Govt spending $105m US to prepare for the world

**RichD** · 04-25-2006, 12:28 PM

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mi nat even a guh comment [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70400-talktohand.gif[/img] cause a same ting weh nyc wah fi do..build NEW yankee stadium fi baseball..wid foofa tax money [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70400-talktohand.gif[/img] meanwhile the school dem is a disgrace....cyan't believe school a big big new yark look like dis [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70374-lipsrsealed.gif[/img]

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dis is one of the things that is hard for many to grasp...you can have a strioong economy and nuff people have nuff money ..but the govt is broke...and the peopel still a look to the govt for everything.

**Gen** · 04-25-2006, 12:45 PM

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mi nat even a guh comment [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70400-talktohand.gif[/img] cause a same ting weh nyc wah fi do..build NEW yankee stadium fi baseball..wid foofa tax money [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70400-talktohand.gif[/img] meanwhile the school dem is a disgrace....cyan't believe school a big big new yark look like dis [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70374-lipsrsealed.gif[/img]

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dis is one of the things that is hard for many to grasp...you can have a strioong economy and nuff people have nuff money ..but the govt is broke...and the peopel still a look to the govt for everything.

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Thankfully the plan for the stadium has strong opposition.. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70384-praying.gif[/img] so mi nuh see it a pass choo fi now...

in the meantime volunteer day a come up suh mi haffi guh paint school and ting....cause govt nah paint it.... [img]/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

**RichD** · 04-25-2006, 12:49 PM

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yuh si an wid globaliztion an trade liberlaizatin if any govt mek a sniff bout dem haffi tek more money from those wh have yuh waan si how fass dem run an only those who nuh have nuttin left behind to depend on a govt who have even less.

**Tuff Gong** · 04-25-2006, 01:00 PM

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this is a very negative article that doesnt tell all the story..

at www.cricketworldcup.com, they tell of the licensing and merchandizing opportunities available also jobs

contact:
[email protected]
tel:1 876 - 929-9011
fax: 929-0871/1178

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Yu eva hear a fisherman seh im fish stink?

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In fact, Beverley Robotham-Reynolds of Jamaica is the first regional micro enterprise authorized to produce goods for next year's event

She was VERY proactive in that she wrote back in '04 when they were just strategizing. She will be producing cricket dolls and carnival dolls dressed in the 16 teams outfits and distributing them throughout the Caribbean, Canada, UK and US.

She is also building a website.

Tickets for the World Cup events go on sale next week (1st May)

Even though it's not a big cricket nation, the Bahamas attempted to get in as a venue..there is $$ to be made

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Hey my fren di peanut vendor is not and cannot get authorization to create a special bag of peanuts for the cricket world cup. In fact his kids will not even be allowed to go to school when the matches are been played because schools in the vicinity will be closed.

His fren shop that adjoins Sabina Park will have to take down their Signage.... well almost the organizers have relented on that.
He will not be putting up a web site.

**RichD** · 04-25-2006, 01:22 PM

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so TG..what is your considered view on WCC2007?...a boondoggle?

**evanovitch** · 04-25-2006, 05:32 PM

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dis is one of the things that is hard for many to grasp...you can have a strioong economy and nuff people have nuff money ..but the govt is broke...and the peopel still a look to the govt for everything.

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an one has to wonder how this continues and in light of said brukniss, why the govament continues to involve its money, i.e. the people's money is one-off schemes that never play out....

dat is di problem i find wen i read alllll these reports...how many times muss di man try use a weave baskit fi carry water before him realise seh is a selfdefeating method him a use....

and while we r on the empty coffers, wat about the major corporations, big wiggers, that/who owe mucho taxes but fi some reason collection of said is not a priority...we prioritise acting on every get rich scheme that comes along at their suggestion but never seem to interject in di conversations wid dem, 'whe bout di baktax star?'

**mangoskin** · 04-25-2006, 05:38 PM

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the glass always half empty for you..

sorry bout the peanut vendor, mi lub roasted peanut and peanut brittle, peanut punch & ice cream too..
(wonder if he was properly capitalized?)

