Rich meets poor at Kingston crossroads

DON'T know whether it's an accurate measure of the recession but these days traffic lights are getting no less crowded with people selling, cleaning windows or begging.

Photo: Afflicted Yard

This morning I saw a youth lie down under the wheels of an SUV in a vain attempt to get some change.

Meantime, spotted at those same lights at Matilda's Corner a few weeks back, a Bentley Continental:

- Jamaican GDP per capita: US$7,500.

- Bentley Continental sticker price: US$170,000-200,000.

- Import duty: 192 per cent.

Poor guy could've waited. They dropped duty 62 per cent.