tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33158579340603527362024-03-19T03:47:45.886-05:00Jamaican Till I Die!"We are more than a beach, we are a country".inmyownwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900263474744400860noreply@blogger.comBlogger314125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315857934060352736.post-14925087574739982042024-03-06T18:06:00.005-05:002024-03-06T18:15:10.962-05:00Jamaica Travel Advisory DEBUNKED. Is it safe to travel to Jamaica right ...<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/XW42ILrRmxo?si=Vm__fau88gAJ5lp3" width="480"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sg3osTVdKWc?si=lNQnWsOreH2gfrGA" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div>inmyownwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900263474744400860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315857934060352736.post-62086912304212367802024-03-01T11:38:00.003-05:002024-03-02T15:54:36.529-05:00Vale Royal, The Official Residence of the Prime Minister of Jamaica<p>For details please go to Petchary's Blog (links below) because one cannot improve on perfection and that blog perfectly illustrates the problem. On top of that I am not the most diplomatic person in the world. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9mdz2kc1sd42EIC8HdaH-UmpZUxmk7tVJ6S1khXZlJpmUa1zF6s5lZGBS2OV7bi84531NF-5eD1q-LBguQ61Z7eBPN19-7GvU6ZZJq60n68XPLSQ-qqOH0VhevErNbFFE-Gniv4zuBp9hcbKixqtqEiIEEqvQnT8jK8sRVMv-j9qGyVX_hqvg4oksGz8/s764/vale1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="447" data-original-width="764" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9mdz2kc1sd42EIC8HdaH-UmpZUxmk7tVJ6S1khXZlJpmUa1zF6s5lZGBS2OV7bi84531NF-5eD1q-LBguQ61Z7eBPN19-7GvU6ZZJq60n68XPLSQ-qqOH0VhevErNbFFE-Gniv4zuBp9hcbKixqtqEiIEEqvQnT8jK8sRVMv-j9qGyVX_hqvg4oksGz8/s320/vale1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://petchary.wordpress.com/2024/02/28/jamaicas-historic-vale-royal-now-on-life-support/" target="_blank">Jamaica’s historic Vale Royal now on life support</a> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaHp8pXoylizvFfKQLqgEr5fzWvNN3brHffDQwYzMaxyD9kFyd0WWe8L89MiWtabO0umY2kmDOSWCL_-pElJ4XKv9HOhSyyrnHwcwbCHGsSpaFrlZCI0EnAs9nmQuSCr5bdDa-PlpwvHDvsCdpxpPDaFZfQP1UTwLml_1089ychshBO8vhg4s8UHPfKh8/s756/vale2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="442" data-original-width="756" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaHp8pXoylizvFfKQLqgEr5fzWvNN3brHffDQwYzMaxyD9kFyd0WWe8L89MiWtabO0umY2kmDOSWCL_-pElJ4XKv9HOhSyyrnHwcwbCHGsSpaFrlZCI0EnAs9nmQuSCr5bdDa-PlpwvHDvsCdpxpPDaFZfQP1UTwLml_1089ychshBO8vhg4s8UHPfKh8/s320/vale2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://petchary.wordpress.com/2020/10/19/its-heritage-week-in-jamaica-but-some-of-our-heritage-is-looking-the-worse-for-wear/" target="_blank">Heritage Week in Jamaica, But Some of our Heritage is Looking the Worse for Wear</a></p><p>I would not be shocked if they announced that it was soon to be the site of, The Vale Royal Pines Country Club. A new Gated Concrete Compound for people who knows the price of everything and the true value of nothing. </p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://petchary.wordpress.com/2024/03/02/jamaican-government-is-assessing-proposals-for-the-future-use-of-the-dilapidated-vale-royal/" target="_blank">Jamaican Government is assessing proposals for the future use of the dilapidated Vale Royal</a><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUJOYwjftHx4AXAHfdrF-oFKtqO8PbXaQNaiAw4H2qOLGoo0AQhVQfRrL3mnxNtZWUe9PLsXWPLziS7ZMeyL7OC_O8gzn2MvOz0NnN-x3JyBoHKMgZbvuGkK3sJpayxfsl7PGPQ-vDLMCsDmKio_f6LWyzAEABRTCtuiQ0Cr_5xQod7aTqgGb2Ssxvtm8/s1280/maxresdefault.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUJOYwjftHx4AXAHfdrF-oFKtqO8PbXaQNaiAw4H2qOLGoo0AQhVQfRrL3mnxNtZWUe9PLsXWPLziS7ZMeyL7OC_O8gzn2MvOz0NnN-x3JyBoHKMgZbvuGkK3sJpayxfsl7PGPQ-vDLMCsDmKio_f6LWyzAEABRTCtuiQ0Cr_5xQod7aTqgGb2Ssxvtm8/s320/maxresdefault.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b>Did the Prime Minister take tax payers money that should have been allocated for the maintenance and upkeep of Vale Royal and spend it on his own private mansion? </b><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3JsMZAB2As2-AULOzeFoFjXZbapfZFbOuWvRC5YjF-tg2jwQpO-YYDPMtoowvesZMv9upHpzgbB-q-xZcCTcPogpNljN-x-_z7w1pykrgIqn0_HNwXMMFU6Drde7mYSpBcYOgDrt_h-Vduu5F8N2J52bHtPGZ8d13b47vBMPZMMyQIkqGs9u1Cs-sh-4/s1280/valeperfect.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3JsMZAB2As2-AULOzeFoFjXZbapfZFbOuWvRC5YjF-tg2jwQpO-YYDPMtoowvesZMv9upHpzgbB-q-xZcCTcPogpNljN-x-_z7w1pykrgIqn0_HNwXMMFU6Drde7mYSpBcYOgDrt_h-Vduu5F8N2J52bHtPGZ8d13b47vBMPZMMyQIkqGs9u1Cs-sh-4/s320/valeperfect.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is how it use to look</div><br /><p><br /></p><p>I'm hearing talk of the sale of Vale Royal. This raises grave concerns about transparency and accountability within our government. Who stands to benefit from this transaction? Will it be sold off to foreign investors, particularly the Chinese, or will it be handed over to cronies at a fraction of its value, with kickbacks lining the pockets of those in power? <a href="https://vderby.blogspot.com/2024/03/vale-and-no-royal-poor-vale-royal.html" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">Vale and No Royal - Poor Vale Royal</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>inmyownwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900263474744400860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315857934060352736.post-50464215913327596822024-02-18T22:09:00.006-05:002024-03-06T10:21:21.236-05:00The Importance of Bob Marley<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe7lmJhzImdfhc_NHxqmZH_T5xpMLcuTxeJrqXre5G1bWEet6cT6XKeIL0wfuvLkKcSD3WsSF-9kuYdawPEqgwR1GkTcN67AkkKJfVOpPkuN_kKCFv9RhXTrzcPl5ZCZ_NO0APtL0snHrEPzpDljzwIu_lLHJTQ3HX_ILiifetZ8vdI2CkGKzGy140v3g/s1337/bobmarley.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="905" data-original-width="1337" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe7lmJhzImdfhc_NHxqmZH_T5xpMLcuTxeJrqXre5G1bWEet6cT6XKeIL0wfuvLkKcSD3WsSF-9kuYdawPEqgwR1GkTcN67AkkKJfVOpPkuN_kKCFv9RhXTrzcPl5ZCZ_NO0APtL0snHrEPzpDljzwIu_lLHJTQ3HX_ILiifetZ8vdI2CkGKzGy140v3g/s320/bobmarley.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>The message that Bob Marley delivered to the world seems to be lost to most Jamaican people. To some Jamaican people his message no longer holds any value. Bob Marley was about Social Consciousnesses, Livity, Freedom, Positivity, Progressive Upliftment and Nation Building. A fight against oppression by standing up for your rights. Bob’s message was based on strong moral values and principles. All of which is lost to the KFC eating, Krispy Kreme loving sellout Jamaicans, void of moral values and principles. One must also remember that Bob Marley’s children and grandchildren are not Bob Marley. They do not know what it means to be Bob Marley. Bob Marley was unique and his offspring's do not share in his unique reality or made up of the ingredients that made Bob possible. Bob’s children Grandchildren mostly grew up as spoilt brats enjoying Daddy’s money and paying lip service to everything Bob stood for, to them Bob is a Business.<br /><br />
To Jamaica it now seems the importance of Bob Marley is tourism. The entire process seemed hijacked by the Jamaica Tourist Board. Some people are saying that Bob Marley should become a National Hero because he attracts tourist to Jamaica. If the dead could hear that, then Bob himself would be rolling in his grave with disgust. To think the only importance Bob Marley served was to Bring white people to Jamaica. It goes against everything Bob Marley stood for and fought for. The only basis one could consider Bob Marley for National Hero status is for his Social Consciousnesses, Livity, Positivity, progressive Upliftment and Nation Building messages that he delivered to Jamaica and the world. His attempt to engage the Oppressed people of this planet, telling them to stand up and fight for their Rights and Freedom. Bob Marley is important, not because white people like him but because he was on the right side of history.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwzhALZiBb9A3hV44oAbzEeg8uD4YT3spxEiY2cMxAUQ6UjHih7I30iFYy0egH1N4v7oBOaCFstXJnFMLyvfQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Genocidal Ziggy is an Embarrassment to what Bob Marley stood for. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>PumPum Mad Him!</b></div><div><br /><div><br /></div><div>Since this movie came out we have been Bombarded by a load of rubbish from semi-literate, ignorant social media influencers who are now like <b>warts on the backside of humanity</b>. They are all just looking for likes, share and subscribe to make a dollar. They blow up this fight about Rita Marley versus Cindy Breakspeare turning it into a white vs black racist rubbish. After how many decades I cannot believe this is now a thing in 2024. People who were not even born at the time, warring over these two old women and for what? Bob and Rita was clearly in an open Marriage. They both had relationship and children with other people, all of which is none of our business. When it comes to woman Bob never partial, he never discriminate, so why are you people now doing what he never did and really how is it any of your damn business? For these people the message is lost. </div><div><br /></div><div>Then there is the fight about local black actors versus overseas black actors. Another debate that take us away from the importance of the global message of unity and the man. Who Genocidal Ziggy choose to play his mother and father is none of my business. <br /><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bFH51syYR1c?si=jWFcEFZz4EVBT4Lx" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><br /><div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Africa Unite</li><li>Black Supremacy</li><li>Blackman Redemption</li><li>I feel Like Bombing A church because the preacher telling a lie.</li><li>Building Church and Universities deceiving the people continuously. Graduating Thieves and murderers. </li><li>Don’t touch a Politician to Grant you no favor, because he will always want to control you forever. </li><li> “Love the life you live. Live the life you love.”</li><li>“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, no one but ourselves can free our minds.”</li><li>“Don’t gain the world and lose your soul. Wisdom is better than silver and gold.”</li><li>“The road to life is rocky, and you may stumble too. So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you.”</li><li>“If you get down and quarrel every day, you’re saying prayers to the devils, I say.”</li><li>“One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain.”</li><li>“Live for yourself, you will live in vain. Live for other, you will live again.”</li><li>“Don’t worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright.”</li><li>“One love, one heart, let’s get together and feel all right.”</li><li>“What one-man thinks is great, but only a fool leans upon his own understanding.”</li><li>“When one door is closed, don’t you know that many more are open.”</li><li>“You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.”</li><li>“Every man got a right to decide his own destiny.”</li><li>“In this great future, you can’t forget your past.”</li><li>“Beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but it’s everything in between that makes it all worth living.”</li></ul></div></div></div></div></div>inmyownwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900263474744400860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315857934060352736.post-46969332100459956652024-02-05T18:49:00.015-05:002024-02-26T11:46:41.687-05:00Mammee River Development Project - Shameless Hypocrites the lot of you<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigsMMruVvWvect43jn5M2nqOGaIJxrochE2HkZfMaBy76iX5v1HteFn-zrnLs0LQRm3o9knUT6L-X6Du-RaUnNk1xV08Kwa74mgBFfdzeUKzeSmd7Ms5ja_cGdfHEwGjGNwbovjnXWQERxhlTTMKs0FAhdCH4GdOJz6H4PvUlg1CYMY6fkhN58Ip12wlE/s1071/UVGHNMlVnNsLkFL-1600x900-noPad.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="602" data-original-width="1071" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigsMMruVvWvect43jn5M2nqOGaIJxrochE2HkZfMaBy76iX5v1HteFn-zrnLs0LQRm3o9knUT6L-X6Du-RaUnNk1xV08Kwa74mgBFfdzeUKzeSmd7Ms5ja_cGdfHEwGjGNwbovjnXWQERxhlTTMKs0FAhdCH4GdOJz6H4PvUlg1CYMY6fkhN58Ip12wlE/s320/UVGHNMlVnNsLkFL-1600x900-noPad.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">If this was a White World Order Project Everyone would be smiling with Glee!</div><div><br /></div>I noticed when the Europeans and Americans are bulldozing our lovely countryside to build their god-awful, tacky, generic one-dimensional All-Inclusive Hotels that extracts 80% of the profits, or bulldoze the natural world to extract bauxite, everyone is quiet, everyone looks the other way or smile with pride. <div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPeXO2e7zXHHjcevVeA5EXnpfk7hNZevKFrEyXqU0O8jq7FFCbdt2NBp4p4rJFJJmu0-_UeXsvCHJNN1twue2Cc-asVBNmStbOLD_uR2D2I2Pn4PDKVk4ozsdgIJpB1DljjOhxqP7GyCFFUHVydXSJwrOKSLV4qiDss7sxFSRG0wUBhX7VnrxmD6f18K4/s640/1683055975531.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPeXO2e7zXHHjcevVeA5EXnpfk7hNZevKFrEyXqU0O8jq7FFCbdt2NBp4p4rJFJJmu0-_UeXsvCHJNN1twue2Cc-asVBNmStbOLD_uR2D2I2Pn4PDKVk4ozsdgIJpB1DljjOhxqP7GyCFFUHVydXSJwrOKSLV4qiDss7sxFSRG0wUBhX7VnrxmD6f18K4/s320/1683055975531.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The White World Order have free access to Bulldoze, Build and Fence off Jamaica!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">If Jamaica wants more tourists, do more trees have to go?</div><br /><div>But when the Chinese going to build, all hell breaks loose. It is this bias hypocrisy that gets to me. I remember the mass movement against Goat Island which I supported. After which I watched the war on the environment in Kingston and St. Andrew and the countryside, as every piece of land and beach front is turned into concrete. Since Goat Island we have destroyed way more than 10,000 times the size of Goat Island in the name of Concrete Prosperity, and no one says a word. Especially when Mr. Weasel Face Tourist Minister stand up beside his white Overlord Spanish developers. Ever since the Prime Minister declare that he wants to create the Miami skyline in Jamaica, he has declared outright war on the environment and the natural world. To our Prime Minister and most Jamaicans Concrete is progress and we must try to look like rat infested New York City. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBZLQRpBM9s52PtOM3Vmc6udWuj_QEBtcWiC2kFGpPhi-FYYOcYwib-nQVcJmeKPGuhh6RH3of5RvFeIpfURQzzVq4o03QISZ7fu8RSOKYQe_vBmrX5LloK4xpSRnrixwbwW1RAxAVbygua0geGXYDQShbly-v44WgJNjONDPeEAfHdvwuILwHAbHgPPs/s460/img-20240127-wa0205.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="345" data-original-width="460" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBZLQRpBM9s52PtOM3Vmc6udWuj_QEBtcWiC2kFGpPhi-FYYOcYwib-nQVcJmeKPGuhh6RH3of5RvFeIpfURQzzVq4o03QISZ7fu8RSOKYQe_vBmrX5LloK4xpSRnrixwbwW1RAxAVbygua0geGXYDQShbly-v44WgJNjONDPeEAfHdvwuILwHAbHgPPs/s320/img-20240127-wa0205.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Mr. Weasel Face Tourist Minister and his underling Labbah Mouth</span></div><br /><div>What is amazing about this land for infrastructure deal with CHEC, is that it is not new. It was public knowledge even before they started building the highway. But we wait until many years after the fancy highway done build and now the Chinese are acting on their part of the deal to cry outrage. Really! Where was the outrage and protest that should have taken place back in 2000, 2006, 2008, 2010? No blocked roads and no riots. We wait until 2024 to start with this pretend shock! How dare the Chinese act on the agreed deal that was signed over a decade ago with the Government of Jamaica and the people. Yes, the people because you never protested back then. I am sure the Chinese would have taken cash for their infrastructure work but we were too broke to pay them so we swap land instead. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcK3McDHMLiBeU7sA1nCoIgIBLPvouEAVjJnK29kOe1kP_fGmf0Cw4bQRYbwPAHu5b5RdPsLU1n-0Da8hBGzBKmQwVOaBhitQ1qGsy3-Xh2XAjz2XyUjObuHcpk_ifGMkb1yJnMC0CZ03PC9FBi2lLUUM2CWK579OVmJrUcgK4djWl5fQh_9Hc-wev0Ro/s839/nature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="417" data-original-width="839" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcK3McDHMLiBeU7sA1nCoIgIBLPvouEAVjJnK29kOe1kP_fGmf0Cw4bQRYbwPAHu5b5RdPsLU1n-0Da8hBGzBKmQwVOaBhitQ1qGsy3-Xh2XAjz2XyUjObuHcpk_ifGMkb1yJnMC0CZ03PC9FBi2lLUUM2CWK579OVmJrUcgK4djWl5fQh_9Hc-wev0Ro/s320/nature.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">WHEN THE White Western World Order Bulldozing and Building, We do NOT count Bats and Birds!</div><div><br /></div><div><b><u>The CHEC Land Deal: Caribbean Development Bank 2017</u></b></div><div><div>In negotiations leading up to contract signing, CDB had insisted on a blanket GOJ guarantee for their long-term loan, which the Government refused. It was obvious that toll revenues on the North-South Link would not be sufficient to ensure viability, therefore CHEC suggested an incentive mechanism that was common in China: commercial development on lands adjacent to the Highway.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div>The development of ancillary commercial activities along the Highway was one of the economic objectives of the project, and there was concern at the slow pace of such developments along the East-West Highway. The CHEC proposal had the advantage of incentivising the concessionaire to ensure that such ancillary developments were programmed and not left to chance. However, given that most of the Highway would be fenced off, there were not many opportunities for commercial activities, except at interchanges and on-off ramps.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>The deal that was ultimately struck gives CHEC access to 1,200 acres of Government owned lands along the Highway, on the following conditions:</div><div><br /></div><div><div>CHEC must make applications to NROCC for access to lands on a project by project basis; submitting full development plans. If NROCC approves the project, the lands would be transferred to CHEC with</div><div>timeframes for commencement and completion of the developments. Should the developments not be carried out in keeping with the timeframes agreed then the lands would revert to the GOJ. Land development is seen by CHEC as a profit-making opportunity, as well as a means to drive traffic: “This is where we see the long-term potential – in the ancillary developments.” CHEC is currently seeking to develop 2,400 new hotel and residential rooms in St. Ann.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LPsTDmzuAhg?si=Wxo6y3so_HQK-0fv" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Chezidek - Earth Feel It!