EDITORIAL - An important Privy Council ruling
Anyone who believes in the role of the press as a conduit for rigorous discourse and as watchdog against arbitrary behaviour by public officials will welcome last week's ruling by Britain's highest court that brings new interpretation to defamation laws..
Campaign financing: Open books only part of the answer
The Associated Presslast Friday quoted Republican party leaders as saying Ohio Congressman Rep. Bob Ney, who had earlier pleaded guilty in the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling investigation, would be expelled from the House of Representatives. (Steer)
A case for whistle-blowers
Mention the name Cynthia Cooper and people in Jamaica will wonder who in the world she is. And yet, this is one courageous woman who shook up American business, engineered the downfall and imprisonment of financial giants... in the United States. (Jones)
Disclosure is bad for politics
The Prime Minister, it has become obvious, will not be dictated to by either the media, or Her Majesty's loyal Opposition. Nor will she speak when told to. (Ritch)
Seeking a hero(ine)
I am tired of this cursed Trafigura incident because it is another distraction from the other important things we would like to focus on. After all, it is the beginning of Heritage Week and we ought to be reflecting on our historical heroes. (Taylor)
Messiahs and elections
In 1969 when Desmond Dekker's song Israelite shot to the number one spot on the British pop chart and registered its presence among the top 10 in the United States, he achieved something that no other Jamaican artiste had done before.(Wilson)
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