EDITORIAL - We wish Col MacMillan well, but ...
It can't be going too far to say that the imminent installation of Colonel Trevor MacMillan as Jamaica's national security minister has been handled, up to now, with grave insensitivity and clumsiness. It has heaped indignity on Derrick Smith, the incumbent...
Taxi fare increase not fair
On Saturday, the Cabinet-approved route taxi fare increase of 25 per cent came into effect. This 25 per cent increase is the first increase since August 2005. Since 2005 the rate of inflation has been at least 40 per cent which means that the taxi operators... - Devon Dick
Chickens coming home to roost
It's a long road from growing up in Jakarta, Indonesia, where he played hide and seek on the streets as a boy, to the White House in the USA where possibilities have opened up for Barack Obama to become that country's first black...Lance Neita
NOTE-WORTHY: Farming contract
Housing and Agriculture ministers should come together, build houses and contribute, say, a minimum of ten acres of land only to those that are willing to sign a 30-year contract and willing to farm.
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