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Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
published: Monday | April 3, 2006
Economic issues facing new administration
HAVING SELECTED her Cabinet, her first duty as new Head of Government, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller faces a number of economic issues - some old and some new - that demand speedy resolution. First is the impending budget.
Dr Marshall Hall - the banana man
WHEN THE history of Jamaica's modern banana industry is written Dr. Marshall Hall will emerge as the man who stood between its extinction and its survival. As chief executive officer of the Jamaica Producers Group... - Hugh Martin
Political tribalism and garrisons
WHEN MICHAEL Manley and I first met Eric Williams, the eminent historian and late Prime Minister of Trinidad' in the early '70s-the conversation was instructive for a number of reasons. I mention two aspects of that... - Beverley Anderson -Manley
Portia: The first steps
PRIME MINISTER Simpson Miller has taken over. The problems she will face - the challenges - will be many, varied, interrelated, multifaceted and profound. This will have to be a time of action, we will have to put our... - Stephen Vasciannie
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