THE JAMAICAN Government received a ringing endorsement of its macroeconomic programme last week from no less a significant global player than the International Monetary Fund (IMF), with which it has had a stormy and turbulent relationship in the past.
IN TODAY'S globalised world, one can justifiably say that Jamaicans are a borderless people. The celebration of Jamaica's first Diaspora Day in June signifies the global movement that has helped to make Jamaica the best-known small country in the world.
A fragile or failed state?
"JAMAICA IS a failed state" - Is that what Bank of Nova Scotia's (BNS) managing director Bill Clarke really meant in his recent speech?
IN THE science section of the May 2005 edition of the New York Times, writer Dinitia Smith reported on the current discussion on the logic of the female orgasm.
DISCUSSIONS ABOUT the education of the young child have been like a chorus being sung, and at intervals, different groups from across the island join in the refrain.