Jamaica and the World

There was nuff excitement in the precincts of Parliament Tuesday gone (Oct 3, ‘06). While the MP’s of the governing party were inside the House debating a motion to censure Opposition MP Karl Samuda (for being Karl Samuda and running off his mouth), the Leader of the Opposition walked out of the debate and […]

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This week’s hot social issue is the new data contained in the thrilling and much anticipated government publication The Labour Force Survey 2005 (get your own copy hot off the press from The Statistical Institute of Jamaica).

Using this data, social scientists Robert Buddan and Dr. Trevor Munroe have identified a new group (henceforth to […]

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JLP gears up, hopes there’s an election…..

Bruce Golding, the Opposition leader, has been on form this week. The JLP has been running some very unusual (for Jamaica) political ads - Bruce’s family testifying as to what a great guy he is. I specially liked the one by his wife, but they were all successful in […]

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This week (AND last week, AND the week before) Jamaican residents have been subjected to a barrage of political polls in our daily papers.
Even if you didn’t bother to buy a paper, you had to listen to dozens of analysts every day, on every radio station, telling you what the polls mean……

The only interesting thing […]

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Curse of the sea turtle :-

This week 2 Bahia Principe workers were murdered

“Karen Brown’s Spain: Exceptional Places to Stay & Itineraries 2006 (Karen Brown’s Spain Charming Inns & Itineraries)” (Karen  Brown)

Cass cass continues :-

The dis-United National Congress (UNC) in Trinidad continues its’ diss-cussions. Details here and here and here.

The problem ? Winston Dookeran (Political leader), […]

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