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Commentary

A national sigh of relief
A national sigh of relief has greeted the announcement that Olympic icon Merlene Ottey has been cleared of drug charges.

A sound judgment
The ruling of Justice Hazel Harris has confirmed what we had believed from the outset that the decision by Justice LLoyd Ellis to bar note-taking at the Commissioner of Inquiry into the prison disturbances had no basis in law.

Destroying what's left of Ja
I am grateful to my colleague Peter Espeut for the information that "The Hellshire Hills are the best example of a dry limestone forest left in Central America and the Caribbean".

Cricket: no longer for gentlemen
In the beginning, cricket was a game played and enjoyed by gentlemen. The qualification for being a gentleman then was a man of some amount of wealth who could afford the luxury of two or three days away from the business of working to play...

Bulldozing our precious assets
There's a broken-down bulldozer at the entrance to the building site. I climb up a steep, rocky hill, the ground uncertain under my feet. At the top, I see the devastation, acres of it...

A call from the ghetto
It is another busy day in the life of a middle class professional. One is juggling assignments, pouring over learned papers on international economic development, finishing yet another speech. But one Jason has called several times since morning...










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