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Stories by Egerton Chang

Egerton Chang: Britain’s black queen & China’s yuan vs US$

Published:Thursday | January 7, 2016 | 12:00 AMEgerton Chang, Contributor

Queen Charlotte, wife of the English King George III (1738-1820), was directly descended from Margarita de Castro y Sousa, a black branch of the Portuguese Royal House. So says Frontline (in a piece researched and written by Mario de Valdes y Cocom...

Egerton Chang: Black dog fi monkey

Published:Friday | July 17, 2015 | 12:00 AMEgerton Chang

Recently, I saw a post on Facebook that read, "If Digicel ah monkey and LIME ah black dog, what is Flow?"My company just applied to LIME (now Flow) for a telephone line with Internet service (ADSL) in Ewarton. Apart from it taking a rather long time...

Jamaica vs Cuba; Kingston vs Miami; and crumby Zimbabwe money

Published:Friday | June 19, 2015 | 12:00 AMEgerton Chang

GSAT! Stop the press!Congratulations to all GSAT students who just passed to the high school of their choice, especially to those scoring perfect hundreds in one or more subjects.Special shout-out to my son, Ethan, a student of Sts Peter and Paul,...

Olint, Cash Plus and the dangers of greed

Published:Friday | May 15, 2015 | 12:00 AMEgerton Chang, Contributor

Most of you may recall Olint, Cash Plus, World Wise, May Daisy and other such 'institutions' and the excitement and fervour that they generated in the middle of the last decade.They were hailed as thesaviour of the 'likkle' man, and anyone who dared...

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