Jamaican Till I Die!

The Butufication of Kingston and St. Andrew Forget Goat Island because it is Kingston and St. Andrew that is in great need of environmental help. Kingston and St. Andrew is beginning to look like a concrete townhouse congested Jungle and I wonder why the Environmental Groups are going crazy over Goat Island, predicting Environmental doom but are completely silent on the destruction of Kingston and St. Andrew at the hands of unscrupulous developers. Every piece of empty land in and around Kingston and St. Andrew is being converted into some tacky over the top Florida style townhouse complex compound with big tacky slow moving electric gates bigger than Gods own pearly Gates. This to me is a catastrophic environmental disaster because where there was once a nice house in a big lovely green yard or a nice piece of open land, full of trees, birds, various wildlife and a flourishing eco-system, now sits a tacky looking oversize hideous townhouse complex that is almost invading the blast...

“Dr Horace Chang, Former Minister of Water and Housing, stated that one-third of the people in Jamaica are squatters” ClovisToon: Residential communities being held at ransom by Squatters and the Government not doing a thing about it It is estimates that between 500,000 and 900,000 Jamaicans squatting across the island Our backyard extends behind the back wall, down the slope and across to the other side of the gully, beyond the gully is a couple acres of open land. The gully is vital to residence living on the hill because it controls the flow of rain water and should be kept clean to prevent flooding. One morning we woke up to find a rasta-man had moved on to the land beyond the gully and started building a shack, on land he did not own. The people living on the Avenue became very concerned and convened a meeting of the Neighborhood Association to determine the faith of the dreaded squatter. Some were concerned that the presence of a squatter in an upscale residential nei...