Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
Published: Monday Sunday | March 22, 2009
EDITORIAL - The TEF and the public's right to know
Last week, John Issa, the principal of the SuperClubs hotel group, fingered cruise-shipping lines that have failed to pay billions of dollars in passenger tax charged by Jamaica and how, in effect, they have been facilitated in their bad behaviour by quiescent public officials. Read More...
A letter to Jamaica (Pt I) - Rekindle Pan-Africanism's message of black greatness
We must all agree that Jamaica is a very wonderful country, much more important than her size would seem to justify. It's a country that has produced great people in the past and still does. People like Marcus Garvey, a great philosopher, one of the first, one of the best, came from Jamaica. Read More...
The rule of law
Tomorrow is the day when, as the Greek Delphic oracle would have safely predicted, a great electoral victory will be won in West Portland and a great defeat will be sustained. Read More...
The politics of equality
No other leader since Jamaica's Independence has influenced the political landscape more profoundly than Michael Manley. Even today, some 12 years after his death, the mere mention of his name evokes respect, inflames passions and sparks controversies. Read More...
Curbing organised crime
Although organised crime is not a new phenomenon in Jamaica, utterances from some of our senior law-enforcement officers in recent times point to it as a major source of our overall crime concerns that must be curbed. Read More...
