Sliding down the Leap of Faith with water roaring past your shoulders. Sitting beside a quiet pool with a rare cognac at Graycliff, the glass heavy in your hand. Floating a lazy river with nothing to do but drift, or stretching out on a downtown beach a few steps from Bay Street. In Nassau and […]
In a shift from earlier comments by National Security Minister Dwight Nelson, Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness admitted that the government had accepted an offer from the United States government for surveillance and imagery assistance during the May 2010 raid in Kingston’s Tivoli Gardens. Earlier, Nelson had said that the Jamaican government had not made […]
By the Caribbean Journal staff The Jamaican government said it is refuting a recent report in the New Yorker magazine that the United States gave Jamaica assistance in carrying out security operations in West Kingston in May 2010. The operation was aimed at capturing Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher Coke, who was later extradited to the […]
Above Jamaican PM Andrew Holness (Photo: OPM) By the Caribbean Journal staff New Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness says he will engage Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller in dialogue aimed at dismantling Jamaica’s garrison communities from the political landscape. Holness, who, at 39, is Jamaica’s youngest-ever leader and its first born after independence, called for […]
