How will inequality in Jamaica be tackled?

Following on close to fifty-one years in independence from Britain, the issue of inequality arising from our peculiar configuration of power and power-sharing keeps dominating the political landscape. Local banks in 2013, reminiscent of life under colonialism, are not interested in lending to small and micro-enterprises, according to opposition spokesperson on transport, works and housing, Karl Samuda, who spoke in parliament last Tuesday. And before him, Minister of Transport, Housing and Works Omar Davies delivered a brilliant message of honest self-assessment to his parliamentary colleagues about the retention of the burden of inequality in the society through taxation that represents, in...