'Hot Runnings' - The untold story of Jamaica's athletic prowess
FROM TIME to time, golden opportunities arise which create visions of the future. Such an opportunity now exists and the vision it presents in staring us in the face. When the little-known Jamaican bobsled team beat the American team in Norway in the 1994 Winter Olympics 1994, it was the "ultimate indignity", according to the American broadcaster.

The world's greatest all round track coach
ONCE UPON a time a Jamaican gold medal at the Olympics or the World Championships in Athletic was a rare event, and a medal of any kind was reason for celebration. Between 1964 and 2004, we won only four Olympic golds, and an average of three medals per Games.

Don't mess with the debt
HAS THE Government gone totally insane to call off talks initiated by domestic creditors to ease its crippling debt burden? How could this ever make sense? Is this "yet another example" of its bungling and "the incompetence of the Ministry of Finance"?

Governing our resources: the potential for development
THE PLANNING Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) said that the Jamaican economy had declined by 3.9 per cent between April and June this year and should show the same decline between July and September. The Dominican Republic (DR) next door reports signs of economic recovery with 1.4 per cent growth in the first half of this year.

In search of 'tyranny'
DURING A period of ancient Greek history, tyrants regularly arose and flourished as rulers of the city-states. This was before democracy, as the ancient Greeks understood it, began to flourish.

Rethinking emancipation from mental slavery
EMANCIPATION, ACCORDING to the 2007 edition of the Oxford Student Dictionary, is the process by which someone is freed from slavery or some form of restraint. On the first of August each year, Jamaicans welcome the opportunity to reflect on their journey from the cane fields to the present configuration of their state of freedom...

Constituency, community development - what role for MPs?
THE GLEANER editorial of July 31 greeted Prime Minister Bruce Golding's announcement that the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) would be a likely victim of the pending agreement with the International Monetary Fund with ...