EDITORIAL - Move to greater transparency in Gov't

Jamaica's finance ministry and its agencies tend to be far more transparent than other government departments with information that inform, or are the effect of, public policy.For instance, each month, in arrears, the ministry posts on its website...

Tax-reform time come

RECENTLY, I heard Joseph Matalon, president of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica, being interviewed by Paula Ann Porter on RJR...

Tibetans in flames

THE NUMBER of Tibetans burning themselves to death in protests against Chinese policy has grown very fast recently: the first self-immolation was in 2009, but 22 of the 30 incidents happened in the past year...

Tribute to Merlene Ottey

Tribute to Merlene Ottey by Judge Patrick Robinson at a sports forum held recently in celebration of Jamaica's 50th anniversary of Independence organised by the Embassy of Jamaica, Berlin, in collaboration with the Centre...

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Should graduation exercises be abolished for early childhood and primary schools?...

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Should corporal punishment be prohibited in homes as well as schools in Jamaica?

EDITORIAL - Gallop ahead with CTL divestment

Arthur Williams was right. Horse racing, he argued, "is not part of the core business of government". Yet, Jamaican governments, including the one of which Mr Williams was a member when he made that observation two years ago...

Fix Palisadoes shoreline before hurricanes come

We are mere days away from the start of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season and the stalled Palisadoes Shoreline Rehabilitation Project is worrisome, to say the least...

Plight of the middle class (and middle income)

Ah, the joys of being middle-class. I get to eat at fancy restaurants every so often, sheepishly muttering names of foods and wines I can barely pronounce, fearful of alerting the waitress to my complete lack of culinary sophistication...

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