Jamaica Gleaner In Focus
Published: Monday Sunday | August 2, 2009
Preparing for the IMF
If you ever wanted an object lesson on how Jamaica is handicapped by its low social capital, then the tight fiscal discipline which is inherent in an International Monetary Fund (IMF) Agreement will provide just that. Read More...
Lady Bustamante and the distortion of history
History may be written by victors, but it's also written by writers. Which means that its intelligentsia may well have an even greater impact on a nation's accepted past than its generals or politicians. Read More...
Debating Emancipation: Morality and profitability
Emancipation in the British colonies in 1834 left a timeless debate that we continue to grapple with today. It is a debate between moralists who insist that freedom is an inalienable human right that should be respected where it exists and given where it does not regardless of economic calculation. Others blind themselves to human rights when it is profitable to do so and it often is. Read More...
IMF Debates - Redundant ritualistic rubbish
And so once again there is widespread weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth as Jamaica returns to a borrowing relationship with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Media commentators are having a field day. Read More...
Emancipation observance: A time for reflection
The people of Jamaica are as divided over the reinstatement of the observance of Emancipation Day, as they have been about everything else in the social and political development of Jamaica. Read More...
Misreading Keynes
If - and the thing is wildly possible - the charge of writing nonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief but instructive essay, it would be based, I feel convinced, on the following paragraph: ... Read More...
Emancipation: Remembering the war victims of 1831-32
On August 1, 2007, a new monument was unveiled in Jamaica in a joint ceremony by the Jamaica National Heritage Trust (JNHT) and the Jamaica National Bicentenary Committee (JNBC). Read More...
Jamaica's bauxite reserves: cause for concern
In February 2009, Jamaica hosted the Metal's Bulletin 'Bauxite and Alumina Seminar' at Rose Hall in St James. It was reported that "Jamaica was chosen to host the seminar for a reason. Read More...
