We have been watching the developments in Gregory Park, an enclave in the St Catherine East Central constituency to see how the politicians are treating the recent criminal attacks on the comm.
Outside Western Europe & Anglosaxonia the UK, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand the English-speaking Caribbean is collectively the most stable set of democracies on Earth. Outs.
For pretty much the better part of a half a century, Olivia "Babsy" Grange has hidden, in plain sight, a deep and dastardly pain that no woman, no one surely, should bear. The image of a happy.
The Jamaica Observer's Entertainment Desk continues with the 40th o f its biweekly feature looking at seminal moments that have helped shape Jamaica over the past 60 years. D etroit.
April 7, 2021
If we do not appreciate and learn lessons from history, then we are veritable fools. And if social calamity strikes as a result of our indifference and blind political servitude, then we have no one else to blame but ourselves. And this holds true whether Caribbean people are located in Frigate Bay, Laventille, Layou, Cité Soleil, Deacons Farm or Tivoli Gardens. The rise and fall of Tivoli Gardens’ strongman, drug lord and community leader’ Christopher
Dudus Coke has been well documented. It was widely publicized that the aptly named Coke inherited his illegal drugs business from his father and was very popular in Tivoli Gardens because of his calculated gestures to persons in that community. He reportedly gave money to residents, helped set up meeting centers, staged social events in the community, and the like. His major influence, though, was reputedly derived from his close connections to politicians, primarily those of the Jamaica Labour Party (