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The following is a statement from Baroness Catherine Ahton, the high representative for Foreign Affairs of the European Union (EU) and first vice-president of the European Commission on "the World Day against the death penalty" which is being observed today, October 10.

In my last contribution, I pointed to a story carried on the pages of noted international news publication, The Economist, on September 9, highlighting Jamaica's successes in the economy and concerning crime.

Years ago, The Gleaner published one of my more radical pieces earning me the Church's wrath (again)..

I write in response to a Public Affairs article in The Sunday Gleaner (September 26) contributed by Claude Clarke.

There is a conspiracy against tolerance. Ironically, that conspiracy is often waged in the name of tolerance.

The respected London-based weekly The Economist, on September 9 carried a refreshing story on two of the Jamaican Government's major successes: its coordinated and sustained assault on crime and violence, and the Jamaica Debt...

The pegged exchange rate, referred to in Part 3 of this serialisation, was the most decisive stimulant which pulled Jamaica out of the deep recession of the 1980s.

I had warned you last week not to underestimate Portia Simpson Miller, and predicted that she would give a significant speech which would go beyond Golding-bashing at her party conference last Sunday.

Norman Washington Manley, a founder of the People's National Party, would have insisted that meaningful public consultation be conducted concerning the proposal of the Government to have a limitation placed on the number of terms that a prime minister...

The construction of a stretch of roadway on the Palisadoes peninsula is an undertaking which, though aimed at improving the access to and from the Norman Manley International airport in...

For the past 35 years, the Jamaican economy has been experiencing severe external stress and internal strain on a sustained basis, except for the last half of the decade of the 1980s. The causes were grossly inappropriate fiscal and monetary policies, unexpected increases in the price of oil, dramatic reduction in bauxite and alumina earnings, and reckless political adventures in the 1970s.

Peter Espeut wrote a column published in the Gleaner of Friday, September 10, in which he cried shame on me specifically, and the other 'so-called' independent members of the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ), and accused us all for holding back the progress of the country.