Leave!

I fail to see why there is even any question of whether or not Sharon Hay-Webster should keep her seat.

She has dual citizenship, she was therefore not eligible to run for a seat in parliament, her opponent (providing no dual citizenship himself) should automatically be given the seat.

That is based on the constitution, but the JLP had their friends in the judiciary declaring the election null and void therefore requiring a by-election, totally ignoring the constitution which sees a candidate with dual-citizenship as not suitable to run and therefore making it a one horse race. This now sets up a situation where they all seem like hypocrites calling for the very same thing they are fighting against (the Constitution), declaring their situation to be different.

It ain’t.

She should go, along with all others who have enjoyed being “better” than the rest of us with their US passports.

No question at all, except in how much power the parties retain.

I come back to see this?!

Bruce, Audley and the rest insists that the guvament don’t have the money to pay its workers, that the guvament is having a difficult time meeting its targets, and that it has now become necessary for the guvament of Jamaica to re-establish a relationship with the IMF.

Ok, things are tough all over, so we understand not being able to pay your workers. Sure they will get upset at not getting money they believe to be due to them, but they understand hard economic times.

Now what is most fucking upsetting is that the can easily find 60 Million dollars to go refurbish the house Mike Henry occupies.

What the RASS?!

Most people struggle to find even the 5 Million for the house they want/can afford and have to make NHT contributions for years, but suddenly after announcing we going back to the IMF it now seems as if we can afford to utilize 60 million, that must have been lying idly somewhere, to spend on one house for a minister of guvament.

Let’s see the JLP supporters support this. After they tore into the PNP in the 1990’s about furniture scandal and how they fatten up their own pockets, only to come now and see this shit. But what makes it worse is that the barefaced red-man come tell me and you seh dem nuh have the money, dat dem can’t pay the people dem, hinting that they going to layoff civil servants, can’t pay the nurses or teachers or police, but can find 60 million fi dem friend.

Neither of the two political parties in this country gives a damn about you or me. It is time the whole of you wake up and realize that they are only in it for the power.

Nothing else.

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I would call for a revolution but Jamaicans like sitting by and letting things be done to them.

Goodbye

August 29, 1958 ~ June 25, 2009

Justice Takes A Backseat

Regardless if one believes that former Junior Minister of Energy, Kern Spencer, is guilty, there is one thing you all should realize; Rodney Chin, repentant co-conspirator or damned liar, is tainted as a witness.

There is no way that the testimony of a man who received 200 million dollars in contracts from the guvament, shortly after becoming the main witness for the prosecution, can be fully and wholeheartedly accepted by any sensible person.

There may not have been any laws broken, despite no provisions for it in the laws of Jamaica, but at its most basic, it smell wrong. Everyday in this world there are very wrong things done, yet are not illegal, but violates the trust that people foster in those individuals or institutions.

Rodney Chin can not be trusted, not anymore.

If they go ahead with this, then the “Justice” clamored for regularly on the nightly news, will not be gracing this island anytime soon.

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The DPP’s refusal to disclose all surrounding their deal stinks also. If there was nothing to hide, nothing to cover up, then give the defense what they have requested and get on with the damned trial. Let his guilt be made clear, if he is in fact guilty, but just let it be over with quickly.

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Paula Llewellyn seems as if she starting to let her power get to her head, soon enough Bruce will have to axe her.

Can’t wait.

I Wish My MP Had Dual-Citizenship Too!

So the guvament won another buy-election, big deal. It was very clear with the flurry of activity in improving the constituency that the fix was in. And they were quite arrogant with it too, declaring that the PNP bad mind because they didn’t want the people of the constituency to get anything done for them.

But their arrogance led to a bit of stupidity also, putting the name of their candidate on brand new garbage skiffs (where they even spelled his name wrong, Gergory), to show that it was thru him that these things were done.

