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Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
published: Sunday | July 20, 2003

Failure is not in our stars
THERE ARE a few issues that recur in our country with distressing, sometimes boring, regularity. Among them, annual flooding in well-known disaster-prone areas, and outbreaks of violence in some Corporate Area communities, with sections of Mountain View.

The fluidity of race
MY COLLEAGUE Melville Cooke has asked what I meant by 'brown-skinned' in my recent column, 'The White Man's Burden', and claims that once you're black you're black... -Dawn Ritch


Come rain or shine ­ it's a beautiful day
THERE WAS a time, a long, long time ago, when Jamaicans had a reputation for politeness. It was so, especially in small rural towns and villages. If you were there ... -Hartley Neita


Let us agree on these things
IN THE normal run of things, we Jamaicans find it hard to agree with each other on many fundamentals: whether it is about financing education or about West Indies cricket ... -Linette Vassell














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