Davies backs $2b inner-city plan
FINANCE and Planning Minister Dr. Omar Davies has backed a proposal by Public Defender Howard Hamilton calling for a $2 billion investment targeting inner-city communities. While he said he did not want to argue about how big the fund should be, the...

Poverty gap widens
THE distribution of income between the rich and poor in Jamaica has widened with annual consumption spending for the wealthiest 10 per cent of the population increasing to 12.5 times that of the poorest 10 per cent. According to the 1999 Survey of...

More cheap funds available
IN an obvious bid to get production going, Government has moved to increase the supply of concessionary funds available to the productive sector.

Ja entrepreneurs among region's best
FIVE Jamaican entrepreneurs have been selected among 20 regional finalists vying for the Caribbean 2000 Ernst & Young Entrepreneurial Award to be presented in Barbados this week. They are Peter Chin, president of Alliance Investment Management;...