PUBLIC AFFAIRS - A nation ADRIFT
THERE IS a prevailing feeling in Jamaica of a nation adrift. People go about their business fatalistically as if in a trance. Most operate only in a narrow circle of trusted family and personal contacts ­ from home... - Don Robotham

...The people are PJ's legacy
THE ANNOUNCEMENT of his timetable to demit office by the Most Honourable Prime Minister on Sunday January 22, has resulted in a permanent marker within the nation's consciousness. - Raymond Pryce

Patterson's legacy
THE LEGACY to the island of Jamaica from Prime Minister P. J. Patterson is easily identified. In absolute figures the public debt was J$43.2 billion in 1990. By November 2005 that debt reached $828.2 billion. - Dawn Ritch

The rule of law
ROME BURNED as Nero fiddled away! However, I am avoiding the temptation to draw a comparison between the drama with the fabled Roman Emperor and the present situation in Spanish Town because there is another 'burning' issue. - Orville W. Taylor

Performance versus PR
NOTHING KILLS a bad product faster than good advertising. On Monday last, The Gleaner carried a front-page photo of Labour Minister Horace Dalley and his team meeting with the employers of Alpart, hours before the bauxite workers... - Lambert Brown