Anthony Barrett
The USA has begun to flex its diplomatic and
military muscle against Jamaica. First, it leaked that Jamaica has pulled out
of a security Memorandum...
Anthony
Barrett
In a
recently published analysis, the reputable market research firm Grand View
Research Inc., estimated that the global legal marijuana market will reach USD
66.3 billion by...
Michael
Nattoo
“Returning
from work feeling inspired, safe, fulfilled and grateful is a natural human
right to which we are all entitled, and not a modern luxury that...
For some time now, a disaster of such calamitous proportions has been threatening that, should it ever come to fruition, future generations will wring their hands in despair and wonder how our generation, yes, our generation, could ever have ever let it occur. Their bane of contention will be the decimation of Jamaica’s Cockpit Country. A Russian aluminum giant, through its subsidiary, Noranda Jamaica, entered into a 26-year mining lease with the Government in 2004 and now fifteen years later, they want their pound of flesh. They are ready to despoil and desecrate the Cockpit Country for economic gain.
“No
first-time entrepreneur has the business network of contacts needed to succeed.
An incubator should be well integrated into the local business community and
have a steady...
“You need a new picture,” asserts the soft-spoken Chinese Ambassador Tian Qi, in the presence of a photograph of Ruel Reid, the embattled former education minister, hanging in the boardroom of the Montego Bay Community College (MBCC). That was not the remark of a careless diplomatic. It was a command made by a self-confident, powerful and secure diplomat who came to Montego Bay with a diplomatic pouch containing a demand of the Jamaican state to ‘protect the interest of our Chinese nationals’. This message marks the beginning of a new diplomatic relationship between Jamaica and the new imperialist on the block. The Chinese have arrived!
