An economic blow
THE ENFORCEMENT by the U.S. authorities of an annual 66,000 cap on foreigners employed as temporary hotel and restaurant workers in America spells bad news for Jamaicans who have been an important part of the programme for many years.
Mr. Bush's Social Security gambit
EARLIER THIS year, US President George W. Bush announced plans for a centrepiece of his second administration, the proposed privatisation of Social Security. - John Rapley
Drought alleviation
THE EDITOR, Sir: IT IS with interest that I again read of the "drought" that is affecting sections of the island. Each year at about the same time no matter how much rain we have had before, the cry is the same - drought.
The rise and fall of AIDS in Uganda
IT APPEARED as 'slim' disease around the shores of Lake Victoria in Uganda in the late 1970s. But nobody knew what it was. It wasn't until 1982 that the first case of AIDS was diagnosed in Uganda. - Martin Henry
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