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Claude Clarke, Contributor
If you were told of a country which boasts over half a century of unbroken democratic government and was blessed with the most desirable of climates; a country that sits on reserves of important mineral assets, with a remarkable variety of micro-climates and soils that impart unique characteristics to its food and spices, your response would probably be: there is no such country.
If you were told of a nation that has long enjoyed preferential access to the world's most lucrative markets and the productive technologies they create; a society that has produced individuals who have excelled internationally in every field of human endeavour, physically, creatively, academically, entrepreneurially and politically, with a culture that delights the world, your response would probably be: there is no such country!
And if you were to be told that that country, along with war-ravaged Congo and economically floundering Greece, had among the worst average economic performance in the world during the last 10 years, your response would probably be: There is no such country!
But there is. Jamaica, with all its blessings, has managed to record an average annual growth of 0.6 per cent, spanning three political administrations in the last decade.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/2...cleisure2.html
If you were told of a country which boasts over half a century of unbroken democratic government and was blessed with the most desirable of climates; a country that sits on reserves of important mineral assets, with a remarkable variety of micro-climates and soils that impart unique characteristics to its food and spices, your response would probably be: there is no such country.
If you were told of a nation that has long enjoyed preferential access to the world's most lucrative markets and the productive technologies they create; a society that has produced individuals who have excelled internationally in every field of human endeavour, physically, creatively, academically, entrepreneurially and politically, with a culture that delights the world, your response would probably be: there is no such country!
And if you were to be told that that country, along with war-ravaged Congo and economically floundering Greece, had among the worst average economic performance in the world during the last 10 years, your response would probably be: There is no such country!
But there is. Jamaica, with all its blessings, has managed to record an average annual growth of 0.6 per cent, spanning three political administrations in the last decade.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/2...cleisure2.html
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