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Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
published: Thursday | June 22, 2006
MPs' pay and accountability
PERHAPS BEFORE the end of this week, Finance Minister, Dr. Omar Davies, will announce the level of salary increases to be received by Members of Parliament and of the executive branch of government. We expect that the pay increases will be in keeping...
UWI research interns for Parliament
PARLIAMENT NOW has a number of research interns. Thanks to Senator Trevor Munroe, a professor of government at the UWI, seven students have been assigned to the country's legislative body as research assistants. - Martin Henry
Flap over whaling (2)
IN 1982 in order to get the "three-quarters-plus-one" vote required to place a global moratorium on commercial whaling, anti-whaling nations used a strategy to pack the IWC with countries who voted their way - including some of...- Peter Espeut
The European way
BACK IN the 1990s, when the U.S. economy was booming as Europe remained moribund, American commentators delighted in heaping scorn on the European way. With all its labour laws and generous welfare provisions,Europe's approach lacked.. -John Rapley
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