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.

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.