What we need to do is to make it more open, more competitive and more accessible. We need deregulation. Also, English is the lingua franca of today's technological age. We have a tremendous advantage in that. Quite a lot of information processing is already taking place in Jamaica. . . .
People seem to like the Jamaican accent, the lilt.
Our schools and our vocational institutions have been training people with that in mind, so we have a very, very skilled work pool on which any investor can draw. Q. Jamaica is considered a major transshipment point for drugs. You can't just place the onus on the supply side. You've also got to place an emphasis on the demand side. Many of the people who are convicted here have lived most of their lives in the United States.