Here in Jamaica the growth is expected to be slightly below three per cent in 2006/2007.

The global economy today is growing at its fastest pace in 30 years: five per cent in 2004, four per cent in 2005 and will continue robust growth expected in 2006. Indeed, there is a world of unprecedented opportunities for business industries and markets in every region of the world including Jamaica and the Caribbean nations.

Although small, this represents Jamaica's most rapid economic expansion since the late 1980s.

That's where the most economic growth is occurring.

[This year's profit] growth would mainly come from the full-year contribution of the new malls and the opening of its largest mall -- the Mall of Asia.

The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democrac