Year: 2013
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Fifty-plus Years Ago
More than fifty years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC and delivered his now famous and Continue reading
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Who’s the Winner? Volvo Trucks or Van Damme?
Volvo Trucks’ “The Epic Split” ad featuring Jean Claude Van Damme, must offer a lesson in the new social media marketing paradigm, garnering more than Continue reading
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UWI Open Campus ScholarShip Cruises the Caribbean
The Open Campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) is launching its second ‘ScholarShip’ Cruise and Learn Adventure series scheduled for April 6 Continue reading
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Haiti, Philippines and Pakistan Most Affected by Catastrophe
Warsaw, Nov 12, 2013 — In the shadow of human catastrophe wreaked by typhoon in the Philippines, Germanwatch presented its ninth annual Global Climate Risk Index Continue reading
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Mapping China’s Rise: A Multipolar World in the Making
Credit Suisse, Nov 8 – The rise of the Chinese economy over the past 20 years has had a significant impact on the rest of the Continue reading
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Journalists Hail Abolition of Criminal Defamation
LONDON, Nov 6, 2013 — In a milestone achievement for press freedom in the Caribbean, the Jamaican Parliament has approved a bill fully abolishing the Continue reading
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Caribbean Has Lowest savings rate in the World
Jamaica, and the wider Caribbean share some of the lowest savings rates worldwide, says Earl Jarrett, General Manager, Jamaica National Building Society. He adds that Continue reading
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A Syrian War? Let the US Fight the Wars at Home First
A guest column warns the USA to consider fighting its own wars at home ahead of the possibility to joining an incursion into Syria’s domestic conflict.
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Trayvon Martin – The Loss of Liberty and Life
It seems the American dream of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is becoming a closed domain. The Statue of Liberty, gifted by the Continue reading
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Fatwa on Bonn, fi Saturn and how dem dis Wi Island
“Fatwa mi say,” declared Richard Reid from his high security prison in the USA. Reid was responding to the setting on fire of the Jamaican Continue reading