Editorial - When Scrooge corrected Santa Claus
WAS IT a case of 'Bah Humbug', the Spirit of Scrooge overwhelming Santa Claus and 'Ho-ho-ho', or were the authorities at the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre motivated by the necessity to be "safe rather than sorry," why the annual Christmas...
Ja and the IMF: The more things change...
FOR MANY Jamaicans recent suggestions of the Government possibly re-entering a borrowing relationship with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) evoked images of severe austerity measures, massive staff cuts in the public sector...
A murderous increase
UNBELIEVABLY, THE Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) has agreed to our water rates going up next month by 26 1/2 per cent, as though the bills don't go up every month anyway.
We are lions led by donkeys
"WE ARE lions led by donkeys." That refrain was often repeated by the British line-soldiers in World War I. It was in response to a military strategy formulated by the British General staff; one that called for frontal assaults on fortified German...
Ed Bartlett should apologise too!
THE TOUGH-talking Mayor of Kingston standing his ground about not giving up another inch of the city to vendors who insist on selling in the streets; the debate, speculations and inititial secrecy surrounding the presence of...
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