Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
Published: Monday Sunday | February 8, 2009
EDITORIAL - A suggestion for UWI students
It is not too late for Roger Bent and his guild of students at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), to recalibrate their approach to the debate on how Jamaican students might best afford university education. Read More...
At the mercy of decent criminals
At this pivotal time in Jamaica's history, the silence of women's voices is deafening. The established pattern of women's activism for social justice and human rights in this nation state seems to have peaked in the 1970s, when the majority of progressive legislation struggled against all odds, and is now reflected in the legal framework, which sometimes attempts to ensure justice to individual women and girls. Read More...
Morals and markets
Markets are in turmoil and culprits and cures are being avidly sought. Crooks destroy markets and when the freedom of markets is destroyed, other freedoms inevitably follow. The enemies of market relations are crowing over the constrictions now being imposed, with a certain inevitability, on the free operations of the market... Read More...
Opportunities in this crisis
The world is in an economic crisis of a degree not seen before. There are no historical parallels that may be referenced as a way of defining the paths out of this meltdown, the experts tell us, but I am inclined to assert that there is, in this crisis, a tremendous set of opportunities! Read More...
Surviving the redundancy fever
In his book The Audacity of Hope, written before becoming the 44th president of the United States of America, Barack Obama told the story of visiting a town in the US called Galesburg. A major company was about to shut down production and throw 1,600 employees on to the scrap heap of unemployment. Read More...
