Doctors on the run - Fear of burnout!
DESPITE AN average of 100 doctors completing their studies each year, there seems to be no cure for the chronic shortage afflicting public hospitals. As much as 45 per cent of these health professionals flee the island in search of...

Cop killers still at large after a year
ONE YEAR after the shocking murders of three policemen in Kingston, their killers are still at large. Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mark Shields has advised The Sunday Gleaner that tracking the suspects has been "highly frustrating."

Analysts reject Portia's spending spree
ANALYSTS SAY the economic strategies presented by Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller in her Budget presentation in Parliament last Tuesday lacked substance.

Focus on HIV/AIDS - 'Prevention is much cheaper than cure'
LASCELLES CHIN, chairman of the Lasco Group of Companies, has set the record straight regarding his suggestion that the Jamaican society should accept commercial sex workers.

Distribution is not development
THE BUDGET presentation by the Prime Minister should leave us in no doubt. In a speech of 13,248 words, 65 words were devoted to economic stability. This is a bit less than five per cent. So much for macroeconomic stability.

A life on a cultural mission (Part II)
This is the final instalment of the acceptance speech by former Prime Minister Edward Seaga at his recent installation as Fellow of the Institute of Jamaica.

The Prime Minister's Achilles heel
SHOULD PRIME Minister Portia Simpson Miller's performance in the Budget Debate be dismissed outright as so much sound and emotions lacking in substance, as I have heard it said repeatedly in some quarters?