Jamaica: “Dem too tief”

Posted 8 January 2007 14:12 GMT

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Francis Wade looks for the rationale behind what he perceives to be a tendency among Caribbean consumers to “when confronted with what seems to be an unreasonable price, . . . .claim that the person selling it is a thief.”

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