Jamaica no longer beautiful

[Sinco01]

<span style="color: #CC0000"><span style='font-size: 11pt'>Jamaica is no longer beautiful</span></span>

published: Friday | February 23, 2007

THE EDITOR, Sir:

THIS LETTER gives me a sad feeling inside for the many people who I can't help anymore there on the island. I am very sick now because of what has happened to me in Jamaica, and sad to say, I will be the last person to encourage anyone to go to Jamaica again. Jamaica has become a den of sin, and the people have become accustomed to it. The people like me who have put our lives into trying to see a better Jamaica, have at the same time seen sin glorified by the masses.

I sit today and ask myself, don't the people want better for themselves? Are we not the descendants of the men and women who have given their lives so that we could have a better life? But each day, you read of sons killing other, police and lawyers milking the country on a daily basis. And let us not forget the Church where one thing is preached and another thing is lived. I hurt to write this letter but it will be my last time writing on the subject. Let us face it, Jamaica is no longer beautiful, and will never again be until the system decides to rid its self of the bad servants it now has robbing the system. I will spend the rest of my life wanting to come back to Jamaica and at the same time knowing I'll never be able to. Thanks for taking the time to read a sad man's words.

I am, etc.,

BRIAN KING

[email protected]

Alabama

Edited by Sinco01 ( 18 minutes 22 seconds ago)

[Seveen]

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i kinda felt sad my last trip

but i know i will return

just not as soon as usual

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[remo]

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The man is entitled to his opinion......
to me their is no place like yaad and god willing I will retire there some day.....

[Hopyoneson]

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There are lots of truth in the letter but I cannot turn my back on Jamaica especially now with all the stuff I see with my own eyes going on down there. Wish him speedy recovery but Jamaica still nice and me will be going back regularly.

[Yuriatin]

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Many - TOO many, truths in his letter - hard truths. I can understand his frustraions.

But me? I haven't reached that point yet! Not to the point where I'm saying I wont go home. Nah sah!

[Serenity82]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Seveen</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i kinda felt sad my last trip

but i know i will return

just not as soon as usual

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why?

[Peasie]

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To be honest, I came to this conclusion about five years ago. I do not wish to go back to Jamaica even for a short visit. I was filled with so much fear when I was there as I stayed with family and friends in Kingston, Portland, Manchester, and Negril - doesn't matter. I was filled with sadness as I mourned the way the country has become. Now I regularly visit an island in the Bahamas (not Nassau, no way) because it reminds me so much of my people and country of birth. Except, of course, no mountains..

[Serenity82]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Gungo Peas</div><div class="ubbcode-body">To be honest, I came to this conclusion about five years ago. I do not wish to go back to Jamaica even for a short visit. I was filled with so much fear when I was there as I stayed with family and friends in Kingston, Portland, Manchester, and Negril - doesn't matter. I was filled with sadness as I mourned the way the country has become. Now I regularly visit an island in the Bahamas (not Nassau, no way) because it reminds me so much of my people and country of birth. Except, of course, no mountains.. </div></div>

Can u go in depth to what's happening. I personally think the passa passa's need to be banned. Corruption needs to be dealt with and more effort needs to be made to stop guns from getting into the country.

[Q3210]

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It is really challenging living in a country where leadership is about re-distribution of wealth rather than the creating of it, where power and popularity is more important than making tough decisions and seeing that implementation of the law is done and that corruption is not a way of life but an obstruction for trust and economic development.

[RichD]

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Q dat sound like nuff nuff places....if yuh listen to tak radio here yuh tink is canada yuh a talk bout

[Q3210]

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Can u go in depth to what's happening. I personally think the passa passa's need to be banned. Corruption needs to be dealt with and more effort needs to be made to stop guns from getting into the country. [/quote]

Ban passa passa and you stifle the energy out of the people. For us to stop guns from coming in, we must stop the need for wanting guns in the first place. Corruption is a major issue.
It is the prime cause of a decadent society.
Corruption breeds divisions, it causes distrust and it causes greed that has made politics about who gets what when and how.
Corruption can only be corrected by the will of strong leadership.
Our lady Prime Minister is not a strong leader. She is only surfing with the tide and not even doing that good, because she tends to be falling off into the deep ends most of the times.
Our politicians are not statesmen and stateswomen, they are mere opportunists making the best for themselves at the expense of the population. The same can be said of a middle class that clique to within themselves. Both the leaders in the public and private sectors hold a cold contempt for the people dividing themselves except when on Sundays thay hypocritically attend church and sing and call out Jesus` name together but deep down they do so only in selfisheness. When elections draw nearer, you hear sweet words of rhetoric, of promises of some land over the rainbow where there are pots of gold. Then after all the dust has settled, we all end up back at square one....murder, crime, diservice, diluted educational standards.

