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The Government has fallen into a deep coma and lost all olfactory senses. It can't wake up and smell the coffee.

Morality vs economics

It was an equal-opportunity week of sorts for the country's two main political parties as far as the corruption focus was concerned. Bruce Golding is either born lucky, has God on his side or some good obeah man somewhere. For just when The Sunday Gleaner made a miserable start to his week, no less a Messianic figure than the contractor general resurrected the Trafigura corpse.

Democracy by deception

September 3 of this coming week will mark three years since the Golding administration won power. What it has done with that power is to rule by deception. By tragic coincidence, this third year has ended with new revelations about the seeming duplicity of the Government to deceive if not lie outright about what it knew of the Coke extradition lobby...

Tredegar treason and the Buckfield solution

There is no more important and fundamental responsibility of the state and its government than securing the lives of citizens.

Fi true? Nuh bettah nuh deh?

My generation became adults around the time of Independence. Despite the rigidity of an entrenched class system, augmented by a bias for shades of complexion facilitated by more than 300 years of British colonialism, the realisation took time to sink in that this was the dawn of political freedom.

Stale testosterone stew

On August 22, writer Erica Virtue alerted readers to the fact that the old guard (men and women) in both the People's National Party and the Jamaica Labour Party are resisting forced retirement.

Fog-bound justice reform

As we approach the fourth year of the life of the present wobbly administration, it is submitted that the times dictate that it is most appropriate that we revisit the justice-reform programme, ...

Creative partnerships: Sustaining educational opportunities

This is the second part of an excerpt from the inaugural address of Nadine Molloy, who was installed as president of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) on August 16.

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Defying Odds

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