Published:Wednesday | September 17, 2014 | 12:00 AM
Though bunglingly implemented, the ban on smoking in public places and the other initiatives introduced last year to reduce the use of tobacco were, broadly, good public policy.
We await the fate of Dennis Hickey, the executive director of the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo), and/or his chairman, Maxine Henry-Wilson, - whether either, or both, get the boot.
I've developed a deathly fear of mosquitoes. If I hear my phone vibrate, I start swatting wildly because it sounds like a giant Aedes aegypti coming to suck my blood.
The lead story in last week's Sunday Gleaner (September 7, 2014) dealt with domestic violence in the Church, stating that the phenomenon is under-reported and that perpetrators are found even among the clergy.
This newspaper notes with optimism Jamaica's eight-place gain on this year's Global Competitiveness Index, but warns against overstating the achievement and a premature turning of cartwheels, which appears to be the wont of Investment Minister Anthony Hylton.
