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Thursday, 4 August 2011

Happenings

Sex And the City

Well, I'm here just watching this sitcom and noticed how many of us wished we were as blunt as Samantha.
Also sometimes we would like to just settle with the girls and just chatter away at anything, aah well some girls have all the luck and the rest of us have to face reality real damn soon...

Have a great day....

Thursday, 30 June 2011

Yeaaaaaa

Why is it that when the aeroplane lands in Montego Bay or Kingston the passengers loudly claps with a massive grin on their face, while when we touch down anywhere else in the world, it's pure silence and watching with intense anticipation to see when the seat belts light come off?

TOLL INCREASE COME JULY

TOLL rates will increase for the Kingston to Spanish Town and Portmore legs of Highway 2000, effective July 9.

The proposed rates are listed below.

At the Spanish Town Toll Plaza:

Class 1: existing rate — $80; proposed rate — $80 (no change)

Class 2: existing rate — $110; proposed rate — $120

Class 3: existing rate — $210; proposed rate — $230

At the Portmore Toll Plaza:

Class 1: existing rate — $120; proposed rate — $120 (no change)

Tuesday, 28 June 2011

JAMAICAN FOODS

Coconut

Coconuts are widely available in Jamaica and is consumed in a variety of ways. A young coconut is known as a "jelly" simply because the inside of the kernel, flesh or meat is as the name suggests a nice jelly that can be eaten with a spoon after the jelly water is consumed.
However, a more mature Coconut is hard and can be used in a variety
of ways to make a variety of dishes and oil.
At full maturity the coconut is used primarily to make oil. The "meat," the white part of the coconut is crushed and the oily liquid is extracted and distilled by boiling to remove water leaving a residue of oil.
The oil in this fashion is very nice to make what we call "run Dung" with a bit of Jamaican spices, salt fish and some curry.
The crushed-up coconut can be used to make cakes and other Jamaican stuff like drops, grater cake and gizzada.
Coconut oil is, "rich in lauric acid, "which new research shows raises good type HDL cholesterol, lowering heart disease risk, Lauric acid is also anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial and antiviral, says lipid researcher Mary Enig, Ph.D., which also may help fight heart disease." (USA Today Sept. 26-28 2003)

Jamaican News Tuesday June 28, 2011

DELEGATES from 11 Caricom Community (Caricom) states will converge in the Jamaican capital, Kingston, next month for a regional meeting on the protection of children from commercial sexual exploitation.

The regional meeting, which is being held at the Jamaica Conference Centre from July 6 to 7, will provide an opportunity for participating Caricom member states to share experiences, identify and adopt best practices in addressing commercial sexual exploitation of children, and create a framework of regional co-operation in combating the problem.

Jamaica, which will host the two-day meeting for the first time, Trinidad & Tobago, Suriname, Belize, Bahamas, St. Lucia, Antigua, St Vincent & the Grenadines, St Kitts & Nevis, Grenada, Dominica and Haiti are among the countries set to participate.

Organisations such as the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children, Caricom Council for Human Services Development and the United Nations Children Fund are also confirmed participants.

The meeting is being organised by the Child Development Agency and the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), with the support of the Inter-American Children's Institute.

It is being held under the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Children in the Inter-American System Project, commonly referred to as the GOJ/IIN Child Rights Project. The project is funded by the Canadian International Development Agency.

The project is aimed at fortifying the capacity of national institutions to generate mechanisms for the defence and promotion of children's rights, as well as strengthening public policy, legislation and monitoring systems, with regard to these rights.

The project is being implemented in Colombia, Guatemala and Jamaica

Child labour horror - 16,000 being forced
to work in Ja

AT least 16,000 Jamaican children are being forced to engage in some form of economic activity, even as the Government tries to stem the problem through work with the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

Marva Ximinnies, director of the Child Labour Unit in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, said of the 16,000 child labourers, just over 7,000 are engaged in more hazardous work -- which includes prostitution, the production of pornographic material and child slavery. This information, she explained, was taken from the last official survey that the ministry relies on for its data.

The majority of Jamaica's child workers are found in the agriculture, forestry and fishing industries, while there have been prosecutions of persons who involve children in prostitution, she said. Other workers include street children and market vendors in the larger metropolitan areas of Kingston, Spanish Town and Montego Bay.

Jamaica's child labourers are predominantly male, aged 15-17 years.

"Over 60 per cent of the children involved in child labour are usually found to be working in the agricultural sector. There were also children found to be working in manufacturing, construction and installation, while in wholesales and restaurants, a little over 4,000 were found to be working in those particular sectors," Ximinnies said last week while addressing the Kiwanis Club of Kingston's weekly luncheon held at the Wyndham Kingston Hotel

read more:

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Jamaican-meeting-to-discuss-protection-of-children-from-sexual-exploitation_9090451

CAR PRICES SLASHED

CAR prices have fallen off dramatically since the Government's adjustment of import duty early May, with consumers now paying as much as 35 per cent less to purchase vehicles.

For instance, a new Toyota Rav4, offered to the market at $3.9 million earlier in the year, is now being sold at $3.2 million by dealer Toyota Jamaica.

"The effect is greater with more expensive vehicles, especially those with larger engines, for example the 3.2 litre Land Cruiser, which was at $20 million. Now it is about $13 million," Toyota Jamaica marketing manager Howard Foster told Auto yesterday.

Government's duty reduction has however impacted the value of larger vehicles more significantly because import duties are based on the engine size.

At the lower end, a Corolla, which was sold for $2.7 million by the dealer before May, is now priced at $2.4 million, a $300,000-drop.

And a new Nissan Tiida sold by Fidelity Motors dropped by $400,000 to approximately $2.2 million.

Nissan's Qashqai went from $5 million to $3.9 million while the Tiana dropped from $6.28 million to $5.1 million, Fidelity Motors marketing officer David Crawford revealed.

But while prices are falling, president of the Jamaica Used Car Dealers Association (JUCDA) Lynvalle Hamilton cautioned that the reduction would show up greater in new cars than in the models he sells.

According to Hamilton, used car dealers are now seriously challenged in getting competitively priced vehicles, especially from Japan.

"As a result of the recent earthquake, there is a shortage of new vehicles and Japanese consumers are purchasing newer, used vehicles," Hamilton said.