</b></div><div><br /></div><div><b>I hate Bulldozing and concreting Kingston and St. Andrew out of pure greed, I hate the Bulldozing of our countryside to build ugly hotels and I hate this development. But I hate hypocrisy and hypocrites even more.</b></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguRPtPJ3lTuDRcbFW1xL2n45rJgcHIaI4OUQXdt-h-kIMER0WwcUFBLIbxNe54ZF_w2EcuZIQdgeAsWx9XLYK8pNt_ccBRuDotoixPSmw0WDJjtoxbQ9haOiMGVlUhnx-uxXxdI-OkeyzjkcyYqhMg_9b3-YWapvgi-_9aIeUKP_7cNLAAbZOBrKJqOcU/s480/hqdefault.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="480" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguRPtPJ3lTuDRcbFW1xL2n45rJgcHIaI4OUQXdt-h-kIMER0WwcUFBLIbxNe54ZF_w2EcuZIQdgeAsWx9XLYK8pNt_ccBRuDotoixPSmw0WDJjtoxbQ9haOiMGVlUhnx-uxXxdI-OkeyzjkcyYqhMg_9b3-YWapvgi-_9aIeUKP_7cNLAAbZOBrKJqOcU/s320/hqdefault.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE!</div><div><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rh-fdyTzKME?si=PVlMZZuPTM8mtHXB" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVRHVxv0oo8UkeuTpcNuOvm37oPf4F2PELgIbq2L9KaLX_XOkhqiW0tngmQzA7I2npIuLMFdhqp9I4BIRQUbc51-bMU31UdX-FK3o7PkTUo2zE0J80PGJkkxDtTlkKwemKOdVBSmk_4d5XF4tM6pFmeBuxA5G8tG1wmXQkf7fvKNPDVkczohntbLAZMaw/s460/7817169.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="345" data-original-width="460" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVRHVxv0oo8UkeuTpcNuOvm37oPf4F2PELgIbq2L9KaLX_XOkhqiW0tngmQzA7I2npIuLMFdhqp9I4BIRQUbc51-bMU31UdX-FK3o7PkTUo2zE0J80PGJkkxDtTlkKwemKOdVBSmk_4d5XF4tM6pFmeBuxA5G8tG1wmXQkf7fvKNPDVkczohntbLAZMaw/s320/7817169.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Concrete Progress</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm_Z0WtHFpm2WPnyDmTk57lnKZo8_I7A9P4D98e4FFfqb04qOCqgIlfnJ9-j06PTVe67p0KacjIMfN9CgzhrHR7g2yx6V2K1gRsKQwjYwWBw3flHdt9acN1ZyFz_cBwXQmToZjZSF5vL7M9qeZd-bj21zoOMy7f4rKCEnkGFAKmyxheYu6FqwwkPDPXMo/s800/mangrove-800x533.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm_Z0WtHFpm2WPnyDmTk57lnKZo8_I7A9P4D98e4FFfqb04qOCqgIlfnJ9-j06PTVe67p0KacjIMfN9CgzhrHR7g2yx6V2K1gRsKQwjYwWBw3flHdt9acN1ZyFz_cBwXQmToZjZSF5vL7M9qeZd-bj21zoOMy7f4rKCEnkGFAKmyxheYu6FqwwkPDPXMo/s320/mangrove-800x533.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Scientists say mangrove forests are invaluable to fighting both the causes and effects of climate change. They absorb planet-heating carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and protect coastlines against storms, flooding, and erosion. The trees also provide habitat for wildlife, including the fish and crabs that locals harvest to earn a living.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHxDOYblFWqOHvn7L8sTqowRJRj5GjqEvotxSlwePyfluJ9EE-Cmisl3JV16KgeokIUYiYjATS02fKIw9BQtAzKDu9GUFtRb-JEdl5kPw3YVDi2Id9BwxfL5NDzSOpB456W6hXW86FJ6XYPEsp5FsT5qb9FdD7qfBNWfaDVR9LMYtmYdrPHOBDwP93chM/s1920/mangrove-destruction-our-today-demo-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHxDOYblFWqOHvn7L8sTqowRJRj5GjqEvotxSlwePyfluJ9EE-Cmisl3JV16KgeokIUYiYjATS02fKIw9BQtAzKDu9GUFtRb-JEdl5kPw3YVDi2Id9BwxfL5NDzSOpB456W6hXW86FJ6XYPEsp5FsT5qb9FdD7qfBNWfaDVR9LMYtmYdrPHOBDwP93chM/s320/mangrove-destruction-our-today-demo-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Mangrove Destruction!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBZ2TNXGUj6l2AysPWm1ZEBwfu38XD6KO5zFfJXuLw-muuQIFw5dB-QTD06V2OTKN6Y0gwvI77Hbl8cemeTOjHX7hudLn4b-20eh29eGF41T2EKhNSfcgBmt1Oavcp3TczICFWvSBKdlQSbpNOqESBO8GcFQkU4LdytFLPzCWEYqGMTYY1WXPq-WkfEqY/s1024/mangrove-destruction-our-today-demo-2-1024x576.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBZ2TNXGUj6l2AysPWm1ZEBwfu38XD6KO5zFfJXuLw-muuQIFw5dB-QTD06V2OTKN6Y0gwvI77Hbl8cemeTOjHX7hudLn4b-20eh29eGF41T2EKhNSfcgBmt1Oavcp3TczICFWvSBKdlQSbpNOqESBO8GcFQkU4LdytFLPzCWEYqGMTYY1WXPq-WkfEqY/s320/mangrove-destruction-our-today-demo-2-1024x576.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Mangrove Destruction!</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>
<div><br /></div></div>inmyownwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900263474744400860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315857934060352736.post-87568969909160251402024-01-23T22:02:00.003-05:002024-02-02T13:12:38.864-05:00Out of Many, One People: What makes a Jamaican, a Jamaican? <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR_AcyAjn9ih7satkCqxesEaJms1A38ItgoU5oAu9d63eJvW0K3FgGKPZmRspI7_dYuyjAOQR9eCEh7TChQ7UPmQmR7nLz2vfexgGtraUlBCSQBB10tAOvWLBqpi_aLRSRcXgPHvsQJgrc36iQErmmD56qr2FGQjpsZ-VdeXhk2t_6DtOR4ivvah21-k8/s428/b62959200cddfd8d8598ec0d70c568af.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="269" data-original-width="428" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR_AcyAjn9ih7satkCqxesEaJms1A38ItgoU5oAu9d63eJvW0K3FgGKPZmRspI7_dYuyjAOQR9eCEh7TChQ7UPmQmR7nLz2vfexgGtraUlBCSQBB10tAOvWLBqpi_aLRSRcXgPHvsQJgrc36iQErmmD56qr2FGQjpsZ-VdeXhk2t_6DtOR4ivvah21-k8/s320/b62959200cddfd8d8598ec0d70c568af.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>Being a Jamaican is more than just the colour of our skin. Being a Jamaican is a shared experience, a culture passed down from generation to generation. Being a Jamaican is a blend of all the people who came and those who were brought here by force, mixed all together to create our own unique reality.</div><div><br /></div><div>One does not have to be black of African descent to be a Jamaican, that is not the "Jamaicanness" criteria. One Jamaican cannot tell another Jamaican that they are not Jamaican or not Jamaican enough, you do not have that right, who died and made you boss of all Jamaicans. Especially when we all live on this rock, sharing its burdens, hardship, couple gas riots and nightly merriments. Not to mention some hurricanes over the many centuries and decades. </div><div><br /></div><div>I cannot imagine when I was going to school with my classmates who were either Black, White, Chinese, Indians or mix up-mix up, hanging out at various parties and fetes, teen jam or on the football field, telling them they are not one of us, not part of the whole, not Jamaican enough. Seeing them now with their families, all grown up, still on the rock going through the daily grind. One cannot tell people who were born in Jamaica, grow up in Jamaica, go to school in Jamaica that they are not Jamaican. Most do not know how to be pure Chinese or Indian or Europeans, yes they respect their ancestry and are proud of the people they come from but they are Jamaicans no more and no less than any of us. </div><div><br /></div><div>We cannot continue to import racist American, British and European values into our society. Those societies were built on racist hate and still survives on racist hate. We must not allow Jamaicans going to these countries and experiencing racist hate, to come back to Jamaica and infect us with that hate. Injecting their unique realities into ours. The second you get to countries like the USA, UK or any EU country you immediately experience this hate because you will be defined only by the colour of your skin in these countries. In Jamaica, we have bigger fish to fry and cannot survive this carb in a barrel mentality because we are too small. We need patriotic, nationalistic unity among Jamaicans regardless of our ancestorial background. Descendance of Jamaicans born and bred in other countries and who do not have first hand knowledge or experience of being a Jamaican, you have no business telling others they are not Jamaican. The closest some of you get to Jamaica is the Jamaican restaurant on streets like Flatbush, in Brooklyn or Peckham Road, in London. I am not saying you are not Jamaican, I am saying you are not in a position to tell others they are not Jamaican. Everybody can be as Jamaican as they want to be, I care not. </div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://old.jamaica-gleaner.com/pages/history/story0063.html" target="_blank">Out Of Many Cultures: The People Who Came And Stayed!</a><br /></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>That Said! ...</b></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmK_8hZTZiO8aNMA0gBhcK-gQ2v_J3y4DrypCnD9IAkT2lp0TKwdUD7sc9m-v8oXZb1xZGInMrb9J7dZPaNI8kfks7jPXgHhSZP8EhxMQBEFp9mQysIYqdjZfOmTKgPAoNPu42Iu-xdwJlGnwzQ-iQk0qOWmttW_hv0cC3XCsc4axvNvKzOA6-1L7xPEg/s640/28a63f3f55c1efad0c70eb2135636056.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="360" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmK_8hZTZiO8aNMA0gBhcK-gQ2v_J3y4DrypCnD9IAkT2lp0TKwdUD7sc9m-v8oXZb1xZGInMrb9J7dZPaNI8kfks7jPXgHhSZP8EhxMQBEFp9mQysIYqdjZfOmTKgPAoNPu42Iu-xdwJlGnwzQ-iQk0qOWmttW_hv0cC3XCsc4axvNvKzOA6-1L7xPEg/s320/28a63f3f55c1efad0c70eb2135636056.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u>The Behavior of Some Jamaicans:</u></b></div>92.1% of the Jamaican population are black of African descent. 6.1% of Jamaicans are considered mixed race and 0.8% are east Indians. Only 0.2% of Jamaicans are considered white. If the white population of Jamaica, grew up in Jamaica, are spread out all over the island, was educated in Jamaica, work in Jamaica and party in Jamaica, then I assume about 99.9% of their day is spent around black Jamaicans. If they only talk to and associated with other white Jamaicans, then their lives must be very lonely because with 0.2% of the population, it seems, they would go a long time before meeting another white Jamaican but that is not the case. <br /><br />
Observing the various social media postings of white Jamaicans, their parties, various social events, and outings and gatherings, one clearly sees that they only associate with other white or high colour people. 99.9% of who they are seen with at various social events are white. You may see the odd black Jamaican here and there, but white Jamaicans stick to each other like white on rice. <div><b><br /></b></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Somehow, there always seem to be enough of them to fill a room.</b></div><br />
I know for a fact that most of them go out of their way to preserve the racial composition of their family, their lineage and social grouping. Their intentions and purpose are not to mix with nonwhite Jamaicans, but to remain as white as possible, to preserve the bloodline. Going so far as to interbreed or import white people to copulate with. They would do almost anything other than intermarry with the black population. Yes, some families are a little more blended than others but for the most part, they remain mostly white. The 0.2% tries desperately to maintain their foothold. <div><br /></div><div>It is one thing if you are a recent migrant to Jamaica and bring your bad ways, but most of these white Jamaicans can trace their ancestry back to slavery, some are descendants of the original whip-hand colonizers. To maintain that 0.2% foothold, I am sure they are forced to indoctrinate their little offspring's on the dangers of befriending and marrying black, to the point of demonizing the local black population. <br /><br />One big exception to this are white migrants to Jamaica. I find white people who were born in and grew up in other countries and cultures, who then moved to Jamaica, more likely to integrate with Jamaica’s black population, compared to white Jamaicans who have been in Jamaica for centuries. Most of these immigrants come to immerse themselves in the culture and people. </div><div><br /></div><div>There seems to be a greater need for Indigenous White Jamaicans to identify as white, to be on the whip-hand side of the equation and as such they go out of their way to enforce their whiteness. The same can be said for some of Jamaica's Chinese and Indian population. It is shocking when a white person from another country comes to Jamaica and tell you what some local white Jamaicans says about the local black population. <div><br /></div><div>It seems their idea of trying to be white, to fit into whiteness, involves importing racist views of the White Western World and regurgitating it back to a white person who wants none of it. I ran into this same situation several times in Jamaica. The last time was when I had some white friends from the UK vacationing in the Portie, but my friends were not having any of it and told them as much. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://fightingforsurvivalblog.wordpress.com/2015/04/21/white-jamaicans/" target="_blank">White Jamaicans: In America they want everyone to acquiesce to the 1% rule. This rule basically dictates that if someone has a drop of “minority” blood in his or her body they are considered that particular ethnic group.</a><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghTc4N9QCSa9zqvpUscWhF6FVMcOTbGZ1ECHxpEPQreYXqOzV36BoAnbEsCvnz3m523swFEfqzJ1-HVJQPsSZAneeO_0wfIniL788BeFIpz_lscka5nNKuTTYS9Yd8OzY71ytjbGL0Mid3AS4g56flgPNl7T3Xvyuij9nGjLj1fddIBBbGX58RMvpcGGs/s1280/maxresdefault.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghTc4N9QCSa9zqvpUscWhF6FVMcOTbGZ1ECHxpEPQreYXqOzV36BoAnbEsCvnz3m523swFEfqzJ1-HVJQPsSZAneeO_0wfIniL788BeFIpz_lscka5nNKuTTYS9Yd8OzY71ytjbGL0Mid3AS4g56flgPNl7T3Xvyuij9nGjLj1fddIBBbGX58RMvpcGGs/s320/maxresdefault.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /><div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9fH4vmkzQA4?si=_6hi5KgTv25_pzf5" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>
</div></div></div></div></div>inmyownwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900263474744400860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315857934060352736.post-2000334510841409612024-01-23T13:43:00.003-05:002024-01-23T21:37:47.756-05:00How I will vote, Who I will vote for and Why I would vote for the party<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikK-Q2xZlgDF2JdEmqQtreeiEB3fYfO7Nokm6BEWTDlc_OftcI9iD8Nfgy0JzmJfViAAoJ2LMLg-WyyLyNl02d6naZMYEyQ8NfnES_wtNva-9huEjk5SuTQXDykY5xTutxObrzsoK5CZOnvs-WaHQhdDauCCBuY_J9NFhDubVGVNGWRWLy6UhaL85hkXc/s460/mapelection.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="345" data-original-width="460" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikK-Q2xZlgDF2JdEmqQtreeiEB3fYfO7Nokm6BEWTDlc_OftcI9iD8Nfgy0JzmJfViAAoJ2LMLg-WyyLyNl02d6naZMYEyQ8NfnES_wtNva-9huEjk5SuTQXDykY5xTutxObrzsoK5CZOnvs-WaHQhdDauCCBuY_J9NFhDubVGVNGWRWLy6UhaL85hkXc/s320/mapelection.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Election Map 2020</div><br /><div><br /></div>I am not a diehard supporter of any political party. What I am is a diehard supporter of progressive ideology, but Progressive ideology does not exist in Jamaica today. As such, the party that gets my vote is based on a formula that only takes into consideration certain social and economic indicators. These indicators were investigated and evaluated by me. +3 points will be awarded for any indicator that improved. -3 points will be deducted from any indicator that declined and +1 point awarded for any indicator that stayed the same. I was thinking of weighted points (+-4) for indicators I consider more important, like crime, employment and environment but decided to stick with the original formula.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNhIBiVHnajd8dJvA4cwqQo61sXIvLS0iCEi66YLu4Lk0GIRrobUIZMckgagVLvVU5wlt99RIENmtfylLZ_1mLr2Lq3rGmp3F7ocMXk8fc6SfISer_W8-16VdP266OTbSWq3j9JnGUHF6_upnvq7WyMzzkuIzkJIIJfbT0ruh7DxsVPgY1tZT-ItqOsOY/s976/2011map.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="465" data-original-width="976" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNhIBiVHnajd8dJvA4cwqQo61sXIvLS0iCEi66YLu4Lk0GIRrobUIZMckgagVLvVU5wlt99RIENmtfylLZ_1mLr2Lq3rGmp3F7ocMXk8fc6SfISer_W8-16VdP266OTbSWq3j9JnGUHF6_upnvq7WyMzzkuIzkJIIJfbT0ruh7DxsVPgY1tZT-ItqOsOY/s320/2011map.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">The use of a formula frees me from partisan feelings and emotions. Liking the person or party is no longer relevant and only the performance of the social and economic indicators matter, kind of like the DOW. I can cuss out that person or the party they belong to because of an incident and still end up voting for that party because the formula said so. I might dislike a weasel like tourism minister for example, but tourism numbers are up, even though tourism is raping the hell out of the environment. So, tourism gets 3 points and for declaring war on the environment, the party loses 3 points. These greedy Assholes are bulldozing and concreting the entire island. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">At the end of the list, I total the points and calculate the percentage of positives versus negatives. If positive outweighs negative and total points are positive then I vote for the government, if not then I vote for the opposition. It is that simple, no emotions, no family tradition and peer pressure, just simple statistical facts. I am too tired, too old, too miserable and been at this for too long to support any party like a minion. So this Hamster, is getting off the party Hamster Wheel. </span><span style="text-align: left;">Especially when both parties are not governing by the right progressive ideology but by feel good populism.</span></div><br /><b><u>Jamaican General Election, 2025</u></b></div><div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGz6KGy2RCIfS9IdYd4JOaE0svl381EuhH_lrJZVnbQ7P7-tTrze_L7xORZHK0zj9sIUQS86mWBx1hNbXf_cmkicJ6ZI68CixTpNobuvH9OPRVXFlQmpLXS17OYl79i2Z9wCOFDLzLyHs1m84joX0CUHlLpYS2FAzXEMPPl-E5VLIf3UyyLXEHsxu_9Jg/s600/depositphotos_175718654-stock-photo-swing-vote-blue-stamp-white.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="302" data-original-width="600" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGz6KGy2RCIfS9IdYd4JOaE0svl381EuhH_lrJZVnbQ7P7-tTrze_L7xORZHK0zj9sIUQS86mWBx1hNbXf_cmkicJ6ZI68CixTpNobuvH9OPRVXFlQmpLXS17OYl79i2Z9wCOFDLzLyHs1m84joX0CUHlLpYS2FAzXEMPPl-E5VLIf3UyyLXEHsxu_9Jg/s320/depositphotos_175718654-stock-photo-swing-vote-blue-stamp-white.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></b>How it stands now, at this moment in time, the Jamaica Labour Party will get my vote in any General Election because the formula says so. With regards to the local Government election, if I am around the PNP gets my vote, a dead fus before the JLP get my vote in that election. The JLP must be punish for not calling that election when it should have been called, their actions goes against my principles. I am not a diehard voter, I am a proud and pure swing voter. