Let them eat cassava
If Dr Chris Tufton is to believed, the solution to the 30 per cent increase in the price of imported food is for Jamaicans to switch to cassava flour. Some will have to plant 'banchi' and eat 'gari', as they call it in Ghana. Others will just have to make do with steak! (Robotham)
Root causes of the Haitian hunger riots
ON WEDNESDAY, April 9, I received a call from my sister, informing me that she had flown out of Haiti that morning, and had safely arrived in New York. "I barely made it out of Haiti," she said. "The experience was absolutely terrifying. As I was driving to the airport the people were taking to the streets, and burning the place down..." (Désulmé)
Possibly stupid laws, definitely stupid politics
LAWS ARE MADE to serve people, not people to serve laws. So when a piece of legislation that once made sense ceases to do so, the reasonable response is not to keep forcing it on the populace, but to alter it to suit the times. (Chang)
'Genocide Olympics' in China
CHINA'S HOSTING of the Olympics has afforded human rights activists worldwide and oppressed Tibetans at home the golden opportunity to focus global attention on China's disgraceful human rights record. (Boyne)
It is a real shame!
IN A recent news report in the local media, the Jamaican society was informed that "cops say more women are committing murders, armed robbery and other gun-related charges". According to the report, some of the senior police officers who are observing this trend of more and more women being involved in serious criminal activities are not quite sure why women are on this track. (Simms)
30th anniversary of the One Love concert, but still no love
THE PERIOD of the 1970s is known as the decade in which Jamaica's future reversed itself. Every macro-economic indicator moved in the wrong direction: inflation, fiscal deficit, money supply, international reserves, unemployment and economic growth. (Seaga)
|
