Portmore Boycott...

[niceniss]

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Mandeville has distance and unlike Portmore, it is not considered to be a part of the kingston metropolitan region, hence the availability of facilities in mandeville.

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when since is it considered part of the Kingston metro area?

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since it is.

question: did you know that portmore was built as a dorm community for kingston? it is only 10 minutes outside of kingston.

[RichD]

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Mandeville has distance and unlike Portmore, it is not considered to be a part of the kingston metropolitan region, hence the availability of facilities in mandeville.

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when since is it considered part of the Kingston metro area?

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since it is.

question: did you know that portmore was built as a dorm community for kingston? it is only 10 minutes outside of kingston.

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yes however administratively it is part of st cathrine...is hat inaccurate?


or yuh juslike to sey dat a kingston yuh come from rather dan st cathrine [img]/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[Tuff Gong]

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let me expand, why they wait until it's a done deal to protest & demonstrate?

I do feel bad for them because gas prices will be going up too [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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This is a foolish argument.

[Pepper]

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Hwy 2000 is a great initiative. And me glad fi see di island a step up and improve infrastructure. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70409-waytogo.gif[/img]

I heard on the radio this morning that people sat in traffic for several hours to avoid tolls. Many overheated cars were seen along the free access road.

Sitting in traffic bun gas, repairing overheat cars cost money, and arriving late for work (if you are not on salary) can cost money. Which side can outlast the other? This standoff is is a nice effort, but people will soon resign themselves to paying toll. All most a dem haffi do is beg dem cousin a farrin fi increase the monthly western union allowance.

BTW, Donnika, me notice yuh ignore my last questions to you. Gov't do not request taxes and fees, the impose/levy them.

[Tuff Gong]

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Hwy 2000 is a great initiative. And me glad fi see di island a step up and improve infrastructure. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70409-waytogo.gif[/img]

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So handing over the Jamaican roadway to foreigners is great huh?
Why couldn't the GOJ build the road?

[Pepper]

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Hwy 2000 is a great initiative. And me glad fi see di island a step up and improve infrastructure. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70409-waytogo.gif[/img]

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So handing over the Jamaican roadway to foreigners is great huh?
Why couldn't the GOJ build the road?

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We live in a global village. These types of arrangements are alll over the world. Times are changing....I hope Jamaica can change with the times and not get stuck in the 20th century.

[Hopyoneson]

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Hwy 2000 is a great initiative. And me glad fi see di island a step up and improve infrastructure. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70409-waytogo.gif[/img]

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So handing over the Jamaican roadway to foreigners is great huh?
Why couldn't the GOJ build the road?

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We live in a global village. These types of arrangements are alll over the world. Times are changing....I hope Jamaica can change with the times and not get stuck in the 20th century.

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So owning a cell phone but still a use pit toilet is progress, cause that is the reality in Jamaica, Jamaica need fi walk before it try run and tumble dung. Some part a Jamaica still stuck in a 1906.

[Tuff Gong]

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Hwy 2000 is a great initiative. And me glad fi see di island a step up and improve infrastructure. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70409-waytogo.gif[/img]

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So handing over the Jamaican roadway to foreigners is great huh?
Why couldn't the GOJ build the road?

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We live in a global village. These types of arrangements are alll over the world. Times are changing....I hope Jamaica can change with the times and not get stuck in the 20th century.

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What does Global Village have to do with imprisoning a little village in Jamaica?

[Pepper]

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So owning a cell phone but still a use pit toilet is progress, cause that is the reality in Jamaica, Jamaica need fi walk before it try run and tumble dung. Some part a Jamaica still stuck in a 1906.

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Yes I know that is a reality, but that speaks to the mentality of the people. (same people who nuh wan pay toll) Yes some place nuh have the proper utilities in place, but that is another topic. Gov't suppose to work on improving that as well. But nuff people who use pit tilet can save dem money and put plumbing inna dem yaad, but for some reason that is not a priority. Education maybe?

[Pepper]

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What does Global Village have to do with imprisoning a little village in Jamaica?

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Dis mek me [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img] Why unno must always paint every single body in JA as a sufferah? Dem poor likkle impoverished people living on the tiny island in the caribbean. Is a good ting people like yuh deh bout fi defend the defenseless. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70409-waytogo.gif[/img]

[Tuff Gong]

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What does Global Village have to do with imprisoning a little village in Jamaica?

