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Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
published: Tuesday | January 30, 2007

Foreign travel and public business
We are more than a little bit surprised by Prime Minister Simpson Miller's response to the report on Sunday about the cost of foreign travels and whether others in the Office of the Prime Minister had breached the rules regarding per diem allowances.

Abolish the minimum wage

Effective yesterday, the National Minimum Wage was increased from $2,800 per 40-hour workweek to $3,200. This deal is again one month late in implementation. This $640 a day is 'lunch money'. - Devon Dick


Those 'voters' on the fence

When political analysts talk about the so-called uncommitted voters, they tend to treat them with what seems to be a kind of reverence. I don't know why. - Vernon Daley


Cities key to tackling poverty, climate change

WASHINGTON, D.C.: If global development priorities are not reassessed to account for massive urban poverty, well over half of the 1.1 billion projected to join the world's population between now and 2030 may live in under-serviced slums, according...




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