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Commentary

Kingston on show
KINGSTON WILL be on show this weekend when it hosts the Jamaica Product Exchange, JAPEX 2000, tourism trade show, from May 19 to 22.

'The finest newspaper in the outer Empire'
IN THE considered opinion of Lord Beaverbrook, the famous British newspaper publisher and statesman, The Daily Gleaner was "the finest newspaper in the outer empire", this according to the current Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors Richard Ashenheim.

What to do about debt
FOR SOME reason, in recent years the whole world seems to have woken up to the importance of "fiscal prudence" in running a nation's affairs. It is a mystery. Ordinary men and women of good sense have always known that profligacy leads sooner or later to

In the midst of life
IT IS so easy to get so caught up in all the business of life that we temporarily forget its one certainty, death. The year 2000, not yet six months old, has already taken to their final resting place six persons whom I have known very well.

Morris Cargill the socialist?
OUR LATE colleague Morris Cargill during most of his writing career had a reputation as a debunker of socialism and socialists, from former British Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, to the Manleys and the PNP they have all felt the lash of his pen.













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