Author: Mark Lee
Toronto Resale Real Estate Falls in February
Toronto Real Estate Board Members recorded a respectable 6,015 sales during the month of February, although sales fell 11 per cent compared to last year Continue reading
Spice Up Your Rice
Want to add some spice to your life? Instead of that boring, plain rice that tastes like gruel, why not add a little something to Continue reading
Raul Castro Takes the Reins in Cuba
The Cuban National Assembly on Sunday elected Raúl Castro, the76-year-old armed forces minister, as president to succeed his brother Fidel Castro. “The mandate of this Continue reading
Ship the gods into space
“Men sailing on their ego trips/Blast off on their space ships,” sang Bob Marley in So Much Trouble. If he had stopped there, the words Continue reading
Castro’s Anglo-Caribbean Ties a Mix of “Good and Evil”
Like the Haitian revolution before it, the Cuban Revolution of 1959 and its leader, Fidel Castro sent fear and trepidation through the hearts of the Continue reading
Eclipsing the Political Stars
The Americas, including the Caribbean, got the chance Wednesday night to view last total lunar eclipse until 2010. There were cameo appearances by Saturn and Continue reading
Integrating the Academic and Non-Academic in Women and Community development
For a long time universities have been chastised as being ivory towers, their academic pursuits seen as divorced from the daily lives of people in Continue reading
Kofi Kingston – Jamaican in the wrestling ring
It it acting or is it for real? I’ve pondered it a thousand times and the answer remains elusive. Whatever it may be a Jamaican, Continue reading
Home Sweet Home – comparing the Barbadian and Jamaican home seeker situation
“Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home,” wrote 19th Century American dramatist, John Howard Continue reading
Housing Those on the Margins
One way Jamaica has attempted to address the problem of the landless is to provide housing on government lands through a program known as Operation Continue reading