Jamaica Gleaner News- In Focus - Sunday

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Agriculture development, rural poverty & public policy

Agriculture embracing cultivation, animal husbandry and fishing provides for human nutrition, clothing and inputs for other food and industrial processing.

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Singaporean model for Jamaica?

The country needs leadership that inspires, infuses enthusiasm and passion in people and which gives people a real sense that they are stakeholders in this society.

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Government, & the economy

If you listen only to the naysayers who dominate economic analysis in this country, and for whom the Government and the minister of finance can do no right, you could easily believe that the Government's borrowing relationship with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is heading for disaster.

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Corruption of government

We often talk about corruption in government. We should also talk about corruption of government. We must talk about those who are outside of government, who corrupt the institutions and processes of government.

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The West Kingston crisis and party politics - Part 2

The following is the second part of an excerpt from a presentation made by Rupert Lewis, professor of political thought, University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, during a symposium 'States of Freedom: Freedom of States' at the Mona Visitors' Lodge,...

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Should Jamaica leave CARICOM?

Would it make any difference if Jamaica left CARICOM? I asked 20 randomly selected people this question last week. They all shrugged their shoulders.

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Don't hold your breath

On Friday, July 2, during the urgings of the opposition senators that the Government should establish an independent commission of enquiry to receive evidence and make determinations and recommendations concerning the non-receding, still in-your-face...