Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
Published: Monday Sunday | August 2, 2009
EDITORIAL - Managing the economy post-Don Wehby
When Bruce Golding asked Don Wehby to join his Cabinet after the Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) victory in the 2007 general election, conventional wisdom was that the new prime minister lacked faith in the skills of the party's long-time shadow finance minister, Audley Shaw, and was seeking someone to hold Mr Shaw's hand in the portfolio. Read More...
Agriculture: The engine of growth
Food imports into Jamaica were in excess of US$800 million in 2008. If Jamaica, from domestic production, could reduce this massive food-import bill by 10 per cent, then businesses larger than the total exports of bananas and sugar to Europe in any recent year would have been created. Read More...
Lady Bustamante and Emancipendence
Lady Bustamante's passing, and in the Emancipendence season at that, provides an opportunity to ask critical questions about how the struggles to which she devoted her life, much of it beside Sir Alexander, have turned out, and why they have not yielded better results. Read More...
Bumpy ride after remittance bonaza
As we enter the peak of the traditional summer traffic of returning non-resident Jamaicans, families across the island are no doubt excited to welcome home their relatives for the Emancipation and Independence festivities. Read More...
Strong families, strong nation
"At least five out of every six births in Jamaica are to unmarried mothers." So says the lead article written in The Sunday Gleaner of July 12, 2009. Combine this statistic with the comment in that same article that "Jamaican women seem to have rejected marriage as the path to motherhood" ... Read More...
