New PNP president says current generation must eliminate poverty in Jamaica

New PNP president says current generation must eliminate poverty in Jamaica

KINGSTON, Jamaica -The new president of the People’s National Party(PNP)  Dr Peter Phillips told supporters on Sunday that the current generation of the organisation will have to fix and eliminate poverty. It is for that reason, Phillips says, he will not apologise for embracing democratic socialism which he insists still has a place in developing 21st-century […]

Caribbean leaders to discuss socio-economic situation in the region at World Bank conference

Caribbean leaders to discuss socio-economic situation in the region  at World Bank conference

MIAMI  – Two Caribbean leaders will  participate in a World Bank conference here today on the socio-economic situation in the Caribbean. The conference, titled “The Caribbean Dilemma,” is part of the Americas Conference Series being put on in collaboration with the Miami Herald newspaper. Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell of Grenada and St Lucia’s Prime […]

A roof over every head

What’s in it for you? In the context of the 2017 federal budget recently unveiled by the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, most of our citizens and residents will benefit directly or indirectly from a substantial allocation of $11.2 Billion for affordable housing over the next ten years. The most interesting aspect of […]

Four-year old ‘map master’ knows all the countries of the world

So you think you know all the countries  of the world? Well, where is Vanuatu ? Or  the Malvinas? Okay. So you had to scratch your head and think awhile  before answering. Well, meet four-year old Isiah McDonald, a geography whiz kid who isn’t stumped for an answer when asked about  any country. He can […]

Trinidad-Tobago is happiest country in the Caribbean, says UN report

Trinidad-Tobago is happiest country in the Caribbean, says UN report

NEW YORK – The United Nations annual World Happiness Report was published on March 20 last (World Happiness Day), but Caribbean people interested in how their country fared were mostly disappointed, with much of the region apparently escaping the attention of the experts who compiled the report. Of those nations to make it on the […]

VIEWS ON THE NEWS

VIEWS ON THE NEWS

This week’s question: Toronto police say that there is an  eight per cent increase in the number of reported hate and bias crimes in 2016, compared with 2015, but that arrests have decreased over the same period. Commenting on the report on hate and bias crimes, released last week, Nigel Barriffee,  president of the Urban Alliance […]

Hate crime reports up but arrests down in 2016, Toronto police say

Hate crime reports up but arrests down in 2016, Toronto police say

            Toronto police report an  eight per cent increase in the number of reported hate and bias crimes in 2016, compared with 2015, though the numbers of arrests have decreased in the same period. There were 145 reported cases of hate and bias crimes in 2016  and eleven arrests. In 2015, […]