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Check back in a week as two more articles are a being written on Jamaican time.

A recent report released by Statistics Canada, Canada's official statistical agency, has revealed that more than 90 percent of Canadians are contaminated with bisphenol-A (BPA), a toxic chemical compound used in many plastics and resins. The report is the first of its kind in Canada to verify the extent to which BPA has invaded the bodies of the population at large... click on "BPA" in the News section.

This island nation boasts miles of pristine beaches, reggae music and the Western hemisphere's largest butterfly. Now, it's promoting a new asset to tourists: its Jews. From the tourism minister on down, Jamaican officialdom has embraced a plan to market the nation's Jewish history as a way of wooing a new segment of travelers... click on "Jewmaicans" in the News section.

Doctors should stock alternative vaccines for under fives who are due to have the seasonal flu vaccine this winter, a letter from the head of immunisation at the Department of Health has said. The action is being taken as rate of convulsions caused by high fever among children in Australia given the jab was ten times higher than normal. Up to one in 100 children given the jab, made in Australia by CSL and marketed in the UK by Pfizer, suffered febrile convulsions in the following hours and days... click on "Flu Vaccine" in the News section.

Jamaica has always enjoyed favourable placings in international pageants and local delegates are usually singled out at the start of such events. However, Monday night's second place finish by Yendi Phillipps, is Jamaica's highest placing at Miss Universe. The closest Jamaica has ever fared was in 1991, when international model, Kimberly Mais took 5th place... click on "Yendi Phillips" in the News section.

Eleven Jamaican students will be heading to China this academic year to pursue various higher degrees, having been awarded full scholarships under the Chinese Government Scholarship Programme. The awardees will be studying at various universities in the areas of Economics, Electronics, Financial Engineering, Biology, Pedagogy, Tourism Management and Environment Engineering... click on "Scholarships" in the News section.

Two elderly pensioners in this mountaintop village joined hundreds of Jamaicans with a grisly fate: expatriates who spent their working lives abroad, then moved home only to be killed. Jamaica has the highest homicide rate in the hemisphere, and retired returnees from all over the globe are feeling targeted... click on "Retirees" in the Articles section.

Biotechnology giants like Monsanto continue to push their genetically-modified (GM) crop seeds on the nations of the world, in most cases bypassing the clear will of the people in the process. But some people have decided that enough is enough. For the second time in two years, a group of protestors has destroyed GM grapevines at a French vineyard, uprooting all 70 of the experimental plants before being arrested.... click on "GM Crap" in the Articles section.

Remember margarine? That was touted as healthier than butter several years ago. Though many have since caught on to that lie, it still persists somewhat. Margarine is as healthy as melted plastic. But it sure is cheap to produce! That was then, this is now. Could Canola oil's health claims compare with margarine's fraud?... click on "Canola Fraudola" in the Articles section.

When Glyne Griffith invited me to attend the conference "Blackness Unbound: Constructions and Deconstructions of Race in a Transnational Context," I thought he was out of his head. You see, I am neither a black nor a brown man, but a white one. Yet, in the mornings when I first get up, I don't go to the mirror, look at my reflection and scream, "Kiss me neck! Me white,"... click on "Ole Negar" in the Articles section.

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September 2010