Editorial - New Year welcomed with security
NEW YEAR celebrations across the world have been marked in some places by caution and indeed apprehension about terror. In Asia a bomb blast killed four persons in the Philippines, and there were unprecedented security measures in the region.
'Money in politics - its effects on political parties'
THE FOLLOWING is an excerpt from a presentation by Senator Bruce Golding at the Inter-American Forum on Political Parties Second Conference in Vancouver, Canada, December 5-6, 2002.
Deep and worsening fiscal crisis
LAST MONTH, Dr. Omar Davies, Finance Minister admitted for the first time that the economy was "going in the wrong direction", and that the Government was "going about it the wrong way" in reducing Jamaica's debt burden. (Ritch)
One Jamaica
ONE OF the unnoticed by-products of the fight against crime has been the development of greater unity in Jamaican society. So far, there has been only a little of the usual partisan bickering... (Robotham)
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