Is It Serious Enough For You Now?

While the politicians continue to joke it out, while the Editorial cartoonists continue to mislead on the stance of human rights organizations, while most of us just accept it as to how the “worl’ a run”, while others of us cower amidst the pews of our churches and news of the US financial crash dominate even our headlines, the stomach churning butchering of our people continues unabated.

Now the realization that our children are major players in this problem is sucking the very last breath out of us all.

But Bruce and crew can continue to pretend that his “measures” will do anything to curtail the slaughter, and while they waste time in making them official, real useful measures will never be brought to the table.

Sigh…

p.s. Many in the police are part of the problem too, so giving them extra judicious power may only exacerbate the problems we now face.

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Commencing the hair pulling…

Shadowy Figures

WOW!

Who was Portia’s advisor for determining the make up of her shadow cabinet?

Seems somewhat inspired.

Tho  why Paulwell haffi in deh mi nuh know!

Can’t win all the time I guess.

Sell Me A Bag Juice!

As much as I can’t stand Mayor Desmond and as much as I believe he acts more for the headlines than see things to completion (closing down road side garages, yet on Molynes Road just out of Half-Way-Tree, one still exists), I feel still naively cling to hope that the right thing would be done and done to completion.

Logically I know I shouldn’t hold much hope for his latest endeavour to be completed and persist, but it’s one I do agree with.

The vendors should be removed and they must never return.

They must never occupy the bus stop shelters meant to be of service to commuters using public transport.

They must never be allowed to again litter the street and park and anywhere in public ever again.

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Sadly, I don’t give much hope for this to last, not with the Christmas season around the corner, not when his popularity will definitely take a big hit.

I expect as usual for political expediency to cause him to bend a little, or a lot.

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While we on vending in HWT, I notice people selling illegal copies of DVDs in the area and none of them being apprehended by law enforcement who seems to ignore the practice.

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We will see how it go.

Portia Win? hadn’t noticed.

More shake up! More of the ol’ foot dem need to go!

And mek the JLP gwaan enjoy dem self, dem want a clean up too.

Many of these john crows still plague Jamaican public office, they need to go.

Joan Gordon-Webley is one that needs to go right away.

 

But don’t tell her me seh so, I kinda like this being alive thing.

ssshhhhh…..

Caution! Children at Play

So they have no intention of taking the matter of dealing with the crime in this country seriously, The ol’ big mout’ bwoy won’t behave him self, and the big mout’ gyal ah rude to everybody with an opinion different from hers, and half head a gwaan like him beleive seh the more him raise him voice the more his views will be accepted.

1. If you can’t keep in mind what you are discussing at that time then write it down or have someone else take your place n the committee. This way you can stop disturb the proceedings and more time will be spent in serious discussion in the matter.
2. If KD was allowed to just finish his question, all you would have to do then is say we will address the question soon enuff. It wouldn’t have degraded into what it did. And right after that you went in to trying to publicly humiliate him. Why? Like him or not you do have to work with him to solve the matter of crime in our society. The less of this, the more time will be spent in serious discussion in the matter.
3. Shouting your point in hopes that people will see your point of view is pointless as most tend to ignore loud jackasses, get offended at being hollered at, and be seen as an attempt to rush things thru. It only makes u look like the loudest donkey. The less of this, the more time will be spent in serious discussion in the matter.

But don’t mind me I only pay my taxes.

Abnormal Times, Abnormal Action?

I agree, the crime in our society is abnormal, excessively so, but why must our official response to it threaten our very freedoms and rights as citizens of this country?

Granted we need to do something to tackle the problem and while most Jamaicans would agree to that, not everyone is on-board when the reaction infringes on our rights.

And we done know that these measures will be applied excessively on the common people, the poorer people and not on the wealthier people, driving costlier vehicles and living in more prestigious neighborhoods. We know this is coming, in fact it’s already here, done every day. Just watch the news to see how many people are already being slaughtered by the police.

Oh, and Trevor, not because you are Minister does it mean that because you want it a certain way means it should go a certain way, talking down to the people, with a disdainful tone is insulting.

Give the Fox the keys to the Hen house?

So now Trevor and Wignall (of Butch’s Bitch) are on the dons in parliament wagon.

Their argument is that the dons are integral to a solution to the crime problem.

I agree.

Send these “dons” to prison, along with their cronies and toadies, and we’d be well on our way to solving the crime problem.

What sense does it make to have the criminals help determine what should be done with the criminals?

Have we given up on basic decency?

