Year: 2011
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Siemens Makes US$38-million Software Grant to Jamaican University
The Faculty of Engineering and Computing, University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech), has received a software grant with a commercial value of US$38.85M (JA$3.4B) from Siemens Continue reading
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Fall again?
At first sight, despite the summer has come, it is only wording considering political nonsense… Unfortunately, it is only the primary impression, regardless of the Continue reading
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Black Music Month For Garvey Self Sufficiency Center
Black Music Month goes back to its Reggae-Dancehall roots on Saturday, June 4, 2011, with a unique fundraising dance and culturama in aid of the Continue reading
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City Suspends Market Vendor and Philanthropist Tilly Johnson
Dr Tilly Johnson, 82, one of Hamilton Farmers’ Market’s longest-serving vendors, has been slapped with a 30 day suspension under the Hamilton Farmers’ Markets’ Zero-Tolerance Continue reading
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Growing Dread: KC, the Wailers and Me
Growing Dread: KC, the Wailers and Me Jennifer Lopez is on my Toronto TV as I write, singing I’m Into You, accompanied by the rapper Continue reading
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Party Sees Healing From CARIFTA Games
Thank God for the CARIFTA Games! They are scheduled to be held in Montego Bay, Jamaica over the Easter weekend, and are coming at a Continue reading
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CARICOM Could be Injured by Alleged Cavity Search Case
Jamaica’s foreign minister Dr Kenneth Baugh, is intimating that the Caribbean integration association, CARICOM could be threatened if an alleged vaginal search of a Jamaican woman mid March by Barbadian border service agents is not dealt with frankly and honestly.
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Alleged Finger Rape Raises Queries on CARICOM’s Value
What broke in the news media as the alleged finger rape of a Jamaican woman by a Barbados immigration officer who denied her entry to the fellow Caribbean Community country is being dealt with by the countries as a regional issue, and the small extra parliamentary Barbadian PEP adds its voice as many question the…
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A Business Approach to Globalize Caribbean Art
The time has come to create opportunities for Caribbean artists on the world stage, asserts a leading regional artist, Ras Ayken-i Ramsay.
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Great Huts – An Afro-Caribbean Tourist Resort
After a quarter of a million US dollar upgrade, Great Huts, one of Jamaica’s most distinctive resorts, has something new for visitors seeking an Afro-Caribbean Continue reading