Editorial - Leave the NHT funds alone
JAMAICAN GOVERNMENTS do not have a good track record of keeping their word in areas of financial commitments. Time and again, appeals are made to public goodwill to contribute to special funds for a special cause, only for the public to see the money...
Who should pay? Lobby for state financing of political parties gathers momentum
IF ALL goes well with ongoing discussions between the governing People's National Party (PNP) and the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Jamaica could soon establish a regime under which the state would provide some funding...
Petty bourgeois intellectualism
I HAVE a confession to make. There is one breed of intellectual that I absolutely adore, maybe two. Classically trained and practising musicians for sure, and trained chefs. The second set can be trouble.
Bearing the consequences
"LOOK BEFORE you leap!" This is a common maxim, which if followed, could save many of us from acting precipitously. Me, I am not jumping from anything higher than a bed and that is only if there is a scorpion or unwelcome 'stranger' in it.
Time to cry 'cree'?
IT'S BEEN quite a while since I felt the urge to put pen to paper and comment on anything. Like so many Jamaicans I feel dizzy and punch-drunk and oblivious to pain. I was talking to some colleagues and they told me quite frankly that they don't care...
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