So a few things to take away from this:

1. The guvament in power will go to any lengths, including using state money, to shore up their advantage.
2. All talk of Jamaicans becoming politically mature is premature, as last night’s buy-election barely managed to get half the electorate to vote.
3. Political maturity is further scorned when voters are so licky-licky. Granted they needed the amenities very badly, and were probably showing their gratitude, but to think that elections are won in this way is disgraceful.
4. The PNP, despite pursuing the dual-citizenship cases in the courts, are like headless chickens when the buy-elections are announced; scrambling for candidates and then having a lackluster campaign behind said candidate, notwithstanding their lack of access to state funds like the JLP has  they put no effort in even trying to win the damned things.
5. I want the PNP to continue fighting these cases in court, because those with dual-citizenship are illegally occupying their seats as Members of Parliament, but if they are not going to give a good account of themselves then they are simply furthering the waste of the country’s money, money that the guvament says they do not have. (except for the hundreds of millions of Us dollars they are going to pump into Air Jamaica.)

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I used to think that we deserve better than this but the licky-licky-ness of the electorate and the lackadaisical approach to campaigning of the opposition is changing my opinion.

sigh…

GSAT Results Debacle

So the Ministry of Education sent out the GSAT results to schools on Discs.

Progressive!

The documents were in Adobe Acrobat format (.PDF).

Secure format, universally accessible, good.

Some of the schools had trouble opening the documents because they didn’t have the necessary software to open the files.

Uhhh…? What?!?

The problem was that the documents were made with Adobe Acrobat 9.1.

Ok easily remedied.

“Computer experts” were called in to assess the problem and to find a solution, but they could not make headway with it.

Yeah, Right!

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The above situation is totally embarrassing, here is why:

1. Adobe Reader is a free (as in ZERO DOLLARS) download from http://www.adobe.com Right on the front page is the link that says “Get Adobe Reader”. It is a simple install.
2. These so called “experts”, if any money was paid to them, they are criminals and need to be arrested. It doesn’t require experts to download and install free software, the fact they couldn’t figure the problem out shows they are clearly not experts.
3. All this could be avoided if the “geniuses” at the Ministry of Education had simply included a copy of the free Adobe Reader on the disc, send it with a note or letter, informing the school of what to do in order to open the GSAT results.
4. If the schools didn’t have an internet connection with which to download and install the Reader? WHY THE HELL NOT?!
5. If they did have an internet connection what was so difficult to do in order to get the free software?
6. If they were incapable of even thinking about this, didn’t they have IT staff on board to deal with these matters?
7. If not? why the hell doesn’t the ministry do something about it?
8. Why is Jamaica still scraping at the bottom of the technology curve in our most important sector?

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I heard this bit of news on RJR this morning . If i was the management of RJR there was no way i would even air this story. Mek we look fool.

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We really can’t be this backward.

Dem T’ink I Man Fool (IMF)?

Return to IMF now more likely

PM cites heavy demand for FX

BY ALICIA DUNKLEY, Observer staff reporter dunkleya@jamaicaobserver.com

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Prime Minister Bruce Golding yesterday indicated that his administration may well enter into negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to prevent Jamaica’s Net International Reserves from buckling under the weight of demand for foreign exchange.

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20090610T020000-0500_153195_OBS_RETURN_TO_IMF_NOW_MORE_LIKELY.asp

Why do they insist on lying so much?

It was obvious to everybody that when the budget was tabled that it clearly was with the intent to appease the IMF in order to get loans from them. Tax on salt, books etc.

Who else would want to take more of our money and keep us stupid, other than rich white men who relish every opportunity to trample on the progress of black people.

For more evidence look at the 1980’s when Eddie was a borrow money from IMF, remember the concessions Jamaica had to make.

Seaga Under Siege: http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1985/0531/steif.html

Ok, you read that above link? Good!

Now a couple months ago, outgoing minister in the Ministry of Finance, Senator Don Wehby, went to Washington to suckle at the teat of the IMF, but the guvament painted the trip as a fact finding one. Sure, the facts of what they had to do to get money would be detrimental to the guvament’s political future so of course it was labeled in the prettiest sounding words possible.

