Thursday, January 5, 2012
In much the same way “justice must not only be done, but must also be seen to be done,” the quality of class should not simply be had, but must be lived. Without class, we remain ordinary hewers of wood and drawers of water—a curse threatened in the...
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
The decision by the Government of Nigeria to eliminate the subsidy on fuel enjoyed by the people of that huge West African nation is brave and draws attention to the billions of dollars spent on the fuel subsidy in this country.
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Friday’s announcement that November’s headline inflation rate, measured by the 12-month increase in the Index of Retail Prices, had increased to 5.7 per cent from 3.7 per cent the previous month, must be of some concern to the Central Bank, which...
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It has become customary to begin the new year with an effort to start on a new footing, to reboot a commitment to perform better and to avoid bad habits.
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Thursday’s polling in our 16th general election since 1944 marked, in our view, the undoubted maturing of the Jamaican electoral and political processes.
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In this regard, we extend heartiest congratulations to Professor Errol Miller and the members of the Electoral Commission of Jamaica, as well as Orette Fisher, the director of elections, and his hard-working team at the Electoral Office of Jamaica (...
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Most importantly, however, the Jamaican people are the ones to be truly congratulated.
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The decision to elevate the legal status of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and Attorney General Anand Ramlogan to Senior Counsel could have been reliably predicted to raise concerns about the procedure and practice of honouring legal...
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Saturday, December 31, 2011
The landslide general election victory recorded by the People’s National Party led by Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller on Thursday is a clear signal that a majority of Jamaicans were generally dissatisfied with the way in which the defeated...
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Friday, December 30, 2011
As we see it, failure to counter the problems of the city of Port-of-Spain and elsewhere has nothing to do with a lack of solutions. Over the decades dozens of quite feasible means have been put forward.
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