The currency of confidence
THE VOLATILITY and rapid depreciation of the national currency in recent weeks has caused many Jamaicans to sigh wearily again? Will it ever end? How far this time? (Bartley)
Tough lessons in economics
LAST WEEK we received a bitter but perhaps necessary lesson in economics. In true Jamaican fashion, we refused to cut our money wages to reflect our really lower level of productivity in the real economy relative to that of our main... (Robotham)
Managing the dollar - the quest for development in the globalised economy
IT IS fairly commonplace now to say that globalisation has reduced the power of the state to manage national economies. Financial liberalisation of the world economy makes it difficult to manage... (Buddan)
Let's stop cuddling Cuba
CUBA HAS earned the wrath and denunciation of even left-wing sympathisers because of its rapid execution recently of three persons who attempted to hijack a boat and its imprisonment of 75 dissidents including journalists... (Boyne)
From lost childhood to wasted lives
IN THE May 6 issue of the The Gleaner, staff reporter Damion Mitchell alerted us to the fact that there is a significant increase in the number of juveniles who have been arrested for the heinous crimes of murder... (Simms)
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