25%?!? Bend Over Some More.

Dem out ah dem raas mind!

Why the hell in these hard economic times you want to rape the people of this country with a 25% increase on their light bills?

What the hell wrong wid unnoo?!

No one is getting a pay increase to deal with the massive rise in the cost of living, but we must take another one up the ass to have any sense of comfort in our homes, which, when you look at it, is no comfort at all.

Mullings in his pronouncements on the matter is only covering his ass for when the OUR approves the rate hike. Trying to seem sympathetic to the plight of the people, forgetting that we don’t all earn the millions guvament Ministers make a year.

Hell, the travelling allowance they make a year is a whole lot more than what many, many people earn. Add their various other business from which they make money, and you see where they will barely be affected by the high costs.

And you know they will soon give themselves another salary increase.

Just wait little it soon come out.

If the guvament had any concern for the people of this country they would see to it that the JPS doesn’t extract another pound of flesh from the already suffering people of this country.

Why should the people not in seats of power be required to tighten their belts but the powerful and the corporations can still gorge themselves like pigs?!?

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The guvament has a 20% stake in the JPS, one, namely me, wonders how much, if any, of this increase would go to them as shareholders?

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We suffer and guvament ministers are still running up the bills.

Any attempts through the Access To Information Act to get information related to this waste of money will be met with roadblocks, to keep their living high on our backs from getting out.

So tough luck!

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sigh…

More Garbage

When Gordon-Webley was appointed as NSWMA head, she made it her duty to “get rid of the garbage” and clean up the corruption. Never once batting an eye when referring to people as garbage, and being adamant that the old ways needed changing.

So they changed out the board and cleaned up where needed cleaning up, and by the latest revelations, brought in her rubbish.

Now we are told again that there is rampant corruption, and that she will once again clean it up.

If you or I failed to carry out our duty, which then led to a repeat of the same, perhaps worse, outcome, we would be out of a job, so why isn’t this woman nursing the bruises that comes from being kicked out on her ass?

Does she have too many secrets for her contemporaries in the JLP, or are they afraid that they too would end up “disappeared”?

It is high time Jamaica is free of this blight, get her out of our public bodies, kick her out of the country, save a life.

Get rid of that pile of garbage.

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.

“… 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…

Not a Deck of Cards

Granted the performance of the guvament is not up to the expectations of the Jamaican people, granted we are in some deep shit now, but reshuffling the ministries is only wasting more money. Money the country can ill afford to waste on cabinet.

Movement of personnel and furniture.

Renting of office space.

Destroying and recreation of all new stationery to reflect the current make up of the guvament.

Closing and opening bank accounts to reflect the make up of the ministries.

Purchasing computers, servers and other devices and appliances to outfit these offices.

Contracting for Information Technology/Communication services for these offices to function.

And if there are more Ministries then it also means that the size of the civil service will grow by the necessary amount, and that means more salaries to pay.

Already the eediat budget they read in April has proven to be inadequate, already the guvament is having difficulty paying teachers what was promised and even attempted to take away from nurses rather than add to their salary as promised before elections.

If you are going to waste money by reshuffling, I would rather see it going to pay the nation’s educators and health care professionals and not wasted on the whims of the Bruce and his cronies.

In fact, Audley and Derrick need no longer draw salary from our taxes, rather these deadweights along with the other dead weights need to be removed.

And as was said in the very first post on this blog, leave the damned portfolios as they are, if you going to change anything, change the minister.

Less hassle and waste that way.

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Air Jamaica, UDC, Cabinet, maybe the guvament is not a deck of cards, but a house of cards…

More John Crow-ism

Now after you tell dem bout dem parts  over wasteful spending when you was in opposition, unnoo gone and spen’ 30M dollars on SUV, to be fueled by ever increasingly expensive gas from tax payer money.
http://www.jamaicagleaner.com/gleaner/20080423/lead/lead2.html

In addition to that spending while in parliament for the hours unnoo a chat in deh the damn vehicle dem out a door all that time with the Engine and AC a run.

Some damn fiscal responsibility there!

Then the Chief John Crow, after the signing of MOU 3 come tek it back thru NHT. Cho Raass!

Go ahead, call a snap election. outcome might not be to your liking.

@#$%&*!

 

 

Of pottery and subsidy.

If the constitution says that no one holding or swearing allegiance to a foreign power can take a seat as a representative in the House of Parliament then his ass should go. His ass should not have even been up for consideration. While I am at it, no foreign born person should ever be able to be Prome Minister of this country. I hope al those holding dual citizenship get kicked out of parliament and by elections, with true Jamaicans, are held to correct this mistake.

Why does it feel as if that five hundred million dollar subsidy on basic food items was just given to their corporate friends. Prices on basic items did not remain stable in the period of the subsidy, and now it is set to jump yet again.
The best thing any guvament can do is reduce GCT to 10%.
Why?
How many of the items you purchase in the supermarket are tax exempt? How many of the items on your bill are listed with a ‘T’ beside it? And really? does no one think 16.5% is excessive? Anyone?

Maybe the subsidy was to pay off the people who contributed to the current guvament’s campaign, and also to pander to the people, “see? we care, we subsidize it for you.”
NOT!

Too much damn shuffling.

For years now the taxpayers of Jamaica have had to pay the cost for what amounts to the whim of the Prime Minister an/or government. Everytime there is a shuffling of the cabinet or change of government, they go about reordering the structure of government. Not by moving the ministers around, no, they move everything and every body else around.

Here is a general list of what happens in a reshuffle:

1. Rent new expensive office space.
2. Pay to partition the office space into offices and cubicles.
3. Pay to move staff furniture, computers and other quipment to the new office space.
4. Pay for new servers, cabling and PBX (phone) and internet service.
5. Discard all old stationery and other items that bear the name of the old ministry, to now pay to have them all replaced with the name of the new ministry on them.

In addition to all that money (that the country can ill afford to waste like this), this movement of people and equipment results in lost productivity, not for days or weeks but months. It has been more than seven months now since the General Elections and still the reshuffling has not been settled in terms of staff being able to do their work. Time is money after all and lost time is lost money.

To fix this, (though it will need a reshuffle, but a final one) would be to set the portfolios of each ministry in stone. that is, to group logically, all the various different activities that the government carries out on behalf of the people of the country. Once set, no portfolio will be moved from ministry to ministry, and if there is a cabinet reshuffle then only the Minister and his small retinue of 3-4 people will be moved. And if a new addition to the portfolio is required then associate it logically with the ministry that already has similar or related activities associated with it. Oh and to save even more money in the future, Government should purchase or build structures to house the ministries and stop paying so much money on rent alone, rent they currently have trouble paying.

This ensures that the work of the government continues undisturbed and that within a few days of catching up on his or her new duties they ministers can be back at work doing what is required of them. Of course I am only being miserable, so you can all ignore me.