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div>inmyownwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900263474744400860noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315857934060352736.post-18586369465185524782023-12-25T20:16:00.008-05:002023-12-25T20:19:57.273-05:00Bias Meta, Instagram, Facebook - Bias Platforms with Racist People, Racist AI and Racist Algorithms <p><b><u>Meta, Instagram and Facebook Goes Against Human Rights Guidelines and should be Removed. </u></b></p><p>I once told a person "Good Morning" on Instagram and the comment was removed saying I went against Community Guidelines. Meta, Facebook, and Instagram targets people because they may not like their message in the past. People are also targeted because other people may not like their message. I once said that Based on our historic relationship with the British, I do not trust the British. This will upset many British people and they may have complained about the post. But what I said was based on Historic facts and not relevant to how you feel. For this my post was removed and I was suspended. If I had said I loved the British and Historically they have been fair and balance in their treatment of the black and brown world and that slavery was a good thing. <b>The comment would not have been removed</b>. Because many people said just that and their post was not removed. In fact I reported one such comment and Meta came back saying they investigated it and found nothing wrong with it. My comment was only good or bad, based on the feelings of the person reading it. People are flagged and once flagged, anything they say no matter how innocent or in the middle of the road (Like "Good Morning"), is held against them.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://jamaicantillidie.blogspot.com/2021/04/facebook-jail-racist-people-and-racist.html" target="_blank">Facebook Jail - Racist People, Racist AI and Racist Algorithms</a><br /></p><p>Meta, Facebook, and Instagram are censoring and suppressing free speech without shame and with glee. Social media platforms are only as good or bad as the moderator. These platforms are not pretending to have any morals, values, or principles because they never have and never will care about such things. They exist to push the narratives of their overlords and suppress anything that goes against those narratives. They are run by human beings and most humans are bias and push their personal self interest but pretend to be professional. The second I responded to a post on Gaza, I would start getting my comments removed, saying they go against community guidelines, even when they have nothing to do with Gaza or Israel. It was like clockwork. </p><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQu3fFk4UZDq955A1mUmQsx1Vip6EjlfQTxNBvhnlbXY1x4kBJ8lrr6XApXJg0fqvSoSY81aH-SWmMFTwDjC3Jabewk4Ji2a3-QqpEIJsrl07V7J1Occ5Y58StvxO9Q4ylcNfOdARFJ1H6WVvDn_PtsgWenJTy9ckxJOYc7zZyb2Jb3DjvYvvUXt54EqE/s2532/IMG_4715.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2532" data-original-width="1170" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQu3fFk4UZDq955A1mUmQsx1Vip6EjlfQTxNBvhnlbXY1x4kBJ8lrr6XApXJg0fqvSoSY81aH-SWmMFTwDjC3Jabewk4Ji2a3-QqpEIJsrl07V7J1Occ5Y58StvxO9Q4ylcNfOdARFJ1H6WVvDn_PtsgWenJTy9ckxJOYc7zZyb2Jb3DjvYvvUXt54EqE/s320/IMG_4715.PNG" width="148" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Saying I did not believe October 7th Attack on Israel was a surprise to Israel and that the IDF must have known because Gaza was on constant lockdown with Israel controlling every point of access. I also said, it seems as if it was a means to an end.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMkeA_ZNyuDaLGJEPgagsf7TNlh1qp6UdaP5KYMnMn73XONFf6GKTry1m4vpaKPl0Wok9JkPXffqhC7N0kp_MtM0oBKW0ofF6qDMGCAx7KAuVHrQqcLFIFsb6WwoJnboe5kOwOl4O3zqLvplDk5fLHWyKoldrv5OKiPhW34txsks6TZBgPa-UhnWqF3xk/s2532/IMG_4714.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2532" data-original-width="1170" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMkeA_ZNyuDaLGJEPgagsf7TNlh1qp6UdaP5KYMnMn73XONFf6GKTry1m4vpaKPl0Wok9JkPXffqhC7N0kp_MtM0oBKW0ofF6qDMGCAx7KAuVHrQqcLFIFsb6WwoJnboe5kOwOl4O3zqLvplDk5fLHWyKoldrv5OKiPhW34txsks6TZBgPa-UhnWqF3xk/s320/IMG_4714.PNG" width="148" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Regarding Antigua GDP growth: It has be growing like that for the past 2 year registering 9 last year. I just hope this growth represents a more equitable distribution the income generated and all not going to the 1% but those are some good, impressive numbers.</div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGs3Mooc-T2FA7Ah7xRntcuQPAvnvloBIsup865LDFh2jcDmJi6QF7H58lmXXn-256lcnsWbe2Jmc9gshO3Y2ehjZu-UiN3BrmXQsaD9JWOismt6CJn1vx86VMU1yXeJYKfHFqpWOS_slbu1mXxf94cXWPPJGTRQ5Cirmy_raqsgAqWtunHCzlsFaiLLs/s2532/IMG_4713.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2532" data-original-width="1170" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGs3Mooc-T2FA7Ah7xRntcuQPAvnvloBIsup865LDFh2jcDmJi6QF7H58lmXXn-256lcnsWbe2Jmc9gshO3Y2ehjZu-UiN3BrmXQsaD9JWOismt6CJn1vx86VMU1yXeJYKfHFqpWOS_slbu1mXxf94cXWPPJGTRQ5Cirmy_raqsgAqWtunHCzlsFaiLLs/s320/IMG_4713.PNG" width="148" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Jamaican Ministry of Foreign Affairs Building was a waste of borrowed Chinese money.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgI3hmIkWH-3VJTrhTJqH3Gg54-90sFmVMwIOu_l6J27v8YndXT1fD46ZAZ6WaR97o-lIpLmbDS9vGldEKieFjoO5pXBcs5OFrBIlJI7QyElI7wjdLCzgT7fuOAUd5bH9JdwKVlZnVVRXl3_C2juwQQPeU6hxbT-HbG3Nei_piYg_Jk9S0l7BPTfdhAgY/s2532/IMG_4705.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2532" data-original-width="1170" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgI3hmIkWH-3VJTrhTJqH3Gg54-90sFmVMwIOu_l6J27v8YndXT1fD46ZAZ6WaR97o-lIpLmbDS9vGldEKieFjoO5pXBcs5OFrBIlJI7QyElI7wjdLCzgT7fuOAUd5bH9JdwKVlZnVVRXl3_C2juwQQPeU6hxbT-HbG3Nei_piYg_Jk9S0l7BPTfdhAgY/s320/IMG_4705.PNG" width="148" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Jamaican people defending bad dysfunctional behavior within society. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNCToA68Wt3Q3tyU2yK7cihDhyil8-dwaJ23kW8y-BRgDlS9Omlk26xK6rL4vC4mcHBnJUXkOrGbL9ETkz94OtwpmNzdTm-swnNLLq3ln-6y7eBrs9aQLlRG_RveOhw2l4kuJjSl__9GwZ7mM0NioKn9yKvfIR-hqfwTzyyt7svpExgTZFLdJuXk9moJY/s1941/IMG_4700.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1941" data-original-width="1170" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNCToA68Wt3Q3tyU2yK7cihDhyil8-dwaJ23kW8y-BRgDlS9Omlk26xK6rL4vC4mcHBnJUXkOrGbL9ETkz94OtwpmNzdTm-swnNLLq3ln-6y7eBrs9aQLlRG_RveOhw2l4kuJjSl__9GwZ7mM0NioKn9yKvfIR-hqfwTzyyt7svpExgTZFLdJuXk9moJY/s320/IMG_4700.jpg" width="193" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Jamaica's Political Parties long tradition of Bribing people for votes and to turn out for political rallies. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj2gKv2vFKOzmnQ0O-ugo5vD8dgrEVJBSx1N7ezBr8eBCr_aqER3auTvNVnGsXtSgPPvAUpLfYXKv3NeLxtwA3KGyXGRetsRwUkJsQXRiAi05zKpgQtrAWHc4I11UFOwfhwlfXUjFo35FD9bMgStvHcAYnuoFkbKHRwENLn-6dmHo7E6jzwIK1qCYWL9E/s2532/IMG_4695.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2532" data-original-width="1170" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj2gKv2vFKOzmnQ0O-ugo5vD8dgrEVJBSx1N7ezBr8eBCr_aqER3auTvNVnGsXtSgPPvAUpLfYXKv3NeLxtwA3KGyXGRetsRwUkJsQXRiAi05zKpgQtrAWHc4I11UFOwfhwlfXUjFo35FD9bMgStvHcAYnuoFkbKHRwENLn-6dmHo7E6jzwIK1qCYWL9E/s320/IMG_4695.PNG" width="148" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://jamaicantillidie.blogspot.com/2023/11/caricom-regional-conflict-guyana-vs.html" target="_blank">Guyana has 11 billion barrels of oil. Trinidad and Tobago have 0.24 billion barrels of oil and 10.53 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and all that oil and all that gas have done nothing for the struggling countries of CARICOM. </a><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH71o1lPe6jaentjIxDCYiiV3KMAbIpB1jdlm5vPx_tHusDSlJxWwtFLdDLx697An3JUxT9yPlvEeAfn88jEYgvdEAnCh_c1g0-HkJO49ync219hHU3gjfDpHN8N9Ki_n1lAh4N67XtPj-FuJRrYtKnqjRzeRLGqRC9otPgBeoqUBF0925y4iWHfvAp9o/s536/3.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="152" data-original-width="536" height="91" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH71o1lPe6jaentjIxDCYiiV3KMAbIpB1jdlm5vPx_tHusDSlJxWwtFLdDLx697An3JUxT9yPlvEeAfn88jEYgvdEAnCh_c1g0-HkJO49ync219hHU3gjfDpHN8N9Ki_n1lAh4N67XtPj-FuJRrYtKnqjRzeRLGqRC9otPgBeoqUBF0925y4iWHfvAp9o/s320/3.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Trinidad and Tobago have 0.24 billion barrels of oil and 10.53 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and all that oil and all that gas have done nothing for the struggling countries of CARICOM. There are no mutual development agreements for member countries. No one hand, washes the other, no special pricing, only crab in a barrel relationship. The only oil producing country in this region that went out of their way to help the struggling countries of the Caribbean was Venezuela and that help came about because our fellow CARICOM country Trinidad and Tobago reneged on a Memorandum of Understanding to supply oil to Jamaica at special rate. In fact, Trinidad and Tobago is notorious for reneging on signed agreement for selfish reasons. The EU put EU countries first before any other. The White Western World Order puts white countries first before any black or brown countries. The Caribbean Community, seems to put everyone else before any other Caribbean country. </div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://jamaicantillidie.blogspot.com/2018/06/trinidad-reneged-venezuela-save-jamaica.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Trinidad Reneged, Venezuela Save, Jamaica Stab Venezuela In the Back!</a><br /></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>In 2008 oil prices jumped to a staggering US$147 Per Barrel.</li><li>
The Petrocaribe agreement allowed Jamaica to pay 50% down payment for oil shipments and the other 50% paid back over 25 years at 1% interest rate.</li><li>
This deferred 50% was invested directly into the Petrocaribe Development Fund thus converting sovereign debt into a receivable asset used for Infrastructure development. The fund is the largest domestic investor in renewable energy.</li><li>
Jamaica accumulated $3 billion of Petrocaribe debt at 1% interest rate payable over 25 years.</li><li>
In July 2015 cash-strapped Venezuela agreed to cancel Jamaica’s $3 billion of Petrocaribe debt in exchange for a lump sum payment of $1.5 billion. The 50 percent haircut wiped Jamaica’s debt slate clean and reduced our debt to GDP. Since 2005, the amount of Venezuelan oil that has flowed to Caribbean states under Petro Caribe has fluctuated between roughly 86,000 and 121,000 barrels of oil per day and Jamaica accounted for 23,000 barrels per day at 50% discount. </li></ul>While I am so very grateful to Venezuela for the much needed help, we are being forced to support Guyana above Venezuela because they are members of CARICOM and the Commonwealth. Even though we know they will do nothing to help the region, and the Caribbean Community. I believe that unity is strength and I believe we need more Caribbean unity not less. I believe we must learn to have each other’s back if we are to survive as a region against the Imperialist and Colonialist White Western World Order. I would also love it, if Venezuela and Cuba could be a part of this union. <div><br /></div><div>It is a fact, that the oil, gas and mineral resources of the Caribbean does nothing to help the region grow. These resources were developed to enrich the White Western World Order, at CARICOM expense. Sometimes I do not know why CARICOM and Commonwealth even exist because they both do nothing towards our development. The Commonwealth was designed to serve the White Western World Order while giving us the illusion pf power and control. CARICOM members spend more time working against other CARICOM members, instead of with other CARICOM countries. The individual countries within CARICOM are more interested is gaining the advantage with the White Western World Order, over other CARICOM members. Everyone wants a seat at the masters table and the master's approval, and the thing is, the master knows it and uses it against the region. It is so easy for the White Western World Order to turn Peter against Paul. </div><div><br /></div><div><b><u>A little bit of something is better than a lot of Nothing:</u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><div>If you give a starving man a piece of dry crackers, then he will be forever grateful because the dry crackers represents an increase in nutritional intake. Jamaicans have a saying, “A little bit of something is better than a lot of nothing”. Jamaica’s tourism sector generates US$4 billion per year but about 80% of that leaves Jamaica for the home countries of the White Western World Order countries who own the hotels. </div><div><br /></div><div>The standard global oil royalty rate is between 12% to 25%, Guyana’s oil royalty is only 2% and for 2023 that represents US$11.3 billion, which is better than nothing, and a 14% increase over 2022. If Guyana had a royalty rate of 10% then income from oil in 2023 would be US$57 billion. Guyana’s Natural Resource Fund is not kept at the Guyana's Central Bank but at the New York Federal Reserve Bank and knowing the USA love for weaponizing Foreign Assets by Freezing them, Guyana is not about to test the waters and act out of pocket against her pimp. The recent conflict with Venezuela will forces Guyana deeper into the back pockets of the USA and any US troops deployment to defend Essequibo will be financed by Guyana. </div><div><br /></div><div>A little bit of something is better than a lot of nothing” was designed to keep you in your prescribed lane and not challenge the status quo. It is such a colonial concept, be quiet, suffer in silence while I extract your wealth resources for little and nothing, at your expense. Here is a dry bone, be a good little dog and eat it quietly in the corner. It gets even worse when several starving dogs are eying the one dry bone. </div></div>inmyownwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900263474744400860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315857934060352736.post-22783136820772027372023-11-01T19:35:00.008-05:002023-11-02T16:53:14.865-05:00Spineless Jamaica, Void of Morals, Values and Principles <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKGgN8lN4EM4_xZX0tzhnJjsqWlXliBHUY-kNx3-mtGj9y9u_glVB-_FdapPOKmi0ofCfO8PufYzuOCcsE4boTF_8DLqPtgxqAyuXGHLPaNOLLhAnZ9oNdkBpCPUDmuLee9AHf3RJckSxDKxsKGtTWWwwjUQlcVlzMJU6gmLrgBm72a0ODN3hEmBgN4hI/s794/jamaica.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="794" data-original-width="644" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKGgN8lN4EM4_xZX0tzhnJjsqWlXliBHUY-kNx3-mtGj9y9u_glVB-_FdapPOKmi0ofCfO8PufYzuOCcsE4boTF_8DLqPtgxqAyuXGHLPaNOLLhAnZ9oNdkBpCPUDmuLee9AHf3RJckSxDKxsKGtTWWwwjUQlcVlzMJU6gmLrgBm72a0ODN3hEmBgN4hI/s320/jamaica.jpg" width="260" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
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It was shameful.</p><p class="dcr-rysp4a" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">In the annals of international diplomatic history, Jamaica’s decision on apartheid in July 1959 was a pivotal moment.</p><div id="sign-in-gate" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><gu-island clientonly="" config="{"renderingTarget":"Web","darkModeAvailable":false}" data-island-status="rendered" deferuntil="visible" name="SignInGateSelector" priority="feature" 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style="box-sizing: border-box;"></gu-island></div><p class="dcr-rysp4a" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Prior to this, the world had witnessed India’s efforts at the UN to condemn <a data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/southafrica" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c74600; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">South Africa</a> for its racist treatment of Indians in 1946-47, before the country descended into the era of legally defined apartheid. But it was not until more than a decade later that Jamaica became the first nation to initiate sanctions against South Africa.</p><p class="dcr-rysp4a" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">The response from the South African government was volcanic. They decried the move as a blatant intrusion into their sovereignty, urging the British colonial power to intervene and quash Jamaica’s audacity.</p><p class="dcr-rysp4a" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">The South African authorities were not merely angered; they were deeply apprehensive that Jamaica’s action might set in motion a ripple effect of sanctions imposed by other countries. Jamaica, a member of the West Indies Federation since 1958, had the potential to spark a political chain reaction across the British Caribbean.</p><aside class="dcr-1v3jv7t" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 3px; background-color: #fbe6d5; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; float: left; font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 10px 28px -120px; padding: 6px 10px 12px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 220px;"><svg class="dcr-13b893w" viewbox="4 4 24 16"><path d="M9.2776 8H14.0473C13.4732 12.5489 12.9653 17.0095 12.7445 22H4C4.79495 17.142 6.4511 12.5489 9.2776 8ZM20.3852 8H25.0887C24.5808 12.5489 24.0067 17.0095 23.7859 22H15.0635C15.9688 17.142 17.5587 12.5489 20.3852 8Z"></path></svg><blockquote class="dcr-928886" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jamaica was still deliberating while the UN vote was going on. What was there to deliberate?</blockquote><footer style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><cite style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></cite></footer></aside><p class="dcr-rysp4a" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">The Jamaican government’s decision was far from impulsive. The implementation of trade sanctions against South Africa had been a topic of intense discourse within the ruling People’s National party and among cabinet ministers for nearly two years before its public announcement in 1959. Nurtured within the echelons of government, it was a cogent decision, bearing witness to the imperatives of justice.</p><div class="ad-slot-container" style="-webkit-box-pack: center; background-color: #f6f6f6; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font: inherit; justify-content: center; margin: 12px auto; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div aria-hidden="true" class="js-ad-slot ad-slot ad-slot--inline ad-slot--inline1" data-link-name="ad slot inline1" data-name="inline1" id="dfp-ad--inline1" style="align-self: flex-start; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 1 1 0%; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></div><p class="dcr-rysp4a" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">As the then Jamaican chief minister, Norman Manley, explained: “The ban on trade with South Africa is a logical and proper act done in respect of a country which denies to its own people all the basic human rights and denies to coloured people all over the world every right of human rights intercourse.</p><p class="dcr-rysp4a" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">“Since we cannot send a coloured athlete to South Africa, nor even a cricket team, with any pretence of dignity, why should we send our goods?”</p><p class="dcr-rysp4a" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Jamaica has never been a country to shy away from controversy, or been afraid to stand on the side of justice, regardless of the risk of being ostracised. After all, its greatest hero, Bob Marley, was the leading Caribbean figure to sing out against injustice and discrimination.