The People's National Party at 70
September coming will mark the 70th anniversary of the People's National Party (PNP)... This organisation, which once embodied the hopes of large masses of the Jamaican people, is today a party divided and uncertain of the direction which it needs to take. How has the PNP come to this and what is the wayforward for it out of its difficulties? (Robotham)
Can we grow what we eat?
At the height of the socialist 70s when the availability of foreign exchange was at crisis level, the slogan was coined: "Eat what you grow and grow what you eat." The slogan was catchy. (Seaga)
Food dependency and rural underdevelopment
CARICOM officials say that food prices have risen by 40 per cent in the region and we now spend US$3 billion importing food. Ricky Singh reminds us that back in 1975 in the midst of the effects of the 1973/74 oil-price crisis and the looming balance of payments problems, the relatively new CARICOM had proposed a Caribbean food corporation to promote food production. (Buddan)
The tragedy of Zimbabwe
If only that African dictator Robert Mugabe could internalise those words of his, uttered on the eve of independence in 1980, we might have been spared all that canard about "Western colonialism and imperialism," which has been used to mask his naked oppression of his fellow black people in that tragic land of Zimbabwe. (Boyne)
US lawmakers struggle to write veto-proof farm bill
Struggling to complete a farm bill that can survive a presidential veto, United States lawmakers have sent the White House a sixth extension of farm and nutrition programmes. Lawmakers had hoped to finish the legislation last week so a final version could be debated on the House and Senate floor this week.
Golding too good to be true?
Hard-core tribalists feel their party can do no wrong, and the other side no right. Criticism of their team or praise of the opponents - no matter how justified by the facts - is unmitigated bias. But to non-diehards, it's usually no better herring, no better barrel. (Chang)
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