Jamaica Gleaner In Focus
Published: Monday Sunday | May 17, 2009
New minister, old problems
A new minister of national security, new broadcast to the nation, new expectations, but the same old intractable crime problems. The national security ministry has been the burial ground for many a hopeful minister. Why would it be any different for Dwight Nelson? Read More...
Squatting - A public/private sector challenge
Prime Minister Bruce Golding's announcement that $1 billion from the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) is to be used to effect infrastructural improvements in some squatter settlements in Montego Bay and Ocho Rios is welcome news, albeit long overdue. Read More...
Taxation without representation
While undoubtedly the majority of Jamaicans focused attention on the massive tax package that was implemented during the recently concluded Budget exercises, the whole episode highlighted as well a number of other critical issues. Read More...
The Indian model
As Indians in Jamaica and the Caribbean celebrate Indian Arrival Day in May, we might think about India arriving in the big economic league as well. In this era of economic gloom, most countries would envy India's economic performance. Read More...
A culture of responsibility
In Christendom, the Ten Commandments speak to the obligations that Homo Sapiens owes to his God, who demands full allegiance, and to his fellowman. Our constitution devotes a chapter to the rights to which the citizen is entitled. And nowhere in that principal legal document is there to be found a recital of the duties that the citizen owes to the State or to his fellow citizens. Read More...
The Budget and we the people
The major presentation of the 2009/2010 Budget and much analysis are mostly behind us. Much of the dialogue has been on the means of closing the financial gap but the actual Budget has not yet been truly discussed. Is it purely housekeeping? Is any of it laying a foundation and therefore a hope for our future as a people? Read More...
