Jamaica and the World

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 with friends, […]

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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. perception of […]

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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 convicted of murder […]

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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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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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