Jamaican Till I Die!

Squatters Ville - The Dread at the Control I firmly believe that no one should be above the law of the land. I believe that everyone should be held accountable. I believe that every class of people we have in Jamaica should respect the law, each other and live according to the law of the land. I believe the rich, poor, and the political class should be held accountable whenever they break the law, no exceptions. I firmly believe that if we live by these principles then we will be on our way in creating a more egalitarian and just society.  What is very clear, is that I am on my own in this belief, since it is obvious that a lot of Jamaicans do not think the laws and rules of the land should apply to them. They should be able to do whatever they want, and no one should try and hold them accountable. In fact if you demand accountability with regard to the law of the land, you are accused of being colonial. Our future look dark! I saw a couple acres of flat beautiful land up in the Bl...

I often wondered what is required for a person to feel Happy and Content. I know what makes one person happy and content, may not make another person happy and content. We might all live in the same country or on the same street or even in the same house, but we all have different life experiences, or we can interpret the same life experiences differently. For the most part our society conditioned us to believe that access to a continuous stream of increasing wealth and high end material goods, is needed for a person to be happy and content. Make a big money, live large and profile or die trying.  What I realized is that this conditioning is often the main source of our misery and unhappiness. No matter how much increasing wealth and material goods we accumulate, most are still miserable and unhappy. It is always never enough and adds more complexity to our lives. The fear of not being able to maintain our increasing wealth and material goods often leads to increasing unhappiness, ...