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Jamaica's Family Run Parliament

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I have never supported and will never support the take over and control of our Parliament by family members. On principle having too many family members in Parliament undermines our democracy.  There are valid reasons why some corporations have a policy against family members working in the same company. We need legislation in Parliament to prevent a family-controlled parliament, where the nation’s business is being run from the dining rooms and bedrooms of families. Having that many families in parliament, dividing up the power structure among themselves sets a bad precedence and opens the door for corruption.  One must continue to question if the families are making decisions in the Nations interest or in the family’s interest because members of our political class are consumed by greed and their own self-importance. Having a family run government is Monarchial or Feudal in nature, where the family makes decisions in the best interest of the family and then try to convince us that it

Jamaica Travel Advisory DEBUNKED. Is it safe to travel to Jamaica right ...

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Vale Royal, The Official Residence of the Prime Minister of Jamaica

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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.  Jamaica’s historic Vale Royal now on life support   Heritage Week in Jamaica, But Some of our Heritage is Looking the Worse for Wear 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.  Jamaican Government is assessing proposals for the future use of the dilapidated Vale Royal 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?  This is how it use to look I'm hearing talk of the sale of Vale Royal. This raises grave concerns about transparency and accountability within our government. Who stands to

The Importance of Bob Marley

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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. To Jamaica it now seems the importance of Bob Marley

Mammee River Development Project - Shameless Hypocrites the lot of you

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If this was a White World Order Project Everyone would be smiling with Glee! 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.  The White World Order have free access to Bulldoze, Build and Fence off Jamaica! If Jamaica wants more tourists, do more trees have to go? 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

Out of Many, One People: What makes a Jamaican, a Jamaican?

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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. 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.  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

How I will vote, Who I will vote for and Why I would vote for the party

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Election Map 2020 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. 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