Now that they have spent the week on the campaign trail bashing the former PNP about the debt the former guvament incurred, they are now admitting they are going to borrow from the IMF again.

Another case of “see? see? see how DEM mash up the country? Pay no attention to our “minor” borrowing.

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The level of maturity in Jamaican politics is non existent.

They act like children. Some of the crap coming out of their mouth and the manner in which it is delivered like kids fighting over a toy.

They treat us like children. Not fully disclosing what they are doing, distracting us with noise about what others are doing and then push what they  want in thru the backdoor.

We act like children. We lap it all up cheering when the eediats calling each other hypocrites or termites.

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Maturing Politically my ass!

 

Shake, Shake, Shake…

For a guvament with such a slim majority in parliament, they are so unbelievably arrogant.

They bully the public sector workers, yet bawl that they will not be bullied.

They break contracts, agreed to not too long ago, with not even a heads up to the other signatories, and then pretend as if the public sector workers are unreasonable.

All the while getting public relations help from their friend’s at the Jamaica Observer doing any and everything to disparage others, and their other friend’s at the Jamaica Gleaner who now ignore hot button issues on their front page, choosing instead to focus on “feel good” stories.

Oh the poor guvament. :sarcasm:

Now, in a further attempt to destroy worker’s rights in this country, Pearnel Charles is looking to break up the Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT), with an aim to pad the party loyalists.

This is a sign to me that there will be severe job cuts coming in the near future and this latest move is their way of ensuring disputes go their way.

This from a party with Pearnel Charles, Dwight Nelson, that had Hugh Lawson Shearer, and the great Alexander Bustamante, all renowned for their contribution to the rights of the Jamaican worker.

Here they are now, circling their wagons, closing ranks, to protect their political asses.

I am sure when the people elected the guvament they expected better.

When the world’s economy was tanking, the guvament painted a fairytale ending. This left them and us woefully unprepared for the crisis and now the only thing the guvament can come up with is wage freezes, a precursor to massive job cuts that are sure to come.

Their inability to govern properly is now being blamed on the “economic downturn”, and not their apparent ineptitude.

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They disprove the adage that change is good. Daily.

What the HELL Were Llewellyn & Nelson Smoking?

Obviously they have displayed that they don’t quite get this politics thing.

What you think in your head nuh must always go ah yuh mout’.

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The Commissioner telling a large faction of the police force that they should not have joined in the first place, and should not expect time off to go to church.

And it’s also the tone of his voice that displayed his disrespect for those members of the police that are Seventh Day Adventists.

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In an obvious attempt to pander to the police who are currently challenging the guvament for  a pay increase to ease,  their pressure and to delay any industrial action they might contemplate, the Minister spewed forth some truly vile shit.

Collateral Damage?

No cop should be held responsible  for that?

What the hell?

Either this guvament is filled with dummies who just say the crap that’s nearest the front of their  mouths, or they are some cruel bastards who say anything to get elected and then couldn’t give a damn afterwards.

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Yes, yes, yes, is the usual thing that.

I apologize for wasting your time.

Clowns

This guvament loves to go pon radio and tv and chat and chat and chat and chat. Granted discourse with the nation is a good thing, informing us of what is going on is fantastic, but is not everything dem fi chat.

The Department of Corrections, like a bunch of dunces, announced this morning/last evening, that they are cutting the number of private security guards at the island’s prisons. Sure cost cutting measures are expected in these hard economic times, but dammit man, why announce it to all and sundry? Do you not think that criminals have radios too? Do you not think that maybe this news will embolden them to act up? Next time just do what you doing and shut up.

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Bank of Jamaica employees are not paid from guvament coffers. The Bank of Jamaica had already budgeted the 7% increase their workers are supposed to get. The Bank of Jamaica froze their wages anyway.

Why?

The lament that “We don’t have the money” does not apply in this case, so cut out the stupidity and pay the people what you were going to before wage freezing became so fashionable.

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The Labour Day projects allocation fiasco is fresh on our minds, regardless of how innocent they want it all to seem it looks bad, it stinks of rank partisanship.

