EDITORIAL - Enlightened self-interest
There has been a display of maturity, infused, we suppose, with a healthy dose of enlightened self-interest, on the part of the manufacturers' associations of Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados. This week, they joined the Jamaica Manufacturers' Association...

'Don't rejoin the IMF'
Please Mr Prime Minister, for God's sake, do not re-enter a borrowing relationship with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) - the conditions would re-enslave us. Despite what some may say or believe, you are our leader. We are all Jamaicans first...

Growing in a recession
Welcome to the club. Last week, Standard & Poor's downgraded - get this - United Kingdom government bonds. Panicked chatter then went through US financial markets that American bonds would be the next to fall. Interest rates on US treasury paper surged.

Constitutional absurdities
The Gleaner's editorial of Tuesday, May 26, while respecting the intent of the framers of the Constitution, said, 'We agree with Prime Minister Golding - and the justices of the court of appeal in their ruling in the Daryl Vaz case...