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Published:Friday | October 10, 2014 | 1:01 PMJeremy Soutar

The Citizens Advocacy Group International (CAGI)

Published:Sunday | October 12, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Polls are snapshots. They reflect happenings of the moment and not of the future.

Published:Sunday | October 12, 2014 | 12:00 AM

The first positive response of the People's National Party (PNP) to the revelation from the Bill Johnson poll showing the Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP's) leader's almost 2:1 lead over its charismatic leader was its very sober and measured press release...

Published:Sunday | October 12, 2014 | 12:00 AM

"What! My taxes to fund political parties? No way!" An understandable gut reaction, but on further consideration, seriously flawed.

Published:Sunday | October 12, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Apart from it sounding like a rural Jamaican referring to the cricket player who is about to launch the ball, there is nothing amusing about the dreaded disease Ebola, which has quickly found its way to the United States.

Published:Sunday | October 12, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Mercy Kennedy's skinny, little, grief-wracked nine-year-old frame has become the international face of the Ebola crisis. It shouldn't have.

Published:Sunday | October 12, 2014 | 12:00 AM

The Citizens Advocacy Group International (CAGI) uses this opportunity to make it abundantly clear that the line "The opinion of the people ... has no bearing ...", which was selectively used by Simone Johnson in her letter to the editor ...

Published:Sunday | October 12, 2014 | 12:00 AM

We keep hearing about content marketing, but what does it actually mean?

Published:Thursday | October 9, 2014 | 8:12 PM

Apart from it sounding like a rural Jamaican referring to the cricket player who is about to launch the ball, there is nothing amusing ab

Published:Thursday | October 9, 2014 | 9:11 PM

"What! My taxes to fund political parties? No way!" An understandable gut reaction, but on further consideration, seriously flawed.

Published:Thursday | October 9, 2014 | 9:40 PM

The first positive response of the People's National Party (PNP) to the revelation from the Bill Johnson poll showing the Jamaica Labour

Published:Friday | October 10, 2014 | 11:02 AM

Mercy, please! Ebola crisis and grief reporting

Published:Friday | October 10, 2014 | 11:56 AM

We keep hearing about content marketing, but what does it actually mean?

Published:Friday | October 3, 2014 | 7:07 PM

We hear the voices daily and nightly from our radio and television sets, shouting, 'Wi waahn jostis!' The language of choice for these vo

Published:Sunday | October 5, 2014 | 12:00 AM

The Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CaPRI) has just published an excellent and well-researched paper assessing Jamaica's prospects for the development of a logistics hub. It is the kind of paper that deserves serious attention from policymakers, stakeholders, as well as opinion leaders.

Published:Sunday | October 5, 2014 | 12:00 AM

In my last article, 'The dark side of VoIP block', I discussed the ongoing VoIP block in effect by the telecom providers and shared with you the method by which these and other network service providers were able to block specific types of traffic moving across their networks.

Published:Sunday | October 5, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Because Jamaicans love political games, we continue this farcical call to arms over the chikungunya virus.

Published:Sunday | October 5, 2014 | 12:00 AM

We hear the voices daily and nightly from our radio and television sets, shouting, 'Wi waahn jostis!' The language of choice for these voices is not the language of the announcer.

Published:Sunday | October 5, 2014 | 12:00 AM

There have been a number of recent attacks on the Jamaica Manufacturers' Association (JMA) that call for comment.

Published:Sunday | October 5, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Based on the way the Jamaican Government seemed to have underestimated the onslaught of the chikungunya epidemic and the unimpressive way the Americans have been handling both the Ebola pandemic and the security of President Barack Obama, I am now myself showing signs of diarrhoea.

Published:Thursday | October 2, 2014 | 7:08 PM

According to Vision 2030 Jamaica, our country will develop an education and training system that produces well-rounded and qualified ind

Published:Sunday | October 5, 2014 | 12:00 AM

There could have been no better outcome to the People's National Party leadership contest in 2008 than the political rapprochement that followed.

Published:Thursday | October 2, 2014 | 7:48 PM

Based on the way the Jamaican Government seemed to have underestimated the onslaught of the chikungunya epidemic and the unimpressive way

Published:Sunday | October 5, 2014 | 12:00 AM

At the tip of my decorated leather belt that I bought in the Havana craft market is emblazoned that renowned image of the bereted head of Ernesto 'Ché' Guevara.

Published:Thursday | October 2, 2014 | 8:03 PM

Editor's Note: This column was submitted on September 29, before news broke of a case of Ebola in the United States.

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