As the world turns from grief to bickering over the response to the devastation of Haiti by the magnitude 7.3 earthquake January 12, Jamaica’s prime minister, Bruce Golding on Tuesday briefed his parliamentary colleagues on the island’s and the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) roles in alleviating the suffering people of their neighbour.

Following is the full text of his presentation:

Caribbean Community leaders, denied permission to land in Haiti last Thursday to asses the region’s contribution to the post earthquake recovery effort, were meeting Monday in neighbouring Dominican Republic with European Union, US State Department and United Nations officials to discuss a medium and long-term plan for Haiti’s reconstruction.
Since Haiti handed over control of its [...]

Prime Minister Bruce Golding asked Jamaicans to pray for God’s intervention in the affairs of the nation to help him in the work that he is called to do.
A release from the Office of the Prime Minister said he was addressing a prayer and worship event, organized by the Power of Faith Ministries at the [...]

Women activists and feminists have pointed to the way in which women are and have been treated before the courts for criminal offences. In her feminist analysis of the criminal trial process in Canada, and which has relevance for the Caribbean, Marguerite Russell examines various aspects of the criminal justice system. She specifically highlights the [...]

It is not uncommon for the criminal justice system in the Caribbean to be questioned. Too often we hear that there is one law for the rich and one for the poor, one law for whites and browns and one for blacks, one law for men and none for women. This thinking results from the [...]

A small party in Barbados is taking regional governments and political parties to task over their response to the impact of the global economic crisis on the Caribbean. The People’s Empowerment Party (PEP), headed by David Comissiong fingers the political leadership in Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago for their lethargic response  to a PEP [...]

As the United States intensifies its war on drugs a group of Caribbean academics is advocating “collaborating with our Latin neighbors in adopting a common front for constructive engagement with the US on this subject”.
Norman Girvan, former head of the Trinidad headquartered Association of Caribbean States (ACS) has thrown out the idea to leading regional [...]

Jamaica is bankrupt.  A rather dramatic opening statement but with the way things are in Jamaica these days it might not be so far-fetched. If Jamaica was a business entity it would be considered to be bankrupt and its creditors would either force it to reorganize or liquidate.
Today, we have a situation in Jamaica where [...]

With fried fish and johnny cakes on the black sands of ‘Little Ochi’, Mello wraps up the story of a day in his trip from Toronto to Jamaica, the land of his birth.

The agricultural malaise and bauxite industry devastation are captured in part three of Mello’s story of his trip from Toronto to Jamaica, the land of his birth.