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Published:Friday | August 9, 2013 | 12:00 AM

This week, we closed the yearlong celebration of our 51st anniversary of political Independence, and except for our two political tribes and their sycophants (a significant and powerful minority), the national consensus is that the last half-century has...

Published:Friday | August 9, 2013 | 12:00 AM

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Published:Thursday | August 8, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Do you think the Government is doing enough to reduce the country's import bill and promote local production?500lbs of ganja found in Callaloo tinsShe made a...

Published:Thursday | August 8, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Recently, Professor Verene Shepherd, historian, et al, in urging Jamaicans to be educated about reparations, stated that "the relationship between historical injustices, persistent poverty as well as diminishing opportunities and development is not well...

Published:Thursday | August 8, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Except, tangentially, by Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, little was made of the fact that the social partnership agreement was signed on the eve of Emancipation Day...

Published:Thursday | August 8, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Can we retreat to the real Jamaica that is not as 'triumphant, proud, free' as we would like to think now that the Emancipendence is over? It's not that I am not ecstatic about our emancipation from slavery and our independence from Britain...

Published:Wednesday | August 7, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Roger Clarke joins call for reparationAddressing the challenges in JaCrime issue is #1The people respond to What's Right in JamaicaCrime is and should be the number-one priority.

Published:Wednesday | August 7, 2013 | 12:00 AM

WE ARE witnessing the end of morality, at least, for the time being.But it will come back after much destruction has been done. Morality has to do with life.

Published:Wednesday | August 7, 2013 | 12:00 AM

THIS NEWSPAPER hates that it finds itself in common cause with the likes of Victor Conte, who peddled banned substances to athletes and now profits from his notoriety.But as uncomfortable as it is to concede, Conte, who was at the centre of the BALCO...

Published:Wednesday | August 7, 2013 | 12:00 AM

AS I COMPLETE a form and look at my payslip, I realise that more than half of my salary is going into taxes and I am thinking carefully about what I am getting for my taxes.The road on which I live, Jacks Hill, was repaired by the residents...

Published:Wednesday | August 7, 2013 | 12:00 AM

THE YOUNG woman looks at her surroundings. She feels the bile of poverty rising from her stomach. She spits when the bitter taste of under-opportunity, squalor and hopelessness combine to form a bolus in her mouth...

Published:Tuesday | August 6, 2013 | 12:00 AM

The easiest thing for the majority of human beings to do is to blame others for our failures. Some even have the audacity to contribute their success to their making only, but history is yet to identify a single human who achieved success without assistance....

Published:Tuesday | August 6, 2013 | 12:00 AM

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Published:Monday | August 5, 2013 | 12:00 AM

In my last column, I wondered if Jamaica was determined to fail. As ever more countries raise their growth rates and catch up to the developed world, Jamaica remains a steadfast outlier, one of the relative handful of countries still falling behind...

Published:Monday | August 5, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Just a few weeks ago, a circus visited Jamaica. However, when you think of it, metaphorically speaking, Jamaica already has what it takes to be called a circus...

Published:Monday | August 5, 2013 | 12:00 AM

The conversation at my barber shop turned to some serious matters during my visit last week. It was this whole business of celebrating Jamaica's Independence that got those involved most worked up....

Published:Monday | August 5, 2013 | 12:00 AM

We have little confidence in his promises. Yet, this is one case that we hope that we could have a flutter at the word of Horace Dalley, the minister in the finance ministry with responsibility for the public sector.

Published:Monday | August 5, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Do you agree with financial analyst, Ralston Hyman, that cuts in Gov't spending to meet fiscal targets are sending more J'cans into poverty?...

Published:Monday | August 5, 2013 | 12:00 AM

However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing....

Published:Sunday | August 4, 2013 | 12:00 AM

DWAYNE JONES probably thought he was dressed to kill when he stepped out to that fateful dance.

Published:Sunday | August 4, 2013 | 12:00 AM

In 1938, a major good came forth in Jamaica; however, it was to lead to detriment by the time 2013 came around.

Published:Sunday | August 4, 2013 | 12:00 AM

We welcome last week's signing of the so-called Partnership for Jamaica agreement between the Government and representatives of the private sector, the labour movement and civil-society groups.

Published:Sunday | August 4, 2013 | 12:00 AM

OF COURSE, one tries to avoid speaking evil of the dead, and even more so, of those not merely dead, but killed.

Published:Sunday | August 4, 2013 | 12:00 AM

WITH THE recent news that one of the senior Reggae Boyz has returned an adverse analytical finding, Jamaica's reputation for noble, hard-working athletes, fuelled only by reggae rhythm and yellow yam, has hit rock bottom

Published:Saturday | August 3, 2013 | 12:00 AM

THE WORLD is watching, with keen eyes, as legislators in Montevideo inch ever so close to making Uruguay the first country ever to legalise the production, sale and use of ganja. The bill narrowly passed the lower House Thursday, by a 50 to 46 vote, and is expected to be successful in the Senate later this year.

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