Then the clowns made things worse for themselves when Sally Porteous sent that letter indicating that the town hall meeting with Bruce is for JLP and business community.

Sigh…

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And last week dem search plane that PJ was on, for what purpose? yet another very badly handled event that may easily be skewed politically. is no one thinking clearly anymore? Or is this the effect of replacing all public bodies with their friends and company, who do not understand protocol and are bent on catching the PNP at something?

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I guess it’s true, sensible people avoid politics.

Who Will Save Bruce From The Bullies?

Funny how the Prime Minister can declare that the guvament will not be bullied. Hilarious when you look at recent interviews with him wherein he threatened to cut jobs if the guvament paid workers don’t stop demanding their contractually agreed on pay increase. Hell how he denied teachers their back pay with the lament; “We don’t have the money!”.

Congratulations on being flexible enough to repeal some of the stupid tax measures recently introduced, we know it hard, we know you need as much money as possible to get on with the business of the country.

However I would like to ask the guvament this: We don’t have any money you say, but you can find the money for not one or two labor day projects but three, how come?

Also, do you not think it looks very suspicious  that these projects are in constituencies where the members of parliament are facing challenges to their citizenship, and by extension their right to sit in parliament, will probably face a buy-election (like the well purchased one Vaz won), and are all JLP?

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You don’t have the money to pay teachers, police or civil servants, but to help protect your slim majority in parliament, you will find it to fund your pork barreled endeavours.

You will not be bullied!

No one in your circle of friends could ever survive on the pittance you pay the police, yet you demand they do.

You will not be bullied!

In the event of police “industrial action”, you have the military on stand-by. I suppose your intent is to have somebody safeguarding law and order, but it sounds more of a veiled threat to the police.

You will not be bullied!

You raise taxes, freeze wages, threaten to cut jobs (which you are still going to do) in order to get the underpaid people  to back down, to “tek wha dem get”.

You will not be bullied!

Meanwhile, rumblings in the Ministry of Mining and Energy are that James the Foul-Mouthed is busy cleaning house, kicking people out of their jobs to fill them with party loyalists.

He will not be bullied!

Traitor-to-the-trade-unions has declared war on gangs, declaring that “Gangs must be crushed!”.

We would love it if he indeed was not bullied, and that he does what he sets out to do, but since the bullies in the JCF won’t get their pay then it is difficult to see how much if any lasting effect your plans will have on crime in this country.

The guvament is going to ask these very underpaid men and women to risk their lives, even more than they currently do to fix the crime in society.

If I was a member of the constabulary I would quit.

$40,000 a month is not enough to face violent gangs, not enough to help my family, now, or if I die in the line of duty. Not enough to ensure my dedication to the job.

In fact, it is just the right amount at which the criminal element  may successfully bribe me.

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The criminals “bully” the country, the people who should be “bullying” the criminals are being “bullied” by Bruce, which makes us all buggered.

Good Sense Prevails

After much lambasting the guvament has relented on their position on the sinfulness of non-educational reading material is and have instead taxed cigarettes and liquor, the very things that ought to have been taxed in the first place.

Recently when Bruce spoke of taxing ‘”fast food” his argument was that the tax would contribute to the greater health of Jamaicans as it would deter them from eating these unhealthy foods (yeh, him a eediat). Also that the taxes would have gone towards the healthcare system in Jamaica. But did he tax fast food and the other consumable items that had a negative impact on the health of society?

No.

Instead he taxed the most evil of things, books and computers, the very things that may give people ideas. Ideas like: “this guvament doing things wrong” or “we need fi vote dem out now”.

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Now they have repealed the tax on “non-educational reading material”.

Good.

But hol’ on deh, I am offended by that. Every book I have every read has had some educational value to me, and I am sure, to many other people as well.

Children while reading will stop and ask their parents: “What that mean?” as you grow older while reading you are introduced to new ideas that may lead you to further research. Even comic books and science fiction and other fiction based material has me looking up certain aspects of it online, either thru Google or Wikipedia. Heck all the wonderful technology we enjoy today was spawned by some youngster reading or watching some science fiction that inspires him to create the things we now take for granted.

