A callous and insensitive response
THE EDITOR, Sir: IT IS with much dismay that I note the apparently callous and insensitive response by Senior Superintendent Reneto Adams to the decision by the Police High Command for members of the Crime Management Unit team that participated in...
Calling for a fixed exchange rate
THE EDITOR, Sir: THE TIME has come for the Government to fix the rate of exchange. I am suggesting a value of US$1= J$45. It is obvious that our Jamaican dollar is spiralling out of control mainly because of speculation. Why else would the amount of...
Pain without gain
THE EDITOR, Sir: IF THE Jamaican dollar was allowed to devalue to a realistic rate a couple years back, the country would be reaping the benefit of it today. Instead we used measures such as high interest rates, and borrowed money to keep the value...
Shameful, inconsiderate situation!
THE EDITOR, Sir: AM I being a simpleton to think that the rapid slide of the value of the Jamaican dollar is making it difficult for the Accountant-General's Department to honour its undertaking, in writing, to pay pensions to some retired persons overse
'Truth-Eulogy'
THE EDITOR, Sir: WHILE READING the distinguished career obituary summary of Mrs. Rosemary Brown who died recently I am reminded of a statement I heard after the reading of the eulogy at a funeral recently.
Absorbing the tax increases
THE EDITOR, Sir:CONSUMERS WILL have to absorb the effects of increased taxation measures to be levied on imported goods after Finance and Planning Minister, Dr. Omar Davies, flies the tax gate. The four per cent cess on all imports of capital goods...
Cannot afford tax increase!
THE EDITOR, Sir: I AM no graduate economist, but from a commonsense point of view it seems to me that given the present mood of the country it is either we U.S. dollarise or our Goverment imposes the discipline of...
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