Jamaica needs real development, not mere breathing space
Wignall's World  Mark Wignall  Sunday, December 23, 2012
Consider the confluence of 50 years of Independence, the first
year of a new political administration, the Christmas season
upon us and an IMF deal that keeps getting stuck either in
political double-speak or in the country's inability to suck up
any more debt.  If you do that, you have drawn a bead on
Jamaica.  For the 50 years of our Independence we have had
economic stops and starts, political experimentation which has
impacted on the direction of the economy, fiscal saviours
threatening to rescue us and economic savants telling us, after
the fact, what we did wrong in the past and what we cannot do in
the near and mid-term future.  The muddle has made us into non-
believers and cynics of the first order.  We do not trust our
politicians and if we should examine the shoulder bag we walk
around with in which we keep the bad experiences, it will be
littered with broken political promises, a coun