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a Burnt Ground...an before dat pollution by sewage an disposal avf dat deh same sewage...
WATER! ...dat a guh wi big problem!
The enduring curse of bauxite
COMMON SENSE
JOHN MAXWELL
Sunday, March 22, 2009
ALMOST everything you thought you knew about bauxite is a lie, beginning with the authorised version of how the industry began. "Although deposits of aluminous red earth have been known to occur in the Tertiary Limestone areas (which covers two-thirds of the land surface of Jamaica) since the 1820s, it was not until the 1940s that their economic significance as an ore of aluminium was recognised."
That's not as bad as the garbage disseminated in various quarters, including schools, which attributes the 'discovery' to one of Jamaica's merchant barons in the 1940s. According to that story, the merchant, who owned land in St Ann, noticed that his crops were not doing well on red earth and sent some away to be analysed. And presto! A bauxite industry was born.
The enduring curse of bauxite
WATER! ...dat a guh wi big problem!
The enduring curse of bauxite
COMMON SENSE
JOHN MAXWELL
Sunday, March 22, 2009
ALMOST everything you thought you knew about bauxite is a lie, beginning with the authorised version of how the industry began. "Although deposits of aluminous red earth have been known to occur in the Tertiary Limestone areas (which covers two-thirds of the land surface of Jamaica) since the 1820s, it was not until the 1940s that their economic significance as an ore of aluminium was recognised."
That's not as bad as the garbage disseminated in various quarters, including schools, which attributes the 'discovery' to one of Jamaica's merchant barons in the 1940s. According to that story, the merchant, who owned land in St Ann, noticed that his crops were not doing well on red earth and sent some away to be analysed. And presto! A bauxite industry was born.
The enduring curse of bauxite