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Month: April 2009
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Swine Flu Now Near Pandemic
The World Health Organization (WHO) has upgraded the swine influenza outbreak to near pandemic status. “Based on assessment of all available information, and following several Continue readingThis content is restricted to site members. If you are an existing user, please log in. New users may register below.Existing Users Log InUsername or EmailPasswordProve your humanity4 …
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A Tax on Books is Outright Madness
The new gas tax added in the latest Jamaican national budget is bad but when you tax reading material including text books this has to Continue readingThis content is restricted to site members. If you are an existing user, please log in. New users may register below.Existing Users Log InUsername or EmailPasswordProve your humanity2 …
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Condoms and Hair Conditioner – Beauty and Barber Shops for Safe Sex
You may have seen the movie The Barber Shop, or, maybe you haven’t! But there are very few Caribbean nationals who, upon hearing the words Continue readingThis content is restricted to site members. If you are an existing user, please log in. New users may register below.Existing Users Log InUsername or EmailPasswordProve your humanity6 …
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No! to the “Literacy Tax”
The application of Jamaica’s General Consumption tax (GCT) to previously exempt books is causing ire among some who see the move as an attack on Continue readingThis content is restricted to site members. If you are an existing user, please log in. New users may register below.Existing Users Log InUsername or EmailPasswordProve your humanity10 …
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The Value of Sacrifice
The economic policies of Jamaica have consistently undermined the ability of the working people. It has relegated the majority of the public to a life Continue readingThis content is restricted to site members. If you are an existing user, please log in. New users may register below.Existing Users Log InUsername or EmailPasswordProve your humanity8 …
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Caribbean Gov’ts Urged to Fund AIDS Fight
Caribbean governments have been urged to provide financial support for the Regional Coordinating Mechanism of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP), at Continue readingThis content is restricted to site members. If you are an existing user, please log in. New users may register below.Existing Users Log InUsername or EmailPasswordProve your humanity2 …
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The Alphabet Soup Kitchen
A few days before the April 17-19 OAS Summit of the Americas in Trinidad, which now seems light years in the past, a group of Continue readingThis content is restricted to site members. If you are an existing user, please log in. New users may register below.Existing Users Log InUsername or EmailPasswordProve your humanity8 …
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Lessons from a Hijacker and a Blockmaker
You probably won’t find a newspaper article titled, “Who was Andrew Buchanan?” You won’t find the media reports describing him as having difficulties in his Continue readingThis content is restricted to site members. If you are an existing user, please log in. New users may register below.Existing Users Log InUsername or EmailPasswordProve your humanity0 …
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The Death Knell of Jamaica’s Canadian Tourist Market?
The abortive hijacking of a Canadian flight at Montego bay’s Sangster International Airport, could well be the death knell for Jamaica’s insipid tourism industry if Continue readingThis content is restricted to site members. If you are an existing user, please log in. New users may register below.Existing Users Log InUsername or EmailPasswordProve your humanity4 …
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Ja Gov’t Injects Funds Into May 2 Track Meet
Jamaica’s Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture Olivia “Babsy” Grange has presented J$26-million (approx US$290,000) to the Jamaica Amateur Athletics Association (JAAA) in support of Continue readingThis content is restricted to site members. If you are an existing user, please log in. New users may register below.Existing Users Log InUsername or EmailPasswordProve your humanity10 …