Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Sunday | October 16, 2005
The crime-confidence nexus
THE SAME day last week that the news broke that the Finance Ministry had once again floated a successful bond offering in overseas financial markets, the economy got a body blow with the results of the latest Business Confidence Survey indicating a sharp.
WHY DOESN'T the Church do something? How come there are so many churches per square mile yet there are so many murders being committed and so much lawlessness and boorishness all around?
SURVEY RESULTS for the third quarter 2005 Business and Consumer Confidence Indices in Jamaica report that business confidence has plunged precipitously. In Milton's Paradise Lost, the fallen angel who is to become Satan remarks:
I WITNESSED a savage beating last week. No! It was not the five to nil mauling that the Australians gave our national football team even though it is clear that our standard has gone 'down under'. It wasn't the 52 to three massacre of the New Orleans...
A FEW hours before dawn on October 6, masked gunmen descended on a house on Barnes Avenue in south-west St. Andrew, setting it ablaze and then stood outside to ensure that none of the occupants escaped.
