Values and attitudes campaign critical
Our media, full and free, have a penchant for overlooking the fundamental for the peripheral. The peripheral lends itself to more excitement and is more "sexy" and sensational - and hence of greater commercial value. Much time and attention has...
Churches, unity and values
Prime Minister P.J. Patterson has in recent days stressed again the importance of unity for nation-building and the need to return to a country of positive values and attitudes. This is a call that churches ought to be quick to support and to lead...
Succession and party thinking in the JLP
The succession issue within the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), should not be seen simply in terms of which individual will succeed Opposition Leader, Edward Seaga. More fundamentally, it has to be a matter of which JLP will succeed the present JLP, that...
Time to 'log on' to reality
Those features of Caribbean elections resembling 'sport' - combining elements of an athletic event, carnival and theatre - have often been commented on by political and social observers. Regardless of how cynical we have become by the years of promises...
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