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By Alexander Scott February 6, 2026

No separation between the economic and political spheres

Can the political and fiscal/economic spheres ever be separated? For the past 70 years, post-World War II, we have seen how the world has moved from the economic sphere being firmly …

Issue # 223

No separation between the economic and political spheres

February 6, 2026

A plea for America

February 6, 2026

Solidarity- workers’ most powerful weapon

February 6, 2026

Jamaica: Time to address the virus of corruption, indiscipline and criminality

February 6, 2026

CARICOM’s wake-up call

January 23, 2026
By Alexander Scott January 21, 2021 5 years 1,925 word

Ditch The Fear; Accept That Manufacturing Needs State Intervention, Protection And Planning

Jamaica’s manufacturing has, for decades, been anaemic. As a former plantation colony, we were never truly blessed with much manufacturing when independence was won in the 60s, and the ensuing decades …

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By The Laird July 8, 2020 6 years 707 words

The Agricultural Conundrum

Domestic agricultural production is the keystone of our country’s future. There, I have just written some of the most heretical words that you will ever read in contemporary Jamaica. As important …

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By Joan Williams May 14, 2020 6 years 889 words

The poor will be the real victims

By Joan Williams As one watches the developments, discussions, and  debates taking place since the scourge of the novel coronavirus attacked the world, it is not difficult to remember the words …

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By The Laird March 22, 2018 8 years 460 words

Entertainment tourism – Let’s pick some cherries!

The Annual Tourism Arrivals statistics for Jamaica for 2017 have a metric on which we have not had any public commentary and reveal a set of possibilities for the country. In …

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By James Moss-Solomon March 31, 2017 9 years 1,274 word

The Budget: Jamaica has no time for a House of Jokers

The recently passed 2017/18 budget was a messy affair culminating in a walkout by the Opposition, and the passage was only by the vote of the governing party. I am unable …

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By Alexander Scott March 31, 2017 9 years 798 words

Jamaica needs a revolution of the mind

  Jamaica, on the face of it, has made amazing progress since Independence in 1962.  We have a stable multiracial society; we have never had any political upheaval that leads to dictators; …

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