EDITORIAL - Probe deals yes, but be careful
We have no problem with the decision by Contractor General Greg Christie to probe what Audley Shaw, the finance minister, claims were "sweetheart deals" between his minister and the merchant bank, Dehring Bunting and Golding (DB&G) during the previous People's National Party (PNP) administration.
Rays of hope
Up to 1960, May 24, each year was celebrated as Empire Day in Jamaica as a public holiday to honour Queen Victoria who was officially credited for freeing Africans in Jamaica from slavery. That she did not was neither here or there. It was an edict imposed from our colonial master...
Issue: Whom to call when it's police committing the crime?
When you erect a wall as a security measure and someone tries to breach that security, that is one thing. It is an entirely different thing when the persons building the wall, deliberately build it with a defect, which would compromise its ability to secure.
PM said the right things
The Editor, Sir: The Honourable prime minister of Jamaica has said the right things in that interview and consequently has gained my respect and that of most of the Jamaican people and the majority of the entire world.
Online from the Cote d'Ivoire
I thought you would be interested in seeing the attached email. It's from the Cote d'Ivoire in Africa. It shows how far the online Gleaner reaches!
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