Creativity and productivity: making growth work
Productivity Week allows us the opportunity to look beyond the firm-based measures of labour productivity to broader and newer issues of development, and indeed, to a new economy.
Lock up repeat offenders for life
Crime as a career - repeat offenders are 80 per cent of arrests, cops say - The STAR, September 4, 2006. "Repeat offenders contribute to over 80 per cent of crime locally, according to police.
The Jamaican language issue - Part 1
My late father's formal education ended at primary level. However, as other members of his immediate family, he aimed always to speak standard English. Although otherwise an ardent nationalist - he was the 109th member of...
Role of government in the national plan
As we continue our look at Jamaica's 25-year national plan, we need to ask ourselves a critical question i.e. what is required to make Jamaica wealthy and sustain that wealth?
Three cheers for freedom
Last Sunday, communist China unveiled a new set of restrictions on the type of news content foreign agencies can distribute in China and reasserted control of what is broadcast or published outside of the country, thus...
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