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Haiti From the Front Lines
“If ever there was genocide – this is it!” declares Flavia Cherry, a St Lucian activist in Haiti representing Caribbean Feminist Network for Research and Action. “People who are very sick are being left in camps, (consisting) only of bed sheets hung up by flimsy sticks, where no help is available,” she wrote in a [...]
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Arts & Leisure
Rex Nettleford – Country Boy to Urbane Icon
His is another of the stories of country come to town; the boy who left his dirt poor rural community ...
Enjoying the simple Life
One of the best meals I have ever had in my life was Janga rundung and pumpkin turn-cornmeal. In ...
The Real McC(K)oy?
Have you ever wondered which or who, in fact, is "the real McCoy" or is it "McKoy?" And what is ...
Sliver of Childhood
Sometimes a faint, unyielding redolence - announced by earth and sky - preceded rain and mingled aroma of my mother’s ...
Opinion
Air Jamaica – Let it Go, Let it Go, Let it Go The state owned national carrier Air Jamaica has been getting a lot of attention as the country grapples with what to do with the perennial loss making carrier during testing financial times.
Since it began operating in 1968, it has experienced its share of expansion and contraction and only once recorded an operating profit in 1986, [...]
Religion
Pat Robertson – Dunce or Deceiver? Working with the U.S. Peace Corps in Jamaica almost forty years ago, I learned that, for perhaps what are now far more obvious reasons, there were few leaders either from the U.S. or Jamaica for that matter who seemed truly interested in teaching us Volunteers that most uneducated or even poorly-educated people, regardless of where [...]
Business
IMF Approves $1.25 billion Stand-by Loan to Jamaica The International Monetary Fund has approved a US$1.25 billion loan to support Jamaica’s economic reforms and help the country cope with the consequences of the global financial crisis, Trevor Alleyne, the IMF’s mission chief to the island announced in Washington, Thursday.
Alleyne said the executive board approved the loan Thursday and the period to be [...]
Humour Us
There is a Balm in Kingston – To Heal the Ailing World Healing rites were being performed and herbal remedies sold by an array of practitioners on the exhibition floor of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. In Jamaican parlance, the hall had been transformed into a massive balm yard. There were pranic healers using their touchless hand motions to remove illnesses and consign them to literal dustbins; [...]
Letters
The Legitimacy and Integrity of The Jamaican Parliament In the Westminster democracy, Parliament is considered the highest court of the land. The lower house of parliament is especially important because its members are elected to represent the people. The lower house is important also because it is from that chamber the majority of the ministers of government (the cabinet) [...]