</p><p class="dcr-rysp4a" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">The prime minister, Andrew Holness, after Hamas’s murderous madness, came out to show solidarity with Israel and <a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://twitter.com/AndrewHolnessJM/status/1710781471575658964" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c74600; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">tweeted that Jamaica stood with Israel</a>. He called for a cessation of hostilities and a return to peace within internationally agreed guidelines, and urged them to pursue diplomatic solutions.</p><p class="dcr-rysp4a" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Now that Israel has shown its overreaching response against the Palestinians, he has said no more and, to add insult to injury, Jamaica was still deliberating on Friday while the <a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/unga-calls-for-humanitarian-truce-in-israel-hamas-war-how-countries-voted#:~:text=The%20resolution%20passed%20with%20120,14%20against%20and%2045%20abstentions.&text=The%20United%20Nations%20General%20Assembly,demanding%20aid%20access%20to%20Gaza." style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c74600; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">UN general assembly (UNGA) vote </a>was going on. What was there to deliberate? Or was this a deliberate move by one government with business ties to another?</p><p class="dcr-rysp4a" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">The Caribbean has always been at the forefront of condemning racial discrimination, human rights violations, and religious intolerance. On 9 October, the Caribbean Community (Caricom) said it “<a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://today.caricom.org/2023/10/09/caricom-statement-on-the-developments-in-israel/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c74600; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">abhors the attacks in Israel and the counterattacks in the Palestinian territory of Gaza</a>”.</p><p class="dcr-rysp4a" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">It went on: “The savage nature of the attacks and counterattacks are the antithesis of civilised life and living. Innocent lives are being lost amidst the fervour and violence of the actual combatants.”</p><p class="dcr-rysp4a" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Twelve Caricom countries voted for the UNGA resolution supporting “the ongoing efforts of the UN towards a two-state solution as the best way to achieve comprehensive peace, security and tranquillity between Israel and Palestine”.</p><p class="dcr-rysp4a" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Caricom emphasised that it “joins the responsible members of the international community in calling for an immediate ceasefire and end of hostilities by all parties”, continuing that “the recent round of hostilities reflects the pain and suffering of ancient quarrels.</p><figure class="dcr-173mewl" data-spacefinder-role="inline" data-spacefinder-type="model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement" id="bb8cd1e9-7776-404d-88ef-7a0516ae36ba" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="dcr-1t8m8f2" id="img-2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; 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box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Norman Manley. In banning trade with apartheid South Africa in 1959, he denounced ‘a country which denies to its own people all the basic human rights’.</span> Photograph: George Freston/Getty</figcaption></figure><p class="dcr-rysp4a" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">“The ongoing harsh conditions under which the Palestinians live in veritable colonialism and Israel’s sense of insecurity will contribute to a cycle of violence until those realities are definitively addressed,” Caricom said.</p><p class="dcr-rysp4a" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">The UN secretary general, António Guterres, one of the more sober thinkers in world politics, <a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2023/oct/25/un-chief-expresses-concern-over-clear-violations-of-international-law-in-gaza-video" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c74600; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">called for an end to “epic suffering” in Gaza</a> that amounted to the “collective punishment of the Palestinian people”, in violation of international law.</p><p class="dcr-rysp4a" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">“To ease epic suffering, make the delivery of aid easier and safer, and facilitate the release of hostages,” he said. “I reiterate my appeal for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.”</p><p class="dcr-rysp4a" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Guterres rightly denounced the “appalling” attacks on innocent civilians by Hamas. But the violence, he went on, did not happen in a vacuum.</p><p class="dcr-rysp4a" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">“The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation,” he said. “They have seen their land steadily devoured by settlements and plagued by violence; their economy stifled; their people displaced and their homes demolished.”</p><aside class="dcr-1v3jv7t" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 3px; background-color: #fbe6d5; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; float: left; font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 10px 28px -120px; padding: 6px 10px 12px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 220px;"><svg class="dcr-13b893w" viewbox="4 4 24 16"><path d="M9.2776 8H14.0473C13.4732 12.5489 12.9653 17.0095 12.7445 22H4C4.79495 17.142 6.4511 12.5489 9.2776 8ZM20.3852 8H25.0887C24.5808 12.5489 24.0067 17.0095 23.7859 22H15.0635C15.9688 17.142 17.5587 12.5489 20.3852 8Z"></path></svg><blockquote class="dcr-928886" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We in the Caribbean, who have lived under colonialism … know what it is to be the underdogs in world politics</blockquote><footer style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><cite style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></cite></footer></aside><p class="dcr-rysp4a" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Palestinians have lived under an apartheid system for years.</p><p class="dcr-rysp4a" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">This war will no doubt be recorded in history as another era of man’s inhumanity to man. We in the Caribbean stirred up the Black Power movement in the 1960s and 70s. As proud and resilient descendants of enslaved and indentured peoples, who have lived under colonialism – and to this day are still suffering the economic and social impact of these atrocities – we know what it is to be the underdogs in world politics and to be seen as inconsequential perennially.</p><p class="dcr-rysp4a" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">As we witness another abhorrent genocide of people during our lifetime, unfolding on the world stage, we can only express condemnation of the warmongers on both sides. But this is just a manifestation of “the hate that hate produces”. However, we should never stand by quietly.</p><p class="dcr-rysp4a" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">As <a data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/martin-luther-king" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c74600; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Martin Luther King</a> said: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”</p><p class="dcr-rysp4a" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">The proud history of the Caribbean has been let down by Jamaica’s government quietly standing by.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div>inmyownwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900263474744400860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315857934060352736.post-50578923301851226872023-10-30T13:16:00.004-05:002024-02-13T20:09:06.055-05:00Wanted the Earthquake to Demolish this Ugly Building<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigHtDz4fRfRSshraQ6dSce2xWMggjsniZI4dqkuVJ1KrYXUjgCkEKLjeAr9bawwgZVb4moIGnX0APS4muOm9Js1F2lALF5LVesXnb80SP2RN6rmYaUl0wHOu4aFV-2QWNIyArP3gJRpQ11nYMWFf7bv10IswjNBx1stlOCt-GRra_qN1GdWPh-DSAm_ZE/s4032/IMG_6753.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigHtDz4fRfRSshraQ6dSce2xWMggjsniZI4dqkuVJ1KrYXUjgCkEKLjeAr9bawwgZVb4moIGnX0APS4muOm9Js1F2lALF5LVesXnb80SP2RN6rmYaUl0wHOu4aFV-2QWNIyArP3gJRpQ11nYMWFf7bv10IswjNBx1stlOCt-GRra_qN1GdWPh-DSAm_ZE/s320/IMG_6753.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">After</div><p>There are many ugly concrete Gated Compounds that I would have liked the Earthquake to demolish, reduced to rubble. This one stands out as my most hated to date. It is ugly and an eyesore and I was hoping the earthquake save us from looking at it. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEGJj0FYDA33eGIbNyICpjk3y5FBsXhOuK5IcaJ1wnTRiwA4zYP64zg7ifjZI5Mi9B2pQnxea0450pAHIlobzVECnFYJCR8DlPDcFAiJwDVVDNcJ_3S720ieBe_W6GF8C8-xR_ZZ9IPV9akxNoPsEpvTvmAklmVZ0xO0Zwxl-t78M8efdoqAWecC5pOEM/s912/before.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="912" data-original-width="684" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEGJj0FYDA33eGIbNyICpjk3y5FBsXhOuK5IcaJ1wnTRiwA4zYP64zg7ifjZI5Mi9B2pQnxea0450pAHIlobzVECnFYJCR8DlPDcFAiJwDVVDNcJ_3S720ieBe_W6GF8C8-xR_ZZ9IPV9akxNoPsEpvTvmAklmVZ0xO0Zwxl-t78M8efdoqAWecC5pOEM/s320/before.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Before</div><br /><p><br /></p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jW-tUZy34dM?si=mJ_FtDozAlCZxBBx" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div>inmyownwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900263474744400860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315857934060352736.post-82915405163129188412023-09-25T18:58:00.006-05:002023-10-10T08:37:02.239-05:00Why Can’t Jamaicans Access Their Own Beaches?<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GoXJqjiRmEg?si=_2JaZrZfuqE01TOH" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div> <br />
Do Jamaicans really want access to their own beaches? If over 5000 people can show up for one free Krispy Kreme donut and only 20 shows up to protest access to beaches, then one wonders what are the priorities of the Jamaican people. It was not because they are hungry why 5000 showed up for Krispy Kreme donut but because Krispy Kreme donut is a foreign import and they are culturally conditioned to love imports. <div><br /></div><div>Progressive People, creates progressive political parties, who go on to form Progressive Governments. Progressive People then engages their Progressive Government to implement Progressive Nation Building Policies. The problem is, Jamaicans are no longer a Progressive. Jamaican are no longer Nation Builders. Nation Builder requires a certain type of people, people who are unselfish, people who put the wellbeing of the many and the future of the country before their own selfish greed.</div><div><div><br /></div><div><div>There was a time when one could drive along our coastal roads enjoying the unspoiled beauty of the Jamaican countryside and coastline. Smelling the fresh sea air and feeling the cool tropical breeze on our faces but not anymore. It has been transformed into something disgusting hideous, tacky, monolithic, and generic because ugly all-inclusive resorts litters the landscape, blocking your every view and access to the coastline, destroying the once beautiful, natural Jamaican countryside.</div><div><br /></div><div>Most of these all-inclusive resorts are foreign owned and prostituting the country for profits. About 80% of the US$4 Billion generated is extracted out of the country as profits for foreign corporations of the White Western World Order. Tourism is turning out to be a massive environmental disaster, no different than the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico with the same effects on the ecosystem and should never have been allowed. Which goes to show that no amount of money can buy class, especially from a people who know the price of everything and the true value of nothing. </div><div><br /></div><div>BUT since Environmental destruction and wiping out the ecosystem for minimum wage, is seen by these people as progress and prosperity, it will only get worse. We are constantly under drought conditions because our water resources are being diverted so that tourists can have water slides and piss in water parks. </div></div><div><br /></div><div>My beaches do not exist to please tourist. They exist first and foremost for the Jamaican people to enjoy. We are willing to share it with others but it does not exist for tourist use only, at our expense. During slavery times many parts of Jamaica was off limits to slaves. During colonial times many parts of Jamaica was whites only. Schools, bars hotels, workplace lunch rooms you name it. It seems the more things change the more they remain the same. Because now many parts of Jamaica are off limit and exist to serve white tourist at the expense of black population. </div><div><br /></div><div>Many of you believe that giving us access to our best beaches is like throwing pearls before swine. Many of you think we do not deserve access to our beaches, in our own country. I am not an advocate of tourism or tourist, you are not my priority. In fact, most of the time you are like warts on the backside of humanity. We cannot vacation in our own country and we cannot vacation in your country. Because the second we get off the plane in your country, we are treated like criminals and refugees, when all we are trying to be is a tourist like you. In your country we do not get the tourist treatment that you get in our country.</div></div>inmyownwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900263474744400860noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315857934060352736.post-91371808633618044292023-09-20T18:47:00.000-05:002023-09-20T18:47:33.988-05:00Malaysian YouTuber On China vs The White Western World Order<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iknZNzl6jtY?si=HZC1e4S96tLgnK7g" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe> </p><p><b>Sharing below written by a Malaysian YouTuber a while back:</b></p><p>I’m from Malaysia. China has traded with Malaysia for 2000 years. In those years, they had been the world’s biggest powers many times. Never once they sent troops to take our land. China's admiral Zhenghe came to Malacca five times, in gigantic fleets, and a flagship eight times the size of Christopher Columbus’ flagship, Santa Maria. He could have seized Malacca easily, but he did not. In 1511, the Portuguese came. In 1642, the Dutch came. In the 18th century the British came. We were colonised by each, one after another.</p><p>When China wanted spices from India, they traded with the Indians. When they wanted gems, they traded with the Persian. They didn’t take lands. The only time China expanded beyond their current borders was in Yuan Dynasty, when Genghis and his descendants Ogedei Khan, Guyuk Khan & Kublai Khan concurred China, Mid Asia and Eastern Europe. But Yuan Dynasty, although being based in China, was a part of the Mongolian Empire.</p><p>Then came year 1800, the Century of Humiliation. Britain smuggled opium into China to dope the population, a strategy to turn the trade deficit around, after the British could not find enough silver to pay the Qing Dynasty in their tea and porcelain trades and the doping went on for over 30 years. After the opium warehouses were burned down and ports were closed by the Chinese in ordered to curb opium, the British started the Opium War I, which China lost. Hong Kong was forced to be surrendered to the British in a peace talk (Nanjing Treaty). The British owned 90% of the opium market in China, during that time, Queen Victoria was the world’s biggest drug baron. The remaining 10% was owned by American merchants from Boston. Many of Boston’s institutions were built with profit from opium. </p><p>After 12 years of Nanjing Treaty, the West started getting really really greedy. The British wanted the Qing government: </p><p>1. To open the borders of China to allow goods coming in and out freely, and tax free. </p><p>2. Make opium legal in China.</p><p>Insane requests, Qing government said no. The British and French (with supports from the US), started Opium War II with China, which again, China lost. The Anglo-French military raided the Summer Palace, and threatened to burn down the Imperial Palace, the Qing government was forced to pay with ports, free business zones, 300,000 kilograms of silver and Kowloon was taken. Since then, China’s resources flew out freely through these business zones and ports. In the subsequent amendment to the treaties, Chinese people were sold overseas to serve as labor. </p><p>In 1900, China suffered attacks by the 8-National Alliance. These 8-Robbers were: Empire of Japan, Russian Empire, British Empire (including India), France, USA, Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary. Innocent Chinese civilians in Peking (Beijing now) were murdered, buildings were destroyed & women were raped. The Imperial Palace was raided, and treasures ended up in museums like the British Museum in London and the Louvre in Paris. </p><p>In late 1930s China was occupied by the Japanese in WWII. Millions of Chinese died during the occupancy. 300,000 Chinese died in Nanjing Massacre alone. </p><p>Mao brought China together again from the shambles. There were peace and unity for some time. But Mao’s later reign saw sufferings and deaths from famine and power struggles. </p><p>Then came Deng Xiao Ping and his infamous “black-cat and white-cat” story. His preference in pragmatism than ideologies transformed China. This thinking allowed China to evolve all the time to adapt to the actual needs in the country, instead of rigidly bounded to ideologies. It also signified the death of Communism in actually practice in China. The current Socialism+Meritocracy+Market Economy model fits the Chinese like gloves, and it propels the uprise of China. Singapore has a similar model, and has been arguably more successful than Hong Kong, because Hong Kong being gateway to China, was riding on the economic boom in China, while Singapore had no one to gain from.