My Fellow Jamaicans,As we begin yet another New Year, and as we step tentatively; perhaps even haltingly, across the threshold of this calendar demarcation, no doubt, many of us are contemplating what lies in store for us this year.

Evidently, for the vast majority of us Jamaicans, the anticipation which traditionally greets the dawning of a New Year has been tempered by the prevailing economic challenges which face the world and Jamaicans in particular.Notwithstanding the mounting difficulties that the average Jamaican family is enduring, today IS, in fact, the start of a New Year.Every New Year marks an opportunity to see things from a different perspective.