“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!
Today, the Chamber is neither fish nor fowl, pale and insignificant like characters in search of an author, a glorified service club, weak and ineffective, a poor and spurious replica of its former self. It has been reduced to a sycophant and a mouthpiece to assuage and stroke the ego of the ruling party.
“Any realistic vision of change must be based on the notion of empowerment of people.” - ‘The Poverty of Nations’, Michael Manley’s seventh book, published 1991
Michael Nattoo
Jack and
Rose meeting on the Titanic (fictional), Romeo and Juliet falling in love
(fictional), and Gully Bop and Miss Chin (pre-split) - all shining...
Alex-Ann
Green
It always
amazes me that Jamaicans are seen as such warm people yet that is far from the
experience when trying to conduct business here. Is...
Michael
Nattoo
“You
may say I’m a dreamer,
But
I’m not the only one,
I
hope someday you’ll join us and the world will live as one.” – Imagine, John
Lennon.
Before
anything else,...
I am disgusted. I have reached my wits end with the current administration of the Hanover Municipal Corporation.
I watched the heads of this municipality...
As the JLP’s political apparatus fulminates against Peter Bunting, given his telling probing of former Science, Energy and Technology Minister, Andrew Wheatley, in Parliament...
