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Jamaica Gleaner In Focus
published: Sunday | May 4, 2003

How free is the press?
YESTERDAY WAS World Press Freedom Day and Jamaica was honoured to host UNESCO's Inter-national Conference to mark the occasion. Journalists and media-related persons from all over the world have come to discuss some critical issues...(Boyne)

HIV/AIDS: The biggest risk factor is being female
FEMINIST SCHOLARS and leaders have spent much of their energy convincing women that biology need not be their destiny, and that in every aspect of human endeavour, women and girls need to have choices if they are to free themselves from...(Simms)


Credit agencies, governance and credibility
WITH JAMAICA'S debt under international scrutiny, credit rating agencies (CRAs) have come to the centre of attention. CRAs have established themselves as gatekeepers of the international credit market. (Buddan)


Assessing Jamaica's default risk: the mouse on the treadmill
WHAT DOES the international credit rating agencies know that Jamaicans do not know or suspect? Over the past five months several influential credit rating agencies have issued advisories regarding Jamaica's economic prospects...(Bartley)


Budgeting for creditors
THE CHALLENGE to the low income earner is always how to balance consumption needs with income earned. It's a delicate juggling act of setting priorities, forgoing semi-necessities, and abandoning luxuries. (Tufton)





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