What sort of hopeless losers are we to cede so much power and influence to these criminals?

Criminals setting curfew in some areas, acting as de facto law and order in many communities in Jamaica, and rather than break their power structure down we should now give them the utmost legitimacy by allowing them to determine sections of the law?

We have become so scared and so desperate that we are willing to give the criminals more power over us so we don’t get shot, raped or robbed.

If this is where Jamaica is heading, if we really are going to turn over power to these john crows and if we really are going to let them influence the laws of this country, well stop waste time because they already are in control.

We want the people elected to high office to rid us of criminals, not legitimize them.

No more of this foolishness!

I’d rather be shot.

The Return of Derrick The Unwell

So he showed up for work.

HURRAY! :-p

Anyway, just keep one thing in mind: every time they add more ministries and more ministers and more permanent secretaries and more staff and more stationery and more equipment etc… it all comes out of the pockets of tax payers.

They have no problem adding new expenses to outfit their stalwarts, but resort to calling the nation’s educators extortionists. Labeled thusly for their attempts to sufficiently fund their schools’ budgets.

sigh…

Sumting to Read

Found this today, interesting read.

http://www.redroom.com/blog/tim-wise/this-your-nation-white-privilege

give it a click.

Bring een the Donnettes!

Oh well Trevor wants the donnettes in parliament.

No sense in further discussions I guess.

Let the criminals determine how they will be punished.

BRILLIANT!

Fighting To See Which Ol’ Foot run tings.

The PNP should forget about winning the next election. They should instead look to flagging out the old bones in the party and introduce fresher faces that hint at some sort of rejuvenation.

Right now they all seem old and tired, to the point that even the younger comrades are aged by the ol foot dem presence.

Not to say you should ditch the stalwarts, but more youthful faces, people with perhaps a more modern outlook on how things run should be given more voice in the party.

The current cass cass is an indication that they don’t get why they lost, people were actually and truly tired of them.

Portia is weak as evidenced by Phillips’ challenge to her, an unprecedented move for sure. And Phillips, “arise and renew”, from what? The grave?

No sah!

Fresh faces now!

The senior members need to step back and realize that if they want to win then their party is more important than their personal ambitions. and the sooner you change, the sooner the party may be victorious at the polls.

Bruce look old and tired already, so does Babsy, Mike Henry and Audley, but they have many younger more vigorous people in prominent positions, both in guvament and party, and therefore don’t seem as stale. Though there are a couple of them who need to put to pasture, <cough>Derrick Smith<cough>.

Pearnel is an Ass!

People are being murdered all over and you can’t take the matter of discussing crime measures seriously?

Dons in Parliament??

What the FUCK!?

Must a politician, preferrably one in guvament be murdered and his family brutalised before you take this matter seriously? Or should we also add that some hotel on the north coast needs to be bombed and place the more important foreigners/tourists in danger before you stop joking around.

And why does Lightbourne feel that sticking up for you makes things any better?

While campaigning for the election the JLP stated that they had a plan witht he necessary steps to put a halt to the violent crime in the society.

We now know that to be lies.

Jamaicans need only hear “free” and you have them eating out of your hands.

sigh

Unnoo Ol’ Vamp’iyaahs!

Draw brakes eediatg!

Mullings surprised me. Snow a go fall!

Calling JPS to task, no disconnections till after December, Damning and blasting the JPS?

SWEET!

Now don’t disappoint me.

Obviously the laws safeguarding Jamaicans against predatory behaviour by the utility companies are weak and toothless. If they weren’t, JPS would already have been penalized for the clearly obvious gouging being perpetrated on its customers. 

Instead the Prime Bruce orders a probe, and as most Jamaicans are painfully aware, probes evaporate into nothingness, leaving the wrong-doers free.

Every JPS customer should get the next three month’s bills half off!

Guarantees that anytime they attempt to suck the little we have from us, they will be made to pay for it.

Not going to happen, Bruce won’t do it. In fact no politician would, the people of this country don’t matter to guvament at all.

Not even during elections, because at that time they only matter to the party.

A couple things to ask:

Have any in the upper-class/people of influence ever received such outlandish utility bills? Or is it only people least able to file lawsuits or otherwise defend themselves that get these high bills

If they get them, do they just pay it anyway?

If they do so, is it because they cant bother with querying it, or that its still small change to them? Never hear a peep out of them on this matter.

With the cost of everything so high and people finding it really difficult to manage, why has the guvament not stormed the gates of the JPS in righteous anger? Like how they cling to Bolt for the publicity, this too would have given them a huge boost to their approval rating. “See? We care.”