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Dis mek me [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img] Why unno must always paint every single body in JA as a sufferah? Dem poor likkle impoverished people living on the tiny island in the caribbean. Is a good ting people like yuh deh bout fi defend the defenseless. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70409-waytogo.gif[/img]

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Who is painting anyone as sufferers. you were the one that made a reference to a village. Incidentally you and others are making heavy weather of the so-called infrastructure. In the same vein as you put the question to me about poverty why does Jamaica don't have the so-called infrastructure?
Jamaica has the second highest road density in the world, that has been so for decades.

As to pit toilet the GOJ has been the foremost providers of Pit Toilets, in fact Dr. Clueless the Minister of Finance boasted that he had facilitated the building of pit toliets in his constituency as part of the improvement to the community, this is in Lower St. Andrew which is just than a mile from the Kingston Harbour.

[Butsiyah]

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So wha [img]/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

Mi naw look noh qwaarill, mi jussa awx! [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[Gen]

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As to pit toilet the GOJ has been the foremost providers of Pit Toilets, in fact Dr. Clueless the Minister of Finance boasted that he had facilitated the building of pit toliets in his constituency as part of the improvement to the community, this is in Lower St. Andrew which is just than a mile from the Kingston Harbour.

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awww hellsno...Pit Tilet ? ...lower St. Andrew ?....mi think dem things deh did only deh a country....improvement to the community [img]/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

a which part of St Andrew this deh ? bway mi really need fi read the gleaner more often....unless the recipient used to guh inna bush...then this is nothing fi him boast bout...

geezas saviah....

why ...oh why...is all this going on still....mi head a hat mi....

[Blackstar*]

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Portmore is in st cathrine..when since is it considered part of the Kingston metro area?

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Mayor Lee Renews Call for Tax Centre in Portmore

KINGSTON(JIS)
Thursday, March 30, 2006


Mayor of Portmore, Councillor George Lee has renewed his call for the establishment of a tax centre in the municipality.

Addressing a public meeting of the Portmore Municipal council on March 25, Mayor Lee said the building of a tax centre in the area would allow the Council to address a number of issues, including the creation of parks and the strengthening of the Parochial Fund, which provides funding for the repairing of roads.

"Currently, when a citizen of the Municipality goes to Kingston and pay his or her motor vehicle tax, 25 per cent of it goes to the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation. If you add that up, Portmore loses a considerable sum every year, which could be used to service the needs of the people of the municipality," he said.

Mayor Lee noted that Portmore was the fastest growing and one of the largest communities in the Caribbean. He called on the residents of Portmore to voice their support for the establishment of a tax centre in Portmore.

"It there was a tax centre in Portmore, the level of non-compliance would be significantly less, and there would be higher levels of income for the coffers of the municipality," he said. Link

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[Blackstar*]

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Bus fares may go up to...

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Portmore fare hike looms
published: Tuesday | July 11, 2006

Tyrone Reid, Staff Reporter

THE NATIONAL Trans-port Cooperative Society (NTCS) is contemplating a fare increase to counter the effects of the introduction of a $200 toll on the Portmore leg of Highway 2000, according to the bus company's president Ezroy Millwood.

However, Mr. Millwood stressed last night that he would make every attempt to avert a fare hike.

The NTCS president told The Gleaner last night that a committee was to meet last night and report the conclusion to him.

"I am asking them to avoid that (increase) but they are saying that it looks tight," he said late yesterday.

Mr. Millwood claimed he has been trying without success to contact the officials responsible for the Portmore leg of Highway 2000 to discuss special arrangements for his 60 buses which would have passed through the toll plaza an average of 16 times per day.

"We are looking to pay up front for a thousand rides (passages) and keep that going consistently, if we are allowed to pay at a rate of $160," he revealed.

Trevor Jackson, managing director of TransJamaican Highway, the developers of Highway 2000, said they were not prepared to make any more special arrangements.

When the toll road opens on July 13, the NTCS buses would pay a nominal fee of $200, $180 for 10 passages and $160 for each extra passage.

Meanwhile, Yvonne McCor-mack, chairperson of the PCAC, clarified that the boycott maybe longer than two months.

"We will revisit at the end of two months to the impact it has had but the boycott continues," she said.

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