Price hikes, inflation and the MoU
THE GENERAL upward movement of prices, pushed by factors largely originating outside the Jamaican economy and beyond the control of the Government, has reduced to shambles projections of single digit inflation this year.
What's ethics got to do with it?
OBSERVER COLUMNIST Mark Wignall has been appealing to political ethics in his relentless efforts to secure the removal or resignation of Andrew Gallimore, Opposition Member of Parliament for West Rural St. Andrew. - Garth Rattray
Restoring dignity to teachers
RECENTLY, AN American judge, Michael Farley, declared that the 17-year-old student, David Young's vomiting on his Spanish teacher was an assault on the dignity of all teachers. - Devon Dick
The oil game
"WE RAN out of US$2 oil in 1973," said Henry Groppe of Groppe Long and Littel, at 79 the oldest active oil consultant (and one of the most respected) in the business. " Then we ran out of US$8 oil, then US$15 oil. - Gwynne Dyer
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