EDITORIAL - Now for the real move, PM
Prime Minister Bruce Golding, in terms of its intellectual context, got it mostly right in his late-night speech to Parliament on Tuesday.He fully embraced, finally, what this newspaper has been advising for so long - that Jamaica cannot afford a public sector...

UWI joking with casino gambling
Joseph Pereira, deputy principal of UWI, advocates the introduction of casino gambling in Jamaica saying that casinos could not cause any more corruption because we are already corrupt. How does he know that we cannot get any more corrupt?

Germany turns right
It seems fitting that in the week it turns 20, the re-unified Germany would re-elect a chancellor (the German equivalent of a prime minister) from the east. After all, it was the reintegration of the former German Democratic Republic...

A challenge to our homophobia
I, like many in our society, for long believed that all forms of homosexual behaviour was unnatural. It was 'easy' for me to think thus because I have always been repulsed by the idea of homosexual lovemaking. However, I considered myself quite liberal...