Author: Mark Lee
US Troops to Stay in Iraq Beyond Agreed UN Date
U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, testified before Congress that American troops will stay in Iraq beyond 31st December 2008. Crocker says this is to Continue reading
Government of Antigua and Barbuda EC$17M Treasury Bill Oversubscribed
The Government of Antigua and Barbuda 91-day, $17 million Treasury bill issue, auctioned on the Regional Government Securities Market using the primary market platform of Continue reading
Emerging Economies Vulnerable to Credit Crunch, Says IMF – Hands-on Policies to Fix
Jaime Caruana, Counsellor and Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the International Monetary Fund, sumarizes the main points of the GFSR. The Continue reading
CARICOM Anti-crime Measures Need Social Element
Prime Minister of the Bahamas Hubert Ingraham (r) Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Patrick Manning at the opening session of teh summit. The same Continue reading
Amnesty International Urges Action to Reduce Jamaica
Amnesty International has taken a decidedly more nuanced approach to its reportage on murders and police killings in Jamaica. Perhaps in response to critics who Continue reading
Coco Tea Endorses Obama
Some may say political affairs is anathema to Rastafari, but international reggae superstar, Coco Tea, begs to differ. In fact, the respected thirty some years Continue reading
Snared in the Circle of Spider’s Influence: I’m caught in the net
Do networks work? Or are they nets in which we get ensnared grasping for an illusive silver thread set by some cunning spider? Canada swears Continue reading
Air Jamaica Flies Again as Attendants End Sick-out
Air Jamaica’s flight attendants returned to work late Tuesday after a sickout that caused the airline to cancel several flights earlier in the day. Eight Continue reading
Industrial Action Snarls Air Jamaica
In the midst of a debt crisis of about US1-billion, Air Jamaica, the island’s national carrier was grounded Tuesday, the Miami Herald reported. The paper’s Continue reading
French Giant Total Moving for Bigger Stake in Caribbean Oil Barrel
French multinational, Total, the fourth largest publicly-traded integrated oil and gas company is moving to expand its presence in the Caribbean pushing its market share Continue reading