreams may get shattered as it does so. It has long been held that the great boom which started in the 1990s, and which tapered off but still continued... - John Rapley




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