That is the major gripe we all had with the taxation on books, that it would limit the availability of the material to children and in so doing limit their ability to think, to be creative.

I am very pleased to know that the guvament can still think, even with the barrage of negative reactions to the book tax, and have removed this odious bit of taxation.

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Now for them to remove the stupid tax on computers, and to give Daryl Vaz a book to read.

:-)

It really is fantastic to see so many Jamaicans expressing their disapproval of many aspects of the guvament’s taxation on people. From letters to newspapers, to people at conferences , and even the ones that blocking the roads. Now I don’t mean to suggest that blocking the roads are ok, just that someone was not afraid to show dissent. We still have a ways to go before we really become fully mature politically, but it’s great to see stupid taxes being lashed out against.

The tax on books, especially, drawing the righteous ire it so deserves.

Beautiful!

Thank you all.

WTF?

How in hell does this cartoon pass the scrutiny of logic?

Obviously the Observer has no sensible editors in that grand building of theirs.

Maybe the cartoonist needs to expand his horizons a little, read something other than porn, and maybe he will know that there is far, far more to read than pornography.

The guvament’s tax on books will guarantee that more Jamaicans will be as dumb as he is.

Pornographic magazines represent less than 1% of the reading material available in bookstores and pharmacies, but he would know this if he had set foot in one of the same establishments wherein his books have been sold.

Clovis has zero creativity and credibility left,  but as long as Butch ah pay him he will continue to be Butch’s bitch.

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Besides, everybody knows there is far more porn on the internet.

Free too.

“Stupid” Taxation

The guvament downplays the impact their taxation will have on the cost of living, it is going to be very bad, but that is not the worst of it.

The thing that will have the most negative impact on the future of this country is the taxes on computers and books. These items were not cheap to begin with, as they were subject to the vagaries of the exchange rate, but to go and further tax these items is truly wicked.

Only a set of battymen would tax books!

Keeping the people dumb, stupid and uneducated, the JLP continues their war against intelligence.

Suuure you will say they freed up education, but it was poorly implemented, the teachers are still being underpaid, with foreign teaching positions being comparatively attractive. Remember when the PNP of the ‘70s wanted free education the JLP killed it when they got in guvament in the ‘80s and then promoted the Solidarity pushcart shit.

Now, clearly from IMF directives, they have taxed books and computers. But they make the distinction that schoolbooks and religious books are tax exempt. As I said to keep us stupid, to make it difficult for people to get their hands on books not approved by the guvament or the church, and therefore less likely to read books that expand our minds.

Keep us stupid to not realize when we get screwed, and not want to rise up in protest, so they can blurt out such shit as, “The Jamaican people are now more politically mature”.

Right.

Now the guvament is telling us that they are in discussions with the IMF to lay the groundwork for future borrowing.

LIES!

The IMF already directed them to do their bidding, why do you think the new taxes are as they are?

Perception

Ok, Bruce did his job. Good.

As the minister of defense he would have committed political suicide if he wasn’t as up front in the hijacking as he was, what with the budget due to be read in parliament.

So for leading from the front, good job.

Vaz on the other hand, in his capacity as information minister was very disappointing, sounding very much like the english-challenged lout i believe him to be. When asked questions about the matter his difficulty in getting the information across was embarrassing.

However, I am sure that many thought he did a good job, and that is up to them.

BUT!

Neither of these two men were anywhere in the ‘field of fire’, and at no time was in any danger. So to call them ‘Heroes’ is quite a stretch.

The Observer will do anything to prop up the guvament’s image especially when they delivering more and more hardship on people.

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Bruce spoke to the nation ahead of Audley budget speech, to calm nerves and reason with the people about the further hardships they face.

Good.

Some credit his talk to the nation as a reason why there were no riots, others in the media credits a Jamaican populace with being more politically mature.

Maybe.

The ever-increasing courseness of Jamaicans seemed to have let this opportunity slide.

