Jamaica at 47 lacks national vision
AS IT celebrates its Independence, Jamaica is on the verge of an agreement with what some see as the independence-depleting International Monetary Fund (IMF) - just as we have recently celebrated our Emancipation from British slavery while wallowing in our slavery to American consumerism. No one can fault our sense of irony.

Independence and the test of self-reliance
WHEN JAMAICA gained political independence in 1962 it did not put the requisite plans and programmes in place for economic independence. Once it decided it would cease to rely on others for its political self-determination, it should have logically made plans for its own economic self-determination.

A snake lurks in the grass
THE CURRENT impasse between Government and its employees is the precursor to Jamaica's re-engagement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and its historic conditionalities. There are rumours that the IMF's uniformed model of structural adjustment is no longer the norm.

Attacking teachers not the solution to education woes
I watched with grave concern the recent 'lashings' that Education Minister Andrew Holness has been giving all the persons he believes to be major contributing factors to the poor levels of education being experienced in our country today, especially at the primary level.

Calling Farmer Joe again
SURELY, YOU remember Farmer Joe. During the last parliamentary election exercises, with the saturation of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) television and various other types of campaign advertisement, he was the middle-aged farmer among his cultivation, with the cellular phone in hand, telling Portia: "A nuh me seh suh."