Published:Thursday | March 16, 2017 | 12:00 AMBruce Golding
The application for a Supreme Court injunction to bar the tabling of a report to Parliament from the contractor general raises serious constitutional questions and should be watched carefully.The contractor general had already submitted his report...
Published:Thursday | May 19, 2016 | 12:00 AMBruce Golding
Much has been said about what is loosely referred to as the 'management of the economy', and much credit for this has been given to the previous government. Our macroeconomic indicators are said to have been moving in the 'right direction'....
Published:Thursday | February 18, 2016 | 4:33 PMBruce Golding
THE EDITOR, Sir: I defer to Bert Samuels on points of law, since I don’t have that competence, but it is worth noting that Gatley, widely recognised as the most authoritative reference source on libel and slander in common-law jurisdictions,...
In two previous articles I put forward valid reasons the single market and economy, the centrepiece of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas, is unachievable, and suggested the need for CARICOM to be reconfigured and repurposed.The Gleaner, in its...
There is strategic value in a structured alliance among countries that have common interests, face similar challenges and share even broadly the same geographic space. The majority of countries of the world are increasingly grouping themselves into...
Published:Thursday | May 21, 2015 | 12:00 AMBruce Golding
The disagreement between the Government and Opposition about the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) is merely a symptom of a deeper divide about the Caribbean Community, what part Jamaica should play in it, and, indeed, whether we should be a part of...
Published:Thursday | April 30, 2015 | 12:00 AMBruce Golding
Discussions surrounding the establishment of a regional final court have meandered for almost 50 years. Ironically, it was then prime minister and de facto JLP leader, Hugh Shearer, who first formally proposed the idea at the 6th CARICOM Heads of...
