Jamaica and the World

Since Daryl Vaz, who claims to have U.S. citizenship through his mother, has been ruled ineligible to sit in the House of Parliament, this means that, although no judge has yet ruled on the cases against Gregory Mair (JLP, St. … At this point, the pundits and pollsters agree that the JLP is unlikely to lose any election held soon, but all bets are off with (1) a new leader for the PNP (2) continued out of control food prices (3) continued out of control murder rate (4) any JLP corruption scandals - remember the first PNP scandals about furniture and such like, took place very early in the administration…….

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Sonific.com is going offline soon, so no more music on this blog. Sorry.
Daryl Vaz is a U.S. citizen it seems……. Another General Election on the way……Bad news for all of us.
And Xaymaca recommends two new Jamaican bloggers:
Annie Paul
and
Rain Fly

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Cuban lightbulbs smash around Kern’s ears
To quote Michael Manley, “for the first time, at last,” a PNP politician (Kern Spencer, former Minister of State for former Super Minister Paulwell) has been charged with fraud.
Some may think that former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson should have received that honour, and I think that Phillip Paulwell should have […]

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The new government has :
(1) given us a new police commissioner, ex Jamaica Defence Force chief, Hardley Lewin.
No crime plan yet and we desperately need one as murder spirals (it was already out of control, let’s just say it is more out of control). The spike in the murder of policemen is depressing the […]

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Tourism

Iberostar Rose Hall
John Lynch (Executive Vice President Marketing, Sandals Group) is the new Chairman of the Jamaica Tourist Board. The Government couldn’t have chosen a better person, says the head of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association, Wayne Cummings (General Manager of Sandals Negril). The Opposition says there is clear conflict of interest between working […]

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