The terror unleashed in Guyana by gang leader Rondell Rawlins has its roots in government-sponsored violence, say some. It’s a similar situation that faces us here in Jamaica and has long retarded crime fighting.
There are umpteen rumours of corruption and mismanagement at Air Jamaica of which the unwitting taxpayer is unlikely to ever know the full truth. And now alleges the opposition PNP, the new Air Jamaica chairwoman ordered a plane to be turned back on the runway, so as to pick up a friend who was running […]
We know crime is bad, but soldiers turning their guns at policeman isn’t going to help. And this is just what happened to Superintendent Harry ‘Bungles’ Daley, commanding officer in Spanish Town.
Hydroelectic power has been taking off in South and Central America. Meanwhile in the Panamanian jungle a decision by the King of the Naso tribe support a new hydro damn led to him being deposed by his uncle, no matter how much bigger his ceremonial spear is.
The surviving crew member claimed they were ‘fishing’. But then look at this photograph and try not to laugh…
The most notorious armed group in South America and the Caribbean - well, outside of Jamaica at least - Colombia’s rebel FARC army faces a shaky future following the death of its founder-leader, desertions and the loss of Hugo Chávez’s backing.
Imagine. A thief sneaks up to your gate with a punctured tin of mackerel filled with rat killer (the standard method of poisoning guard dogs in Jamaica).
Almost every week there’s news coming from Havana about reforms by Raul Castro diluting la Revolucion. Then back comes 14-year-old Elian Gonzalez and news that he’s joining Cuba’s Young Communist Union.
Pamela Cox, World Bank VP for the region writes in the Miami Herald that current high food prices should be taken as a positive, as an incentive for us to reverse agricultural neglect and get producing again. But do we really have the will, before it gets really, really bad?
Jamaica is bracing itself for a further invasion of cheap British tourists wearing tracksuits, bad jewelry and…trafficking cocaine!
