Editorial - Let's boost local cuisine
THE CAMPAIGN launched by the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) to encourage greater consumption of local food is aimed primarily at addressing the nation's trade imbalance. We cannot be comfortable with a situation in which the 2002 import bill for food.
'In one hand and out the other'
READERS WILL remember that two weeks ago I asked the Bank of Jamaica (BoJ) whether or not they purchased any of the recent Government of Jamaica (GoJ) Investment Debenture that was floated by the Ministry of Finance... (Ritch)
Guest columniet - Who will bell this cat?
I HAVE often walked across the campus at Munro College and smiled with pride when I see some of the young men here purposefully striding to their classes, hair neatly groomed, shoes so shine you can see yourself in them... (Hendricks)
Message to the Gov't: You can't eat cake... and count calories!
LAST WEEK I made reference to one set of Jamaican housewives - the poor ones who cannot pay their bills - who have angered their creditors. There is another set - equally poor - but who are experts at budgeting.
Operation ICE - US zooms in on immigration-related crime
ICE - THE name sounds like a moniker for a rapper or an exotic party drug. But the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the newest federal investigative agency, an arm of the Department of Homeland Security...
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