EDITORIAL- Sprucing up Mona
It is unlikely there will have been any significant rebalancing of enrolment by Jamaican students to the University of the West Indies (UWI) since our observation last year that the bulk of them were in the humanities and education, while only a handful...

Bankable commitments now!
We, like the bankers quoted in this newspaper yesterday, believe the debt-restructuring programme that the Government has on offer is the right call at this time, even if domestic savers will have to give a substantial portion of agreed interest.

Honourable default?
This Government has looked to be the worst of our brief history but there are signs that the worm is turning.All Jamaica needs to stand up and applaud the manner that the Government went about defaulting on its local debt...

Jamaica: Productivity Summary Report 1972-2007 - It's expensive, we are producing less!
We have observed that the output per worker has been falling in Jamaica during the period 1972-2007. We now turn to the issue of what has been happening to the labour cost of each unit of good or service produced over the same time period...