No RichD, Canada if she is going to be corrupt as we are then sooner or later the tail spinning will crash her to the ground.
And if we could afford corruption it wouldn`t have been so bad as how it is with each passing day.
Canada has more working services backed by its resources. Jamaica hardly has anything working and yet we are being sucked dry.
Our garbage disposal system is no good. Yet the leaders boast of solid achievement. Most of us can see that the achievement they boast about is more a pile up of solid waste, an illusion and chatter to boost an ignorant politically educated population, too willing to buckle to the servants who have power, who have become the master of their own destiny and not of the nations interest at large.

[Dr.Dudd]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Q dat sound like nuff nuff places....if yuh listen to tak radio here yuh tink is canada yuh a talk bout </div></div>
That is why I don't listen to the perreniel complainer Mr Nutty,because i avoid the meriaDS OF THEM HERe.
it is all about life. the evidence of life is change. What Jamaica is gouing through did not happen overnight.
Incidentally the good old US of A had those and worst problems the decades following independence.
They overcame it without the aid of the knowledge base and technology available to us. We will too. May be after many uncomfortable changes,but we will.

[Dr.Dudd]

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Q,Corruption is also an on-demand commodity just as guns are.
In this bastion of capitalism,banks are required to loan a signoificant percentage of theri portfolio to the depressed communities in the jurisdiction they do business. This is not about social experiment. It is about reducing the demand for illegal means of survival. It reduce the amount spent on Prisons,policing,and courts. While at the same time create tax paying citizens. the difference is that in Jamaica,there is a (red line) against the ddecendants of former slaves,who populate those demographies. Just like how they openly demonstrated against and suppressed the children of the former slaves attending high schools in the 60s,they have been suppressing them in economics today. the experience the country is having is the rsult of what happened in the open during th eyears prior to the 70's. That was the so-called good old days. When most blacks could only wish to have shoes to wear. Today they want to own the shoe store and the manufacturing plants.
that is the problem.

[Peasie]

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I don't pay attention to what media say. I am intelligent enough to weigh news sources against the truth. Look, some Jamaican government, military, police, and general populace are simply too irrational. I've known for years that reasonable folks have simply left the island or else are too cowardly to come forward and reclaim the truth.

I love Jamaica of my youth and only remember being truly deeply happy as a child and teenager. Then, during the 1980s as a young adult, I remember fear seeping in - killings, irrational politics, "Christians" who became dogmatic, the list is endless - it wasn't the acts of unreasonableness so much as a deep-rooted fear, of not knowing what to expect, of constant anxiety about whether merely driving to work or going to visit family in the country, or an outing with friends to the South Coast would mean being gunned down.

To be sure, a similar kind of fear crept in here in the U.S. as Geo. Bush &amp; Co. started an irrational war, fear-mongering, and sudden shift to the religious right. But this time as a grown-up, I fought back by reclaiming my adopted country though grassroots organizing, helping fellow Americans see how misled they were.

So now I reflect on my past ... where were the adults who sought to reclaim Jamaica from the "crazies"? Did they try valiantly like my parents did and then just gave up and decided to leave the island when there was no other way out?

I love the Jamaican spirit of old and I will miss the landscape, my country people, the literature, the theater of every day life. But these memories are in my mind tucked away with happy thoughts. And that's where they'll stay.

[Yuriatin]

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Well put, well put Q.


<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Q3210</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Can u go in depth to what's happening. I personally think the passa passa's need to be banned. Corruption needs to be dealt with and more effort needs to be made to stop guns from getting into the country. </div></div>

Ban passa passa and you stifle the energy out of the people. For us to stop guns from coming in, we must stop the need for wanting guns in the first place. Corruption is a major issue.
It is the prime cause of a decadent society.
Corruption breeds divisions, it causes distrust and it causes greed that has made politics about who gets what when and how.
Corruption can only be corrected by the will of strong leadership.
Our lady Prime Minister is not a strong leader. She is only surfing with the tide and not even doing that good, because she tends to be falling off into the deep ends most of the times.
Our politicians are not statesmen and stateswomen, they are mere opportunists making the best for themselves at the expense of the population. The same can be said of a middle class that clique to within themselves. Both the leaders in the public and private sectors hold a cold contempt for the people dividing themselves except when on Sundays thay hypocritically attend church and sing and call out Jesus` name together but deep down they do so only in selfisheness. When elections draw nearer, you hear sweet words of rhetoric, of promises of some land over the rainbow where there are pots of gold. Then after all the dust has settled, we all end up back at square one....murder, crime, diservice, diluted educational standards.

No RichD, Canada if she is going to be corrupt as we are then sooner or later the tail spinning will crash her to the ground.
And if we could afford corruption it wouldn`t have been so bad as how it is with each passing day.
Canada has more working services backed by its resources. Jamaica hardly has anything working and yet we are being sucked dry.
Our garbage disposal system is no good. Yet the leaders boast of solid achievement. Most of us can see that the achievement they boast about is more a pile up of solid waste, an illusion and chatter to boost an ignorant politically educated population, too willing to buckle to the servants who have power, who have become the master of their own destiny and not of the nations interest at large. [/quote]