EDITORIAL - A bad idea to increase constituencies
More is not necessarily better, as is easily attested to by so many areas of Jamaican life. Unfortunately, this knee-jerk appeal to more as a solution to problems is a conceptual flaw that is about to be applied by the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) and the island's Parliament.

Rekindling Lightbourne's dream (Part I)
I was thrilled to have met Robert Lightbourne while campaigning for the general elections of 1989. Always articulate and urbane, though in his waning years, he was still debonair and dynamic. But what most impressed me in every contact I had with him was his irrepressible passion for the industrialisation of Jamaica.

Government on the cheap
Which of the 60 members of Parliament marching along Duke Street to enter the outgrown Gordon House for the state opening of the new parliamentary year come Tuesday will be destitute after they have retired?

Economic chain reactions
So much of the argumentation over the bail-out of US banks is reminiscent of our own experience with FINSAC that one looks on with some curiosity as to how Americans will deal with the emotions that typically shape public attitudes to these crises.

Transportation Centre: Blessing or curse?
The Half-Way Tree Transportation Centre was opened one year ago to enable more timely and efficient delivery of the public-transportation service in the Kingston Metropolitan Area. Whereas this might have occurred, the Transport Centre has provided, inadvertently, a place where students congregate and socialise and a setting which highlights the anti-social conduct which has become characteristic of some of our young people.