This past week Jamaica’s Finance Minister Peter Phillips delivered a long awaited budget to the country’s parliament. The budget was delayed by a month as the new government sought to enter into new negotiations with the IMF and extensive consultations with Jamaica’s private sector. The budget is a careful mix of tax rises and redefinitions [...]
Monthly archives for May, 2012
A Tale of Two Budgets: Africa and the...
This past week Jamaica’s Finance Minister Peter Phillips delivered a long awaited budget to the country’s parliament. The budget was delayed by a month as the new government sought to enter into new negotiations with the IMF and extensive consultations with Jamaica’s private sector. The budget is a careful mix of tax rises and redefinitions [...]
Despatches from Brussels-ACP, EU and ...
It’s a cool Tuesday night in Brussels, I am seated in a traditional Belgian restaurant getting set to eat some stoemp and sausage. The restaurant is in between the European parliament building and the African quarter of Brussels, which was the site of political violence and riots between Congolese immigrants in response to the recent Congoles [...]
The French Election: African Perspect...
Francois Hollande has won the French presidential election defeating the incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy in what many would consider to be a decisive victory. It is the first time in recent history that a French presidential incumbent has failed to win a second term. The election results are a stunning rebuke to Nicolas Sarkozy, the election was a [...]
