The Jamaica Labour Party won The 2003 Local Government Elections in 2003 by a landslide victory. During the 3 year period ALL members of the JLP Local Government have displayed the highest level of effective leadership as they have said and done all the right things. However in terms of...

Each company in Jamaica will have a Competitive Business Strategy (CBS), which in its opinion has served it well, has made profits and/or super normal profits as such there is no need to change it. However, the following questions need to be answered:1) Is the strategy being used by the average...

Most members of the Private Sector Organization of Jamaica (PSOJ) are operating on a Static Competitive Business Model (SCBM) as opposed to a Dynamic Competitive Business Model (DCBM), which is what is required for firms to survive in the nano-second thinking era of the Knowledge Based Society...

There has been much discourse in the public media about the quality of and effectiveness of government spending in Jamaica. However to put in context and do a comparative analysis should serve to highlight critical discourse analysis and thinking rather than speaking to hyperbolic political...

Young people cannot find places in productive employment commensurate with their education in Jamaica. Not only would it be costly to provide the necessary skills once they are past the stage when they are most receptive to learning, this could seriously affect the competitive edge of the...

In light of The growing stockpiles of international reserves held by emerging markets this fact has prompted a considerable debate in this research area not only in Jamaica but also based on other experiences particularly in the far east in such countries as China and Japan to name two

The dominance of conglomerates accords urgency to the need to develop a more consolidated approach to supervising the financial system. Modifications to the legal framework, including passage of a proposed Omnibus Banking Bill, would enable the supervisory authorities to better implement...

For most Latin American countries, transport costs are a greater barrier to U.S. markets than import tariffs. In investigating the determinants of shipping costs to the U.S. with a large database of more than 300,000 observations per year on shipments of products from different ports around the...

Jamaican Campaign Finance Reformers (JCFR) claim that the flow of contributions and expenditures undermines both political equality and the quality of public discourse.Their opponents criticize the regulation of political money, arguing that spending and giving money are legitimate forms of...

The leadership of CARICOM countries in yet another effort to encourage investment in the Region, have agreed to establish a regional Stock Exchange which would bring together the Stock Exchanges in the Region, namely the Barbados Securities Exchange, the Jamaica Stock Exchange and the Trinidad...