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Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
published: Wednesday | January 21, 2004

Reaching out to Haiti
GEOGRAPHICALLY, HAITI is far closer to us than Miami, Toronto or London. Psychically, it remains a world away for many of us. For mainly linguistic reasons, we in Jamaica have traditionally paid Haiti little mind.

Fish is not beef
FOR A long time now I have been trying to understand the Government's complacency with respect to Jamaica's world-class record in over-harvesting our fisheries resources. - Peter Espeut


Obstacle to economic recovery
JAMAICA HAS suffered, and continues to suffer, from the predominance of politics, the lack of visionary and strong leadership, the failure to create wealth and to expand the economy... - Delroy Chuck


Mission to Mars and beyond
EVER SINCE reading H.G. Wells's science fiction novel The First Men in the Moon in my early teens, and seeing the film version of another of his books Things to Come a few years later in the 1930's, I have been a space enthusiast . - H. K. Billy Burke












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