Making scapegoats of dogs
THERE IS a certain irony in the headline published on Page 3 of Friday's edition of The Gleaner 'Autopsy clears dogs', referring to the post-mortem examination on the body of Amy Murphy who died at the Golden Age Home in Vineyard Town, Kingston...
Fixing to flex - The exchange rate debate
THE PROPOSAL by the Leader of the Opposition, Edward Seaga, for the re-introduction of a fixed exchange rate in Jamaica and subsequent discussions on the choice of exchange rate regime for the country are not trivial issues. An examination of the...
Wanted: More Robert Lightbournes
CERTAIN TOP-RANKING Comrades love to remind me that I was an avid supporter of the People's National Party in my youth. It's true. But at that time I aspired to being an intellectual, a hangover from university in Canada. Alexander Bustamante seemed a...
Martin Waddell - 96 not out
LAST SUNDAY, nearly 100 families who lived in Four Paths, Clarendon, during the era of its prominence in cricket, travelled with their third generations from east, west and south to Mammee Bay in St. Ann, to celebrate the 96th birthday of a man who had...
Journeying with SISTREN
NEARLY 24 years ago, on the night of May 20, 1980, more than 150 destitute women died in a fire that ravaged the Eventide Home on Slipe Road, Kingston. The society already tense from the sharp political divisions of the period, went into shock as many...
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