Reducing debt, improving economic growth

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC - Prime Minister Perry G. Christie has outlined measures which he said is aimed at allowing his administration to lower debt and increase the prospects for economic growth in The Bahamas. In a statement outlining the 2012-13 mid-year budget, Christie told legislators that in ord...
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Lloyd’s failure to get seconder unbelievable

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - IT is unbelievable that former Guyana and West Indies cricket captain Clive Lloyd has failed to get a seconder as a nominee for the presidency of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). One would have thought that Lloyd who led the West Indies cricket team for over a decade as the...
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Government responds to controversial German advertisement

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - The Government has responded to concerns surrounding the controversial advertisement by German appliance company Saturn, which includes images showing the improper handling of the Jamaican flag. A statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday said the commercial...
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Former top cop murdered

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington has described as “shameless, heartless and senseless” the murder of retired deputy superintendent of police, Denzil Boyd, 63, who was shot and killed at his home in the Corporate Area on Sunday. The murder of the well-k...
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Constituents thank God for Manning

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Former prime minister Patrick Manning stood for more than an hour yesterday as members of his San Fernando East Constituency Office held a special thanksgiving ceremony for him. Manning, who spent Thursday night at the San Fernando General Hospital after suffering another s...
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Haiti: Jamaica’s embarrassment

KINGSTON, Jamaica - It might sound like the Jamaicanised pronunciation of the number which comes after 79, but Haiti is a historical enigma and its people are a worthy of respect, dignity and even our admiration. This is the last week in Black History Month, and it is ironic that in the 28 days give...
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Queen has to go - It’s for Jamaicans to decide - Portia

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has reiterated the Jamaica Government’s position on shifting Jamaica further away from its neo-colonial state by putting plans in place to remove the Queen as Jamaica’s head of state. In an exclusive interview with the Jamaica Obse...
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A clean sweep and a second chance

KINGSTON, Jamaica - THE 'wipeout' of Prime Minister Tillman Thomas's first-term National Democratic Congress (NDC) Administration at Tuesday's general election in Grenada was a stunning political development that has left governance in that CARICOM state where it was some 16 years ag...
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