Scotiabank Executive Vice-President Wayne Powell outlined Scotia Group's impressive results in his presentation last Friday whereby net income for the nine months to July 31 was up 22 per cent, at $8.74 billion, split between Bank of Nova Scotia Jamaica Limited profits of $7.517 billion and $953 million from Scotia DBG (SDBG).
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I sent a version of this to the Gleaner; I doubt they will publish it.
While I may be one of the few Jamaicans who do not care for the annual Miss Jamaica skin parades ie. “beauty pageants”, I find some of the criticisms about this year’s selection rather disingenuous and void of basic historical perspective. [...]
So, I was just reading today’s paper online, and I came across the headline “Hydel University Opens Its Doors.” I kiss my teeth. Whe’h dem come wid university from now? Everybody getting into this business of education these days – starting a school and a church in this country guarantees a nice income from people [...]
Thanks for sticking around and wondering where I’ve been. My ears have been burning.
I didn’t intend to be gone for so long. Actually, I didn’t intend to be gone at all.
But “later” turned into “soon come” turned into “kyaa badda” turned into “but wait deh likkle!” and then I started to feel bad.
Really bad.
Especially when...




