Month: August 2008
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Jamaican Women in Historic Olympic 100 meter Win
Team Jamaica takes gold, silver, silver (image captured from CBC, Canada) Jamaican women sprinters set a new record placing one, two, two in the 100 Continue reading
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Jamaicans, running scared and running out of time
“We have a crime problem that’s the second highest in the world and so we need a strong, decisive national security strategy,” said [Jamaica’s prime Continue reading
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The Week That Was – Sharing Up the World and all That…
A New York Times columnist quotes Michael Specter, in the New Yorker: “There was a brief five-year period when we could get away with treating Continue reading
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Educating for Inequality
A quality system for the mass education of the population is the most important requirement for national development. Our outdated education system is fundamentally flawed Continue reading
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Usain Bolt Miles Ahead in 100m Olympics Sprint
Usain Bolt seemed to trot to finish a mile ahead of the competition in the Olympic 100m sprint Saturday. In the process he set a Continue reading
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Yams: The Food of Champions
It used to be that there were two seasons in the year – crop season (also known as crop time) and hard time. Crop season Continue reading
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Writing in the Sand
For the past few weeks, I have watched the sand-mining of Coral Spring in Duncans, Trelawny being treated in the press as the mother of Continue reading
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200m Olympic Champion Veronica Campbell has a Thing to Prove in Beijing
Olympic 200 meters Champion Veronica Campbell-Brown has been answering questions about her not qualifying for the 100m and whether there’s still a chance that she Continue reading
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Scenes From the Biggest Street Festival in North America
Ebony and Ivory. They say Caribana, the annual Caribbean carnival in Toronto, is North America’s biggest street festival. More than a million visitors are said Continue reading
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Implementing Caribbean Renewable Energy – The Policy Problem
Over the past year, it has become clear that the world is in the midst of a so-called “perfect storm” of high energy, food and Continue reading