JAMAICAN Dalton Harris was declared the winner of popular British televised talent show X Factor on Sunday, much to the delight of Jamaica Observer online readers who shared in his joy. Here are some of their edited comments: Robert C Gray Congrats to Dalton Harris. Such a...
Minister of Agriculture, Saboto Caesar, says that the three marijuana bills he will ask Parliament to pass into law in December consider traditional growers of the illegal plant. Caesar, in a Facebook Live broadcast last week, says that this consideration is shown from the inclusion of...
[caption id="attachment_20502" align="alignleft" width="300"] FLASH BACK TO JANUARY 2014: Police Corporal Phillip Phagoo consoles Rani Ramdeen outside the Cedros home where her parents, Krishna and Radha Ramdeen, were murdered[/caption] Latin America and the Caribbean is the most violent region on the planet, accounting for 39 percent...
They arrived in droves starting at 5:30 a.m., desperate to secure a steady pay cheque. By midmorning, the anxious mob totalled 5,000 people. Sandals, a Caribbean hotel chain, was hosting a job fair in Barbados to hire staff for a brand new resort. Because thousands of...
[caption id="attachment_23597" align="alignleft" width="300"] Minister of Transport, Works and Maintenance Dr William Duguid says businesses are paying much less in corporation tax so they should be able to afford to give workers more money.[/caption] Even as Government reduces how much it pays in wages by sending...