EDITORIAL - Mr Golding as PJ's protégé
AS PRIME Minister Bruce Golding remarked Monday night, there is no one in Jamaica, and we dare say anywhere else in this region, who would have deserved more than P.J. Patterson the honour that was bestowed on him by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)... prepared

Ed Bartlett, a 5-star minister
Jamaica's tourism grew last year by 3.9 per cent in stop over arrivals and for the first five months of this year by 3.2 per cent. Under Bartlett, Jamaica's tourism arrivals has grown while world tourism has declined...

What price talent?
When I was a youngster, under-achievement was a kind of ideal. You did your homework and studied, but you tried very hard to give the impression that you did not study really hard. It was cool to do fairly well in exams, but you avoided being seen as a bookworm.

Is the worst past?
To judge from the behaviour of the world's major stock markets over the last few weeks, the global economic crisis is finished. 'Green shoots' of recovery have sprouted all over, and by the end of this year, the economy of the Western world ...