Author: Mark Lee
CARICOM, EU Discuss Haiti Reconstruction
Caribbean Community leaders, denied permission to land in Haiti last Thursday to asses the region’s contribution to the post earthquake recovery effort, were meeting Monday Continue reading
Haiti – The Response
Canada’s Governor General, Michaëlle Jean, broke down in tears Wednesday as she appealed from Ottawa for assistance to Haiti, following Tuesday afternoon’s devastating earthquake that Continue reading
Haiti We’re Sorry
“The world is coming to an end!” screamed a Haitian school girl into a cellular phone after Tuesday’s earthquake that has shaken Port Au Prince, Continue reading
Jamaica Canada Trade – The Missed Chances
Many writers have excused Jamaica’s poor economic performance by blaming or ascribing it to the global melt down. While I will admit that that occurrence Continue reading
Evolution for Beginners
In 1859 Charles Darwin, a British naturalist, published a book, “On the Origin of The Species by Means of Natural Selection”, which after its publication, Continue reading
Pray for Me, Pray for Jamaica – PM
Prime Minister Bruce Golding asked Jamaicans to pray for God’s intervention in the affairs of the nation to help him in the work that he Continue reading
Collaboration Versus Conflict
The sugar plantation was undoubtedly the dominant economic and social phenomena of colonial Jamaica and the Jamaican society that emerged out of slavery was very Continue reading
Revolution!
Twenty-ten is a landmark year. It’s the end of the first decade of the 21st Century if you’re one who counts from one to 10, Continue reading
Gov’t on Collision Course with the People
It was surprising to many how Jamaicans responded to the tax measures announced by the Government in the April supplementary budget. Even the Government had Continue reading
Shaggy goes Green in Copenhagen
International reggae artiste, Orville “Shaggy” Burrell has gone ‘green’ in the interest of raising awareness on climate change and encouraging a more secure climate future. Continue reading