Archive for July, 2006

Sans everything

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

The power cuts were one thing – I had supercharged the laptop batteries and so had a full working day’s supply; the water was another. I heard the washing machine chugging on dry when the power was cut, which meant that the water pump was also out, but once the power was back a […]

Informal entrepreneurs

Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

For those of you who don’t follow Jamaican news, one of the biggest scandals of the last few months was the revelation that the main supplier of cement to the country had released some 500 tons of inferior quality cement onto the market. Panicked by visions of collapsing buildings, the government ordered that the company […]