Mona GeoInformatics Institute and the Earthquake Unit at the University of the West Indies (UWI) have developed an earthquake risk model for NEM Insurance Company Jamaica Limited, says NEM’s General Manager Chris Hind. The model aims to determine whether NEM has adequate reinsurance coverage to cope with a 7.0 magnitude earthquake, similar to the one [...]
David Emanuel may be a rather non-descript name, but if you have any British connections or affiliations with London’s music scene in the 1980s the name evokes memories of the cheeky Cockney with the megawatt grin. Smiley Culture, as he was more popularly known, died under tragic and suspicious circumstances on March 15, 2011, at [...]
China must have been the biggest celebrant of Christmas 2010. That is, if the goods on sale in New York city can be used as the measure for holiday gift giving and consumption in the USA. In almost every major Manhattan store, the story is the same on the labels, from shoes and socks to [...]
Cuban multi-media talent Jesus Lara Sotelo makes art of the highest order. He paints and writes, draws, photographs, works in ceramic, sculpts. All art-forms are rendered with taste, grace and depth of meaning. The connectedness of the artist to his universe is visible in the emotional proximity with which he examines his subjects. Multiple themes [...]
Jamaicans and the global Reggae music community were rocked with the sad news of the passing of master “Lovers Rock” singer and songwriter Gregory “Cool Ruler” Isaacs on Monday October 25th. Isaacs died in his London home early that morning after losing his battle with lung cancer. The reports on his passing carried by media [...]
Those whom the gods love die young, goes the saying from Greek mythology. David Thompson, who died in office as the Barbados prime minister, age 48, early Saturday morning (Oct 23) must have been one of those. He died at his St Phillip home in eastern Barbados just a few months after being diagnosed with [...]
With Prime Minister David Thompson of the Democratic Labour Party on leave battling pancreatic cancer, and the former PM Owen Arthur deposing Mia Mottley as opposition leader, David Comissiong of the extra-parliamentary People’s Empowerment Party sees tragedy on the island.
Jamaican businesses are mobilising to make significant gains by partnering to develop trade and investment opportunities leading up to the Olympic Games in London, UK in 2012. Earl Jarrett, Chairman of the Trade Policy committee in the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) and general manager of Jamaica National Building Society (JNBS), said that government [...]
Rural farmers on the Demerara’s East Coast in Guyana are hoping that the rains quickly come or else they stand to lose millions invested in farmlands for rice and cash crops and they want the government to do more to help them cope with the extremely dry weather brought about by El Nino. Some of [...]
I have been listening to the discourse in the media, among intellectuals and the little man on the street daily and the truth is that the band aid incursion into Tivoli Gardens (TG) will not rid the country of criminality.What is happening for sure is the scattering of TG seeds all over Jamaica which had [...]