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Is this too premature? Should they wait on the verdict? Who is doing the vetting in Jamaica? Does this reflect badly on the Jamaican government? Does it seem like "Dem a gi whey OJ to any smaddy".
I especially like the line "honored for outstanding contribution in promoting the interests of Jamaica and the Caribbean." NYers can you help me out with that line.
Source: CaribWorldNews
CaribWorldNews, KINGSTON, Jamaica, Tues. Oct. 20, 2009: A New York congressman facing an ethics inquiry has been given a top honor by the Jamaican government.
Congressman Charles Bernard Rangel of Harlem, NY, who is being investigated by the House Ethics Committee for alleged financial and tax improprieties, was on Monday honored with the Order of Jamaica by the Bruce Golding administration at the National Heroes Day ceremony in Kingston.
Rangel, according to a government statement, was `honored for outstanding contribution in promoting the interests of Jamaica and the Caribbean.`
The Order of Jamaica is the fourth of the five ranks in the Jamaican honours system. The Order was established in 1969, and is considered the equivalent of knighthood in the British honours system.
Membership in the Order can be conferred to any Jamaican citizen of outstanding distinction. Honorary membership in the Order can be conferred to any distinguishing citizen of a country other than Jamaica.
The congressman, who recently managed to hold on to his job as the head of the powerful Ways and Means Committee despite a bid by Republicans to unseat him, was honored along with the world`s fastest man, Usain St. Leo Bolt.
Congressman Rangel has been beset by controversy and scandal recently. Rangel, whose district, encompasses Upper Manhattan and includes such neighborhoods as Harlem, Spanish Harlem, Washington Heights, Inwood, Morningside Heights, and part of the Upper West Side, as well as a small portion of Queens in the neighborhood of Astoria, has been accused of failing to report hundreds of thousands of dollars in rental income or pay taxes on a beach rental property in the Dominican Republic, allegedly living in multiple rent-stabilized apartments in New York City while claiming his Washington, D.C. home as his primary residence for tax purposes, allegedly using congressional stationery to solicit donors for a public policy institute in his name at City College, and taking a Caribbean trip courtesy of the Carib News foundation without approval.
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I especially like the line "honored for outstanding contribution in promoting the interests of Jamaica and the Caribbean." NYers can you help me out with that line.
Source: CaribWorldNews
CaribWorldNews, KINGSTON, Jamaica, Tues. Oct. 20, 2009: A New York congressman facing an ethics inquiry has been given a top honor by the Jamaican government.
Congressman Charles Bernard Rangel of Harlem, NY, who is being investigated by the House Ethics Committee for alleged financial and tax improprieties, was on Monday honored with the Order of Jamaica by the Bruce Golding administration at the National Heroes Day ceremony in Kingston.
Rangel, according to a government statement, was `honored for outstanding contribution in promoting the interests of Jamaica and the Caribbean.`
The Order of Jamaica is the fourth of the five ranks in the Jamaican honours system. The Order was established in 1969, and is considered the equivalent of knighthood in the British honours system.
Membership in the Order can be conferred to any Jamaican citizen of outstanding distinction. Honorary membership in the Order can be conferred to any distinguishing citizen of a country other than Jamaica.
The congressman, who recently managed to hold on to his job as the head of the powerful Ways and Means Committee despite a bid by Republicans to unseat him, was honored along with the world`s fastest man, Usain St. Leo Bolt.
Congressman Rangel has been beset by controversy and scandal recently. Rangel, whose district, encompasses Upper Manhattan and includes such neighborhoods as Harlem, Spanish Harlem, Washington Heights, Inwood, Morningside Heights, and part of the Upper West Side, as well as a small portion of Queens in the neighborhood of Astoria, has been accused of failing to report hundreds of thousands of dollars in rental income or pay taxes on a beach rental property in the Dominican Republic, allegedly living in multiple rent-stabilized apartments in New York City while claiming his Washington, D.C. home as his primary residence for tax purposes, allegedly using congressional stationery to solicit donors for a public policy institute in his name at City College, and taking a Caribbean trip courtesy of the Carib News foundation without approval.
Read more here...
but mi still nah cuss
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