Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
Published: Monday Sunday | December 6, 2009
EDITORIAL - When Mr Ellington gets the job
Despite the formalities of inviting applications for the job, it seems a foregone conclusion that Mr Owen Ellington will, in due course, be confirmed as commissioner of police unless an excellent candidate from abroad, with clear Jamaican roots, now applies for the post. Read More...
Critical issues for the the FINSAC Enquiry
Despite the often-dramatic questioning during the ongoing FINSAC Enquiry and the obvious pain and suffering that have been faced by persons who lost their businesses, their homes and in fact, their very lives as a result of the financial sector meltdown, it is critical that an attempt be made to get rationally to the heart of all the elements that combined to lead to the collapse of the indigenous banking system in Jamaica in the 1990s. Read More...
The road to growth, stability, prosperity
Individuals, when confronted with serious debt obligations, first compare their income-generating capacity to the size of the debt obligation. When that analysis indicates that the size of the debt far outstrips the income so that it would take several lifetimes of income to satisfy... Read More...
Christmas thief
A well-known urban tradition in Jamaica is the predictable appearance of the Christmas thief. Like jonkunu masqueraders, the Christmas thief is a fixture of the end-of-year holiday season. But there's a big difference between the two. Read More...
A tale of two countries
Jamaica, famous for its music and sports achievement, for Bob Marley and Marcus Garvey, for Merlene Ottey and Usain Bolt, blessed with breathtaking natural beauty, its rolling hills and verdant valleys; Jamaica, the "byword among the nations, peoples shake their heads at us," (Psalm 44:14) as we are being scorned by more and more nations because of our culture of violence and corruption. Read More...
Speed up public sector reform
So far, the Latin American and Caribbean countries have weathered the global financial crisis and resulting economic storm without suffering the financial panics and debt crises that afflicted the region in the 1980s. Most countries were much better prepared in terms of their economic policy response, financial system and key macro-economic fundamentals. Read More...
