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Commentary

Concessions and corruption
JAMAICA DID not receive a rating by Transparency International on that agency's perception of corruption index this year due to "insufficient data". Last year's rating of 3.5 out of 10 placed the country towards the high corruption end of the scale.

The Hamilton Proposal

THE EDITOR, Madam: I AM grateful to columnist Dawn Ritch, for her article "Adding Insult to Injury" in the Sunday Gleaner edition of the 24th September, in that it encapsulates the principal misunderstanding ... - Howard Hamilton

Of 'prophets' and 'patriots'

"JUST WHEN you felt safe to go back into the water comes Jaws Two!" So ran a trailer for the second instalment of the Robert Benchley-inspired movies about the great white shark. - C. Roy Reynolds

Beyond bushing and planting

IN THIS land of nine-day talk and seven-day wonder many persons are waiting for the Public Defender's two billion-dollar inner-city rebuilding challenge to blow over. It may be a long wait. For one thing, the Kingston Restoration Committee is not going...

Be very careful of those 'informed sources'!

THE OBSERVER'S front page lead story headlined, "Peta-Gaye heads home", September 20, is another indication of how, in the heat of competition, a newspaper can fall prey to misinformation. - Desmond Allen

Through the 20th century with The Gleaner - Storm warnings (Part three)

THE HURRICANE of November 1912 had nearly obliterated towns such as Montego Bay, Lucea, Green Island and Savanna-la-mar.









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