Jamaican Till I Die!

This is not our first Chinese invasion, on July 30 1854, the first large group of 267 Chinese immigrants came from Hong Kong, later that year 205 Chinese workers demanded to leave Panama fearing yellow fever, arrived in Jamaica on November 1 and 18, one of the ships was called the Vampire. A decade later in the 1860s another set of Chinese arrived from Trinidad and British Guiana and two decades later, in the 1880s, another group of 680 immigrants arrived, this time directly from China. Most were not welcomed at first with open arms by the newly emancipated slaves who saw them as competition. Over the many decades since then we have seen several mini-invasion and several cases of Chinese leaving Jamaica in mass for greener pastures in The United States and Canada, some claiming discrimination by local Jamaicans and others using Jamaica as a stepping stone to get to more fertile grounds overseas. Out Of Many Cultures, The People Who Came: The Arrival Of The Chinese The Chinese ...

Worshiping our Political/Feudal Overlords Honestly I find this hero worshiping of our Feudal like Political and Capitalist Overlords a bit nauseating, creating a God-like complex around these people is…. To say the least ...NUTS, just a tad bit retarded!!! A friend of mine, describes Jamaica’s Social and Political System liking it to the Medieval Feudal System of old. The relationship we have with these people is counterproductive. Portia Simpson Miller is not a Goddess or a Queen, Andrew Holness is not a God or a King and certainly Butch Stewart and Michael Lee Chin and people like them are not Gods to be worshiped. Jamaica’s Political Feudal/Monarchy The Jamaican political system is a democracy where our selection between who to vote for is very limited to a certain number of recycled people, our Feudal Overlords! What is amazing about Jamaica’s Political/Feudal/Monarchical System is that when a person is born they become familiar with Politicians who have a certain last ...

My Auntie hired a handyman to do various work around her house. On his first day on the Job he arrived very late with the excuse that he did not have any money for bus fare and had to borrow the money for it… My Aunt then asked if he needed something to drink before starting work, tea, coffee, juice, water and he requested water. My aunt went into the house and returned with a tall glass of ice cold water to which Mr. Handyman asked… Is that Tap water or Bottled water? My Aunt declared that it was refrigerated tap water to which Mr. Handyman responded that “he does not drink tap water but only drinks Bottled water”. My Aunt told him that she does not have any money to waste on bottled water especially since she is at home and that she drinks the refrigerated tap water because she finds nothing wrong with it since Jamaica’s water is not recycled but comes from various rivers, springs and underground streams. However she directed him to the nearest shop and told him he would ...

UDC 'Fireworks on the Waterfront' Watching scarce foreign exchange go up in smoke How does the Government decide what to tax and what not to tax and why? Are they just looking at their budgetary shortfall then look around the economy to see what they can make a quick buck from, in the shortest space of time? In my view Taxation should be strategically applied in order to protect local industry and promote growth both in the short and long term. One just cannot look at the productive sector, one that is adding value to our economy and society and gouge them out with taxes. Jamaica’s problem is well defined, we suffer from very low almost anemic productivity in almost all sectors and we suffer from a very large negative balance of trade. Jamaica imports in value over 5 times what we export in value and most of this over the top imports comes in the form of consumer goods, rubbish resulting in our Foreign Exchange problem. Any tax plan that is put in place should be targete...

 “For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning." T.S. Elliot Our body is a remarkable machine and if we observe the workings of the body with fascination, it helps us to see the bigger picture of life in nature. Greek philosopher, Heraculutus compared the human body to a river. He said a river is a very mysterious thing. When you look at a river it looks the same to you in every second of its existence but in fact it's not the same river. He said you cannot step into the same river twice because new water flows in all the time. The physical bodies that you had a year ago, isn't the one the one you have now. The cells in our bodies are constantly dividing, regenerating, and dying, Your body makes between 11 and 13 million new cells every second. You are regenerating yourself continually. Your skin renews itself every 2-4 weeks, your liver every 5 months, your...