Author: Mark Lee
Spanish Invasion!
Spain’s ambassador to Jamaica, Jesus Silva. The verdict has been out for sometime now. For having flagrantly disregarded building codes, the Riu Group is being Continue reading
Banding Together to Grow Small Businesses
While Usain Bolt was setting a lightning trail on a 100 meter track in New York, Saturday evening and establishing a new mark for the Continue reading
Ikael Tafari – a man of the Caribbean Reformation
Ikael Tafari addressing an International Rastafari Conference Trade Fair and Expo in 1998 The years between 1968 and 1980 represented a loss of innocence for Continue reading
Bolt of Lightning – Usain Dethrones Asafa as World’s Fastest Man
Usain Bolt set a new 100 meter world record of 9.72 seconds in New York on Saturday, clipping .02 sec off countryman Asafa Powell’s mark Continue reading
World Bank Targets $1.2 Billion at Global Food Crisis
Harvesting rice in India. World Bank President Robert Zoellick announced Thursday in Japan, the bank is to support efforts to overcome the global food crisis Continue reading
La Condition Africaine – The South African Challenge
Archbishop Desmond Tutu dubbed South Africa the “Rainbow Nation” because of its multiethnic composition. It is said that as president, Nelson Mandela adopted the term Continue reading
Assafa Powell, Tyson Gay Set to Square off in London
World 100m record holder, Asafa Powell, is set to take on world champion , Tyson Gay, at the Aviva London Grand Prix on July 25-26 Continue reading
Divining The Roots of Crime
Bedfellows On the surface, nothing links Jamaica’s collapsed Cash Plus alternative investment scheme, the debacle of the exposé of Spanish company RIU flouting its municipal Continue reading
Private bank and IDB to provide $200m risk sharing facility
The Caribbean’s businesses will soon benefit from a new Risk Sharing Guarantee Facility agreement being jointly spearheaded by FirstCaribbean International Bank and the Inter-American Development Continue reading
Jamaican Runner in Top Five Fittest Women
Mary Kay Mullally Four and a half million viewers of ABC TV’s Good Morning America met 47 year-old MaryKay Mullally on May 1st, one of Continue reading