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Jamaica’s fiscal performance deteriorated in 2011 because of delays in the implementation of an agreed structural reform program, a just concluded International Monetary Fund (IMF) Continue reading
Mark Lee has been a long-time journalist writing, editing and producing in print, radio television and new media.
The European launch of a documentary on the 1963 government attack on Rastafari in Jamaica, and a Canadian report that murders in Toronto have fallen 25 per cent since the arrest of Jamaican community don, Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, serve to highlight that the island’s power structure and culture remain at odds, 50 years after independence from Britain.
Mark Lee has been a long-time journalist writing, editing and producing in print, radio television and new media.
The opposition People’s National party was returned to power taking 41 of 63 seats in the House of representatives in Jamaica’s general election Thursday, called by Andrew Holness after just over a month in office to secure his own mandate on inheriting a moribund economy from Bruce Golding. It was a massive defeat after an almost evenly split vote in 2007.
The Canadian Government has decided that people taking the citizenship oath must not have their face covered. The decision is aimed at Muslim women who wear Continue reading
Mark Lee has been a long-time journalist writing, editing and producing in print, radio television and new media.
I must be crazy. Like the gods drinking Coca Cola and dropping the bottle in the Kalahari Desert on Bushmen. Read this and tell me Continue reading
Mark Lee has been a long-time journalist writing, editing and producing in print, radio television and new media.
The credit rating of St Kitts and Nevis, the smallest independent state in the hemisphere, took a hit when it defaulted on a bond payment Continue reading
Mark Lee has been a long-time journalist writing, editing and producing in print, radio television and new media.
When the Mirabal sisters – Minerva, Patricia and Maria Teresa- took up the cause of justice in the 1950s in their native Dominican Republic, they Continue reading
JudithSoares,PhD,istheheadoftheUniversityoftheWestIndies'WomenandDevelopmentUnit.
There is nothing like adversity to not only test one’s mettle but demands one to take stock of his/her life and the choices made and Continue reading
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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