OPPOSITION LEADER Edward Seaga has essentially snubbed the Budget Debate as pedestrian, and has instead initiated a serious intellectual discourse on economic strategy by fundamentally challenging the economic direction of Finance Minister Omar Davies.
POLITICAL MATURITY seems to be breaking out all over the place. This is somewhat unusual in an environment that breeds political opportunism and corruption like virulent untamed weeds. In June 2003 soon after the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) won the...
THE WORLD Bank says pointedly that governance is the manner in which power is exercised in the management of a country's social and economic resources for development. This means the budget process and governance must be understood together. A good...
The utility of preliminary enquiries
ALTHOUGH THERE have been many calls for the abolition of preliminary enquires so as to expedite trials, the calls have gone unheeded.
IN 1975, SUSAN Brownmiller published her seminal work Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape. In this well researched and documented work, Brownmiller reminded us that rape has a history and this history is integrally linked to women's current condition...
