For about the last five years or so, I’ve been giving some serious thought about how the Jamaican government is structured and what, if anything, Continue reading
Crime Retards Economy in Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad – World Economic Forum
Crime and theft were cited as the most problematic factors for doing business in Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago in the 2008-2009 Global Competitiveness Continue reading
About Mark Lee
Mark Lee has been a long-time journalist writing, editing and producing in print, radio television and new media.
Iraq “harder, longer and more difficult” than first imagined – Rice
U.S. Secretary of State Condolleeza Rice says the journey in Iraq being “harder, longer and more difficult” than she had imagined. She was speaking during an Continue reading
About Mark Lee
Mark Lee has been a long-time journalist writing, editing and producing in print, radio television and new media.
Financial Crisis – Fund Touts $650 Billion Global Injection
New International Monetary Fund (IMF) proposals to address the global financial crisis, that includes an estimated $650 billion dollar capital injection, sound strikingly like the Continue reading
About Mark Lee
Mark Lee has been a long-time journalist writing, editing and producing in print, radio television and new media.
Cancer and HIV Researchers Win 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine
The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Harald zur Hausen “for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer” and to Continue reading
About Mark Lee
Mark Lee has been a long-time journalist writing, editing and producing in print, radio television and new media.
Financial Crisis – IMF: “Most Dangerous Shock Since the 1930s”
Should you be worried? “What will be the impact of the current financial crisis on economic activity?” That’s the question raised by in the International Continue reading
About Mark Lee
Mark Lee has been a long-time journalist writing, editing and producing in print, radio television and new media.
Financial Crisis – The $700 billion Bailout Just a Start
Philippe Gijsels, global market analyst with Europe’s Fortis group. Markets worldwide are fluctuating causing mixed reports among global economists about when financial turbulence will end. Continue reading
About Mark Lee
Mark Lee has been a long-time journalist writing, editing and producing in print, radio television and new media.
Iran Insists On Nuclear Program To Meet Electricity Needs
Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki says his country plans to use nuclear power plants to produce 20,000 megawatts of electricity. Mottaki spoke during a symposium Continue reading
About Mark Lee
Mark Lee has been a long-time journalist writing, editing and producing in print, radio television and new media.
The Making of Savages
Only one thing provokes more outrage in me than Jamaica’s runaway murder rate, and it’s the pathetic hand-wringing and pseudo self-examination that usually follows a Continue reading
About Kadene Porter
Palin, Portia and Populism
US Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin could do with a boost of encouragement amid all the ridicule directed at her intelligence, or supposed lack of Continue reading