Hi I'm Khalid Thomson and welcome to the Caribbean diaspora weekly
a place for news features and opinions affecting the Jamaican
and Caribbean diasporas at large. First in this week's news roundup
Jamaicans lead Coalition for slavery reparations from Europe
dancehall artist Vybz Kartel found guilty of murder
Caribbean athletes dominate at the World Indoor Championships
in the exposé a look at Bill 305 and how this Miami-based Union is putting locals
back to work. What we do actually is that makes certain that here
in Bay County that jobs that are created
utilising taxpayer dollars, are those jobs that will be given to
residents here
in Miami and in Dade County.
And in the diaspora perspective an opinion piece on "Donmanship" and the c culture of criminality
in Jamaica.
A valid question is, is the breadth social disparity in Jamaica the falt to the rich and privileged
for keeping people on uneducated in a country where the minimum wage makes
unskilled labour
possibly literally cheaper than dirt. Let's get started
with the weekly news roundup.
Hi and welcome to the weekly news roundup from jamaicans.com and
carribcast.tv
covering March 7th to March 13 2014
off the top in Caribbean news
the government in Haiti is planning to make a high-end resort property
of small island off its southern coast the project will provide over 2,000 jobs
and help to change the image that the world has up Haiti
according to Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe. He denied allegations made by some
citizens that the government will evict hundreds farmers to implement
the project
according to statistics from the World Bank
30 percent of all the homicide in the world occur in the Caribbean and Latin
American region
despite the fact that this area has only nine percent of the world's population
Rodrigo Serrano-Berthet, citizen security coordinator at the World Bank
for Latin America and the Caribbean
said that out of 50 cities in the world with the highest murder rates
42 are in Latin America.
In Jamaica news, Jamaica opposition leader Andrew Holness
will travel to the Cayman Islands to be the guest speaker at the anti-corruption
conference there
the speech is entitled the ethical and anti-corruption
framework of Jamaica, "my vision for change". Holeness will also join a panel
to discuss how effective
formal education is in encouraging values and ethics
Holeness is a former Prime Minister and Minister of Education.
Slavery was abolished in Jamaica in 1833
and now Jamaicans have taken the lead in a coalition of
14 Caribbean countries that are calling for reparations from Britain
for damages suffered in the slavery years. The coalition has
a list of 10 demands for Britain, Holland and France, the list includes an apology
reparation funds and assurances that slavery will never again
occur.
In diaspora news. Long before Putin
a Jamaican woman was making an impact in the Crimea when war broke out there in
the 1850's
Jamaica's national heroine Mary C. Cole established a healing mission
acting as a nurse to work troops she treated the wounded with herbs
supporting herself by selling food and beverages to army officers
the story of Mary C. Cole has finally been told in an autobiography
the wonderful adventures of Mary sequel.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio says that his administration will not pursue
litigation against the City Council
that wanted to allow continued profiling of Carribean immigrants
and other minority peoples. He said the city reached an agreement with civil
rights attorneys
who claimed that their stop-and-frisk policy violated minority rights
the mayor stated that the way the policy had been implemented in the past
unfairly targeting young men of colour .
And in entertainment. The popular DJ and Jamaican dancehall artist Vybz Kartel
along with three co-defendants was found guilty of murder in a trial held under
heavy scrutiny
in the nation's Supreme Court in Kingston. Police in riot gear
barricaded streets outside the court as the jury brought in its verdict
the four were convicted in the 2011 murder of Clive "Lizzard" Williams.
Ladies of the night, a Jam Biz International production
is leading the 2014 nominee list for the actor boy awards.
The production is up for a total of eleven awards.
The actor boy award is given for excellence in Jamaican theater
winners will be announced in April 2014 .
In sports, Jamaican runner Nesta Carter
defeated Marvin Bracy of the United States to win the final in the 60-meters
at the World Indoor Championships in Poland. Jamaicas Shelly-Ann
Fraser-Pryce won the
women 60 meters in 6.9 8 seconds
the seventh fastest time in history for that distance
Kaliese Spencer of Jamica and Chris Brown and Shaunae Miller
the Bahamas won medals in the 400-meter race.
Krishmar Santokie Jamaican pacer
hopes to play with the West Indies cricket team as a permanent member
he gave an impressive performance in bowling that helped his side win over
England by
five-wicket at the 2nd t20 international
he claimed four for 21 to obtain his the best numbers for the t20
In business, the Jamaica Public Service Company JPS
plans to appeal a decision from the Supreme Court in 2012
that labelled the agency as an illegal monopoly
the court found that the exclusive licence held by Jamaica's only power
distribution firm
was invalid and therefore illegal.
The award-winning mobile crime alert application Crime Bot
is expected to generate as much as $20 million in revenues
while also helping to reduce to make us crime rate. The app was among the 160
entries at the Digital Jam
3.0 competition in March 2014.
The team plans to provide the app for free to users but is looking to generate
revenue from advertising.
The Caribbean LED Company CLL which began manufacturing LED bulbs in
Barbados in 2011
currently exports the bulbs to twelve countries around the world
and is continuing to recruit and expand the business.
The firm opened a new location in lower State Saint-Michael.
CLL is the only accredited manufacturer of LED lighting
in the Caribbean.
When we come back a look at how Bill 305 is putting Miami Dade residents back to work