In Focus

Below are excerpts of an interview of JLP leadership prospect Audley Shaw by Gleaner reporter Gary Spaulding last Thursday.

There are three issues that I will be commenting on in this article. First, the response to Anne Shirley's article in Sports Illustrated about her concerns with the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission's testing of our athletes; second, the state of the teaching profession in Jamaica; and third, the homosexual lobby.

"Each time one of us thinks, 'I'll just stand aside and things will happen without me and I'll wait', then he is helping this disgusting feudal system that sits like a spider in the Kremlin," said Alexei Navalny, often billed as Russia's top opposition leader, as he sat in a courtroom in Kirov in July awaiting conviction on embezzlement charges.

I don't know about you, but unless it was Jake that he was doing the daggering dance with, I have absolutely no problem with the fat man dancing.

"Five fi hundred!" You see them at the stop lights in their branded company bibs peddling clean, beautiful, just-ripe bananas in attractive packaging containing five fingers for $100, $20 apiece.

The controversy of a variable versus a pegged exchange rate has been ongoing for a long time. As a believer in the efficacy of a pegged rate, which I used effectively in the 1980s, I have repeatedly called for a research study to settle the issue. This has not been forthcoming.

WESTERN BUREAU:Identical twins Kevon and Keyen Gordon have their sights set on becoming professional farmers.The two youngsters, now 16, cultivate mainly vegetables on a plot of land behind their house in the rural...

FALMOUTH, Trelawny:The University of Technology (UTech) opened its western campus head office in Falmouth recently.The facility is located at the old Baptist Manse, which formerly housed the William Knibb Memorial High School...

WESTERN BUREAU:The Jamaica Civil Society Coalition and the Hopewell Development Area Committee staged a forum on integrity and good governance at the Hopewell Missionary Church in Hanover last Thursday.The forum was...

WESTERN BUREAU: SEVERAL EMPLOYEES in the hotel sector in Negril are disgruntled over what they say is a failure by some hoteliers to pay over gratuity that is due to them under the law....

HANOVER:Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) Hanover Parish Manager, Antoinette Burton-Steer, has blamed the recent torrential rainfall for the spate of frequent power outages in the parish."We have been experiencing...

History tells us that in 280 and 279 BC, the Greek king Pyrrhus beat the Romans, but suffered so many casualties proportionally that, in the end, he lost the war. In reference to the battles he won, Pyrrhus admitted that another such "victory" would be a disaster. That infamous battle gave rise to the term 'pyrrhic victory', translated as being one gained at too great a cost.