Granville is a highly textured community, a matriarchal society with a vibrant and rich African cultural tradition nestled between two estates in the north coast parish of St James. Peopled by peasant farmers, small traders, artisan and skilled workmen who cohabited in later years with migrant sugarcane workers from the Read more…
At least six Caribbean islands – Haiti, Dominican Republic, Dominica, Jamaica, Martinique and Saint Lucia are ranked in the top 40 countries experiencing extreme weather impacts by the 2009 Germanwatch Global Climate Risk Index. In a press conference at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Germanwatch explained Read more…
Just as the Jamaican central bank, in an unpopular move among the business sector, pushed up interest rates on certificates of deposit to curb money supply and halt a decline in value of the local currency, comes an IMF staff assessment urging countries to lower interest rates and thus stimulate Read more…