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Women need to dismantle the male control over Caribbean state institutions and make women's issues a top priority, a prominent Jamaican scholar said Thursday...
MARKED FOR DEATH. He can't act -- don't ask him -- but Steven Seagal is the new Brahmin of brawn. His latest essay in mindless movie mayhem, in which our sullen hunk of a hero breaks the will (also the fingers and spines) of some Jamaican drug dealers, is one of the season's big hits. See it and wonder...
Powell, the New York-born son of Jamaican immigrants, entered the Army via the ROTC program at the City College of New York. He too got a boost from the White House, where he was a fellow in 1972, working for Frank Carlucci, then deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget. When Carlucci became National Security Adviser to Ronald Reagan, he named Powell as his deputy. Powell became Reagan's Security Adviser in 1987 when Carlucci was appointed Secretary of Defense...
...Marley and the Wailers: Legend (Island, 1984). Marley died in 1981, but this collection of some of his best songs was no epitaph. It was a perpetual baptism of Jamaican soul...
...jury charges that Y&R hired Arnold Foote Jr., a Jamaican advertising consultant who the Justice Department contends was also a government official. He allegedly passed along money to Eric Anthony Abrahams, Jamaica's Tourism Minister from 1980 to 1984. Y&R is accused of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which forbids the bribing of foreign officials. The agency denies any wrongdoing...