</p><p>In just 30 years, the CPC have moved 800 millions of people out from poverty. The rate of growth is unprecedented in human history. They have built the biggest mobile network, by far the biggest high speed rail network in the world, and they have become a behemoth in infrastructure. They made a fishing village called Shenzhen into the world’s second largest technological centre after the Silicon Valley. They are growing into a technological power house. It has the most elaborate e-commerce and cashless payment system in the world. They have launched exploration to Mars. The Chinese are living a good life and China has become one of the safest countries in the world. The level of patriotism in the country has reached an unprecedented height. </p><p>For all of the achievements, the West has nothing good to say about it. China suffers from intense anti-China propagandas from the West. Western Media used the keyword “Communist” to instil fear and hatred towards China. </p><p><b>Everything China does is negatively reported.</b> They claimed China used slave labor in making iPhones. The truth was, Apple was the most profitable company in the world, it took most of the profit, leave some to Foxconn (a Taiwanese company) and little to the labor. </p><p>They claimed China was inhuman with one-child policy. At the same time, they accused China of polluting the earth with its huge population. The fact is the Chinese consume just 30% of energy per capita compared to the US. </p><p>They claimed China underwent ethnic cleansing in Xinjiang. The fact is China has a policy which priorities ethnic minorities. For a long time, the ethnic minorities were allowed to have two children and the majority Han only allowed one. The minorities are allowed a lower score for university intakes. There are 39,000 mosque in China, and 2100 in the US. China has about 3 times more mosque per muslim than the US. </p><p>When terrorist attacks happened in Xinjiang, China had two choices:</p><p>1. Re-educate the Uighur extremists before they turned terrorists.</p><p>2. Let them be, after they launch attacks and killed innocent people, bomb their homes. </p><p>China chose option 1 to solve problem from the root and not to do killing. How the US solve terrorism? Fire missiles from battleships, drop bombs from the sky. </p><p>During the pandemic, when China took extreme measures to lockdown the people, they were accused of being inhuman.</p><p>When China recovered swiftly because of the extreme measures, they were accused of lying about the actual numbers.</p><p>When China’s cases became so low that they could provide medical support to other countries, they were accused of politically motivated. </p><p><b>Western Media always have reasons to bash China.</b> </p><p>Just like any country, there are irresponsible individuals from China which do bad and dirty things, but the China government overall has done very well. But I hear this comment over and over by people from the West: I like Chinese people, but the CPC is evil. What they really want is the Chinese to change the government, because the current one is too good. </p><p>Fortunately China is not a multi-party democratic country, otherwise the opposition party in China will be supported by notorious NGOs (Non-Government Organization) of the USA, like the NED (National Endowment for Democracy), to topple the ruling party. The US and the British couldn’t crack Mainland China, so they worked on Hong Kong. Firstly, CIA funded HK separatists to cause months of riots. Then, of all the ex-British colonial countries, only the Hong Kongers were offered BNOs by the British. Because the UK would like the Hong Kongers to think they are British citizens, not Chinese. Now they are enlisting the corrupted leaders in Taiwan to try to upset China. A divide-and-conquer strategy, which they often used in Color Revolutions around the world. </p><p>They resorted to low dirty tricks like detaining Huawei’s CFO & banning Huawei. They raised a silly trade war which benefits no one. Trade deficit always exist between a developing and a developed country. USA is like a luxury car seller who ask a farmer: why am I always buying your vegetables and you haven’t bought any of my cars? </p><p>When the Chinese were making socks for the world 30 years ago, the world let it be. But when Chinese started to make high technology products, like Huawei and DJI, it caused red-alert. Because when Western and Japanese products are equal to Chinese in technologies, they could never match the Chinese in prices. First world countries want China to continue in making socks. Instead of stepping up themselves, they want to pull China down. </p><p>The recent movement by the US against China has a very important background. When Libya, Iran, and China decided to ditch the US dollar in oil trades, Gaddafi’s was killed by the US, Iran was being sanctioned by the US, and now it’s China’s turn. The US has been printing money out of nothing. The only reason why the US Dollar is still widely accepted, is because it’s the only currency which oil is allowed to be traded with. The US has an agreement with Saudi that oil must be traded in US dollar ONLY. Without the petrol-dollar status, the US dollars will sink, and America will fall. Therefore anyone trying to disobey this order will be eliminated. China is in the process of introducing a gold-backed crypto-currency, the alarms in the White House go off like mad. </p><p>China’s achievement has been by hard work. Not by looting the world.</p><p>I have deep sympathy for China for all the suffering, but now I feel happy for them. China is not rising, they are going back to where they belong. Good luck China.</p>inmyownwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900263474744400860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315857934060352736.post-60486775579959933482023-08-19T22:30:00.005-05:002023-08-19T22:30:58.640-05:00Black American Exceptionalism and Xenophobia<p><b>Inside some Black Americans are Over Privileged white Karen's trying to get out. </b></p><p>During a recent debate I declared that if you think those poor abused BLM Black American think any different to white America, then think again. Inside most Black Americans are over privileged white American Karen's trying to get out. Then all hell broke loose and I was banned from twitter for that statement! </p><div>It is the view of some Jamaicans that once some Black American visits the developing black and brown third world, they become white Americans, they see us through white eyes. Black American Exceptionalism is real because they were all culturally conditioned like white people to view the outside world the same way. That is why most Black Americans are always on board with American foreign policy in the black and brown world. It is as if they view themselves as superior and others inferior. People who suffer oppression always look to oppress others in order to feel good about themselves. </div><div><br /></div><div>The ironic thing about Black America is that the same White Western World Order media that reports negative, counterproductive things about the black and brown world, is also reporting negative, counterproductive things about Black British and Black Americans to the world. </div><div><br /></div><div>I was unfortunate enough to get into a debate with some Black Americans calling themselves Foundational Black Americans. Out of pure ignorance I asked Foundational what? </div><div><br /></div><div>The USA is a divided land of Subgroups </div><div><ul><li>Tea Party</li><li>Proud Boys</li><li>Qanon</li><li>BLM - Black Lives Matter</li><li>FBA - Foundational Black American</li><li>ADOS - American Descendants of Slavery</li></ul></div><div>They declared if a black person in the USA cannot trace your relatives back to American Slavery then they are not one of us. I said what about black people born in the USA of foreign parents, the USA is all they know and they said they are a pollution to FBA culture. They are nothing but anchor babies and not a real black Americans. The language they used were no different to the language of white superiority. There was no love between us because to them, there is no us. </div><div><br /></div><div>Controversial group ADOS divides black Americans in fight for economic equality. Their advocacy leaves out an entire group of people, American-born descendants of immigrants, some of whose families have been in the U.S. for generations, many whose families may have survived decades if not centuries of institutional racism -- in limbo. And the focus has pitted ADOS adherents against people like journalist Roland Martin, who is descended from Haitian immigrants.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-URyc2BjJMIg/YTFOn0PTODI/AAAAAAAAHx4/5F2xoYPBCVM42Q_qX8FxubzpAAmUowpcQCLcBGAsYHQ/s760/ados.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="751" data-original-width="760" height="316" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-URyc2BjJMIg/YTFOn0PTODI/AAAAAAAAHx4/5F2xoYPBCVM42Q_qX8FxubzpAAmUowpcQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/ados.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://level.medium.com/my-scary-journey-into-ados-the-anti-immigrant-movement-led-by-black-folks-63695c0268f3" target="_blank">My Scary Journey Into ADOS, the Anti-Immigrant Movement Led by Black Folks</a><br /></div><div> <br /><div>In Hollywood, Harriet Tubman is played in a new movie by a black British woman, much to the annoyance of some black Americans. On the United States census, an ultrawealthy Nigerian immigrant and a struggling African-American woman from the South are expected to check the same box. When many American universities tout their diversity numbers, black students who were born in the Bronx and the Bahamas are counted as the same.</div><div><br /></div><div>A spirited debate is playing out in black communities across America over the degree to which identity ought to be defined by African heritage — or whether ancestral links to slavery are what should count most of all.</div><div><br /></div><div>Tensions between black Americans who descended from slavery and black immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean are not new, but a group of online agitators is trying to turn those disagreements into a political movement. They want colleges, employers and the federal government to prioritize black Americans whose ancestors toiled in bondage, and they argue that affirmative action policies originally designed to help the descendants of slavery in America have largely been used to benefit other groups, including immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean.</div><div><br /></div><div>The American descendants of slavery, they say, should have their own racial category on census forms and college applications, and not be lumped in with others with similar skin color but vastly different lived experiences.</div><div><br /></div><div>The group, which calls itself ADOS, for the American Descendants of Slavery, is small in number, with active supporters estimated to be in the thousands. But the discussion they are provoking is coursing through conversations far and wide.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/us/slavery-black-immigrants-ados.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">‘We’re Self-Interested’: The Growing Identity Debate in Black America Why a movement that claims to support the American descendants of slavery is being promoted by conservatives and attacked on the left.</a><br /></div>inmyownwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900263474744400860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315857934060352736.post-76135358141661880432023-08-15T07:46:00.016-05:002023-09-20T08:30:04.936-05:00Africa Must Remove the Influence of the Colonial Powers<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/YZFF-vQwwaA" width="480"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;">Italy Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni Goes Viral Again After Niger Coup - ...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><div>I am not a fan of coups unless that coup is used to get rid of murderous dictators. The problem with coups is that it is difficult to tell if they are progressive, have the support of the people and the people's interest at heart. Most coups are done for selfish reasons by power hungry people who are almost always violent and corrupt. </div><div><br /></div><div>The problem with modern elections is that they are normally hijacked by wealthy, powerful special interest groups who can manipulate the process and control the narrative. They can make people vote against their own interest. For example, if rich powerful France wants a certain candidate in Niger to win an election, then they just throw money at it and use their superior influence to control the narratives, spread misinformation and manipulate the electoral process. Under these conditions, I would support a progressive coup with a quick transition to democratic elections without the influence of outside Special Interest Groups. </div></div><div><br /></div><div>Africa needs to unite and remove control from the wicked and evil White Western World Order. For hundreds of years under White Western World Order control and influence, Africa was never being run to benefit Africans but to benefit the White Western World Order at the expense of Africans. Wealth Extraction is the colonial way and the way of the White World Order. Africa has some of the world’s most valuable resources and yet, those resources do not benefit Africans. 1 in 3 light bulbs in France, is powered by Niger's uranium but 80% of the people in Niger have no electricity. The common narrative of the White Western World Order is that Africa's corruption is the reason why Africa is poor and suffering. However the White Western World Order almost always have a hand in removing any Progressive African leader trying to put the interest of their people first. The fact is WWWO loves corruption and destabilization because it gives them more control. Normally when a place is corrupt and destabilized its wealth resources is up for grabs. By making a few choice payments to corrupt officials, the White Western World Order will have long term access to all of Africa's wealth on the cheap. So they invest in corruption, destabilization and mismanagement. If need be, they will invest in wars as a means to an end. Black and Brown Human suffering and death is beneficial to the USA, UK, EU and every member of the White Western World Order. </div><div><br /></div><div>The abusive White Western World Order is now circling the wagon, to do what they do best. Isolate, destabilize, inflict human suffering and war! They will do so with the help of other traitorous African nations. That is the colonial way! When will Africa stop being their puppet regimes and unite against them. Africans are now preparing to go to war with Africans on behalf of the Imperialist and Colonialist White Western World Order! The time is now for all Africans to unite, circle the wagon and take back control of the entire continent. </div><div><br /></div><div>The black and brown world exist within a framework created by the White Western World Order. This framework was never designed for mutual development but as a means of control. To keep us poor, suffering and dependent because dependency is control and control is profitable.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dw70H7dmPV0VodMPCxQ4ksip1YpDNMmBDo8lmpskbR-iEvuKw-BlYW_QocH7-jW-gFhUqq1XC4Ff9g-zBrdhw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>The global migration problem was bound to happen, it was inevitable because it was a problem that started centuries ago with invasion, slavery and colonization and made worse today by the cold war and imperialist foreign policy of the Western World Order. In the history of the Western World Order, they have never been about mutual development but about wealth extraction at the expense of the local population. Leaving them to suffer in poverty, while Western countries get richer and richer. We often hear that black and brown countries only suffer because they are corrupt, but the western world order thrives on and promotes corruption in poor developing countries because corruption gives them more control and easier access to the country’s wealth resources. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI1T2ObP3p8bhZ25gd85z5fXlPOo2SmoGbY-P9pEv-wle3GWMv7jbejLMkEq15g3H6r02nSAsAFyFkAt6pT3juLxQ1cB0kyQjjnbOI9qLMM-N8vx3MzMYeYgWzQjuyM0lv69MWolCphIHI1re2nxgxB-dJKJP-86asNkLJqbq10zcZJL-LHPNXBDYdOBI/s870/statement-migration-policy-2018-870x489.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="489" data-original-width="870" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI1T2ObP3p8bhZ25gd85z5fXlPOo2SmoGbY-P9pEv-wle3GWMv7jbejLMkEq15g3H6r02nSAsAFyFkAt6pT3juLxQ1cB0kyQjjnbOI9qLMM-N8vx3MzMYeYgWzQjuyM0lv69MWolCphIHI1re2nxgxB-dJKJP-86asNkLJqbq10zcZJL-LHPNXBDYdOBI/s320/statement-migration-policy-2018-870x489.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>The Western World Order do not like progressive leaders in the developing world because they are more likely to stand up to them and defend the rights and development of their own citizens and that cuts into the profits of the Western World Order. So, after hundreds of years of invasion, slavery, colonization, war and imperialism, black and brown people are following the money trail. If they refuse to return the stolen wealth resources, then black and brown people have no other option but to follow the money trail and consume their stolen wealth.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIroTHzOxZfo4MIe-Jr7DV2JJrja5Mnsr6vhk7jt8iFDBzX4F5xv3LxXd9r97zLXB1OhvofelTSFD1EHlDRgZlkHzpYBuO0fJasLWFPIPV7GyffUHSuLjSxa3nMwD5jUspcdSK9keJlx5tYkamPvyrGJCWb8rZoWHOELCnr_asuRvcpdQTuM6wzhfcF_s/s990/bigstock-Refugees-Leaving-Hungary-104052083-e1507480906459-990x556.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="556" data-original-width="990" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIroTHzOxZfo4MIe-Jr7DV2JJrja5Mnsr6vhk7jt8iFDBzX4F5xv3LxXd9r97zLXB1OhvofelTSFD1EHlDRgZlkHzpYBuO0fJasLWFPIPV7GyffUHSuLjSxa3nMwD5jUspcdSK9keJlx5tYkamPvyrGJCWb8rZoWHOELCnr_asuRvcpdQTuM6wzhfcF_s/s320/bigstock-Refugees-Leaving-Hungary-104052083-e1507480906459-990x556.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div></div>inmyownwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900263474744400860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315857934060352736.post-34266225015547795302023-06-28T18:01:00.003-05:002023-06-28T18:01:19.663-05:00Are foreign workers taking over JAMAICA? The shocking truth about JAMAIC...<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/AsgmL6Ki9zI" width="480"></iframe></div>inmyownwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900263474744400860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315857934060352736.post-88620260524989957632023-06-13T12:08:00.010-05:002023-06-18T18:37:50.828-05:00Jamaica Gleaner: Peter Espeut | A water plan for 2030<div class="region-inner region-content-top-inner" style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.66667em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="block block-delta-blocks block-page-title block-delta-blocks-page-title odd block-without-title" id="block-delta-blocks-page-title" style="border: 0px; 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font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.66667em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In 1927, the Hermitage Dam (with a capacity of 460 million gallons) was built by the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation to meet the domestic water needs of Kingston and St Andrew.