Missing pieces:-
How good are Jamaican firms?
IT NEVER ceases to amaze me that two reasonable people can look at the same piece of data and view it in two entirely different ways. A large beachfront hotelier sees tourist arrivals rising and is delighted, while a small eco-tourism lodge takes that...
Developing nations must adapt to a Europe without preferences
THEY HAVE four more years to prepare, but Jamaican businesses have little confidence that their companies will be ready for the super-efficient pace of the world markets, once preferential access to Europe is dismantled...
The fiscal deficit
THE GOVERNMENT has a budget to manage just as any other entity or individual. There are expenses that arise that must be financed. Expenditure may be recurrent such as wages and salaries, programmes instituted to increase social welfare and interest...
Getting by in today's Jamaica
AS THE Government deliberates an increase in the national minimum wage, the cost of living continues to escalate...
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