THE BUDGET debate this year was not one of the finest. There were rare flashes of brilliance, and not many moments of creative intellectual thought. It showed every sign of the absence of Edward Phillip George Seaga. -
THE LATE Premnier Norman Manley felt that budget debates should more broadly report on the state of the nation, not just the financial state of the country. Prime Minister P.J. Patterson's Budget presentation on Tuesday was such a report.
HOW DO you describe a society that has the highest murder rate in the world and the highest absentee father rate in the world? The word 'dysfunctional' comes to mind.