Good for them.

However, the last time that a Jamaican guvament tried to impose a gas tax and the people rioted, afterwards there was whispers everywhere that the riots were instigated by the then opposition, to disrupt the guvament’s plans for the country.

How true that is depends on which side of the fence you fall. If you are a PNP supporter then it is absolutely true. If you are a JLP supporter then it’s all lies. If you are sensible smaddy, you wouldn’t put any underhanded dutty scheming past either of the two parties.

Of course another take would be that PNP supporters are less violent than JLP supporters.

But what I beleive the real reason  for the calm reaction to the budget is that we as a people have taken too many hits lately that we have been cowed into a near submissive mass.

We dread losing the little work we have because time hard so we wait on others to say something.

The high murder rate, has us keeping our heads down so as not to get it shot off. Besides we don’t want anybody to see we a protest , that may cost us our jobs or our lives or both.

We realize where acting up  may lead to no job, no money to pay bills or to eat food.

The guvaments of Jamaica are nearly successful in eroding our free will.

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As of this writing the guvament has yet to give the full details on the newly taxable items, maybe they using the weekend to give themselves and us some breathing room.

Or they still making it up.

Maybe they feel that spreading it out would ease the shock. It probably has, but one could start to get the feeling that they don’t know what they are doing  and are merely stretching things out to make it seem substantial.

The PSOJ is in love with Audley’s budget, how it’s fair and is necessary and good for this country. Maybe, but none of them has asked about the real impact it will have on the ever-growing ranks of the poor. Questions like:

What effect will the tax on gasolene have on the cost of food, which will also welcome new members into the group of products affected by GCT?

How will this affect the Jamaican worker whose pay has been frozen and therefore means that their spending power is significantly reduced.

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There are actually some who believe that teachers, in demanding their back-pay, are unreasonable in these hard economic times.

Let me tell you what is unreasonable, doing your work for an agreed amount, only to be shorted for a very long period of time, to now see taxation and cost of living flying up, to have been promised what is due to you, and now be told yuh can’t get it.

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Nex’ Time.

Hijack

I am sure people are going to lose their jobs for letting the gunman get on the plane, even after he was detected while still inside the terminal.

Armed security personnel were not usually in the terminal. This is an internationally accepted practice.

If this is indeed not the result of security personnel failing to carry out their duties then no one should lose their job.

But measures will clearly now have to be tightened up, maybe have armed security in the terminals. That is fine, because one would say why this wasn’t the case already, but you know that in order to save face or to make it seem as if they were doing something about it people are going to be fired.

Either Bruce  going to demand resignations or the operators of the airport will go about ‘punishing’ the ‘incompetent’ people for being ‘lackadaisical’ in their duty.

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Great to see the situation resolved with no one dying, can’t be said for the other people murdered over the weekend, in the same parish.

But, Jamaica’s rep gets another knife wound to its belly, sigh.

I can imagine now how the American news media will start producing reports on what is wrong with Jamaica, regurgitating the drug dealers from the eighties, that mad man from the train, and all the violence and murders happening now, twisting the above mentioned knife some more.

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Please could someone tell Bruce to give the Information portfolio back to Babsy? On CNN this morning, Daryl Vaz displayed his basic school level of competency with the English language. No, there are youngsters more capable of conveying information than that man was capable of.

Embarrassing.

Babsy has proven to be much more capable of imparting information than this heavy-tongued oafish-sounding man.

 

“Ol’ Pirates, Yes They Rob I…More…”

ENOUGH!

What is wrong with Bruce and Audley? Why the hell are they wanting to add further taxation on the people of this country?

When they have their way, (no if bout it), gasoline, electricity and water will suck more out of the people in the form of a sick mentality that allows the guvament to further tax us so.

Transportation costs are already near a breaking point, so imagine more taxes on it, not only will getting from place to place be more expensive, but everything that depends on the transportation of goods will go up in price too. Food that we can barely afford now is going up again, which sets every other thing going up in costs too.

