EDITORIAL - Linking nutrition with economic policy
Dr Ballayram, a food economist at the Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute (CFNI), has warned of the likelihood, literally, of a bloating of Jamaica with the explosion of diet-related, non-communicable diseases. People will get, or, are becoming, fat and ill...
Carrying our cross
When I write, I try hard to be clear, to make it hard to be misunderstood. But no matter how hard I try, I am sometimes blatantly misquoted. Someone named Claude Wilson wrote a letter to the editor of this newspaper last Friday alleging that I wrote things I never did. - Peter Espeut
Tibetan Independence
LONDON:The monks who marched through Lhasa on March 10 to mark the anniversary of the Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule in 1959 did not want to wreck China's Olympic year, but they knew that Chinese troops would be less likely...Gwynne Dyer
NOTE-WORTHY: 'Lewin must go?'
Kindly permit me to respond to Tuesday March 18 'Letter of the Day' by Mr Michael Spence, who dared to ask the rest of us to join in saying 'Go Commissioner Go'. Since the announcement by the commissioner of police, that M16s will be replaced with a lower calibre weapon...
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