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Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
published: Monday | August 6, 2007

EDITORIAL - A message of hope in despair
Today, Jamaica marks its 45th anniversary as a nation at one of the most crucial times, not only in our lives but in the wider world. Wars and rumours of wars persist. There is concern for the very existence of planet Earth in the threat of global warming.

Many tears ago

I was approaching seven years old when Jamaica achieved independence on August 6, 1962, but I remember that day fairly well. My father, mother, sister and I (my younger brother wasn't born back then) went to our primary school that morning. - Garth Rattray

Zimbabwe meltdown

Over a thousand years ago, according to ancient English tradition, King Canute set his throne on the shore and ordered the tide to stop rising. Just over a month ago, President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe took an equally bold stand... - Gwynne Dyer

NOTE-WORTHY: The right party

Jamaica is 45 years into Independence and there are many of us thinking, bring back colonialism. Not me. Lack of ambition keeps some of us in our little world. The worm in a cabbage thinks the cabbage is the whole world, As election day looms the whole country...





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