Only unrealistic people would bash them for their performance in their first year, but this high light bill issue is so easy to latch onto for them to be already milking it for all the good publicity they could get.

Sadly the PNP too busy cutting their throats to determine who should lead the party with no power in running the country.

Not sure about this but I hear that under the law, even if we could independently power our homes, we are still required to take (dis)service from the JPS.

If a so, then is one rass eediat set of a politicians that made that law.

If a so, then is another  rass eediat set of politicians that do not do away with this shitty law.

Dealing with all this crap sober is hell!

The purpose of liquor is a just one.

Bring on another round!

More “Jabs”!

The Jamaican workforce is hemorrhaging more workers, from the “jabs jabs and more jabs” to the belly.

Goodbye NHDC.

It must really be the worst thing to lose your job at a time when the extremely high cost of living has us by the throat.

hmmm….

Unless they are getting rid of people they think might be PNP supporters to later replace them with JLP supporters, therefore it should be “jobs jobs and more jobs…for labourites”.

If so, this would be a criminal act.

But no that couldn’t be it.

Not at all.

Right?

Dis one have a gun! Dat one have a gun!…

The jokers purchased weapons to outfit the Jamaica Constabulary Force from an illegal arms dealer.

So…. 

…When are the eediats responsible going to be looking for a next line of work?

Specifically the eediats at the Ministry of National Security, the Ministry of Finance, Those in the Police High Command and whomever else had a hand in this mess.

Sadly in our cronyistic society no one will be held responsible.

Supporters of political parties love to claim how their party is better than the other. When in opposition they say the right things (specifically to further their political gain), and when in guvament they practice the same shit they railed against.

Making questionable deals, circling the wagons, downplaying the breach of trust and protecting their own.

sigh…

We Have No Behaviour

Granted the authorities planned Bolt’s homecoming very poorly, but why is it Jamaicans can’t behave themselves?

Jumping on the car, standing in the path of the vehicle, looking more like they were going to tear him apart, and the general disorder of it all.

Watching the event(s) on the news last night was very embarrassing in two key areas:
1. The event was poorly planned. The arrival the journey and the press conference was so poorly done, I cringed at it all.

2. Jamaicans once again displaying their lack of proper upbringing in how they carried on. I can understand jubilation. Really, I can, but the recklessness displayed was most disturbing and once again made me realise how far we are going to have to climb, to become the Jamaica most people would be proud of.

But all that is bad and nuh suh bad but then CVM TV showed the homecoming for the Olympic athletes in Trinidad.

Well planned.

Suitable venue.

Orderly yet glee-full spectators.

A more open, more genial atmosphere than the one for Bolt.

Oh, and smaddy better check Bruce pulse, the difference between him and the more alive looking Patrick Manning was quite jarring as well.

P.S.
Did the entire cabinet need to have been out at the airport?
Dem nuh have work to do?
Whole heap a people life just get wash weh!

P.P.S
Is this poorly done homecoming another example of how mediocre we’ve become?
Or do we just don’t care anymore?

The Bitch Whimpers Yet Again

Patience is a virtue.

Too true.

Now while all were voicing their opinions about the American Airlines bail-in, I watched and waited for the obligatory headline or article that would demonstrate what a disgrace to journalism the Observer is. Perhaps the headlines these past couple of days were indicative of what i was looking for, but to me they seemed too subtle, so I waited some more.

Today (2008/09/08), there the headline is:

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20080908T000000-0500_139942_OBS_BUTCH_GIVES_AA_DEAL_THUMBS_UP.asp

Having totally removed his cap as Air Jamaica chairman and having his friends in guvament, and feeling the need to use the medium under his control to promote the guvaments policies, he just couldnt resist.

Ask anybody and most will tell you that if he was still Air Jamaica chairman he’d be pissed.

The guvament plans to sell Air Jamaica next year, if i was a prospective buyer, this American Airlines bail-in and Shirley Williams still tainting the board with her presence, i’d immediately ask them to gimme a 20% discount on the price.

One Year Since Election

It’s only one year since the general election which the JLP won, NOT a year in guvament! They did not assume office a day after the election.

Anyhow, unlike many people in this country I did not fool my self into believing that the guvament would by now have worked miracles, that they would have fixed whatever needed fixing. No. I was more realistic. I knew that our problems would never have been solved in a year’s time, so I won’t harass them for that.

