By March of next year, as has been reported elsewhere in this newspaper, the world's largest cruise ship will regularly dock at the new cruise port in Falmouth, on Jamaica's north coast.
It is ironic to think that the people of Harbour View would not be looking forward to finally having a functioning sewerage disposal system if a non-Jamaican foundation had not been willing to support the work of the Jamaica Environment Trust (JET).
"Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden." That's one of my favourite quotes from the phenomenal archive of Marcus Garvey's visionary mind. Some of us are still bearing the burdens of ignorance. We refuse to rule our own world intelligently.
After the intense speculation and subsequent anxiety that surrounded Air Jamaica's divest-ment process and negotiations for the takeover by Caribbean Airlines, the transition to the integrated entity appears to be proceeding...
One of my biggest failures has been my inability to use chopsticks. As a Chinese Jamaican, I suffer the ignominy every time I eat at a Chinese or Japanese restaurant. What's worse is that my wife, who is a mixed Jamaican, and children, can use chopsticks, a couple quite proficiently.