Jamaican Till I Die!

Independence and Freedom  means absolutely nothing without a strong sense  Responsibility and Discipline . Equality, Social-Justice, Self-Reliance and Discipline  are wonderful principles to live by and we should try to instill these principles back into our society. --------------------- ---------- “ Garrison is the collective term for a body of troops stationed in a particular location, originally to guard it, but now often simply using it as a home base. The garrison is usually in a city, town, fort, castle or similar. "Garrison town" is a common expression for any town that has a military base nearby. ” In Jamaica a Garrison is the collective term for a body of diehard partisan voters stationed in a particular poverty stricken ghetto location, created to secure votes for a particular political party and used as a home base for criminal activities and nightly Dancehall Merriment. The residences of the Jamaican Garrison are afforded certain rights ...

When I was young I hated soup and spend hours at the dinner table as I was not allowed to leave the table until I finished by dinner. I did not understand why we had to drink our dinner. Now, I love soup and drink it almost everyday, I just love those squiddly dumplings. The other day for lunch I had goat head soup and normally I enjoy eating the mushed up mystery bits of meat and cartilage with my yam, dumpling and Irish potato but on that day the soup was a turn off… Imagine my surprise when I went in with my spoon only to come up with a piece of goat jaw bone with the dental work intact! I tell you this goat had a healthy set of teeth but it was a turn off and I could not continue. I quickly put the lid back on the container and deposited the soup in the trash or maybe I should have taken it outside and give it a proper burial, then say a prayer or two. Also what is the big idea of putting all that green banana skin in my soup, after all I am not a goat.

  Portland Rock Expedition, Pedro Cays, Jamaica  Pedro Cays, are four small, flat (2 to 5 metres high), low-lying and mostly uninhabited cays, lie about midway along the southern edge of the eastern half of Pedro Bank. The Middle Cay was captured by 400 to 500 people as a fishing outpost, of which about 150 are “women”. I have been told the place have a make shift bar and a Go-Go club and in one interview a man describe the place was filled with prostitutes and nightly merriment. These people are just the nastiest most disgusting set of people I have ever seen. They have converted a once beautiful island into a shanty town, filled with shacks as they live and eat among their own waste and filth. They pay no taxes, most are not licensed fishermen but demand that the Government spend tax payers money to improve their living conditions. Among the health and environment issues at the Pedro Cays are the absence of running water, a lack of toilet facilities and a rapidly incre...

......By Agent86 Let’s be clear on three things first. I've only refereed one match. It was an U-12 game in 1990-something  I only saw the last 15 minutes of the Liverpool vs. Manchester United match yesterday  Players win or lose games but referee decisions matter Broadcasters should put up some indication of when a team is playing a man short because of a red card. With modern graphics/technology, how difficult would that be? Mind, just from the flow of the match at the point I started watching, it was a little hard to tell that the teams were not even numbers-wise. That is typical of a match where the home team is down, attacking, and playing with more urgency than the team that is trying to “kill off” the game. Very late into added time, Luis Suarez was fouled near the United penalty area, maybe five meters wide of the box and certainly not close enough to pose a significant threat to the United goal. Nevertheless, he was fouled. Liverpool kept possessio...

"Do you have the support of your prime minister in securing the IMF deal," Holness asked as he noted that any delay in inking a deal with the multilateral could be "detrimental to the very people that you are trying to protect". A House Divided...  I have never heard Republicans refer to the President as your president (even though they hate his guts and Rep. Joe Wilson Called Obama A Liar During State of Union Address) or members of the British Parliament refer to the Prime Minister as your Prime Minister even though during Prime Minister Question and Answer Time they can get pretty rowdy. It is The President, our President or The Prime Minister or Our Prime Minister…. The implication form the Hon. Andrew Holness is that The Prime Minister is only the Prime Minister of half the country but not his half, it clearly sends the wrong message to an already fractured and divided society. It is a statement I expect from old, past them prime, gray back, politician...

Some time ago I stopped in the supermarket in Barbican to pick up a few items, while in the line I noticed the cashier with the most miserable grumpy look on her face. I started wondering why is customer service so bad in Jamaica, what could possibly make this woman so unhappy and upset. Then I started to observe the customers and I quickly realized why this woman was so upset and unhappy. Jamaican Customer service providers and the Jamaican customers are locked in a vicious circle of hate. The poor girl had to suffer one disrespect and abuse after another and it did not matter the economic status of the customers. Customer service providers go to work and before they face the public, they must put on the “ do not mess today face ” defensive persona to combat the onslaught of verbal and physical abuse that they must deal with on a daily basis. On this particular day I decided to do the opposite, when it was my turn I walked up to her with a big “Good morning my love, how a...