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EDITORIAL - Agriculture in the time of bauxite

Two bits of recent news in the real economy will no doubt have pleased the Golding administration. Last Thursday, Oleg Deripaska's UC Rusal removed the shutters from its 650,000 tonne alumina refinery at Ewarton in St Catherine and has started firing up its kilns. The plant was mothballed for more than a year.

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Party of the lumpen

The party of Norman Manley is no more. The People's National Party (PNP) is now officially the party of the lumpen. They did not even have the guts to come out and vote against a state of emergency to which they were clearly opposed. Instead they 'abstained.'

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God answer Bruce prayers

Bruce, mi son, a no everybody mek fi be prime minister. Trust mi. Mi know yu naa go waan hear dat. But God a God. An mi ha fi talk truth. Yu see di prime minister work? It no easy. No, no, no. A whole heap a problem. Yu ha fi have strong back fi dat deh work. Nuff Irish mash.

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Don't expect low food prices soon

Last week, I reminded readers how dramatically our agricultural sector has slipped since the 1950s and early 1960s because we failed to reform and modernise production and the institutional structures in the sector

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Bogle - a bold man

Monday morning quarter-backing (a.k.a. couch captaincy) is a contagious disease against which Jamaicans haven't been vaccinated. It is a practice, inherently without substance, that can expose more of the practitioner's insecurities than the subject's failings.