Electricity is already a sinful burden on the backs of Jamaicans, further taxing it is also going to contribute to a further increase in the cost of food and every aspect of modern life in this country.

And adding a further tax on water is the insult to injury.

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These sneaky bitches have just jim-screechy their GCT increase on people.

The cost of living will get so out of hand that there will be many starving, probably homeless people, (they just evict a bag a people offa land what dem did capture).

Dem a go mek me start bawl like Portia.

Our pay is going nowhere, each dollar we earn is able to buy less and less, we can barely afford to light the house and run a fan on hot days, we  are now thinking that we going to work one day less a week to avoid the transportation costs, and what does Bruce and Audley do?

They want to tax the last bit of dignity out of us.

Sure you may say I am just being hysterical. Maybe I am, but you can barely afford KFC now, so what a go happen when the tax from light, gas and water add on pon it, AND then Bruce go tax it again because it’s ‘junk food’?

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It’s amazing that no one sees that people who can’t afford much won’t be able to pay the extra. So food and clothes and all the other little things that made us comfy in life, we will just stop buying. When we start going to the stores less and less, buying less and less, the stores, upon seeing their income fall, will start laying off workers.

More laid off workers means less income tax being paid into the system, less taxes going into the system means the guvament will be less able to afford their programs, which means….

MORE RASS TAX INCREASES!

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I hope I am safely in mi yard when the shit hit the fan and the frustrations of the people boil over into the streets, I hope you are too.

Hallelujah!

Will someone PLEASE tell Portia fi stop wid the religiosity?

This woman is incapable of making a reasoned argument without calling on the name of Jesus or his daddy, perhaps in some idiotic belief that it will lend authenticity to what she has to say.

But she isn’t the only one, Vaz, before and after the buy-election, various other ministers and MPs and even Bruce himself.

This is the business of the country, not religion. This is Parliament, not church.

Though I must admit, the zeal party supporters display approaches religious fervor. Hell, like all religious conflict in the world, they will even kill for it.

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Fine!

It’s a religion.

Sorry for wasting your time.

Praise be to God!

Back Pay Is Not An Increase

Guvament has been hinting, for months now, that they can’t afford to pay an increase in the wage bill, and in these hard economic times, we understand that.

We do.

But their stance on these matters seems to always involve threatening the parties requesting the increase.

tek what we give you or you lose your work!

Why must that sentiment be the first thing out of their mouths at all times?

And though people ought to be paid better, that isn’t what upsets me today.

What upsets me is the treatment to teachers, not that they aren’t getting an increase, but that they aren’t getting their back pay.

Money due them.

Money promised to them by the guvament.

Another promise broken.

But I want to go further! And I hope I don’t get myself into too deep a trouble today. I want to say that Mrs. Allwood-Anderson has publicly stated that the take-home pay of nurses ought to be doubled, and I want to publicly support that position. ~Pearnel Charles (before election)

To reiterate: This is not a request for an increase, this is money due them, that was promised to them, that in all fairness they should get!

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Police are underpaid, and for the pittance they get I can understand why so many of them are corrupt.

Doctors are being asked to treat an explosion in the number of patients since “Free Healthcare”, their workload has shot thru the roof, and yet they are expected to make do with the pittance given to them.

When teachers leave the country to go teach elsewhere there is a hue and cry among the people lamenting the “brain drain”, (in addition to the many university trained graduates who seek greener pastures). Teeth are gnashed, gritted and ground over the shortage of teachers in some areas, and the size of the classes in others. Teachers sometimes work in some very deplorable conditions, but they do their work none the less.

Many math teachers, have not passed the subject themselves

Sure their are teachers who are either under qualified or incompetent,in the subjects they teach, but the idea of annual evaluations needs to become policy. And many a time on the news in the evenings, teachers and principals speak in the most cringe inducing attempt at English possible.

Those should go.

But for the qualified, the hard working, the dedicated among them, the ones that leaves an impression on their students long after being taught by them, it is time they are suitably awarded that which is due them.

Only a batty-hole would say otherwise.