tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58757212011-08-10T02:40:52.996-04:00What's Up JamaicaOne Jamaican's diary. Commenting on everything from crime in Jamaica to the sudden acceptance of dancehall (namely in the form of Sean Paul) by just about everyone in every part of the world.SPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.comBlogger361100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875721.post-1127400813953734992005-09-22T10:52:00.000-04:002005-09-22T10:53:33.960-04:00It's been a while ... just been VERY busy. The end of the tunnel is well in sight though. Nuff more to say soon.SPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875721.post-1117826050606913372005-06-03T15:05:00.000-04:002005-06-03T15:14:10.610-04:00We as Jamaicans need to take a stance against Apple and any persons with racist attitudes that they employ. Case in point - iTunes exec tells Jamaican artists to take a hike. I got a forward of the email that Kirk Bonin, Artist/Label Relations Manager at iTunes Music Store sent to someone who was doing email promotions for deejay Buju Banton and it wasn't as simple a thing as a brush off as that SPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875721.post-1109311494442099872005-02-25T00:59:00.000-05:002005-02-25T01:04:54.443-05:00Iranian blogger jailed for 14 years ... bwoy, not even Jamaica is this bad. However, Bruce Golding did reveal in a recent interview some of the real injustices of the 70s that were carried out by the PNP Government that was in power then ... the same Government that the present Prime Minister PJ Patterson was a part of.SPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875721.post-1108584617723745462005-02-16T15:08:00.000-05:002005-02-16T15:12:44.020-05:00Onandi Lowe is innocent. I really believe that. I learned years ago based on the experience of others that I would never accept a package or carry anything on a plane or ship for anyone, no matter who, without first looking through the contents very carefully. And even then, I wouldn't do it for just an acquaintance. More on the Onandi Lowe sagaSPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875721.post-1108583929262996992005-02-16T14:55:00.000-05:002005-02-16T15:11:52.136-05:00Assault rifles, submachine guns among weapons seized at wharvesJamaica Customs and police yesterday discovered 16 guns, including four assault rifles and three submachine guns, as well as several hundred rounds of ammunition, which were being smuggled into the island with food imports."This is the most significant find in years," Superintendent Devon Watkiss, head of the police's Organised Crime SPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875721.post-1106778526690879662005-01-26T17:27:00.000-05:002005-01-26T17:28:46.690-05:00Poor poor West Indies :(
Brett Lee batters Windies in Adelaide
VB Series match 6, Adelaide:
Australia 269-8 beat West Indies 196 by 73 runsSPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875721.post-1106681939594752732005-01-25T14:34:00.000-05:002005-01-25T14:41:08.373-05:00A ray of sunshine from a young educated young Jamaican living abroad ... appealing to young people to stay in Jamaica (or return) to help build the country. So very true! There are far too many educated Jamaicans helping to making the U.S., Canada, Britain etc. bigger, stronger and more wealthy and not back in Jamaica land we love helping to build it up! Almost 3 million Jamaicans in Jamaica SPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875721.post-1106629389324242052005-01-25T01:00:00.000-05:002005-01-25T00:03:09.323-05:00Why would Bogle bring roosters to a dance so they could have a cockfight, basically mocking Beenieman and John Hype? Strange news.SPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875721.post-1106444603315026862005-01-22T20:14:00.000-05:002005-01-22T20:45:08.686-05:00If you're into dancehall music, then you've probably heard of 'Bogle', the dancer (a.k.a Mr. Wackie). Early Thursday morning (January 20), he was shot and killed at a gas station, after leaving a local dance (Weddy Weddy Wednesdays) - see report here.
He's said to have been involved in an altercation then decided to leave; while at the gas station, two men road by on a bike, apparently with gunsSPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875721.post-1106440367502089422005-01-22T19:31:00.000-05:002005-01-22T19:32:47.503-05:00Definitely been SO busy for the past few months. Now I'm back with lots of time on my hands to devote to talking about WHAT'S UP JAMAICA!
SPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875721.post-1083612571290507252004-05-03T15:29:00.000-04:002004-05-03T15:33:41.186-04:00It's been awhile ... I'm still alive .. just stain' alive ... hopefully will soon start to thrive!SPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875721.post-1078930510218675302004-03-10T09:55:00.000-05:002004-03-10T09:58:18.890-05:00More anarchy in my poor beautiful country - Lawman mobbed by angry crowdSPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875721.post-1076946732167826882004-02-16T10:52:00.000-05:002004-02-16T10:56:07.873-05:00News from over the weekend - Police shooting of youth in Denham Town sparks major riot. It took the intervention of Member of Parliament for Western Kingston Edward Seaga to end a bloody stand-off between residents and members of the security forces Friday. Mr. Seaga assured residents that he would be ensuring that a through investigation is done into the shooting of at least three persons in theSPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875721.post-1074099295793462542004-01-14T11:54:00.000-05:002004-01-14T11:56:46.826-05:00Earlier 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 SPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875721.post-1073423163219079692004-01-06T16:06:00.000-05:002004-01-06T16:06:53.126-05:00Happy 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. SPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875721.post-1071677410419971412003-12-17T11:10:00.000-05:002003-12-17T11:10:24.646-05:00Now here is something that you don't see very often ... ONE DON basically admits that he is wrong and BOWS! OPPOSITION LEADER Edward Seaga is to apologise in the media to Mandeville businessman Kenneth 'Skeng Don' Black for libelling him at a public meeting in Junction, St. Elizabeth, on October 21, 2001 ... The terms of the agreements were made on the condition that Mr. Seaga publish an apology SPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875721.post-1071670494886295892003-12-17T09:14:00.000-05:002003-12-17T09:15:43.530-05:00It's been a while ... I've just been very busy. Work work work. Just sharing a very sad link though. As much as I am against what George Bush claims to be doing in Iraq, these are sad pages to go through - http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/index.htmlSPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875721.post-1070554877701614822003-12-04T11:21:00.000-05:002003-12-04T11:21:28.390-05:00What am I missing here? These guys beat/stone a man to death and one of the blows kills the man and these guys get off scotch free. Self defence? Wow!SPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875721.post-1070396680923643532003-12-02T15:24:00.000-05:002003-12-02T15:24:51.116-05:00Dem Russian skinheads lucky say is thirty of them outnumber the six Jamaicans and beat them in Moscow (News Item). Coz trust mi, even though them students ah probably some 'nerds', if it was only bout 9 more of them against the 30 skinheads, I know say the yawdman dem woulda come out on top. Unfortunately, racism lives on.SPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875721.post-1070290597252699532003-12-01T09:56:00.000-05:002003-12-01T09:57:36.756-05:00Yesterday I read a mid-November issue of the TIME magazine. Saw an article about Jessica Lynch (the female U.S. prisoner of war that was rescued in Iraq) and she said part of the reason she joined the army is because she likes to travel. She's slightly disabled right now, but she said she still wants to travel when she recovers some more, and interestingly one of the two places that she said sheSPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875721.post-1069957319252412692003-11-27T13:21:00.000-05:002003-11-27T13:22:40.836-05:00A sad tale it is, when a young person thinks that things are so bad that they have to end their own life. This Jamaica Observer news item is a sad one, really shows that no matter how yuh tink some people have it all, really dem nuh have it at all.SPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875721.post-1069860444899772492003-11-26T10:27:00.000-05:002003-11-26T10:27:33.420-05:00It's undoubtedly the end of an era - No telegrams after January - "JAMAICA'S TELEGRAPH service will cease operations as of January 31 next year, says Cable & Wireless Jamaica's director of corporate communications, Errol Miller. A telegraphic service was established between Kingston and Havana from 1869, thus linking the island with the USA and Europe even before a domestic postal service had SPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875721.post-1069778676207305412003-11-25T11:44:00.000-05:002003-11-25T11:44:44.216-05:00Police to launch 'jet ski squad'
FOLLOWING GROWING complaints from hoteliers and visitors about increased crimes and harassment on the Ocho Rios waterfront, the St. Ann police is stepping up plans to put in place a 'jet ski squad' to tackle the offenders head on.
