Not for rent - A woman's body is hers exclusively
The March 28 edition of The New York Times describes the growing disconnect between the anti-abortion advocates and the reality of the trauma and impact of sexual abuse on the girl child.
Charter of Rights/dynamics of development (Part 11)
As noted in last week's article, some have argued that there should be no saving clauses which reserve power for the state, that all fundamental rights and freedoms should be absolute and inalienable, save, of course, for periods of peril and emergency.
The G-20 delivered
It could have well been another showdown between America and Europe, with the fiercely independent, cantankerous Germans and French lined up against the United States president, but this time America's president is a man made for crisis - and consensus.
Why Jamaica needs a 'Kingston Club' - How to break the national debt squeeze
For decades, Jamaica's economy has been sluggish. Today, the country faces even deeper fiscal uncertainty, with negative growth in 2008 and projected for 2009 and the global financial crisis seeming certain to impose further restrictions.
Nethersole and Sangster - Fathers of financial management
March 17, 2009 marked the 50th anniversary of the sudden death in 1959 of Noel Nethersole, the first minister of finance in Norman Manley's administration. He died a month before he was to deliver the April budget, a task that Manley, the minister of agriculture, took up. Jamaica is also entering the 56th year when its budget was first prepared when the ministerial system came into being in 1953. That budget was delivered by Donald Sangster.
Debating the financing of tertiary education
In the local newspapers on Sunday, March 29, there were two articles which dealt with the two aspects of financing tertiary education... Allow me, therefore, to join the debate
Tracer study on tertiary graduates needed
THE TIME HAS come for a national tracer study to determine what happens to tertiary graduates in the year after the completion of their first degrees. Such a study is important in the context of planning how to apportion scarce resources in our education sector.
Imperative for policy paradigm shift
During the very active and challenging period of my life in Jamaica over 40 years, I have often expressed unconventional views on matters of public interest. Interestingly, the leadership of the private sector was at the forefront of commentaries, especially in the 1970s, which led to the formation of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica.
The gasolene retail trade: A time of great uncertainty
I am most concerned about the real and speculative developments in the gasolene industry and retail trade, in particular, its effect on our country, our people, and our businesses.