Mi no know wa di Republican dem a go do wid Obama. Dem meet dem match. Look how long dem a nyam up demself over im. Obama a president fi more an six year.
As a doctoral student in the United Kingdom, I had the opportunity to visit Cuba a few times as part of my thesis field research examining that country's recently introduced foreign direct investment laws and the impact on their tourism, tobacco and rum industries.
N 1959, the then ongoing revolution in the neighbouring country of Cuba was to reap success. Fidel Castro led a band of mercenaries out of the Sierra Maestra mountains to overthrow the Cuban dictator, Fulgencio Batista, who had seized power by way of a coup in 1952.
Barack Obama's announcement of his decision to thaw and normalise America's frigid relations has inevitably triggered a flurry of discussion, including in official circles, on the impact this policy shift may have on Jamaica and its partners in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
Mi no know wa di Republican dem a go do wid Obama. Dem meet dem match. Look how long dem a nyam up demself over im. Obama a president fi more an six year.
Obesity is not a subject many would want to think about during this festive season when cheer and goodwill are being spread all around. Obesity is derived from the Latin word 'obesus', which loosely translates to mean 'intensive eating'.
NOT SINCE Richard Nixon's trip to China in '72 - the declaration of wars by the two Bushes and Nixon's withdrawal from Vietnam notwithstanding - has an American president made so dramatic a foreign policy move than Barack Obama's announcement of the re-establishment of diplomatic relations with Cuba and other efforts to normalise relations with the Caribbean island.
In the last few months, I have been having some one-on-one 'reasoning' with several batsmen on the senior Jamaica cricket team. They are all concerned with the fact that they just can't seem to score big runs at the regional level, and several of them have asked me for some suggestions as to how to improve their game.
Far too many of our church brothers and sisters in Jamaica are too interested in chastising so-called sinners and those among them who dare to love people unconditionally.
Based on Lambert Brown's logic, Jamaica is a crime-free country, or nearly so. For the police solve only a small portion of crimes and only a handful ever reaches the courts. Fewer, still, end in convictions.
