Julian 'Jingles' Reynolds argues that Jamaican governments have for too long neglected economic development as an imperative.

"What Jamaica requires now is a strategy, administered by a development czar, that provides entrepreneurs with financing and supporting resources to grow businesses that will reduce unemployment, drive export, and create wealth."

Church and politics again

Columnist Orville Taylor rebukes the parsons and Sadducees who have demanded him to apologise for his hard-hitting column last Sunday.

"Jamaican churches, by and large, are still having breakfasts after 30 plus years when the politicians are having lunch and supper and the young men are lost and wandering in the 'dessert'."