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.66667em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="field-items" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.66667em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.66667em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="article-content" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.66667em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.66667em; margin: 1.2em 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Due to advancing deforestation, over 100 rivers dried up on our little island in the 20th century. In my first column of the new millennium (in 2001), I predicted that the big issue of the 21st century would be water. As population increases, we will need more clean water, yet at the same time, we destroy our watersheds for fuel wood and charcoal and to build houses; and we advance the pollution of the little clean, fresh water we have left.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.66667em; margin: 1.2em 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On top of this, climate change is deepening, producing extreme weather events (longer droughts and more violent hurricanes). I predicted that if we did not do something soon to protect our water resources, and to increase the capture and storage of clean domestic fresh water, we would no longer be either the land of wood or the land of water.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.66667em; margin: 1.2em 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Another series of water restrictions are with us! Again!</p><p style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.66667em; margin: 1.2em 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">According to the 1921 census of Jamaica, the total population of the parishes of Kingston and St Andrew (KSA) was 118,309. In 1927, the Hermitage Dam (with a capacity of 460 million gallons) was built by the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC) to meet the domestic water needs of the KSA.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.66667em; margin: 1.2em 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By the 1943 census, the total population of KSA had more than doubled to 238,229. In 1946, the Mona Dam (with a capacity of 825 million gallons) was built by the colonial government of Jamaica with a grant from the Colonial Development and Welfare Fund, more than doubling the stored water to meet the increasing needs of the KSA.</p><div class="jg-newsletter-sign-up" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-style: solid dotted dotted; border-top-color: rgb(1, 72, 137); border-width: 10px 0px 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.66667em; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 460px;"><div class="block-inner" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.66667em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 class="block-title" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.05em; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 5px 10px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Headlines Delivered to Your Inbox</h2><div class="block-content" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.66667em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://member.jamaica-gleaner.com/subscription/" style="border: 0px; color: #0071b8; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.66667em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sign up for The Gleaner’s morning and evening newsletters.</a></div></div></div><p style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.66667em; margin: 1.2em 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">According to the 2011 census, the total population of the KSA had much more than doubled again to 662,426. No new reservoir has been built since independence to serve the increasing water needs of residents of the KMA, and none is planned; the argument I have heard is that more storage reservoirs mean more surface evaporation and more wasted water. So what do we do, then?</p><p style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.66667em; margin: 1.2em 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is the egregious lack of planning like this that leads me to continually assert that we really had no reason to celebrate 55 years of Independence, which really was 55 years of mismanagement of our economy and our natural environment.</p><h2 style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.05em; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="allcaps" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.66667em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SUGGESTIONS … AGAIN</span></h2><p style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.66667em; margin: 1.2em 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I have not been satisfied just to criticise, but the suggestions I have made over the years in this column to improve our water situation have been ignored. Let me reprise some of them.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.66667em; margin: 1.2em 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In building the Hermitage Dam, what the Engineering Department of the KSAC did was to build a 150-foot high, 700-foot-wide concrete blockade across the upper Wag Water River valley, which impounded 460 million gallons of water. There are similar valleys all over eastern Jamaica which could be similarly blockaded. If we could plan Highway 2000, we could plan Water Dam 2030!</p><p style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.66667em; margin: 1.2em 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At times of heavy rain, the dam becomes full, and the excess river water goes over the lip of the dam, down the spillway, and downstream towards the sea. This shows that if there was a larger storage area, the dam could hold more, making more water available in times of drought.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.66667em; margin: 1.2em 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I am not an engineer, but it seems to me that if we were to build another wall in front of the present Hermitage Dam wall, further down the valley, the storage capacity would be easily increased.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.66667em; margin: 1.2em 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Simple mathematics shows that if a new dam wall was built 100-feet further down the valley, it would hold at least an additional 80 million gallons; if it was built 200 feet further down, it would hold at least an additional 160 million gallons. If the ground below the wall was excavated deeper, the capacity could be increased to become the same size as the Mona Reservoir. National Water Commission, please show me what is wrong with my reasoning!</p><p style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.66667em; margin: 1.2em 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Again, I am not an engineer, but common sense would indicate that if we were to increase the height of the embankment around the Mona Reservoir, that would increase its storage capacity. According to my back-of-the-envelope calculations, for every additional foot of height, the reservoir could hold an additional 80 million gallons, more or less.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.66667em; margin: 1.2em 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.66667em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Peter Espeut is a natural scientist and environmentalist. 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He cites the influences of Caribbean heritage people in music, film, sport and language in Britain. To help make his case he asks Jennifer to meet with Jamaican born England footballer John Barnes.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In contrast, Jennifer asserts that Caribbean culture in the UK is defined by stereotypes and the communities achievements in science and industry are overlooked and they received a hostile environment in return. She asks Robert to meet with Barbara Blake-Hannah - the first female black news reporter in the UK, who went back to Jamaica after just eight years, due to racist abuse.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Robert and Jennifer also hear the views of second and third generation British Caribbean's on how they feel about their identity. Are they British, Caribbean or is it possible to be both?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Finally, Robert travels to Manchester to speak to Tony Downie, who came to the UK as a child of Windrush. He served in the British military until his world was turned upside down after being threatened with deportation during the Windrush scandal.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Will Tony's shocking story change Roberts view on the Windrush generation and benefits of being in the UK?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEkBWu-JFoaBC_Tf7BRw0m-JpAaWKALq0I3PuidGQr7e7YNjpK7VVAXIE6D9C86wvzVcMsKKl11R_ptEgGaRU-EH8VFEAmIB0kDGpWX_FAVBtJ3G2k6WDX0_AJxp7QAZmLKS0Tr976Yda83M0ff-6HObIh23AHR6pXcQXWN5u73N1OlLvRvQHKyOc5gV0/s1440/UK.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEkBWu-JFoaBC_Tf7BRw0m-JpAaWKALq0I3PuidGQr7e7YNjpK7VVAXIE6D9C86wvzVcMsKKl11R_ptEgGaRU-EH8VFEAmIB0kDGpWX_FAVBtJ3G2k6WDX0_AJxp7QAZmLKS0Tr976Yda83M0ff-6HObIh23AHR6pXcQXWN5u73N1OlLvRvQHKyOc5gV0/s320/UK.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>inmyownwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900263474744400860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315857934060352736.post-89240314138921318562023-05-25T08:21:00.003-05:002023-06-18T18:41:07.733-05:00Organized Progressive Nation Building Krispy Kreme Give Away!<p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>In 2011, 20 people showed up to protest "Inequities and
Injustices in the Jamaican society". </li><li>In 2012, 60 people show up at the JFJ’s protest against Police Corruption and Killings. </li><li>In 2023, a hand full of people showed up to
protest Massive Politician Salary Increase. </li></ul><p></p><p><b>BUT in 2023, thousands of people showed up,
blocking roads because the American company Krispy Kreme was giving away Free Donuts. </b></p><p>I keep telling people If you want to Organized a Progressive Nation Building Protest then you need to string up a sound system and throw KFC from the back of trucks or <b>Krispy Kreme donuts!</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p></p>
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margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin1Aml5QLYQngK62FVKH-sWqzrB8Fb-NQMJ2MGjhG91CpjsQUZ8zmwbxDr2DtCA_RKA9PJ5zWh3K2mpZ-O7CCvFVC8wEImfZRv-yOJs6zIdvYchWPF2WvX87zeMr4u-vbiaSP_6Eiwk2arZsE9xOrYtuJ-u8vaCCMOLmyVdXOOI2NkEZCrRVL13xHf/s460/holness.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="345" data-original-width="460" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin1Aml5QLYQngK62FVKH-sWqzrB8Fb-NQMJ2MGjhG91CpjsQUZ8zmwbxDr2DtCA_RKA9PJ5zWh3K2mpZ-O7CCvFVC8wEImfZRv-yOJs6zIdvYchWPF2WvX87zeMr4u-vbiaSP_6Eiwk2arZsE9xOrYtuJ-u8vaCCMOLmyVdXOOI2NkEZCrRVL13xHf/s320/holness.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
"Within our first 100 days of government, we will start the legislative process to fix the date for general elections in Jamaica. This will bring greater certainty to the political process, and, by the way, the date will be a date after the Budget, and not before," said Holness. <b>"So, no government will be able to come and make false promises and hide the truth and tell you half-truths, and trick you into voting for them, and then when they win, they draw poison on you."</b></li></ul><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
"Within the first 100 days of our government, we will start the legislative process to institute impeachment proceedings in Parliament. This will add another layer of protection of the Parliament to ensure that only members of unquestioned integrity sit in the Parliament." </li></ul><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
"Within the first 100 days of government, we will start the legislative process to introduce term limits on the office of prime minister," said Holness, who previously served two months as prime minister of Jamaica. </li></ul><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
"At a convenient time within our new government, we will hold a grand referendum on the Caribbean Court of Justice as the final appellate court. We will also place on that referendum the removal of the buggery law," said the opposition leader. </li></ul><br />
<p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Today, March 24th 2023 makes it 2,645 days since these promises were made. </b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/73bBRZCAGlY" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />inmyownwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900263474744400860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315857934060352736.post-53614015901830621052023-04-07T16:30:00.010-05:002024-03-16T10:19:25.419-05:00Reggae Attacking Real Reggae - The Message should be Love<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHHy0MuOf1U-u5MJGjR2UPAbw7OcjgZnHc0d4N5kFSNYmUeR9oxtm13vTpwuoANhagT2KIVSiz9knQY6qEv4ZmIBSyXZQbC5Gc_R9rNeXFxHQwJ62FaSxE0bzxwVMIJ8nKqlByVrs0GvVayp4DkMXo2Gy6MU5vp0Lj7MdHnUMw60OARxzRdTNuMV0P/s1200/EEjon2RQ_1_il7v8j.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="674" data-original-width="1200" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHHy0MuOf1U-u5MJGjR2UPAbw7OcjgZnHc0d4N5kFSNYmUeR9oxtm13vTpwuoANhagT2KIVSiz9knQY6qEv4ZmIBSyXZQbC5Gc_R9rNeXFxHQwJ62FaSxE0bzxwVMIJ8nKqlByVrs0GvVayp4DkMXo2Gy6MU5vp0Lj7MdHnUMw60OARxzRdTNuMV0P/s320/EEjon2RQ_1_il7v8j.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>Real Reggae is message music. The message of reggae should be conscious, progressive, uplifting, revolutionary and nation building because reggae wants us to be the best version of ourselves. Reggae wants us to have self-respect, morals, values, love, and respect for our fellow man. You do not have to be a Rasta to deliver the message of reggae but if you are a true Rasta, you must deliver this message. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaPOvYC8wqpW0zI28rcDk0hYl8E7rpCdjyPNnSthTFAk_wIlbNCItsTTXm06NxYp8K0obYf6TyZ6Rp7kOL5eTBl6efQs2LZ8emM2U6rEDxUhaznUMjA_YV8tlcQdzkeRLpMw_EWTfHZ5WNy3nxXt2b091YDRpeeOkfnCS30_HPf_P7zauVuPN5XqbZ/s1600/in-digg-nation-2020.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaPOvYC8wqpW0zI28rcDk0hYl8E7rpCdjyPNnSthTFAk_wIlbNCItsTTXm06NxYp8K0obYf6TyZ6Rp7kOL5eTBl6efQs2LZ8emM2U6rEDxUhaznUMjA_YV8tlcQdzkeRLpMw_EWTfHZ5WNy3nxXt2b091YDRpeeOkfnCS30_HPf_P7zauVuPN5XqbZ/s320/in-digg-nation-2020.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><b>The Message is Love!</b> I am not a Rasta, nor am I religious, in fact I am not a fan of the religious and their religion because most are hypocrites. However, I love the natural organic nature of Rasta, it is more in-tune with my own views and outlook on life. One does not need to be religious to have morals and values. Nothing is more important to me than progressive, uplifting, revolutionary and nation building message of reggae, pushing self-respect, morals, values, and love for ourselves and our fellow human beings. This is the message we need to continuously push on our young people. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIl1Xb29IAtoK20PYRgke4J0Fyd-DvCLKeh5Cb_WKh9XByZyEBCC7ef1N5XbE0dGz2KDnJY6fqNelwn0Bv96AgbKuTOfjSf-UoWO5_i60iwn6t4n5iLTA8vvGnxAIrG8wE1ZeqyyH1nnzECN5lEQgMCYYkQLslChjtZJofZvkS-i4bduq6DDItV_a9/s1200/ED010_SOCIAL_KOFFEE_6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIl1Xb29IAtoK20PYRgke4J0Fyd-DvCLKeh5Cb_WKh9XByZyEBCC7ef1N5XbE0dGz2KDnJY6fqNelwn0Bv96AgbKuTOfjSf-UoWO5_i60iwn6t4n5iLTA8vvGnxAIrG8wE1ZeqyyH1nnzECN5lEQgMCYYkQLslChjtZJofZvkS-i4bduq6DDItV_a9/s320/ED010_SOCIAL_KOFFEE_6.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><br /><div>Lately I have been coming across several Rasta Reggae artist, Rasta people and dancehall artist attacking other artist who have done nothing but push conscious, progressive, uplifting, revolutionary and nation building Reggae Music. Many of these people are obsessed with the perceived sexuality of the artist. They declared that maybe in her private life, the artist might be gay and as such this disqualifies him or her from delivering the message of real reggae. </div><div><br /></div><div>I do not care who is Rasta and who is not Rasta. What I do care about is the message in the music. The only message I respect and tolerate is progressive, uplifting conscious lyrics based on good morals, values, inter-human relationships and human development. The only artist I respect are those pushing this type of message music. Reggae must empower people, reggae must uplift people and make people want to be the best version of themselves. </div><div><br /></div><div>Our culture must be part of the progressive Nation Building process. I do not care about the artist private life, so long as they are not hurting anyone. what one “<b>Consenting Human Adult</b> ” decides to do with another “<b>Consenting Human Adult</b>” is none of my damn business, I do not care, it has nothing to do with me. Your religion and religious views plays no part in my decision making process, I am free of that burden. I value people based on how productive they are to society, how balance and well socialized they are, how they treat other people with respect. I value people on whether they are kind to animals and Kind to each other and respect the laws of the land and the environment.</div><div><br /></div><div>Reggae Revival Artist like Koffee and Lila do not sing about sex, and violence as a way of life. They are not singing about who to cock up, who fi jock up and who fah red fi dig out or lick out. Nor are they singing about death, murder and destruction. Most of their music are feel good, nice vibes music delivering good progressive lyrics to young people. There is nothing sexual or violent about it. I have never heard Koffee declaring herself as Rasta, maybe she did but I never heard it. I have never regarded her as Rasta but a progressive human being wanting the best for humanity through her music. Telling people to turn away from negativity and embrace livity and one does not have to be a Rasta to do that. </div><div><br /></div><div>Koffee is not pushing gayness and she is not pushing counterproductive death and destruction, murder music. Yet these bad-mind Rasta’s are quiet when it comes to murder death and destruction counterproductive music and the dutty DJ who spouts it, because duppy know who fih frighten. <br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://jamaicantillidie.blogspot.com/2019/12/dutty-dancehall-must-die.html" target="_blank">Dutty-Dancehall-Must-Die</a></div><br /><b>
