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Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
published: Friday | January 18, 2008

EDITORIAL - BLP defeat margin a big surprise
Given the projections of a tight race, the scale of the defeat of Owen Arthur's Barbados Labour Party (BLP) in Tuesday's general election was extremely surprising.However, the big win for the Democratic Labour Party (DLP), after 14 years in opposition, with 20 of the 30 parliamentary seats...

Cricket World Cup ghost haunts the region

News that Guyana's president may sue the WICB for its share of gate receipts earned during Cricket World Cup last year threatens to reopen a wound which the Caribbean people have been nursing, and renews haunting questions about the economics of the competition....Dennie Quill

Things 'come to bump'

If you take a look at the last six months you would have to say the JLP are not exactly a lucky bunch. They won the election, but one could not really say that was a matter of luck, it seemed more like long, hard work. But having won the election... - Tara Clivio

NOTE-WORTHY: Hairstyle policy

I am so disappointed that after information and communication have improved tremendously over the past years, that people in influential positions, such as those at the Ministry of Labour, are still being so primitive.





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