In support of the leaders' collections project
During his heyday as a politician, Edward Seaga evoked extreme emotions. Partisans usually either loved him, or loved to hate him.

PUBLIC AFFAIRS: Book tax: Serious implications for literacy
The following is an excerpt from the response of the Book Industry Association of Jamaica (BIAJ) on the imposition of general-consumption tax on general books (excluding academic and religious) presented by...

Hardship budgets
In that era of black and white, one-channel [JBC] television, we didn't have any. So, on that February night in 1972, we huddled around the radio listening to the election results coming in - late into the night, not early like now. - Martin Henry

Good tourism prospects
Last week, the travel and tourist industry got a setback as the swine flu threatened to spread beyond Mexico where the outbreak began. - Dennis Morrison

Lessons from the '70s
Rice wars, flour wars, empty supermarket shelves, scarcity of goods, five flights a day to Miami, mass migration, emptied houses and captured houses.This picture describes Jamaica in the period of the 1970s. - Esther Tyson