When dutty dancehall artist Mavado sings: “Mi cut a newborn throat, cause you know me nuh play” </b></div><div><br /></div><div>Where was the outrage from these Rasta’s who cannot deal with the idea of Koffee’s perceived private sexuality. <br /><br /><b>
Alkaline – Microwave: “.357 Buss it splash him all over di place, head over deh so. Foot chop off a grung a wiggle and a shake, nuh weh fi tun go. No weh fi run go. Throw tire pon you, gas light you and bun you.” </b><br /><br />
If you dissect and analyze the lyrical content of these dutty-dancehall artist, then you will understand why the murder rate is so high and our society is failing. Our popular culture normalizes counterproductive, dysfunctional murderous lifestyle and real reggae artist are afraid to call out the likes of Kartel, Alkaline and Mavado to name a few. </div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nsJFXZs5j7A?si=yveKVZzbfwL3pEbm" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div>Social media is littered with dysfunctional DUTTY-DANCEHALL music and lifestyle. A person on Facebook posted a dance hall video and, in that video, a young woman was thrown on a table. She spread her legs and then the man took out a bottle of hot pepper sauce and began to pour it between her legs to cheers, excitement, and merriment of a crowd of on-lookers, including children. This is the type of behavior that we are now reduced to, where hot sauce poured between a woman’s legs is entertainment. </div><div><br /></div><div>But the people circling the wagon around Koffee and Lila Ike trying to tear them down, are silent in the face of such destruction.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhDTNk5117ccgwqu-DcgFNPX9f99T8WgwsmSTMU7Dcm3TdphHu-AhuOr8Gb-Owhsw7X2NcgZLGZIRRpnTs5vmknorseoEGDpdBS8u_mtQrdomNKhNDNcvC40RVf5yZ9GqiQ5DQAP7UFykPqKmeEjgRX7L4oDsr6IY_oq1Z2drvYjx6ABCK_4QXFJOO/s260/download%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="260" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhDTNk5117ccgwqu-DcgFNPX9f99T8WgwsmSTMU7Dcm3TdphHu-AhuOr8Gb-Owhsw7X2NcgZLGZIRRpnTs5vmknorseoEGDpdBS8u_mtQrdomNKhNDNcvC40RVf5yZ9GqiQ5DQAP7UFykPqKmeEjgRX7L4oDsr6IY_oq1Z2drvYjx6ABCK_4QXFJOO/s1600/download%20(1).jpg" width="260" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw6VB23TRIb1FwO1jrSbrLb2uHqlDFo9G_mLcTo0jIJ386KihpgnLiIoEUekXOnMGgEbeVlNaVnP4LlyV0QgTxU7enFQkVsoGXBPJvSi7jlQA3Ux_lP1HmQuu_KJAppCieo5U_7B08SwZPeHYhdvrDkBQhOpzcX04voedHCV_PBu-kmrRfv_nDYo26/s500/lila-n-sevana.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw6VB23TRIb1FwO1jrSbrLb2uHqlDFo9G_mLcTo0jIJ386KihpgnLiIoEUekXOnMGgEbeVlNaVnP4LlyV0QgTxU7enFQkVsoGXBPJvSi7jlQA3Ux_lP1HmQuu_KJAppCieo5U_7B08SwZPeHYhdvrDkBQhOpzcX04voedHCV_PBu-kmrRfv_nDYo26/s320/lila-n-sevana.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCi6OXOx5uIIZYF6WMb0il28n_s5dXuPWBA2h2XhV_-zClX7FIsFznO1DIZKQl7lbdQmnO2UIXoYnh9i-cb_bj2HObGVWxqju0L_TfhDzElTYPC6HtLDVfcxGT_iV_QyQA102RLdokZ1gI4xQev7k-XZO0Sdle2OOvY3U5yinPdKWp8WBxegj0qs3w/s1200/Quotation-Bob-Marley-You-never-know-how-strong-you-are-until-being-strong-51-54-57.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="1200" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCi6OXOx5uIIZYF6WMb0il28n_s5dXuPWBA2h2XhV_-zClX7FIsFznO1DIZKQl7lbdQmnO2UIXoYnh9i-cb_bj2HObGVWxqju0L_TfhDzElTYPC6HtLDVfcxGT_iV_QyQA102RLdokZ1gI4xQev7k-XZO0Sdle2OOvY3U5yinPdKWp8WBxegj0qs3w/s320/Quotation-Bob-Marley-You-never-know-how-strong-you-are-until-being-strong-51-54-57.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <br /><br />
</div>inmyownwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900263474744400860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315857934060352736.post-29201178228218624282023-04-07T15:45:00.032-05:002024-03-13T13:24:27.202-05:00I LOVE MY ROCK! - Drones Over Jamaica<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/T7po-KfDu5g" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vBCvXS_1UpU" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7d2QHR4mHvI" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><b><u>National Pledge</u></b></div><div>Before God and all mankind, I pledge the love and loyalty of my heart, the wisdom and courage of my mind, the strength and vigor of my body in the service of my fellow citizens, I promise to stand up for Justice, Brotherhood and Peace, to work diligently and creatively, to think generously and honestly, so that Jamaica may, under God, increase in beauty, fellowship and prosperity, and play her part in advancing the welfare of the whole human race.</div><div><br /></div><br /><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/v0QJMeftfNw" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><br /><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yc-aZEAjlAo" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On one hand I LOVE THIS! I love these off the beaten path discoveries, tucked away in the middle of nowhere. BUT on the other hand, I do not like it because I fear for the survivability and sustainability of the places being discovered. Once human being discovers something, then we can immediately put it on the endangered list. Because it is not if we will destroy it but when. This isolated slice of nature will become a target for human destruction. BUT I DO LOVE THIS, nature in all its wonderful, natural sustainable glory. I just want to live isolated in the middle of all that and be one with it. My aim and purpose in life is to isolate myself from the mainstream, limit human contact living on a sustainable homestead.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br />
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</div>inmyownwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900263474744400860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315857934060352736.post-6767512710596562662023-04-06T14:21:00.007-05:002023-04-06T14:37:22.498-05:00Reparations MUST be Nation Building<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8KeftUQ8qOf9nUAfSADCFcPyO7Y5nhu_uNV-_EyN0R7ACYD32OIn3_mWn_RYBRBzWGplpSpaF89iqumU0hTq4rZFkxPMwOy_yY-lFnPCdRHcKM3buwkZ7lj_Az80yCT8eA-TuBJmrL0z4095zly0idXxYrYsSgdj7lZLFa8QqsE521Oq9HMdAXNIb/s282/images.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="179" data-original-width="282" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8KeftUQ8qOf9nUAfSADCFcPyO7Y5nhu_uNV-_EyN0R7ACYD32OIn3_mWn_RYBRBzWGplpSpaF89iqumU0hTq4rZFkxPMwOy_yY-lFnPCdRHcKM3buwkZ7lj_Az80yCT8eA-TuBJmrL0z4095zly0idXxYrYsSgdj7lZLFa8QqsE521Oq9HMdAXNIb/s1600/images.jpg" width="282" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Taken From: <a href="https://jamaicantillidie.blogspot.com/2014/03/reparations-or-wealth-redistribution.html?_sm_au_=iVV3t6VN1nnZZMDrkRvMGK3JRp2ft" target="_blank">Reparations or Wealth Redistribution?</a></p><p>Reparation is not about an individual nor is it about a person’s percentage of blackness. Reparations is about Nation States created out of slavery and colonization used primarily for wealth extraction and then left at a disadvantage, to suffer. Many of which are still suffering from the lingering negatives effects of European slavery and colonization.</p><div wfd-id="101"><b>Reparation is about the equitable redistribution of stolen wealth back to the countries where such wealth was unfairly extracted.</b> It does not matter the colour of skin or genetic makeup of the people living in these territories. What matters is that countries like Jamaica was unfairly used and abused, suffered greatly under a cruel and Inhumane system that extracted all its wealth and was left with nothing, to suffer for hundreds of years to come. Reparation is about returning wealth and uplifting countries left at a disadvantage, out of poverty. Slavery and colonisation left more than half the planet at a huge disadvantage and has given certain countries and races the clear advantage. <br /><br /><b><u>Reparations Must be to Countries not Individuals:</u></b></div><div wfd-id="101">If you give individual black people reparations, then white people will become rich. Black people take pride spending most of their income on ostentatious goods and services produce and sold by white people. Countries like Jamaica take pride importing goods from first world developed countries. The makers of Clarks, Gucci and Hennessy would get richer as a result. Black woman would be walking around with the most expensive imported weave. If you give some black people a million dollars on Thursday, they would have no money by Monday morning.</div><div wfd-id="101"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKI2ygD7cMkoUHDsTPRF-GGsduifbcp7nzB-uBxXIuGZSX8k6cUAtHccGHhetzBEx6FlYl3p2luz00hs1vsY7c1fd0ICyeo0R6sgi7J7FYXGlrUflCGOXc8K-R7tNQxa7-4-N-64MykUEElGpuballQbYnMo9xIpcJu5OGGb2RqxQN-dZyMuPlUlqk/s800/download.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="497" data-original-width="800" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKI2ygD7cMkoUHDsTPRF-GGsduifbcp7nzB-uBxXIuGZSX8k6cUAtHccGHhetzBEx6FlYl3p2luz00hs1vsY7c1fd0ICyeo0R6sgi7J7FYXGlrUflCGOXc8K-R7tNQxa7-4-N-64MykUEElGpuballQbYnMo9xIpcJu5OGGb2RqxQN-dZyMuPlUlqk/s320/download.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div wfd-id="101"><br /></div><div wfd-id="101"><b><br /></b>Reparation does not have to mean direct big money payouts to individuals but finding ways to re-balance the scales on a national level. So that countries that are at a disadvantage because of this disgusting system can break free from the shackles of poverty. As such when we talk about reparations we are talking about reparations to countries on a whole and not individuals lining up to get easy money handouts or what the "anti-reparationist" like to describe as lazy, freeloading black people looking for easy money.</div><div wfd-id="100"><br /></div><div wfd-id="93"><b><u>Reparation MUST be Nation Building:</u></b></div><div wfd-id="93">Reparations can take several forms such as Debt Forgiveness or Direct Investment or Preferential Trade Agreements as well as subsidies. In fact, anything that could help to re-balance the scale and ease the burden can be regarded as reparations and a comprehensive reparation plan would be the way forward. Reparations must be a game changer. </div><div wfd-id="93"><div wfd-id="93"><ul><li>Reparations must result in More schools and increase education for all Jamaicans. </li><li>Reparations must result in Infrastructure development.</li><li>Reparations must result in Redesign and development of our Water harvesting, storage, and distribution</li><li>Reparations must result in New Hospitals and better healthcare for all</li><li>Reparations must result in the development of Reliable Renewable Energy infrastructure. </li></ul></div><div>Just to name a few:</div><div><br /></div><div>Imagine if we wake up tomorrow and Jamaica's National Debt was ZERO! All that money spent servicing the National debt could go towards Nation Building, investing in human development and the human capital. It must benefit the entire Nation equally. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65200570" target="_blank">King Charles supports study into Royal Family slavery links</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2AmpCb0MP794zS7_a-TFcUP9Hdg594Fi8qA5fYpSemXpBBlMS7jMaZpaCZnqGpeHdVwRybL6g-nV7yCA_Jthb8nphEbmtdeWJIhGDrd1HzNEEY3_WrDK9upSBLsdcTdVnynzZ_kayE8KmlImPr-jWtoFL4BwOsCodxErLR-6JZ1V8ZOtGRXdzznps/s1280/maxresdefault.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2AmpCb0MP794zS7_a-TFcUP9Hdg594Fi8qA5fYpSemXpBBlMS7jMaZpaCZnqGpeHdVwRybL6g-nV7yCA_Jthb8nphEbmtdeWJIhGDrd1HzNEEY3_WrDK9upSBLsdcTdVnynzZ_kayE8KmlImPr-jWtoFL4BwOsCodxErLR-6JZ1V8ZOtGRXdzznps/s320/maxresdefault.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/05/how-the-british-royal-family-hides-its-wealth-from-public-scrutiny?utm_source=eml&utm_medium=emlf&utm_campaign=MK_SU_SOINewsletterCanvas&utm_term=Email_VOHD&utm_content=variantA" target="_blank">How the British royal family hides its wealth from public scrutiny. The Cost of the crown series will ask challenging questions of King Charles III. Ahead of the coronation of King Charles III, the Guardian’s Cost of the crown series exposes the entrenched secrecy around the royal family’s money and wealth</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNVZlQ-QTjJt3v1SpLhus5Wlcx4abU7vT9NMTdVsZmlb1GPEo7-IyN9-MXKeI1n22ti0pY1FpmeA889vNxAZRXBSMVITa8vYRRmlYc9nryeBrBwsMDvTZwrTvbZUzNzVOyMLJNCThUhIXefsQERtB2KhYz4cv8XLWEW1p74iKMzP2V6ciVDaejOBHW/s2500/210503-reparations-main-2x1-an-d29139.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="2500" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNVZlQ-QTjJt3v1SpLhus5Wlcx4abU7vT9NMTdVsZmlb1GPEo7-IyN9-MXKeI1n22ti0pY1FpmeA889vNxAZRXBSMVITa8vYRRmlYc9nryeBrBwsMDvTZwrTvbZUzNzVOyMLJNCThUhIXefsQERtB2KhYz4cv8XLWEW1p74iKMzP2V6ciVDaejOBHW/s320/210503-reparations-main-2x1-an-d29139.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div></div>inmyownwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900263474744400860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315857934060352736.post-77639192328576471212023-03-22T20:25:00.010-05:002023-06-13T12:04:21.558-05:00Jamaica Droughts and Water Lock offs <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDPEy_SDfneJoCT1FpEvYEU8fZdSiuWhupjvlIO0uIkFBTSBUOUAszP3TtGxT2gLlv-fps11IXRmrfcMAF9tuwCfm0pXfw-IQ1WQ_FFRfEEMD378_cR-G3Zv0laNbk3BoPsW-pchJ9juYy4FR4i0XGJcpp5Vqb8H6eXRqAYNssOXHfcifeNIMnwVD7/s1280/photo_server.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDPEy_SDfneJoCT1FpEvYEU8fZdSiuWhupjvlIO0uIkFBTSBUOUAszP3TtGxT2gLlv-fps11IXRmrfcMAF9tuwCfm0pXfw-IQ1WQ_FFRfEEMD378_cR-G3Zv0laNbk3BoPsW-pchJ9juYy4FR4i0XGJcpp5Vqb8H6eXRqAYNssOXHfcifeNIMnwVD7/s320/photo_server.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Jamaica’s Aging Water Systems Falter Under Population Growth, Construction, Intense Heat and Drought</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Long before Jamaicans declared war on the environment, when Kingston and St. Andrew were a greener city with a much lower population size, our water harvesting, storage and distribution infrastructure was not efficient enough to effectively survive drought and supply us with water. It was never fit for purpose. These days, Kingston, and St. Andrew has changed because we declared war on every inch of greenspaces, converting single family homes with beautiful green yard spaces into Gated Concrete Townhouse Compounds. If you build it, they will come and they are a coming. We are now building for the Global diaspora. </div><div><br /></div><div><div>Construction of Hermitage Dam began in 1924 and it was inaugurated on 4 May 1927. It was developed to solve a 1927 problem. According to the 1921 census of Jamaica, the total population of the parishes of Kingston and St Andrew (KSA) was 118,309. In 1927, the Hermitage Dam (with a capacity of 460 million gallons) was built by the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC) to meet the domestic water needs of the KSA.</div><div><br /></div><div>By the 1943 census, the total population of KSA had more than doubled to 238,229. In 1946, the Mona Dam (with a capacity of 825 million gallons) was built by the colonial government of Jamaica with a grant from the Colonial Development and Welfare Fund, more than doubling the stored water to meet the increasing needs of the KSA. </div><div><br /></div><div>According to the 2011 census, the total population of the KSA had much more than doubled again to 662,426. No new reservoir has been built since independence to serve the increasing water needs of residents of the KMA, and none is planned. This is 2023, with the development of the highways and over development of Gated Compounds, rural to urban and returning residents migration is taking place at an alarming rate.</div></div><br />
As a result, we increase the population size in major cities 3 to 5 times their original size but without redevelopment of our water harvesting, storage and distribution infrastructure to meet the growing demands. Back in the days, we could go a month without rainfall before we suffered from drought and water lock offs. Now we cannot even go one week without rainfall before the dams start running dry.<div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIXfzn5xvzukpeWTPZL43MnFuQN777SuONifXVbCKu7m0X8mIio2n7V5MJ9hPVQqPYXKaFtu-GjNP9RDPfFydb2ZTb6k_qaxCkjAzd6aEgxvdo5ml_z7tllV3ybFDSXa8J-WlHzUZkx2GjxcOBBEkyI9LQu5l_0rfPxXyEqRC_crJj5IhLxmoVDsNQ/s460/kingsmanorh20140109jb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="345" data-original-width="460" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIXfzn5xvzukpeWTPZL43MnFuQN777SuONifXVbCKu7m0X8mIio2n7V5MJ9hPVQqPYXKaFtu-GjNP9RDPfFydb2ZTb6k_qaxCkjAzd6aEgxvdo5ml_z7tllV3ybFDSXa8J-WlHzUZkx2GjxcOBBEkyI9LQu5l_0rfPxXyEqRC_crJj5IhLxmoVDsNQ/s320/kingsmanorh20140109jb.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />We are a very shallow, superficial people, gated concrete compounds reminds us of foreign. It gives us a feeling that are developed, in the big league now with slow moving electronic gates with coded entry. To some, Jamaica is the new Florida. But what we have done is like building our mansions on sand because we do not care about the fundamentals, we do not care about a strong foundation. We care only about the Floss and living within the floss bubble, but bubbles have a tendency of bursting.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivSOl-7Y07zfXYYG2QVkqKYaggeMUJ7EOTVW2KZ8mSB0snmlh4HXEjrQ_bLV7adjDYNVeC4EInoyrq182phdqk1sAlTnTU7RYFnF7gD26djHaYtmhCaUqMlI2WDDyL3BJ0NDF7bsq6ZVLxGv2Dhvu-06aG9HCaV4ZWCgywWHbb4tdcZULepR4f-YMB/s1024/3664070683_c6a87e993c_b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="840" data-original-width="1024" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivSOl-7Y07zfXYYG2QVkqKYaggeMUJ7EOTVW2KZ8mSB0snmlh4HXEjrQ_bLV7adjDYNVeC4EInoyrq182phdqk1sAlTnTU7RYFnF7gD26djHaYtmhCaUqMlI2WDDyL3BJ0NDF7bsq6ZVLxGv2Dhvu-06aG9HCaV4ZWCgywWHbb4tdcZULepR4f-YMB/s320/3664070683_c6a87e993c_b.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>Some of us grew up having to go to the standpipe for water and when we finally get piped water into our homes, we suffer regular water lock offs. Drought and inefficient water supply cost Jamaica about 5% of GDP. When it comes to water all our Government failed us, both PNP and JLP. Because promises of better water supply are a means to an end. It keeps them in control, they get votes, power, and wealth. Before the 2016 General Election, Holness and his cronies jumped around like circus clowns promising to revolutionize Jamaica’s Water harvesting, storage, and distribution infrastructure. To date all they, members of the Political Class, brought to the table is water trucks, some of which were cesspool trucks converted to deliver drinking water to the poor and suffering, plastic water tanks, so I assume our bodies are full of microplastics and water shops.</div><div><br />
