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Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
published: Monday | September 8, 2003

The new minimum wage
THE GOVERNMENT must have faced a number of problems in deciding on a new minimum wage, some philosophical and some practical.

A nostalgic note on history books
IT IS 1978. I am sitting in the main reading room at the Institute of Jamaica, going through a box with pamphlets on West Indian history. One falls to my attention. - Stephen Vasciannie


Forever amber
AN ATTEMPT to set up a 'red-light' district in Jamaica ran into a red light of its own as authorities put a stop to an attempt to allow the oldest profession its own designated space in which to operate. - Tony Deyal














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