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.

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.

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.

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!

No Comfort At All

Recently there was news that the guvament was looking to increase the GCT by a further 4.5%, of course there was the expected outcry against such an unconscionable idea at this time.

Things seemed to have calmed down a bit  and the guvament seems to have backed off that idea (may just have done so that Vaz would be re-elected), but now they plan to get their tax  by attacking “junk food”.

A high-calorie food that is low in nutritional value.

That narrows it down some, doesn’t it?

KFC, Burger King, Tastee’s, Wendy’s, Juici Patties, Island Grill, (got hungry listing those), are of course the obvious targets. What with their infamously greasy fare (I do so love fries), definitely, these bastards have to go!

Buuuut…

Hol’ on deh…

That definition also applies to cookies, chips, pastry, sodas, drinks, candy and numerous other unhealthy items that stock our supermarkets.

The last little bits of ‘comfort’ we have remaining.

But…

Hol’ on again..

Jerk pork, jerk chicken, ackee and saltfish, oxtail, and curry goat, some foods we eat here, that are often served swimming in oil. Not healthy for you, definitely high-calorie, definitely bad for you.

So will they be taxed too?

No comfort left.

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If so, when the already unbearably high cost of these items jump by an increase in tax, does the guvament have plans to assist the large number of people who will lose their jobs?

And trust me, their will be job cuts. Cuts, after the price on these items gets so high that we as a people will just stop buying from the fast food places and from supermarkets and anywhere these super-taxed items are sold, leading to less money spent in these places, resulting in a “restructuring” of the organization.

i.e. Job cuts.

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I get it now, the more people depending on handouts the more they can control them, so the more taxes, the less spending, the job losses, all lead to the need for assistance, and who will be there to rescue you?

Saint Bruce, the anointed…the fassy!

Then Do That Bruce!

If you are going to request that the opposition leader and you come to some agreement to avoid the fallout from continued questions on dual citizenship, fine!

But to then make the veiled threat that you and your JLP cronies can move to amend the constitution and that you have the numbers to do it, shows not only your disdain for the laws of this land but the disrespect you show to the opposition and law-abiding Jamaicans.

If you can do that, then go right ahead and do it King Bruce!

Your will can be made law.

Save us, the people of Jamaica, from wasting our time in believing we had any say what-so-ever. 

But when you do that, just remember that you wouldn’t then need a Governor General, elections or the trust of the people.

You can make your own laws as you go along.

Fassy!

We Really Cannot Afford This Guvament!

It is amazing that with the hard economic times, the ever growing number of people losing their means of income and the bleak forecast by sensible people (not the fairy tale dreamers in guvament), that this guvament is still, more than a year and a half after the election, is spending money like it can’t done.

Nineteen ministries, with its nineteen ministers and all their entourage, inclusive of consultants and constituency workers, all the staff necessary to do the work required all the equipment and furniture necessary to outfit the offices, and since the guvament doesn’t own these properties they occupy, all the rent they have to pay. All this and they are still hiring more consultants, buying more furniture (in some cases from the US) and having expensive tastes in personal transportation, and that john crow Dwight Nelson is hinting at cutting the workforce of the civil service?

Why doesn’t the guvament rein in its spending look to cut the expenditure generated by themselves before looking to cut jobs?

JOBS JOBS AND MORE JOBS!

More jobs were cut with Air Jamaica’s ditching of some of its routes to the US, adding to the ever growing number of people who ‘obviously’ were not included in the JLP’s election promises.

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What is interesting to note is that no one has come forward with statistical figures depicting the number of people who have lost their jobs since this guvament took power. It would be interesting to know the figures, but with a looming by-election or general election, dependent on the Dabdoub/Vaz ruling, i guess Bruce and company would not want such information out there.

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Who knew that by 2009 we would all be caught in Bruce’s “rampin’ shop”?

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I felt like apologizing for that one, but i won’t.

Re-Budgeting

After the reading of last year’s budget, I told many friends that this was an inadequate budget, as it would prove insufficient to cover the expenditure the guvament would face in outfitting the large number of ministries that make up the cabinet. Since then, Energy, Mining & Telecommunications has been split into two units, increasing the number of ministries by one, Trevor made a minister, and more moving and setting up of offices.

What was also clear at the time is that the budget as prepared, made no provisions for a realistic level of inflation, rather it complied with fantasy filled, pollyanic wishes of the bway ah yard.

Now they have to budget for another J$18.4B.

Bruce can get a new car now.

 

about that…

The Prime Minister of Jamaica should never, ever, be stuck on the side of the road from vehicular malfunctioning. If a new vehicle is needed then by all means, get a new vehicle.

So what if it costs five million dollars? I am sure the intention wasn’t to get a very expensive car, but rather one that worked properly, and is perhaps equipped with protective devices and measures to safeguard the Prime Minister.

Bruce pretending to show a brave face, saying he will gwaan tough it out is, either foolish or insulting.

If he really feels that way, him fool-fool.

