Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
Published: Monday Sunday | June 21, 2009
EDITORIAL - CARICOM's interest in supporting Golding
It is somewhat ironic that there is perhaps broader political consensus in Jamaica now, than at any other time, on the logic of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and regional conglomeration. The People's National Party, now in Opposition, is perceived to be the party of integration. The Jamaica Labour Party, on the other hand, is not instinctively regionalist. Read More...
Problems in the PNP
The defeat of the People's National Party (PNP) in the recent by-elections in North East St Catherine was entirely predictable. This defeat, the second in a row, has exposed the utter bankruptcy of the political line being followed since the loss of the 2007 general election. Read More...
The brown man wins
Let me state the obvious right at the start: In the Jamaican colour continuum from coal black to lily white, I, like Rex Nettleford, am among the blackest of Jamaicans. Read More...
The Description of the Region
After returning to Venice, Italy, from his travels to China in 1295, Marco Polo set down his encounters in a book, The Description of the World that for years, enthralled parochial Europeans. Read More...
Where is Jamaica's T. Boone Pickens?
Not many Jamaicans may know of T. Boone Pickens, the Texan oil billionaire turned evangelist for "green energy". But he is the type of entrepreneur that Jamaica needs now if we are to escape the suffocating energy equation in which the local economy is trapped. Read More...
