More mobile news: World's second richest man and owner of MiPhone has denied interest in a Spanish satellite TV company. Instead, reports Associated Press, he intends to concentrate on expanding his America Movil mobile operation in Jamaica, Panama and Chile.
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A reminder of the bond between Africa and reggae music, this time coming from a week-long festival in memory of Bob Marley held in Windhoek, Namibia.
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Dr Hopeton Dunn, Director of the Telecommunications Policy & Management programme, Mona School of Business at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona with his cellular phone, the possible future of Internet access, and a 1940's fixed line handset. (Photo: Ross Sheil)
Mobile phones with their high rate of penetration in Jamaica could become the dominant means to access the Internet locally, says Dr Hopeton Dunn, Director of the Digicel-sponsored Telecommunications Policy & Management (TPM) programme at the Mona School of Business, University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona.
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Fight fans (Photo: www.first-magazine.net)
'Thursday Night at the Fights' the weekly community boxing event in Denham Town, West Kingston is featured on BBC News today.
Beginning this year the event allows residents to let off steam, or perhaps, settle a grudge that might have gone further outside of the ring.
Unregulated, there are no medical facilities. However rounds are short and frequently last just a few seconds before being cut short by the referee.
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BBC: The 'safe' fights hitting Jamaica
First Magazine (JA): Thursday Night at the Fights Main Event: Leo Versus Kong
Bio-fuels, produced in Jamaica in the form of ethanol, should not be scapegoated over the current world foot shortage, believes Dr Kusha Haraksingh who is Cariforum lead negotiator for Legal Issues in the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), reports the Trinidad Express.
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Trinidad Express: 'Don't make bio-fuel a food shortage scapegoat'
In his Observer column today, Trench Town-based social entrepreneur Henley Morgan compares the child soldiers of Sierra Leone with young men in Jamaica, heavily involved in crime and violence.
By my guesstimate, there are as many as 20,000 to 30,000 of our boys who have been directly involved in criminal activities, including murder, over protracted periods and who need rehabilitation. It is a growing problem that the government will have to address in any plan to return Jamaica to normality.
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Observer: Jamaica's child soliders
Observations: Micro-financial faith in Trench Town
Energy Conservation Engineer Stanley Smellie of the University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona Energy Conservation Project (ECP) at the campus tertiary water treatment centre.
Faced with a light bill that has more than doubled in two-and-a-half years, the University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona is attempting to lead Jamaica’s move into renewable energy and conservation.
Back in 2005 faced with a monthly bill that had breached $14 million UWI embarked on its Energy Conservation Project (ECP). Two and a half years later the project is no less urgent considering that despite the ECP’s best efforts,...
Making use of free Google Maps software someone who goes by the Internet moniker ‘Tuff+Gong’, has begun mapping Jamaican crime reports via his blog, The Kingstonian: Daily Crime Reports from the Rock.
Tuff+Gong, who frequently posts comments on this blog but whose identity is unknown, has attached weblinks from the map leading to newspaper crime reports and TV news footage via YouTube.com.
The blog also features an online petition calling for Government to take action against crime with 540 murders reported this year, as of last Wednesday.
The Orlando Sentinel newspaper has been using the Google Maps to comprehensively map crimes in that city via its Homicide Report Blog, from 2007 onwards.
Sentinel Readers can use the map to search for crimes by type, date and location.
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The Kingstonian: Daily Crime Reports from the Rock
Orlando Sentinel: Homicide Report Blog
Caribbean neighbour the Dominican Republic, which faces an election this week, is subsidising staple foods by 30 per cent, reports the Associated Press.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The Dominican Republic has expanded subsidies on basic food staples to maintain calm after deadly food riots recently struck neighboring Haiti.
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MILAN (Reuters) - World rice output is expected to hit a record high this year, but growing demand and export curbs should keep prices high, at least in the short term, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation said on Monday.
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Reuters: Rice crop to hit record, but prices still rising
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