If he is only saying so to pander to the nation, then a we him tek fi eediat!

Get a new car.

Bruce Sad

Bruce dissatisfied with his guvament’s handling of crime.

Ah nuh him one!

Admitting that they are ineffective is a nice thing to do. Acknowledging your ineptitude is a step forward that all Jamaicans should cheer.

However, I am quite sure that during the campaign for the election, the JLP, as part of their promises, repeatedly made the point that they had a great plan to tackle crime in this country.

Where is that plan?

Dem laas it?

Or dem dash it weh?

Why would they do that?

Was their don/community leader friends objecting to some of the more stronger recommendations?

Was it not good enough?

Or did it just not exist, like all the fairy tale pronouncements this guvament seems to spew regularly?

Last year they revealed “bold” new measures to tackle crime, however, most sensible people saw where it was lacking in the prevention of crime and served only to punish those caught.

The problem remains, dem haffi ketch dem first!

I see no plans geared towards that.

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So, while its refreshing to see  them admit their impotence, people are dying at more than four a day.

DO SOMETHING ALREADY!

Or call elections so we can kick your ass out!

Wait is the same set a eediat dem pon de other side too.

 

Shithouse!

Bwoy(s) A Yard!

Number 1.

What a way the man a yaad haffi backtrack on the increased interest rates?

Eediat!

If you say that raising the interest rate is necessary to keep the economy afloat or even to improve the economic outlook, that’s fine.

But if you are going to take it back as soon as people gripe about the increase then it says to me that your original decision was a hasty, un-researched one that you pulled out of your ass, and the reason given was a lie!

And I bet Audley nor the guvament is going to understand the logic.

Who cares?

It is quite obvious to those with sense that these people have no clue as to governance, good or bad, but damn they still campaigning and not as good as they were before the elections.

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The next Bwoy is the prime Bruce himself.

After coldly dismissing the PSC last year and pretty much accusing them of violating protocol, and being very adamant and forthright with the accusations and their firing, he now settles out of court  when they bring forward a lawsuit to restore their besmirched integrity.

Did the crow taste good Bruce?

 

Man, Sangster is a bitter bitch!

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Bwoy #3.

Trevor.

Trevor, Trevor, Trevor.

You just over deh a warm de seat, don’t it?

I am sure you feel good after your speech the other night but it was not much comfort to the residents of Gravel Heights and the many other good citizens who have also been forcibly removed from their homes.

Ok, the good people have been run out, means that is only the gunman dem lef’ in deh, so what dat means is:

a) The police and military can now surround the area.

b) Announce their presence and demand everybody still in the community to put down their guns and surrender by a certain time.

c) If not, the security forces move in and shoot the lot of them.

Not too hard, right?

Sure Gomes and her bredrin dem a go feel a way, but remember you work for the people of this country and not  the special interest groups. Those people who worked so hard to build their lives and now have to abandon it, I can pretty much guarantee that right now, they are wondering where is the justice for them, what about their human rights.

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The 4th Bwoy.

Mike!

How you feel now that it is revealed you threw a state funeral (while cheapening it at the same time) for a man now revealed to be a crook and no good?

Before you say, that at the time you didn’t know about his shady character, you should have asked the employees of the JUTC what sort of person he was.

Hell many were happy to see him murdered.

But you wouldn’t know this because you all, are oblivious as to what is going on at street level.

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Bwoy of the Fifth.

Pickersgill, thank you for doing your work as the opposition to press for investigations into the JUTC’s shady dealings, but mek me ask Yuh sumting, why de rass when you was in guvament you never was as vigilant on corruption?

Right now Yuh is a rass hypocrite.

How unnoo so blind when unnoo inna power but Yuh eye dem get perfect when Yuh inna opposition?

But I shouldn’t be surprised, both sides do dem job when dem in opposition but get blind as dem get inna guvament.

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Assorted bwoys.

Daryl. Constitutionally you are to give up the seat. But mi understand, Bruce never liked the Jamaican constitution one bit.

Abe. A by-election not go hurt anybody. In fact if you do win it (good possibility as the approval rating of the JLP stinks) then nobody can say shit like: “you used the courts to get seat”.

Clive. It looks like the small majority the JLP have in parliament is what is keeping you in your ministry, hush.

Mark Wignall. Perhaps you should let Clovis know how things really look bad for the guvament so he can start lampooning them too, Butch be damned!

Me (We). I thank God I do not own a gun (even though Wignall says we should all have one) because some people need a shot or two. But I am an eediat too as are most Jamaicans, who don’t scream loudly enough, who don’t protest enough, who cower in the safety of anonymity, while our country goes to shit. We say that is for the sake of our loved ones that we keep our heads down, that it’s for their benefit.

Sure, in the short term.

But if we continue to allow the criminals and the guvament (both major parties, NDM is only a gathering) to screw us over like this, then in the long run we a go get jook!

Raise my children or put a target on my back, tough decision.

These should not be the only choice we have!

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…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

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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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?