Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
Published: Monday Sunday | October 4, 2009
EDITORIAL - Go cold turkey on Cabinet cuts
After much nudging from this newspaper and, latterly, blunt scolding from the International Monetary Fund, Prime Minister Bruce Golding has conceded the need to drain the steroids from Jamaica's pumped-up, but hardly energetic, public sector. Read More...
Taxation and quality service
Successive governments of Jamaica have found that they are unable to provide their promised level of social services and investment in social goods. The existing levels of tax collections simply cannot service the national debt, meet the salaries of the public sector and do all the other things that governments are committed to doing. Read More...
Canada bolstering Jamaica's tourism
The full impact of the global financial crisis and the recession that it has spawned are now being felt in the world travel industry, as reflected in the sharp decline in air travel, especially in North America and Europe, the largest economic blocs and two biggest regions in the world air-transport system. Read More...
More threats against our youth
When will it stop? Yet again other threats to our youth are surfacing, adding to what can be deemed to be an already volatile culture where danger seems to lurk around the corner. In this new school year, the attacks against students walking to get transportation in the Half-Way Tree area have increased. Read More...
PM's speech nine months too late
In the wee hours of the morning on Wednesday the prime minister made his long-awaited contribution to the debate on the First Supplementary Estimates for fiscal year 2009-2010, in which he laid out for the nation the perilous state of the country's financial situation. Read More...
