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Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
published: Thursday | February 15, 2007

EDITORIAL - Waiting for the cricket windfall
Robert Stephens has promised an additional $400 million a year of capital inflows over the next half a decade or so because of the fillip Jamaica will get from hosting matches in the Cricket World Cup which will have its opening ceremony here next month.

Habeas corpus: a powerful defence of rights

One of the consequences of 9/11 has been the acceleration of the drift of the United States towards being a police state, with restricted freedoms and increased government surveillance and interference... - Martin Henry


The low black standard

I was highly amused when, in June last year, rapper and record label executive Jay-Z said he would not be popping any more corks from Cristal champagne bottles. This was after Frederic Rouzaud, managing director of Louis Roederer...- Melville Cooke


The economy has all but callapsed but for now there is...Peace in Palestine

It's about the worst possible thing that could happen to the Palestinians. Foreign occupation is bad, statelessness worse. But having your own leaders fight over the dwindling spoils of an impoverished land... - John Rapley




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