Wednesday, January 14, 2004
Earlier this week, a tourist was chopped with a machete and seriously injured after criminals invaded a Negril resort on the West End. Funnily I found only one reference to this madness in the online media. Yes, keep it hush hush to protect the fragile tourism product but at what time are we actually going to do something about Jamaica's crime problem? You can't keep things 'hush hush' forever and already Jamaica does not necessarily have a great name for itself with regard to crime.
It can't be overnight. It will clearly take something extraordinary to get into the mind of a dumbo crook who doesn't put one and one together to get two and realize that if you rob and chop a tourist today, that might lead to less visitors to the island tomorrow because of the bad experience of one. So who him going to rob and chop then? It's almost as though we want to eat at our own flesh!
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It can't be overnight. It will clearly take something extraordinary to get into the mind of a dumbo crook who doesn't put one and one together to get two and realize that if you rob and chop a tourist today, that might lead to less visitors to the island tomorrow because of the bad experience of one. So who him going to rob and chop then? It's almost as though we want to eat at our own flesh!
Tuesday, January 06, 2004
Happy new year to anyone that actually takes the time to read this journal. 2004 promises to be an interesting year for us Jamaicans, whether yuh living a yawd or in farign. Jamaica nice, there is no doubt about that and I think it's time for people like you and me to take things into our own hands and guide Jamaica along the right and proper path. This might mean some very radical thinkings. Drastic in some cases. But we've got to save ourselves. No one is going to do it for us, certainly not the Jamaican Government.
Smelling what's really cooking will see us to realize that we need more Sean Pauls and Lucianos, and less Vybz Kartels and Ninjamans. Away with PJ Patterson, Bruce Golding, Eddie Seaga and the many other politically (and otherwise) corrupt sources of the country's deep rooted financial, social and political trouble. End the hustling and trickster mentality that everyone from the 'rent-a-dread' to the lobsterman seems to think is the way to save himself ... what ever happened to honesty and true value for money in the transacting of business.
Away with the favours for the politically connected who get paid to play ludo and dominoes under the guise of 'Christmas work'. Remove the policeman who will or won't write you a speeding ticket depending on how you answer the question "whey yuh can do fi me?". People need jobs, but in this day and age we should be thinking about retraining and education so that the jobs that persons are not kept in jobs "just because". Why should I be forced to pay a Red Cap to carry my bags at the airport. In so many other countries you pay a flat rate to get access to a trolley that you can use to cart your bags yourself. Why don't I have this option? Why aren't these Red Caps being trained instead to answer phones at the new call centres that Minister Paulwell is investing so much time, effort and money in?
2004 is here. The time is ripe for us the people to make the move and do what is important and right for the country and its inhabitants.
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Smelling what's really cooking will see us to realize that we need more Sean Pauls and Lucianos, and less Vybz Kartels and Ninjamans. Away with PJ Patterson, Bruce Golding, Eddie Seaga and the many other politically (and otherwise) corrupt sources of the country's deep rooted financial, social and political trouble. End the hustling and trickster mentality that everyone from the 'rent-a-dread' to the lobsterman seems to think is the way to save himself ... what ever happened to honesty and true value for money in the transacting of business.
Away with the favours for the politically connected who get paid to play ludo and dominoes under the guise of 'Christmas work'. Remove the policeman who will or won't write you a speeding ticket depending on how you answer the question "whey yuh can do fi me?". People need jobs, but in this day and age we should be thinking about retraining and education so that the jobs that persons are not kept in jobs "just because". Why should I be forced to pay a Red Cap to carry my bags at the airport. In so many other countries you pay a flat rate to get access to a trolley that you can use to cart your bags yourself. Why don't I have this option? Why aren't these Red Caps being trained instead to answer phones at the new call centres that Minister Paulwell is investing so much time, effort and money in?
2004 is here. The time is ripe for us the people to make the move and do what is important and right for the country and its inhabitants.
