Imagine going to your favourite lunch spot to have some good ‘ole bajan rice & stew with finger licking baked chicken or just to grab a quick bite to quell the hungry pangs until you get home to eat.
Imagine between now and the next couple of hours you start to experience stomach cramps, diarrhoea and [...]
About two weeks ago we reported on a showdown between Jamaica And Guyana where Jamaica was looking a the possibilty of importing rice from the US because Guyana was having difficulities meet their quota under an agreement between the two.
Jamaica’s Minister of Industry, Commerce and Investment, Karl Samuda response back then was,
“We will not place consumers [...]
This article is sure going to raise a few eyebrows in the international community. Every since the surging global food crisis with millions around the world starving, the UN has been appealing to donors to contribute to its needy fund to feed the poor [who have been hit the hardest], one would have gotten the [...]
No sooner had the ink dry on the previous post where pointed questions where asked about our security of rice here on this island than when I was inform that today’s Sunday Sun have reported that some supermarkets have started to limit the amount of rice customers could purchase. Well it was bound to happen sooner [...]
Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “In my dreams I saw [seven heads] of grain, full and good, growing on a single stalk. after them, seven others sprouted - withered and thin and sorched by the east wind. The thin heads of grain swallowed up the [seven] good heads……….”. Then Joseph said to Pharaoh,”God has revealed [...]
As we took a look around the blogsphere we came across two interesting blogs on the issue of food crisis here in the Caribbean.
But first we have to ask a few questions. Is telling your citizens that there is no food crisis a way to avoid panic amongst the population [...]
Mayor Major Thomas Masters [Riviera Beach, Palm Beach County] returned from Haiti late Tuesday, armed with a challenge: Collect enough flour, rice and cooking oil to return to the impoverished country in 30 days.
Masters along with two local Haitian ministers were among a 20-person delegation, headed by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, that spent three days in [...]
It was long in coming but we finally made it. Fantastic.
Read full article here
The same environmentalists that jumped on the biofuel bandwagon [because of it environmentally cleanliness to reduce carbon emissions as oppose to oil/gas which increases carbon emissions in the atmosphere], thereby reducing the land available for crop production to feed the world’s 6 billion plus people on planet Earth are utterly horrified that Europe [...]
There are plenty of voices blaming biofuels for the world food crisis. They all are right, and also are wrong. There is a link between biofuels and food prices — the move to biofuels to counter the high price of oil has taken massive amounts of land out of food production, resulting [...]
Read how this feelgood measure is becoming a real world disaster for millions around the globe.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120872360532329375.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries
A brief look at how the global food crisis is affecting our Caricom neighbours as they too try to grapple with the rising food costs in their countries.
Haiti
Haiti which has felt the greatest impact out of the Caribbean nations have at least 5 people dead and 40 wounded this week since mass demonstrations began [...]
In what was billed as a press conference turned out nothing more than ” a conversation with the Prime Minister” [as Mr Cox candidly puts it] with 3 journalists quizzing Prime Minister David Thompson on the vexing issue of rising food prices, DLP manifesto promises amongst other things in a 90min CBC broadcast.
David Ellis [...]
India and Africa vowed yesterday to strive together for food security and called on the western world to rethink diverting huge food stocks for bio fuel, creating shortages and driving up prices in poorer countries.
Rising food and oil prices threaten many African economies and are a headache for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s government, which [...]
Here’s an interesting article on the dailymail web site. It says that, “A Christian group is suing Google over the internet giant’s refusal to take its anti-abortion adverts.
The Christian Institute, a “non-denominational Christian charity”, wanted to pay Google so that whenever the word “abortion” was typed into the popular search engine, its link would appear [...]
