Welcome, Madame Wu Yi
WE EXTEND a cordial welcome to State Councillor of the People's Republic of China, Madame Wu Yi, and her entourage of 40 Chinese Government officials and businessmen who are in Jamaica on a three-day official visit.
Iraq: the schedule slips
IT GETS quite warm in Iraq between May and September, and the last conqueror of Baghdad, General Sir Stanley Maude, avoided the worst of the Mesopotamian summer by leading his British and Indian troops into the city in March of 1917. - Gwynne Dyer
The ghetto economy
THE JAMAICAN national economy has just too many of the features of the ghetto economy, trapping it in the no-growth and poverty conditions which have come to be the persistent state of affairs. - Martin Henry
A fresh start for Kenyans?
THIS WEEK, officials of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) visited Kenya to meet its new Government. - John Rapley
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