Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
Published: Monday Thursday | January 29, 2009
EDITORIAL - Cut pilots' pay, watch minimum wage hike
Air Jamaica's announcement that it is downsizing itself, including cutting its fleet by 40 per cent, should have surprised nobody.The fact is that the company's losses - US$170 million last year and more than US$1.2 billion for the past dozen years - are unsustainable ...
The opportunities in a crisis
It is the truism of management gurus and new age authors that the Chinese character for 'crisis' combines the symbols for danger and opportunity. Well, like so much 'oriental wisdom,' it's a bit of fiction. The syllables in the Chinese... - John Rapley
Battle plan needed to fight heart disease
The article in The Gleaner of January 25, about Davion King, the teenager who needs emergency heart surgery brings to light several deficits within the health system and also some of what is right with it... - Dr Victor Elliott
Who wants to be a GG?
Percival J. Patterson's surprise appointment of Professor Kenneth Hall as governor general caught many off guard because one did not know a principal of UWI and history professor would want to be governor general. In modern times the post was filled... - Devon Dick