What more could a police officer want ... what but a jetski could make some gun-toting policeman feeling like he's on a bucking horse SPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875721.post-1068842253554077652003-11-14T15:37:00.000-05:002003-11-14T15:37:38.873-05:00only in Jamaica, can a Government contract be signed with an overseas company (much to the ire of local companies that had bidded on the very same contract and lost), then months later the company announces that it is seeking an additional $11 million from the Government for the job (because of the devaluation of the J$), and the Government actually brings it before Parliament for consideration! SPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875721.post-1068562191801379762003-11-11T09:49:00.000-05:002003-11-11T09:49:56.146-05:00Heard that these bullet hole stickers have started to appear on cars all over the place. Gunmen and police are busy shooting up cars here there and everywhere so I am sure it must be hard to figure out which bullet holes are real and which are fake.SPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875721.post-1068562063513089322003-11-11T09:47:00.000-05:002003-11-11T09:47:47.883-05:00The Christmas curry-goat feeding has started - Cabinet allocates $140m for Christmas Work programme. They have to make sure they keep some of the poorer unemployed people that voted them in happy, hence the annual Christmas curry goat feeding which usually involves people getting paid to stand around and pretend that they're cleaning sidewalks and drains for a beautiful Jamaica at Christmas.SPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875721.post-1068560561985415002003-11-11T09:22:00.000-05:002003-11-11T09:25:20.150-05:00The JLP is in the news and continues to do the things and act the ways which will guarantee that they will not be seen as a viable alternative to the PNP, and hence be in the opposition for the forseeable future. Sigh, what to do??? I guess we'll have to continue logging on to PJ's "progress". Man have more "gyal" and more cellular phone that ever before so I guess that means the country is SPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875721.post-1067446884847857972003-10-29T12:01:00.000-05:002003-10-29T12:01:26.530-05:00This article about Technology Minister Paulwell made for interesting reading the other day. Funny how the article was published in the Women's weekly (Flair) section of the Gleaner. Why? Well, it's whispered in Jamaica's social circles that the Minister used to beat his beautiful young (now former?) wife quite regularly .. including, of all the nights, their wedding night. WoW!SPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875721.post-1067446595633477022003-10-29T11:56:00.000-05:002003-10-29T11:56:37.363-05:00Been busy and away for a bit, but on a much more serious note ... the lawlessness across the island must come to an end. Or we're surely heading the way of Haiti and so many other independent countries that somehow can't seem to manage their internal affairs and government.
Recently the gunmen were trigger happy in Montego Bay. This in turn must have made the policemen even more trigger happy SPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875721.post-1065638111837795682003-10-08T14:35:00.000-04:002003-10-08T14:54:38.840-04:00The Jamaica Observer's cartoon today had me rolling.
This Govt. has made so many wrong turns, followed so much bad advice and is basically reaping what it has sowed. Yuh know tings gone bad when the very same extortionists that used to be thugs on the political paroll have now decided to give the govt. (and opposition) the middle finger and do their own evil deeds. Now the politrikhans have SPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875721.post-1065541437092117322003-10-07T11:43:00.000-04:002003-10-07T11:43:56.690-04:00A few Jamaican web sites were hacked and defaced a couple nights ago. It seems some idlers from Brazil may be the culprits. The report at the link above stated "The Jamaican police's new cyber crime unit is investigating the incident, which the paper hopes will be assisted by the Brazilian service provider from where the message originated." Now I find that to be particularly interesting, given SPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875721.post-1065193645555380522003-10-03T11:07:00.000-04:002003-10-03T11:07:25.653-04:00Missed Elephant on 106 and Park yesterday evening but the board is saying him neva gwan too bad at all, so big up Ele! Dancehall crossing over big time and while I am happy to see Jamaican music being embraced by the world, I can't help but feel like we should be 'wifing' it up for ourselves .. HUH??? you say ... well, our music helps to make us unique, its an identifier, and when you see a SPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875721.post-1065119324625509002003-10-02T14:28:00.000-04:002003-10-02T14:31:03.556-04:00Thursday Humor
The Case of the Missing 'Dex' -- A True Story:
A school teacher was lamenting a recent break-in at her school.
Among the items stolen was a 'Dex'.
Full Details :)SPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875721.post-1065115024582625412003-10-02T13:17:00.000-04:002003-10-02T13:17:29.426-04:00If you don't have a gun, you have to worry about the possibility of running for your life with some merciless gunman in chase. If you have a gun, you have to worry about the possibility of some merciless gunman shooting you without even allowing you to surrender because they simply want to get the gun that you have. Andrew Blackstock was shot and killed for this very reason. He ws licensed to SPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875721.post-1064932849911896872003-09-30T10:40:00.000-04:002003-09-30T10:40:49.696-04:00Yesterday the Gleaner reported that Det. Sgt. Gladys Brown made history on Saturday by becoming the first local policewoman to qualify as an attorney-at-law. Now imagine my shock this morning as I read the Observer and there is a report on the very same Det. Sgt. Gladys Brown, as she was seriously injured yesterday by a knife-wielding robber after she tried to stave off attempts to rob her. She SPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5875721.post-1064849808844995422003-09-29T11:36:00.000-04:002003-09-29T11:52:33.960-04:00Testing testing one two three. Getting this thing started. Last week I thought the Jamaican press must be getting really tired of reporting on murders, robberies and other depressing topics ... because they reported on Clement Lewis creating history. Yes, he was the first to pay on the Highway 2000 toll ... BIG-YEAH-DEAL.
Then today this next Gleaner report shows me why I just love my fellow SPLASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18335845347195117752noreply@blogger.com0