The power of sex
Another one bit the dust this past week, joining myriads of others whose careers - often illustrious, larger than life and grand - have been consigned to the dustbin of history. Eliot Spitzer is the latest victim's name. (Boyne)
Oil prices: failed supply - demand fundamentals
The 148th Meeting of the Conference of Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) ended March 5, in Vienna. My friend and former colleague at the World Bank, Dr Chakib Khelil is the current president of OPEC. He announced to the waiting world that OPEC members have agreed not to boost the production from the current level of 29.67 million barrels per day... (Mian)
Women and society in crisis
Jamaican gender scholars, Taitu Heron and Hilary Nicholson, wrote in 2006 that "Women work two-thirds of the world's working hours, and produce half of the world's food, yet only earn ten per cent of the world's income and own less than one per cent of the world's property". (Buddan)
That's the way, uh-huh, uh-huh, we like it
It must be a miserable experience to live in a country with the world's highest homicide rate, and one of the lowest official GDP growth rates over the past 20 years. Or, maybe not. According to the February 24 Sunday Gleaner poll, 59 per cent of those living in statistically broke and murderous Jamaica say they are happy. (Chang)
'Grin-and-bear-it' women
When I grew up in Stanmore district in the Santa Cruz mountain range of St Elizabeth, the wise women who nurtured my generation had sayings to fit every circumstance that women of their vintage had to deal with. (Simms)
Forgiveness, justice and rehabilitation
The following article was submitted by the Public Theology Forum, an ecumenical group of ministers of religion and theologians.
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