However, there are a couple things which i must bitch about:

During the campaign they claimed in their manifesto that they had great plans to tackle crime in our country.

This was clearly a lie.

One year later, crime and criminal violence has become much worse, and it was obvious they had nothing when  a couple months ago they presented a flacid set of measures that will do more to hurt the innocent than prevent crime. It took the cries of the people and those in the media to get them off their asses and finally attempt to think up something.

Clearly they had nothing planned as they stated in their manifesto, and based on what they came up with, no clue as to what to do about it.

Clearly Derrick Smith wasn’t up to the task. But I will let him slide a little due to his extended period of ill health.

Clearly Bruce and Trevor have no clue. People are still being murdered en mass with now concern for the guvament’s crime plan, simply because it does nothing to stop or even reduce the incidents of crime.

After making the guvament bigger, by adding more Ministries and Ministers than ever before, the expenditure in setting up offices and outfitting them with equipment is astronomical. And yet despite such out of control spending some of these offices still aren’t fully ready for business.

Curiously no one in the media has said anything about the money being spent, money spent more on the ministers than on getting the necessary work done. 

And by media I mean any one except Butch’s bitch!

The next thing is the politics-minded budget that most sensible people realized  would be insufficient in running the country, that was obviously made to placate its supporters, that is now proven to be severely short-sighted.

Short-sighted in that it didn’t take into account the rate of inflation.

Short-sighted in that it failed to take into account the ever increasing number of tropical storms and hurricanes that now affect the island annually and numerous times annually. Even the JPS has put recovery costs into the bills now being charged to customers. 

Short-sighted in that it seems they only budgeted for their vehicles and office furniture and home furnishings and not for the rest of us.

We are now in the middle of a very crowded tropical period with three named storms hovering nearby or on a path that would bring them uncomfortably close to the island. Any action, even their mere presence, will go along way to making people feel satisfied that something is going to be done to help with the disaster. That si all well and good, but when the guvament fails to backup  their promises with action then they wont have more than the current term in office.

Someone said the other day that if the PNP had fixed the country’s roads, properly, they would still be in guvament. Now I am not so sure, but it is true that Jamaicans love you if things “look” good, and not that they actually are.

Sadly things are not even looking good.

How can i tell?

The once jubilant supporters of the JLP are no longer as hyper in their support for the guvament, in fact, there are many who are more cautious in their praise, and more passive of criticism of the guvament.

I guess bad roads, high cost of food, high cost of gas high cost of electricity, HELL, the high cost of every damn thing can put a damper on one’s expectations.

The murder rate  doesn’t help either.

 

sigh…..

Jamaicans Implicated in Doping Ring

Sports Illustrated today posted a story about performance enhancers being shipped to addresses associated with two of Jamaica’s athletes.

See Below:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/more/09/02/jamaican.track/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

Now the story never says that they actually received the shipment themselves or that they used them, only that the drugs were shipped to addresses associated with them. But saying “Two Jamaican hurdlers implicated in steroid ring” for your headline makes it seem as if they were caught popping pills or with needles stuck in their bums.

Another thing, while reading the article, I could almost feel their disappointment that it wasn’t any of our gold medal winners, especially Bolt, that was “implicated”.

2006 to 2007.

over the Internet where credit card and address data can be tracked? If a so it really go then they are idiots who will never run for Jamaica again.

Post Gustav

What a whole heap a rain?!

Not much breeze, thank God! Can’t stand the howling wind when me a try sleep at all.

But man, that was a lot of water.

Hope when dem rebuild the bridge a Harbour View dem do it proper. Serious work and planning is needed to address the Bog Walk gorge. not a viable road way at all if every storm that passes mash it up so. 

Feel it for the families of the people who lost their lives.

Though, the guy who was picking breadfruit in the high breeze was crazy.

Talk bout crazy, for decades every Jamaican was warned and informed of the dangers of building your homes on the banks of gullies or rivers. Many of us ignored those warnings, even building two storey constructs right on the gully edge and on the river banks. Now some of their houses have gone down river, sadly taking a few people with them. But now some of these har-of-hearing people are demanding guvament bail them out.

Helping you in troubling times? OK.

Finding new location and rebuilding your house? NOT A RASS!!

You were warned.

We were all warned.

A government is not there to  mind your personal business, especially when you frig up, but to mind the country’s business. And the country’s business does not extend to supporting careless people who ignored very sound advice.

P.S.
Why are people swimming in the dirty polluted water?

Are they really so clueless of the dangers?

I suppose when they get sick they go demand the guvament mind dem too.