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.

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…

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.

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.

“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?

The Buy-Election Is Over

After a well purchased victory, Vaz will now go back to parliament and his post as minister.

Nothing changes.

Bruce shows his disdain for the constitution once again about griping that the PNP was trying to “Constitutionally overthrow the government”.

If the constitution says you ought not be the guvament then you should get your ass out of there.

Until the constitution is changed, and as long as you are of the mind to obey the laws of the land, then you should do as the constitution demands.

When in opposition these same people harangued the then Prime Minister, P.J. Patterson, when he remarked: “The law is not a shackle”.

The JLP let him have it.

Mutty let him have it.

All JLP supporters let him have it.

Openly mocking and deriding him for his words, totally missing the nuance of his meaning.

Now, the JLP are gleefully living by Patterson’s words, and sparing no vehemence for being called on it.

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.

Butch’s Bitch Again?!?

 

(taken from Jamaica Observer website Jan 16, 2009, 8:45am)

A few questions about this cartoon:

1. Are they implying that the failed economy is the fault of the BOJ Governor?
If so, I was unaware that the BOJ Governor was in charge of the economy. Silly me.

2. My Ignorance abounds, could they explain to me how the BOJ Governor was responsible for the slide of the Ja. Dollar?

3. Why the different versions of the cartoons?

Print version differences include:

• A top hat instead of the pointed dunce cap.
• T-shirt says: “Jamaica NO Problem”.
• No dogs.
• An extra yellow paper with “WE PUT HIGH INTEREST FIRST!”

Did the lawyers advise Clovis to remove the dunce cap? Could it have been seen as defamatory?

And was the extra flyer added at Butch’s request to deliberately mimic the PNP’s “We put people first!” slogan of a few elections past?

Sure they will claim that the artist wasn’t pleased with one version and therefore fine tuned it.

Or that multiple versions were done and the wrong one was used (either print or online).

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Whatever the reason, the common elements could very well be misleading.

What is funny is that the PNP has been on the right side of many arguments of late and this feels like Butch and his Bitch of an artist is trying anything to deflect from the guvament’s ineptitude.

Lock him Up!

Now, Robertson may get off on this current charge, but I am happy to see him earmarked for arrest.

These charges of being abusive to police officers in the carrying out of their duties, is not surprising.

I have always seen him as vulgar.

 

In addition to the invectives hurled at the police, we are now made to understand that high up, politically affiliated individuals helped and conveyed a wanted man out side the parish to Kingston, where he was captured. I hope whomever else is involved is charged also.

Jamaica needs to move away from the john crow politics, of which Robertson, Montague, Warmington and that batty hole Virgo (from the JLP youth organization) represent.

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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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

More Frien’ an’ company

“Come Wayne Chen, come chair dis board.”

“See how me set you up nice, mi bredrin?”

The JLP are never going to stop putting their friends on state boards.

And it is entirely up to them to do as they wish.

We just wish that the people they put on these boards are qualified to do the work expected of them.

But based on current trends, we don’t really expect them to be there for too long.

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The next question to be asked is: “Does the guvament know how silly and unprepared and incompetent they look?”.

I suspect they do.

Look at how viciously they lash out at any and all of their critics.

 

Of Virgins and Termites

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA.

Warmington, Montague & Virgo.

These JLP representatives are some really distasteful sphincters*.

Is this really what political discourse has become in this country?

Calling people termites?

Way to elevate the discourse, eediat!

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For eighteen years your party had taken the previous guvament to task over their handling of the country’s affairs, as all oppositions are to do and have done.

Now because they have berated the Almighty Bruce, the Almighty Audley and all the other Almighty people at whose asses you worship, you must now get vulgar?

No. Leave the vulgarity to me, and trust me i will be vulgar if i have to be.

Why?

Because i expect better of the people that are given the stewardship of the nation’s affairs.

And when they fail to live up to expectations, even going so far as to act the fool, then i will cuss.

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Granted we expect you to defend your party, but we also expect you to comport yourself in a manner indicative of the position you have assumed.

Sure you may have given your diehard supporters something to feed on by calling the opposition termites, but for those people who voted for your party with their conscience, this sort of behaviour must give them cause to regret their vote.

Disgusting!

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Mr. Virgo ought to consider himself lucky that Joan Gordon-Webley is on the same side as he is, she surely would have arranged for his ‘disappearance’ by now.

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*Sphincter: Battyhole.

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…..

Butch’s Bitch …again

Sunday 24th of August, 2008. Yet another depiction of our nations educators as pirates.

I suppose I should be relieved that this time they are not depicted holding a blade to a child’s throat.

Clovis, the cartoonist, was once universally respected by all. Even some of the stinging cartoons ridiculing the political parties did not insult the readers. Now however, he seems to be merely parroting the views of the Observer chairman, who is now staunchly pro JLP. To the point, that rather than pour scorn on the disgraceful pronouncements branding our nation’s educators as extortionists, have instead sided with the Bruce and continues to do so almost daily.

Clovis must really need to eat a food.