Thoughts for the Golding summit
Prime Minister Bruce Golding and his senior ministers are today meeting with private sector high flyers and top guns at the upscale Ritz-Carlton hotel in Montego Bay in what has been dubbed a national planning summit. Will it be more symbolic than significant? (Boyne)
Financing sports
Sports could be bigger and better in Jamaica if only it had the financing to build it as an industry as other countries are doing in some sports, Jamaica is already at world-class standard. (Seaga)
Financing politics and Parliament's role
In 2004, Doris 'Granny D' Haddock ran in New Hampshire for the U.S. Senate against the incumbent Republican. Granny D was 94 years old. She ran on a shoestring budget of US$200,000 raised from ordinary Americans by volunteers. This could hardly pay for more than a couple of television advertisements. (Buddan)
A nation of 'bad words'
The Monday, October 2 edition of The Gleaner carried the headline, 'Research says swearing can boost team spirit'. Under this headline were 'head to breast' pictures of three prominent Jamaican opinion makers, two women and one man. (Simms)
'Boyne ignorant of Chinese history'
The Editor, Sir: It was with surprise and shock that we read Ian Boyne's article on October 28 titled 'China's threat to freedom', which contains some main points that are either groundless, biased or irresponsible. We feel obliged to clarify the facts so as to set the record straight.
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