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Imagine that your nation is entirely dependent on a belligerent and economically unstable foreign country for a precious commodity. Imagine that without that commodity, your entire society would grind to a halt. Got it? OK, now imagine that your nation is China, the belligerent nation is the US, and the commodity is CPUs
... click on "China CPU" in the News section.
FATHER Richard Holung, founder of charity group
Missionaries of the Poor, says he has reasonable
explanation for proceeding with construction work
on the proposed Holy Innocents Building at West
Heroes Circle in Kingston without the requisite
approval from the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC)... click on "Fr. Holung" in the News section.
Originally native to southern Mexico and now cultivated in many tropical countries (including Brazil, India, Indonesia, South Africa, Vietnam and Sri Lanka), the papaya plant has been touted by traditional healers for centuries as a source of powerful medicine... click on "Papaya"
in the News section.
If you are already eating a vegetarian diet or if you are moving in that direction, then by simply eating enough food from a variety of sources (consuming sufficient calories for your energy needs), you will automatically be getting enough protein. Why?... click on "Vege Protein" in the News section.
ONE HUNDRED years of Boys' Championships have come and gone and in a funny twist of fate, the team which was crowned the first champions, again reigned supreme on the event's centenary celebration... click on "Wolmer's" in the News section.
If you want a cure for "Island time" - you know, the tendency of Jamaicans to show up late - hold a fish fry! The ticket for Tsung Tsin Association of Ontario's annual Fish Fry Nite read 6 p.m. as the start time, but at 5pm, guests were already arriving and tucking into the tastiest Escoveitch north of Montego Bay... click on "TTA Fish Fry " in the Articles section.
"Sassy, vibrant, bold." "Extraordinarily gifted." "Beyond a violin wunderkind." These are some of the phrases the media have used to describe seventeen year-old violin virtuoso Jessica Yap who will headline The President's Pink Lotus Ball on May 22 in Toronto... click on "Pink Lotus Ball" in the Articles section.
‘Never put your dreams on hold,’ is what Yvonne Goldson inscribed in an autographed copy of her patois handbook – a Jamaican-Japanese dictionary and best-seller in its tenth edition since first being published in 1998. Goldson should know. She left her post at an international law firm for the kitchen of her new JamRock Cafe – Tokyo’s newest outpost for authentic Jamaican cuisine located in the heart of Harajuku.... click on "Jammie in Japan" in the Articles section.
A Canadian importer of local produce has revealed that some retailers in that country are passing off ground provisions from other nations as Jamaican-grown, due to the uncompetitively high prices associated with stocking their shelves with the real Jamaican commodities ... click on "Product of Ja?" in the Articles section.
We are all human, and we are a social being.
Sooner or later, each one of us is going to do or say something that we will regret ever doing or saying. And chances are, that we will be doing it time and again as we go along with our life. ... click on "Forgive" in the Articles section.
Read assorted info, this and that... click on "Dis ’n Dat"
Make Stuffed Foo Gah (stops cancer in last issue) ... go to the Recipes page.