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living off credit cards to pay off credit cards....
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I realised wat dem doing n this is y the climate is there to continue to strip people of their rights as citizens...our constitution says beach front should not be sold....buttttt...u see how the PM a ask rich people fi stop tief light....u ask di rich but a cut off di poor one dem light...if u a beg di rich dat mean u have reason fi know dem a tief light ....I cannot see how people a hold on.... Smaddy tell mi SEH dem ha timer pon dem fridge so it cut off between 11 PM n 5 am wen di household in bed...truss mi...is a Walter Rodney arise a yaad, tings a go get hot hotComment
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Originally posted by Wahalla View Post
Baby, the few blacks who think dem ha money will not be welcome wen the whites buy out the shoreline....people like to see themselves reflected in their neighbourhood....u see who REALLy run yaad....dem might have a brown jubbie side a dem a di table but wen is all said n done, dem like white next to dem so dem no haffi kibba dem mout wen dem a planComment
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The Chinese probably going to end up owning it eventually.Originally posted by evanovitch View Post
Let me just say this. There is a guy up here in my neck of the woods who wanted to lease a spot to open a coffee shop. Now this is in RURAL Ontario, nothing special about the place. Just a corner spot with a few businesses on it, a car repair garage, a little convenience store and the building where he wants to open his coffee shop. If you drive by and blink you would miss it.
Imagine his surprise when he find out the group that owns the property is located in Hong Kong.
Like I always say... the Chinese are not going to take over the world by force, they are just going to purchase the world.Comment
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Winnifred Beach
Court orders public access to Winnifred Beach
Friday, November 28, 2014
People crowd the Winnifred Beach in Portland in this file photo.
THE Urban Development Corporation (UDC) has been ordered by the court to grant public access to Winnifred Beach in Portland, ending a five-year legal battle between the residents and the entity.
The ruling, which was handed down in the Port Antonio Resident Magistrate's Court in the parish last month by Resident Magistrate Marjorie Moyston, said UDC has 90 days to create on a new title an easement for the right of the public to access the beach for bathing and recreation purposes.
Four members of the Free Winnifred Beach Benevolent Society took the matter to court five years ago, seeking a declaration of the public's absolute and indefeasible right to access the beach....
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...The society, she said, is ready to take control of the beach and will therefore be applying to lease the facility.
"It is indeed years since Winnifred is able to accommodate huge crowds, especially on holidays, thanks to the restless work of a bunch of people working at the beach; keeping it clean, trying to fix the bathrooms, trying to repair the road, making sure that on busy days we have lifeguards in place, clearing plastic bottles and teaching everyone to be gentle to all visitors," she explained.
Gullotta said in the last three years they have been fighting to protect the turtles coming to the beach to make their nests. Some adults and teenagers are said to have created a task force to monitor them.
"We have the energy, the power and the expertise on the ground to control Winnifred Beach," she insisted.
The society thanked its many supporters, including Geejam, for becoming part of Winnifred Benevolent Society to support its request to UDC to secure a lease.Comment
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Well written.
'Two Jamaicas'
Yes, Bourdain, there are two Jamaicas.As I anticipated watching the CNN special as Anthony Bourdain highlighted Jamaica, I thought about what he may really point out. Don’t get me wrong. Although I am an American nurse, I have travelled throughout the different parishes of this beloved island for almost 25 years. I fell in love with the island in 1989, and have visited often ever since. I have tried to vary my vacation spots, but I am drawn to Jamaica even more when I go elsewhere. I was hoping Bourdain would hit the not so ‘touristy’ areas and feature some real people.
He started off by talking about the food during the past slavery days on the island, and how rice and peas, callaloo, breadfruit, and the like were filling and plentiful.
Moving on, he features a dinner at Trident Villas and Trident Castle with owner Michael Lee Chin, along with Errol Flynn’s extremely handsome and charming grandson Luke, who was born on the island.
Americans who visit Jamaica should think about the social injustices occurring prior to booking their luxurious vacations at one of the many all-inclusives. They should actually research the property to find out who owns it. Most hotel workers make the equivalent of $US 80-100 per week, and that may be on the generous side. Is it nice to stay at a Goldeneye villa, where it costs $925 per night? Sure, I bet it is. That amount in one night is more than what the average working Jamaican makes in two or three months. When you stay at Goldeneye, you are contributing to Chris Blackwell’s $180 million fortune. When you stay at a smaller, Jamaican-owned hotel or cottage or bread and breakfast, you are supporting the people who have been struggling to survive. The ones who cannot send their children to school because of the outrageous school fees, lack of transportation, or inability to buy school uniforms....there are two Jamaicas. I just prefer the other Jamaica. I purchased some Marley coffee recently here in Cleveland, and the taste of the Blue Mountain coffee really hit me as extraordinary. But when I learned that Rohan Marley’s coffee farm pays the employees almost double of what comparable workers make in similar jobs, I will only drink Marley coffee. Amazing coffee and social justice go together.
I prefer the Jamaica where the everyday people greet you with a smile, where the little roadside food stands pile the most amazing food high on a plate for you and welcome you with open arms. Where they struggle with high unemployment, high interest rates, high taxes, yet every day are giving thanks to be alive. Where you can walk along the beach in Negril and the lady who did my hair over a year ago calls out to me by name, hugging me like she did my hair yesterday. Going to the grocery store really angered me when I had to pay 16% tax for food. How does a government do this? How does this beautiful paradise island stand a fighting chance against all the opportunists and foreign investment companies who come in and buy or build massive hotels and resorts, yet their people are hungry, their children cannot attend school for lack of funds, and a college education is a far reach for almost everyone?
I have seen many churches there provide food, clothing, and transportation for their communities. But yet their health care system and many hospitals lack the very basic necessary supplies and manpower needed for a healthy population. ALL people should have access to medical care and medications, and not have to choose between A,B, and C hospitals or what they can afford. Just two days ago my friend had a leg amputated in Jamaica and has to find his own wheelchair! Yet the island collects arrival and departure taxes on each tourist in the amount of almost $50 USD. With the latest estimates at 3 million visitors per year, that tax alone nets $150 million per year. Yet many of the patients we saw on our mission trip (almost 700) cannot afford their basic hypertension and diabetes medications. They split them in half, or take them every other day, to make them last; this also makes them totally ineffective.
If you want to stay at the Trident Castle or at Goldeneye, hey, that’s great and I promise you that you will have the vacation of a lifetime, most likely a few lifetimes. I just prefer to direct my hard-earned money towards the ones who are struggling, who don’t know how they will survive from day to day. Anthony Bourdain spoke about the days of slavery as if they were in the past. Unfortunately for this amazing island and its’ wonderful citizens, those days are not in the past. And it doesn’t appear they will disappear anytime soon.
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