KINGSTON, Jamaica - SINCE slavery, we have had a problem creating jobs. The well-intentioned PNP and JLP made no impact. Full employment was achieved by communists or managed democracies as Singapore — the work of firm leaders. Why can't we?
KINGSTON, Jamaica - SINCE slavery, we have had a problem creating jobs. The well-intentioned PNP and JLP made no impact. Full employment was achieved by communists or managed democracies as Singapore — the work of firm leaders. Why can't we?
KINGSTON, Jamaica - This week, the leaders of the world — including our prime minister — are gathered at the headquarters of the United Nations in New York for the annual General Assembly.
This exercise is often dismissed as a glorious talk shop with photo opportunities. Indeed, Jamaica's participation has been dismissed locally as a waste of time and resources, because a small country has little or no influence on the United Nations and international affairs.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on Friday said it deplored the threatened economic boycott of The Bahamas and attacks on that country’s economic interests in Florida by interest groups based in Miami.
A Statement endorsed by the Fifth Special Meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) reads as follows:
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) — UN leader Ban Ki-moon yesterday pressed the major powers to overcome differences on the Syria war amid troubled talks on a UN Security Council resolution on Syria's chemical arms.
Ban hosted a lunch with the foreign ministers of the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France -- the permanent Security Council members --to put across his message, UN officials said.
PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC - It seems “open season” has been declared on President Bouterse following the arrest by US authorities of his son Dino. A sharp-penned columnist on Wednesday described attempts at damage control by Bouterse and his aides as “clumsy”.
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC - St.Lucian Cultural Icon and International Opera singer Blaise Pascal, 38, died in New York on Wednesday after a ten week illness, family sources have confirmed.
News of his illness was announced by the Cultural Development Foundation (CDF) last month. Pascal, a well known international tenor, left St.Lucia for New York in July to perform the lead role in a theatrical production at the Lincoln Center in New York when he came down with a bout of pneumonia.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Environmental activist, Dr. Wayne Kublalsingh has been ordered to return to court on Thursday following his arrest on Wednesday.
Kublalsingh has been charged with obstructing a police officer and resisting arrest. The drama unfolded on Wednesday morning when Kublalsingh who heads the Highway Re-Route Movement attempted to prevent the resumption of construction work on the Debe to Mon Desir segment of the Solomon Hochoy Highway extension to Point Fortin.
He appeared before a Siparia magistrate in the afternoon and was granted TT$10,000 own bail.
BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – The Belize National Coast Guard confirmed it had demoted an officer following an embarrassing incident involving Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, who was a guest of the government for the country’s independence celebrations last week.
Commander of the Belize National Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Borland said that Petty Officer Richard Ogaldez had been stripped of his rank and demoted to ordinary Seaman. He said the demotion was the result of a disciplinary tribunal.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO) says it is pleased with the outcome of a trade mission to the Dominican Republic earlier this month.
JAMPRO president, Diane Edwards, said as a result of the September 10-14 trade mission one local company had acquired a trial order to a large supermarket chain; while another reported securing a joint venture partnership deal with an industrialist for a manufacturing plant in the Dominican Republic.