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EDITORIAL - Gallop ahead with CTL divestment

Arthur Williams was right. Horse racing, he argued, "is not part of the core business of government". Yet, Jamaican governments, including the one of which Mr Williams was a member when he made that observation two years ago...

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Fix Palisadoes shoreline before hurricanes come

We are mere days away from the start of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season and the stalled Palisadoes Shoreline Rehabilitation Project is worrisome, to say the least...

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Plight of the middle class (and middle income)

Ah, the joys of being middle-class. I get to eat at fancy restaurants every so often, sheepishly muttering names of foods and wines I can barely pronounce, fearful of alerting the waitress to my complete lack of culinary sophistication...

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EDITORIAL - A cogent debate on CARICOM, please

In their understandable frustration over their inability to compete with Trinidad and Tobago in regional markets, including at home, it is the wont of Jamaican manufacturers to lash out at Port-of-Spain and/or demand protection from its products...

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Gov bytes

The quarterly comedy act starring our BOJ governor reopened on May 9.During January's show, Gov said: "Domestic inflation is projected to be in the [1.0-2.0% range] for the March quarter ...