If you are at work today, take a moment (or a drink) to celebrate May Day If you’re a man, or just a fan, celebrate the May Pole, unequivocal fertility symbol. If you get to leave work after only 8 hours, celebrate the workers who fought for your right to be drinking Red Stripe, liming [...]
Entries from April 30th, 2006
Mexico passes 21st century drug law! Jamaica to do the same ?
April 29th, 2006 · No Comments · Think global
The Mexican Congress yesterday approved a bill permitting the legal possession of small amounts of some drugs (marijuana, heroin, cocaine, LSD etc). This puts Mexico in the forefront of countries in the hemisphere trying “non U.S. approved methods” of addressing their drug abuse/drug trafficking problem. As we in Jamaica know to our cost, the U.S. [...]
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The Privy Council and Dr. Proctor
April 25th, 2006 · No Comments · Jamaica days
Well, the Privy Council have done it now…. they have freed a man who was convicted for a murder when he was 12 years old because he claimed that the police beat him and forced him to sign a confession. He has already served 13 years in prison. Did you know that you can be [...]
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Basdeo Panday gets 2 years at hard labour – A new era ?
April 24th, 2006 · No Comments · Think global
The former (that is, the last but one) Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Basdeo Panday, has been sentenced to serve at least 2 years for corruption, specifically for failing to report a bank account in the UK, while he was Prime Minister. The judge also ordered the contents of the bank account to be [...]
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Keep the Queen (and the Privy Council….)
April 21st, 2006 · No Comments · Think global
Our favorite (and only) Queen is eighty today. The government of Jamaica (and the governments of Trinidad, Barbados, Guyana and so forth) are proposing to replace her Privy Council with a Caribbean Court of Justice. For those of us who aren’t Republics yet, the establishment of the Caribbean Court of Justice as our final Court [...]
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