Forged managers' cheques on the rise
A wave of high-tech forgery of managers' cheques which are being encashed or used to pay for goods and services, has forced the island's two largest commercial banks to institute holding periods of up to five days on transactions...

The need to cut interest rates
THE lowering of interest rates is necessary in jump starting the economy and awakening it from the slumber of five years of negative growth, a fact not lost on the Government. But the will to implement a cut in interest rates and the ability to do so...

The house that Alex built

HAVE you heard that I'm being deported as a result of my harsh criticism of the Government. Not really, I am off to foreign soil though. If only it were true. It would have been great to have ended with a bang, to be the person making the headlines...

Positive economic outlook this year - Davies

FINANCE and Planning Minister, Dr. Omar Davies, has said Jamaica's economic outlook for 2001 is positive, despite the challenges ahead. He pointed out that inflation was under control and several sectors of the economy were pointed for "substantial"...