Again, Jamaica is sitting in stunned silence. Yet another brazen killing, this time of a prominent citizen, a selfless individual who dared to move past the realm of talking about the nation’s problems to finding and implementing what he believed were viable solutions. Douglas Chambers, board chairman of the Jamaican Urban Transit Company (JUTC), died [...]

Do you sense despair around you? The economy down, politicians and preachers offering no hope? Relax (if you can). You’re not alone. Ever since the tumultuous events like the crumbling of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet empire and the “Mother of all Wars”, 9/11, news of the hole in the ozone layer, [...]

After three and half years of negotiations, CARIFORUM and the European Commission finally concluded a comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement on December 16, 2007. (See the Regional Negotiating Machinery’s Junior Lodge’s reflections in attached document below.) The Economic Partnership Agreement or EPA is an instrument of trade partnership required by the Cotonou Agreement to replace the [...]

In the quest to reduce the horrific murder toll in Jamaica, every caution should be taken to ensure law enforcement operates within the constraints of the law, lest these very efforts take a toll on other aspects of life in an already unstable environment. The public outrage voiced in the wake of the Tivoli incursion [...]

So where are you today? Home for Christmas or to be politically correct, home for the holiday? To be sure there has been a lot of movement, people flying in from the cold North to the warmer climes of the tropics, some to be with family and loved ones; some just to be in from [...]