What they did was monetize water, so their friends and family can get lucrative contracts. Instead of borrowing cheap Chinese loans to redeveloped and redesign Jamaica’s water harvesting, storage and distribution infrastructure, they borrowed money to build a new vanity bling not -fit-for-purpose parliament.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji06nMBiciSBqQLC5mh9GvzYaRmFmAHjdInssrXe8nuIt1zBAqxdqO3--qx356O49lbbHX0PUi6k3wPjIxOKNkuPNUwQJ0dfYFY2S8aJL0skbJUwyXdK2MtXiYQj-3BZnnoXiqmJ_Ve_nMm3par85lQHFwVXVnXRPxPMGqnYHJqU6coftD-ntEpkYP/s460/20230306_063804_cropped.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="345" data-original-width="460" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji06nMBiciSBqQLC5mh9GvzYaRmFmAHjdInssrXe8nuIt1zBAqxdqO3--qx356O49lbbHX0PUi6k3wPjIxOKNkuPNUwQJ0dfYFY2S8aJL0skbJUwyXdK2MtXiYQj-3BZnnoXiqmJ_Ve_nMm3par85lQHFwVXVnXRPxPMGqnYHJqU6coftD-ntEpkYP/s320/20230306_063804_cropped.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>East Portland residents mount roadblocks to protest bad roads, lack of water <span style="text-align: left;"> </span></b></div><br />
No other parish in Jamaica gets as much rain fall as Portland. Out of the 365 days of the year, it rains about 350 days in green, lush Portland and YET, Portlanders do not have any water to drink! If we were to employ the economy theory of Specialization, then Portland would be the parish, where we build several dams, and they would supply the other 13 parishes with water. Water would be the main economic business of Portland. Instead, 95% of the rainfall in Portland gets washed out to sea.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBknLqfAStZkTCRjKr0Xlc9PVLbVIIDFlYJnIgIsdbU4Ghoh1rXDgXDpq0507FJ45JYB9qYaKl3NVbCBJaR_WYHUfdtw20W6KqGZ0WpayI4w3SOSHFCtOzIUahJVuVl2nRDBqEbtywNz5kmjNZxN8s6Rh2_hXPSbkDqq7oNPCydkdyPEUtACxEvyEl/s460/droughe20140717c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="345" data-original-width="460" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBknLqfAStZkTCRjKr0Xlc9PVLbVIIDFlYJnIgIsdbU4Ghoh1rXDgXDpq0507FJ45JYB9qYaKl3NVbCBJaR_WYHUfdtw20W6KqGZ0WpayI4w3SOSHFCtOzIUahJVuVl2nRDBqEbtywNz5kmjNZxN8s6Rh2_hXPSbkDqq7oNPCydkdyPEUtACxEvyEl/s320/droughe20140717c.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><div>When it comes to who gets water, the tourism industry is priority. The tourist must drink first before the locals and I am shocked they are not bottling their wastewater for the rest of us locals to consume. Rural areas, that never use to suffer water shortage are now suffering drought. That could be because water that should go to farms, is being diverted from local communities to the tourist locations.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwLc_AowaF-zKWviBWy0BP8Plna8DlFHDTk-gl0IfXhX5E4zq8ScGNTl0VtoQRazWogD_0JvGrJX90Cd70w8uTGuGLF396XL1Nb6r4c-T_hRSH-bgNau5kFx9inULro3hebWiA6F2tXa4jxlUARkjjZ7XV6hXQY6xV-KHdEOI6Nez8DJ5h7tG6s91M/s2920/map-desktop1920.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1634" data-original-width="2920" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwLc_AowaF-zKWviBWy0BP8Plna8DlFHDTk-gl0IfXhX5E4zq8ScGNTl0VtoQRazWogD_0JvGrJX90Cd70w8uTGuGLF396XL1Nb6r4c-T_hRSH-bgNau5kFx9inULro3hebWiA6F2tXa4jxlUARkjjZ7XV6hXQY6xV-KHdEOI6Nez8DJ5h7tG6s91M/s320/map-desktop1920.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /> </div><div><br />
I know some people cannot believe that after all the rainfall and flooding, why we still do not have enough water in the dams. 90% of all the water fall on Jamaica gets washed out to sea, even our gullies were designed to dump water into the sea. The dams are filled with dirt debris, and sludge and not enough space to hold water. We converted green space to concrete but failed to build proper drainage to harvest that water. So, the second it rains, it starts to flood and even during the rain we remain in a drought.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Between 2014 and 2015, Jamaica experienced one of the worst seasons of drought in recent history. The impact on the Jamaican economy, especially rural livelihoods, was devastating. According to reports, the annual agricultural production declined by 30 percent from 2013 to 2014. This, along with brush fires, resulted in a $J1 billion ($6.5 million) loss for the economy. </div><div><br /></div><div>According to the Statistical Institute (STATIN) report, the agriculture sector constitutes between 7 and 14 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and almost one fifth of the employed labor force. The importance of agriculture to Jamaica’s economy, coupled with the country’s sensitivity to the effects of climate change and severe weather events, leads to a domino effect. Not only do crops suffer, but farmers lose resources and income, while local production and consumption are severely impacted.</div><div><br /></div><div>This devastating drought highlights how climate change not only impacts the environment, but also countries’ economies and families. <br />
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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="790" data-original-width="1054" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKXEtQPmdOyDDHjgkhLY9KJTU_C0tKbyd0cuTICn3bYTc0reZY4AYxPedjZtkBHbZ3IKVpCpKKan9WrCPaopalwOPLjdG-_0w5cgvD037__W6JxvF8gCHUH8Qbsh3WDKcwguPrYaRLwZtDqPXJx00_TEG7EtOxcD3gnwFKYLnzIHXT3Cd54ea2tw4J/s320/parish.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjylM9RMB3Spf1wb3aoLNaJmnsYu9ZpEqJtouG97uN0WmyB1SIuQJWbeSAgZcs6vF1Dsak_oL1uJh56MeETYFufOvvIYVKqzVrxOksAriFhhYdgXDun8W8MqZ0ZwTLwPbDos2dFfxQ1YQ4OXRCHWbmQfuAtzfoje4oNYKlBrTsLyHIBiD5c2wm5uCaO/s751/mean.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="656" data-original-width="751" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjylM9RMB3Spf1wb3aoLNaJmnsYu9ZpEqJtouG97uN0WmyB1SIuQJWbeSAgZcs6vF1Dsak_oL1uJh56MeETYFufOvvIYVKqzVrxOksAriFhhYdgXDun8W8MqZ0ZwTLwPbDos2dFfxQ1YQ4OXRCHWbmQfuAtzfoje4oNYKlBrTsLyHIBiD5c2wm5uCaO/s320/mean.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><div>Jamaica experienced six incidents of meteorological drought during 2021, with conditions ranging from moderately dry to severely dry.</div><div><br /></div><div>The western parish of Hanover was the only one that did not experience drought conditions, while St Thomas experienced five periods of drought, the most by any parish.</div><div><br /></div><div>This is according to data contained in the Planning Institute of Jamaica’s Economic and Social Survey Jamaica 2021. The climate data was provided by the Meteorological Service, Jamaica (MSJ)</div></div>inmyownwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900263474744400860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315857934060352736.post-14842035498761609182023-01-23T15:55:00.002-05:002023-03-10T13:55:47.392-05:00Jamaica Normalize Crime and Corruption<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzkDZ8AKW4qWyLTrJHRq4YhS_IJRc_Sbufc847mPipJNTe17eCvURoGRUYzKhnLElnsfm5n_tTjX1-HYAqetIxlIv_m9yxXzuyt4snAU8VeUnEAGoW64ESZiSc94Li4j6gQY19PVtkNzPz8K8HqM9Mb9Yaan0NfW8De5UIQiVLwD7q2jSSEgT7IAtI/s460/whatsapp_image_2021-01-28_at_7.54.19_am_0.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="345" data-original-width="460" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzkDZ8AKW4qWyLTrJHRq4YhS_IJRc_Sbufc847mPipJNTe17eCvURoGRUYzKhnLElnsfm5n_tTjX1-HYAqetIxlIv_m9yxXzuyt4snAU8VeUnEAGoW64ESZiSc94Li4j6gQY19PVtkNzPz8K8HqM9Mb9Yaan0NfW8De5UIQiVLwD7q2jSSEgT7IAtI/s320/whatsapp_image_2021-01-28_at_7.54.19_am_0.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>Jamaicans are very selective when it comes to corruption, crime, criminals, and victim outrage. We love to pretend that we are outrage about corruption but for the most part we are not. Jamaica as a society normalized various aspect of corruption and crime, it is seen as an opportunity and all depends on who is the perpetrator, who is benefiting and who is the victim. I once wrote that I had to cut down all the fruit trees in my yard because I was tired of coming home finding people in my yard and up my trees. Based on the response I got from some, one would think I went into the yard of the people who were in my yard and cut down their food trees depriving them of a meal. I became the criminal for cutting down my own tree and they, the invaders of my yard became the victims.<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwNyi9kTy0F-SnuKl5BibHOuYmZQif7pKg08kLtlXh9uAlx5ezrtNlwi_rIYYy4bag74LUviN-h1PfY1uiObNTquq_6hwCEiNzmxy4mFPLo21XTSNMOkSPjtnsLu9qZ8931MCULLqNRoYhs45SuV7YSGme-FNt6edYryqYaCzfOmf1o3ZRccG7322P/s1022/ssl-hq-hope-road-our-today-demo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="670" data-original-width="1022" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwNyi9kTy0F-SnuKl5BibHOuYmZQif7pKg08kLtlXh9uAlx5ezrtNlwi_rIYYy4bag74LUviN-h1PfY1uiObNTquq_6hwCEiNzmxy4mFPLo21XTSNMOkSPjtnsLu9qZ8931MCULLqNRoYhs45SuV7YSGme-FNt6edYryqYaCzfOmf1o3ZRccG7322P/s320/ssl-hq-hope-road-our-today-demo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>We give cute names to crimes we love Scamma and Choppa, and worship community dons, warlords, and Scammers because they are seen as providers for the ghettos. The people respect the fact that they came from nothing, little ghetto youths, go up against the system and found a way to make money, flashing the wealth from their criminal enterprise around the community. And some are upset when they are targeted by the security forces, claiming persecution of the little black ghetto youths.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj65tnLMrxUDNEdPdbB_yaCc4JTCktq2Th0Iq5fbDeddkBILjkpBexQc4tmgjugFDIybudlw1FExuSogBUbiPv2vMEnQzblJWPc8B_dCd_LxamfMsTxpW-93T11q27Mye5z16Q4nWUqTjTQkGWnaPSiMWTfGirk7JvYw_GJdzZlZXChtiJvpYejVh8a/s1280/maxresdefault.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj65tnLMrxUDNEdPdbB_yaCc4JTCktq2Th0Iq5fbDeddkBILjkpBexQc4tmgjugFDIybudlw1FExuSogBUbiPv2vMEnQzblJWPc8B_dCd_LxamfMsTxpW-93T11q27Mye5z16Q4nWUqTjTQkGWnaPSiMWTfGirk7JvYw_GJdzZlZXChtiJvpYejVh8a/s320/maxresdefault.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>There are many victims because of these recent financial corruption scandals. Many human lives disrupted, and some people lost all their life savings. These people however, remains faceless and nameless because as far as Jamaicans are concern there is only one victim, Usain Bolt, and everyone else is fair game? <br /><br />
</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJosa3kXWBwK6So3fhIphPEn1ZbkLLOOkr_DA20z01mpS1-eVwhJTdNbmbvDhxrRZWyc9_-ePNpZzK7m4i9SWtPWfrrfCcMLEMSEdnUp1ZNHbfyV4TzCdTYwZvS0Drd02Stith2h7aEFGmzshne7ukJOm3V3VxBBrTohxzPxPJM-FAvnQFNrB3M_5t/s1600/E0J8su3WQAYNebM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJosa3kXWBwK6So3fhIphPEn1ZbkLLOOkr_DA20z01mpS1-eVwhJTdNbmbvDhxrRZWyc9_-ePNpZzK7m4i9SWtPWfrrfCcMLEMSEdnUp1ZNHbfyV4TzCdTYwZvS0Drd02Stith2h7aEFGmzshne7ukJOm3V3VxBBrTohxzPxPJM-FAvnQFNrB3M_5t/s320/E0J8su3WQAYNebM.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Fraud is not only limited to financial institutions, it exist at every level of the Jamaican society because greed exists at every level. There are no bigger criminals in Jamaica then Religious Criminals. Pastors and Preachers of Jamaica favorite pastime is to prey on the weak and vulnerable almost daily. Every con artist has a gimmick of some sort and the people preaching in churches have the best gimmick of all. The use of religion to get the same things drug dealers, warlords, Dons and politicians want out of life. That is to enrich themselves at the expensive of the weaker more vulnerable members of our society while preaching of the better that will come.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOdsqqfb41usuj1H0vG20Y2e-bdgvy_zzM56lwVybzpgfh8bjnj1DfcLK6rNisRQ4FtGAdW0DYsThqZAWIfyc3KrPUSOIS_n2gcI1nuk4s3HqtOd1io6nLjn0KS8PYnfD5MSKNqcMwUhaOGQonff89cYnAG6qBvpin15LcXxm-kPZvdKWoN0OtHf9G/s318/images.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="159" data-original-width="318" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOdsqqfb41usuj1H0vG20Y2e-bdgvy_zzM56lwVybzpgfh8bjnj1DfcLK6rNisRQ4FtGAdW0DYsThqZAWIfyc3KrPUSOIS_n2gcI1nuk4s3HqtOd1io6nLjn0KS8PYnfD5MSKNqcMwUhaOGQonff89cYnAG6qBvpin15LcXxm-kPZvdKWoN0OtHf9G/s1600/images.jpg" width="318" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>inmyownwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900263474744400860noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315857934060352736.post-33587854005996226132023-01-08T17:07:00.003-05:002023-03-10T14:01:02.576-05:00The Destruction of Devon House Court Yard<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgol_owDF03Kc_SDlgEjwMlhDGNJAa83LT216x2w86bThbDw0uuLN347ClckHiNtlwR3c_ov_vni1FOzM7AcOn1N9C5-uJg52m9EY5_17FnHj49Vy4l0g1XGdqkdZlAbVDTgDLBYHQRoXlDc6AiDtFx8vqCti2b71YxjlVT_5YFP8Y-sR9B32USxVD7/s754/WhatsApp%20Image%202022-12-24%20at%209.42.30%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="754" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgol_owDF03Kc_SDlgEjwMlhDGNJAa83LT216x2w86bThbDw0uuLN347ClckHiNtlwR3c_ov_vni1FOzM7AcOn1N9C5-uJg52m9EY5_17FnHj49Vy4l0g1XGdqkdZlAbVDTgDLBYHQRoXlDc6AiDtFx8vqCti2b71YxjlVT_5YFP8Y-sR9B32USxVD7/s320/WhatsApp%20Image%202022-12-24%20at%209.42.30%20AM.jpeg" width="318" /></a></div><br /><div>There was never an issue with the historical heritage site Devon House. What we have however is an issue with the people of Jamaica. Jamaica is overpopulated with too many shallow semi-literate, ignorant simpleminded people, who know the price of everything and the true value of nothing. In their eyes, concrete is seen as progress, as they overcompensate for various life traumas and lack of intelligence.</div><div><br /></div><div>Preserving our historical sites does not mean bulldoze it and concrete it over, that is not preserving but destroying the historical and heritage nature of the site. When it comes to historical sites, we are trying to freeze that moment in time. We are trying to take people on a journey through time. Old original historical heritage sites are supposed to be old and out of date by nature, you colossal semi-literate, ignorant muppets! </div><div><br /></div><div>That is why in most developed countries it is almost impossible to make changes to historical sites, the process is long and hard. In places like the UK, these sites are given grades, example listed as Grade-1 or Grade-2. Primarily, listed buildings will be those which are of special historical, cultural, or architectural interest or those which are of national importance and have been deemed to be worth protecting. What is the purpose of having an Historical Heritage site if you are going to modernize it? I swear you people are dumber than a bag of river rocks. Bulldozing the grounds of Devon House and then paving it over with concrete is NOT protecting it. </div><div><br /></div><div>The Tourism Ministry and stake holder do not care about the Environment, History or Heritage, they are not looking at this from that viewpoint, so concreting is not a problem for them. No other entity in Jamaica, destroyed more of our environment by pouring concrete on our greenspace than the Jamaica Tourist Board. One of my favorite pastimes was driving along the coastline enjoying the views and feeling the cool Caribbean breeze. These days, our coastline is littered with over-the-top concrete compound resorts, cutting off all access. One can drive for miles and all one sees are walls with brief glimpses of the sea in between the compounds if you are driving slow. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>
Work was done to the leaning tower of Pisa to stabilize it. In this case it was best to sure up the structure using modern techniques because it was at risk of falling. Restoration work was done to the Colosseum because it was deteriorating after being exposed to the elements for so many centuries. I have no problem with work being done to save and restore artifacts. I have a problem when saving and restoring was NOT required, the grass was perfectly fine, the courtyard was natural and organic and breaths life. It did not require concreting! <div><br /></div><div>According to tourism minister, the aim of the project is to reposition and repurpose the courtyard area for a better dinning and shopping experience. This is a cosmetic renovation so people can have their cocktails and keep party. Making the concrete attractive is not the issue here, nature and heritage is.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglx5T_4tGeaxXwPyYP_LLmrapUTRkrXsdKt6L58Jmv-m73nzckeije6gPbdctlaJRXB1pEa6XnqMmcW7ivZcUkB6xiT6VZXsriaTnpq-dBRFGV2wj8VpVEGJTkXBnBEhRPPY6gTF4_8o_Q4eNVXSSiklErFhgFAjQNbgjmCIOXC2CbWocAjDabR3Hs/s714/dh2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="714" data-original-width="473" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglx5T_4tGeaxXwPyYP_LLmrapUTRkrXsdKt6L58Jmv-m73nzckeije6gPbdctlaJRXB1pEa6XnqMmcW7ivZcUkB6xiT6VZXsriaTnpq-dBRFGV2wj8VpVEGJTkXBnBEhRPPY6gTF4_8o_Q4eNVXSSiklErFhgFAjQNbgjmCIOXC2CbWocAjDabR3Hs/s320/dh2.jpg" width="212" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcJQRvgKA3Yx6cg20EgW5WftsSkyy75iZvlwfgAycIWanyYmyOCAfqvrKanX99OIQjUtX1hVwoqKn4vPGzIMHZBUVDc2RowbnGTRA5gjOfFFMhOtAVHNjZKkpuACry7YMCndJenur4HNHPAjao0R1rcI-fV5kaq52h2OXQMBuQqQGcZ4NinHoA3V0g/s1281/dh3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="715" data-original-width="1281" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcJQRvgKA3Yx6cg20EgW5WftsSkyy75iZvlwfgAycIWanyYmyOCAfqvrKanX99OIQjUtX1hVwoqKn4vPGzIMHZBUVDc2RowbnGTRA5gjOfFFMhOtAVHNjZKkpuACry7YMCndJenur4HNHPAjao0R1rcI-fV5kaq52h2OXQMBuQqQGcZ4NinHoA3V0g/s320/dh3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAvNv-gAkN3kA_5fWzNS7BjA5mzP8TaeLpi5sFWOUcut8OvGXGt4kTwrwqXywxUHg2qHJfreaxhT1-nyNdTDApscl4aGzW_7D2abNQAUzx2gLJ-eWgtgUuwWmb7_28bSOvr914vukrhfgR-7L7f6yGLbR8mtPSjzfpH9gfRQjX10wJnfonfg4k-ZlO/s719/dh.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="719" data-original-width="686" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAvNv-gAkN3kA_5fWzNS7BjA5mzP8TaeLpi5sFWOUcut8OvGXGt4kTwrwqXywxUHg2qHJfreaxhT1-nyNdTDApscl4aGzW_7D2abNQAUzx2gLJ-eWgtgUuwWmb7_28bSOvr914vukrhfgR-7L7f6yGLbR8mtPSjzfpH9gfRQjX10wJnfonfg4k-ZlO/s320/dh.jpg" width="305" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisAScbTpl2CrvNu5NnpUaNYGy7zjdNCRmUD8UkKJCeycBE18OicFq4a4k31fuc_TipeyPVTkAQh-TxM_Xo4eXvozELXIVleldyV5LvrGxe2-p4iNMbhVMFPXr86-xA01HFKkU9mCY7ptsCiTm8WWq9KrCrzuQlmrmxJ7rTIQ_enaEAhaRIwqu1tIUx/s2000/grogshoppe-photo-14-2000x1236.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1236" data-original-width="2000" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisAScbTpl2CrvNu5NnpUaNYGy7zjdNCRmUD8UkKJCeycBE18OicFq4a4k31fuc_TipeyPVTkAQh-TxM_Xo4eXvozELXIVleldyV5LvrGxe2-p4iNMbhVMFPXr86-xA01HFKkU9mCY7ptsCiTm8WWq9KrCrzuQlmrmxJ7rTIQ_enaEAhaRIwqu1tIUx/s320/grogshoppe-photo-14-2000x1236.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div>inmyownwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900263474744400860noreply@blogger.com2