…But What Do The Dons Have To Say?

Now that our elected officials have voted their “conscience” to keep the death penalty, what do the many “dons”/area leaders have to say about it?

Consider that the Minister of National Security and the Minister of Labour have both come out in favour of the criminals themselves having a say in the long delayed, oft quarrelsome, long ago promised and seemingly stalled crime plan.

Are the “dons” going to now give their full support to whatever the final plans are, as hanging is definitely still on the cards?

Will we, the regular law-abiding(for the most part) people, now be faced with even more delays of the pretty toothless plan, because the “dons” nuh inna de hangin’ ting?

Will the eediat ministers see how stupid it was to even suggest that criminals should get the chance to determine aspects of the law, at a time when our wish, the wish of the people of Jamaica, is to be rid of these parasites once and for all?

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p.s.

yes Clovis!

We get it!

Portia was absent for the vote, when her backside should have been there! We naah go vote fi har if snap election run, but you must admit Bruce dem a mek all Mark Wignall have doubts!

 

How about cartoons lampooning:

The contract awarded to Rodney Chin’s company? One would think they’d want to avoid possible embarrassment.

Or the long delayed report on the sand theft? Why still so much silence in the matter?

The JTB shenanigans? Firing the board appointing their friend to head the board and direct tourism?

The fairy tale, la la land that Audley must live in? The economy is going to get hit hard!

The twenty-four million dollar an acre land deal with their political sister in the Hydel deal? You have to admit the reasons given the changing story and that their friend got a hefty sum does look fishy.

Guvament?…What Guvament?

Last week’s newspapers did something they haven’t done in a very long time, they showed some objectivity.

Leading up to the election and up to recently, they have been pretty much guvament mouthpieces, of course with one or two objectors thrown in, but pretty much pro JLP most of the time. Now, I see where Mark Wignall is having “buyer’s remorse”, as evidenced by his two latest columns, (2008-11-20 & 2008-11-23), where he wonders if the electorate made a mistake and laments not having any real choice in considering the replacement of the guvament.

Sad.

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Months before the election, many friends and colleagues got into heated arguments with me, upset that I would dare say that their was no difference between the parties, and worse when I made the observation that:
1. There is more PNP in this country than JLP &
2. That the JLP administration of the 1980’s was also corrupt with it’s many shady deals, ala spring plains, and even with how they won the 1980 election.

Many these days are too young, or their memories too limited, to remember these things, and that out of desperation for better living conditions they voted to “change” the guvament.

But what change has there been, really?

The global economic fall out, the price of oil on the international market all served to make a bad situation worse, and to expect miracles from any guvament would be idiotic.

However, if your only response to the problems the country faces, and the questions about your suitability to lead, is to blame the previous guvament and to promise the revelation of more scandals, then you are not ready for this job.

Man ah yaad indeed!

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Why is the guvament still in campaign mode?

Don’t they realize they won?
Albeit by a very slim margin.

I see it all as smoke, mirrors, fog horns blaring, cymbals clashing, music being turned up, to drown out the ever growing cacophony  of the people questioning their suitability.

I suppose they will point to the ever increasing number of public boards that are being fired as them being so in control of things that the slightest slip and they are gone.

My guess as to the sacking of boards, is that these people dared question some guvament policy, and we know how Bruce just loves to be questioned, so he got rid of them.

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Sigh

Another One Gone…

JTB board just upped and gone.

Is me alone think all of this splintering of boards is getting ridiculous?

And we never seem to get a straight answer from the guvament.

Full disclosure now please?

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“PEOPLE! the guvament tek wi fi eediat!”

Said the eediat whose shout seemed more a whisper amidst the cacophony of obviously less-than truthful statements from the guvament.

Her Decision

Using graphic images of late-term abortions to sway politicians into banning even the morning after pill is despicable.

Many will say that they are not talking about the morning after pill…but they will.

How many of you, right now, are convinced the morning after pill is abortion?

You may not think it is, but far too many do.

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If men could get pregnant, abortion would be sacrosanct!

“… What Fiscal Responsibility?”

Just over halfway in the fiscal year, and the island’s parish councils have already burned thru 90% of their budget?

Ok, I’ll give them that the rise in the cost of oil and food and other commodities and utilities most definitely affected the budget, but as I said from long time, Audley screwed up.

The obviously weak and inadequate budget tabled by Audley in April with no provisions for inflation, when all indications were that what they proposed would be inadequate. With the ambitious plans the guvament laid out, it was obvious to me that those same plans would require a far greater expenditure than the “man ah yard” planned for.

What else is now obvious is that the parish councils, the greater majority of them JLP, must have thought that since is their party in guvament, then it meant dollars haffi run fi dem.

Unexpected increases in salaries and travelling allowances? Is wha’ dem a do? Gi dem Frien’ an’ company work?

Again, no planning.

If they were going to increase their quotient of staff members, why wasn’t it requested in the budget?

Where are they “travelling” to? How many in their entourage? Are all these hangers on necessary for these “trips”?

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Why is it that the public is being asked to tighten their belts, band their bellies and have faith in the “miracles” that Bruce will soon work, while the guvament ministers and parish councilors get to live the high life?

The guvament can’t expect the people to have any faith in what they say, when they themselves ignore the fiscal responsibility they expect us to practice.

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These parish councils must be made to “tuff” it out until the next fiscal year.

They must tighten THEIR belts, and learn to live without, like every other Jamaican.

But me jus’ a waste mi breathe don’t it?

Sigh…

Tomorrow is a Different Story…

First Bruce  Tell the nation that the land was bought to facilitate future urban development, but now the narrative has change to that of rescuing, bailing out the school. And then Bruce lashes the opposition, pretty much accusing them of having up the schoolaz dem.

Look Bruce! If every day you going to make up a new story to explain the purchase of the land, then the only conclusion you are going to leave people with, is that you are lying.

How many legal eagles did you have scouring the charter of the UDC to find this one for you?

Why is Bennet so belligerent when asked about the stinky smelling deal?

Why are you also ‘tracing’ the opposition like market woman?

All it says to me, and to many Jamaicans, that unnoo a lie an a try cover up things.

Now you going to point out more PNP scandals to deflect attention from your suspicious deal.

Makes you look guiltier still.

USING THE SHADY DEALS OF YOUR PREDECESSORS TO DEFLECT OR JUSTIFY YOUR SHADY DEALS IS STUPID. YOUR DEALS ARE STILL SHADY.

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Ironically, you know something is up, when Portia is the calm and reasonable looking one.

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24 Million an Acre? For Swamp?!

Damn why didn’t I own land?

Could have made a lot of money from this eediat guvament.

What a hell?!

How are they going to rationalize this obviously cronyistic, nepotistic and quite frankly, criminal act.

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These people are the same as the previous set that was voted out last year, shady deals made under the desk that benefits their political friends and supporters.

Bruce lies to cover his ass.

Hyacinth feigns outrage to cover her ass.

And any Jamaican who is not outraged by these actions is an ass.

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Rass Man!

Why are we plagued with these parasites?

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We get the guvament we want.

That would mean we are stupid.

 

sigh

Paint It Black!

FINALLY!

I Expect Better

I expect our elected officials and representatives to comport themselves in a more dignified manner.

I cringe when I hear utterances from these supposedly “better” people that reduces our nation’s discourse to a vulgar and nasty sounding quarrel.

Warmington, Montague, Virgo, and now the Prime Bruce himself.

Sad.