EDITORIAL - Going further with Mr Walker
We support Danville Walker's call, made in his signed piece in this newspaper last week, for greater voluntary compliance with duty payments.But if the tone of Mr Walker's article is any guide, it seems that the commissioner of customs, who is still relatively new in the job...
Crashing the glass ceiling at Sabina
Unfortunately, little attention has been paid to a significant and substantive development in Jamaica: another crashing sound from the broken glass ceiling at Sabina Park.As Tony Becca wrote several weeks ago, the Kingston Cricket Club (KCC), after...
The coming world recession
After weeks of relentless decline in asset markets, during which credit markets resisted all official efforts to unblock them, the world's major central banks finally got together last week and injected an unprecedented amount of money into the global... - John Rapley
Christianity marginalised
Recently, I read a report on the launch of Fred Kennedy's historical novel, Daddy Sharpe, in The Gleaner, which seemed to marginalise Christianity. At the launch, held at Alhambra Inn, there were three perspectives on the book, namely, cultural, historical... - Devon Dick
Tackling sexual child abuse
We scream, we rant, we condemn, we demand and enact legislation to punish perpetrators (sex offenders) for sexual abuse of children to little avail. The media and magazine articles have joined in the campaign to illuminate the problem after the damage... - Dorothy M. Neddermeyer
When doctors play God
Many years ago a well-known Jamaican author, in addressing a group of doctors in Kingston, observed that "Some patients believe that doctors are God, the doctor already knows he is God."I wondered back then whether the speaker had gone overboard...Dennie Quill
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