EDITORIAL - Take MPs' pay out of partisan politics
The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), now in government, is implementing the salary increases for parliamentarians that were recommended by the previous administration, but frozen for a lack of consensus. It was, perhaps, good tactics for Bruce Golding, who was then the Opposition Leader...

Christianity, paganism and Jamaican culture
Lloyd Cooke stirred up a wasp's nest when he labelled the cultural wake for the great Herb McKenley 'pagan'. "Our supposedly Christian nation," he wrote in "utter disgust and disappointment ... ought to express its strong disapproval... - Martin Henry

The Zuma problem
"The (African National Congress) should not choose someone of whom most of us would be ashamed," said Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who has a fair claim to being South Africa's living conscience. But on Tuesday, the ANC did choose Jacob Zuma as the new party leader... - Gwynne Dyer

NOTE-WORTHY: We all suffer, Mr PM
I note with some degree of amusement the Government's response to the Opposition's cry to "do something about the rising costs of food and petrol." This has come as a $500 million programme of relief through the Programme of Advancement through Health and Education....