**evanovitch** · 04-25-2006, 05:40 PM

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Hey my fren di peanut vendor is not and cannot get authorization to create a special bag of peanuts for the cricket world cup. In fact his kids will not even be allowed to go to school when the matches are been played because schools in the vicinity will be closed.

His fren shop that adjoins Sabina Park will have to take down their Signage.... well almost the organizers have relented on that.
He will not be putting up a web site.

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u know TG, this reminds me of the airjam stewardess who tried in vain to get a store at di airport...sort of lateral integration of her job as she got older and wanted to remain in the industry she had helped build...

but being a woman who saved her money and had great work ethics etc etc was not enuff..

at the heart of bizniz in kingston r but a few people....i was amazed myself to discover recently how few indeed wen the name of someone cropped up in the fishing story....that one person's blanket organization seems to have a virtual lockdown on any bizniz enterprise regardless of the parish and the bizniz entity...i have heard about have fingas in pies, but bloody heck man

**evanovitch** · 04-25-2006, 05:43 PM

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the glass always half empty for you..

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an the flip side is that we have been encouraged to be thankful for the said half that is full...

how long will that veddy argument , both sides, continue to be the rallying cry of the opposing sides

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**mangoskin** · 04-25-2006, 05:44 PM

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true, certain jobs require a Kgn8 address definately, but some have struck out on their own as entrepreneurs and have made it...

**evanovitch** · 04-25-2006, 05:54 PM

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true, certain jobs require a Kgn8 address definately, but some have struck out on their own as entrepreneurs and have made it...

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don't get me wrong but i acknowledge those who have and gawd bless dem an the hard road dem have to row and di compromises dem have to mek an fight against

but, wen will these instances and their subsequent successes be the norm as opposed to the 'one off'....

wen will we realise that as an island of 2.5m our thinking has to be inkeeping wid dat starting point in alllllll its implications....

as i get older, i am getting darn tyad of waiting for the promise of independence which was made before my time....our parents lived for the changes that such would afford their children and now, not even great great grandchildren likely to see our independence of 1962 [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70402-thinking.gif[/img]

**mangoskin** · 04-25-2006, 06:00 PM

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I know it's not easy..but I am still optimistic that this sports investment can be a big plus for ja if handled correctly

**Tuff Gong** · 04-25-2006, 06:57 PM

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the glass always half empty for you..

sorry bout the peanut vendor, mi lub roasted peanut and peanut brittle, peanut punch & ice cream too..
(wonder if he was properly capitalized?)

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Why don't you stop putting words into my mouth?
The glass is always full for me because I look at the fullness. You on the other hand want to look at this in vacuum.
Jamaica does not operate in a vacuum. To fix a single pot hole in the country the GOJ must borrow money.
There are opportunity costs involved in any decision involving finance this or that in Jamaica as with any jurisdiction. The question is given all that is happening is this a good thing for the country.
Is spending US$105 million to get US$9Mil returns a good thing for us to do?

On a personal level since persons want to address me personally. I don't money problems at this time. I can afford what I want. The argument is about what is taking place in Jamaica.

**evanovitch** · 04-25-2006, 07:08 PM

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if handled correctly

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from ur lips to God's ears, as the saying goes..

see this is what pricks at me so to speak....the one variable which never seems to change in Ja is the very variable which time and time lets us down....and it all comes down 'to the handling' of watever venture it is in all those varibles

hope springs eternal, yes another cliche, but dang, even wid global warming , the future of said spring in question [img]/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

**mangoskin** · 04-25-2006, 07:17 PM

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Is spending US$105 million to get US$9Mil returns a good thing for us to do?

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I believe it can return much more than $9mill in the long term.

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On a personal level since persons want to address me personally. I don't money problems at this time. I can afford what I want. The argument is about what is taking place in Jamaica.

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I didn't make any statements about any one's finances other than the capitalising of the vendors investment, (if that's what you're referring to)

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