Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Thursday | December 30, 2004
Preparing for the unexpected
THE EARTHQUAKE catastrophe in southern Asia has prompted regional Caribbean agencies to start working towards a tsunami warning system. This is one reaction even as the world responds to a gigantic humanitarian dilemma with the United Nations...
IT WAS a fairly good year for the world economy. The so-called jobless recovery did not deter Americans from taking advantage of cheap credit and rising housing prices to continue shopping. China's economy continued booming, Japan seemed out of the...
THE FACTS are the outline of a story; the real meat of the matter is in the details. So while the crash along the Bog Walk Road that turned five people into meat in a heartbeat made the news, what made it really real to me was the quote included...