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Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
published: Friday | November 12, 2004

Hope after Arafat?
AFTER A dramatic battle to save his life in a Paris military hospital, Yasser Arafat is dead at age 75, the cause of his illness still not certain.

Conserving our forests
THE TAINOS called it Xaymaca which, translated from their language, Arawak, means 'land of wood and water'.


Comradeship and political life
ON MONDAY last while standing in the Glengoffe square in North East St Catherine, I heard comrades explain to each other how they had managed to come out to support the PNP candidate for the Mount Industry Division's by-election, Donnell Marriott.


Turn Key's contempt
JAMAICA IS truly a land of contradictions. I am thinking about customer service this week. In most of the island's resorts our hotels, restaurants and attractions, get generally good ratings for customer service.


FLASHBACK - The diaspora connection
TODAY'S EXTRACT IS FROM THE EDITORIAL OF NOVEMBER 12, 2003.












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