jamaica for sale

[blugiant]

inspired bye bruce selling out ann sell aff jamaica own tings

JAMAICA FOR SALE SCREENINGS MAY 11, 2010

<span style="font-weight: bold">BROOKLYN SCREENING @ MEDGAR EVERS COLLEGE
Tuesday 11 May 6:30-9:30PM
Medgar Evers College Founders Auditorium, 1650 Bedford Avenue
Panel Discussion with Esther Figueroa</span>



JAMAICA FOR SALE PROFILE
DELLA MANLEY


Music is a very important part of Jamaica for Sale. A number of musicians and their publishers/producers donated their music: Della Manley (Riverside Music, Fire House Red Productions), The Mighty Gabby (Eddie Grant, Ice Records, Warner Chappel Music, Ltd.) and Burning Spear (Winston and Sonia Rodney, Universal). We are very grateful for their support and will be profiling each artist.

First Profile is Della Manley whose two songs, &quot;The Garden&quot; and &quot;Take Good Care of Me&quot; are featured - &quot;The Garden&quot; opens the film and &quot;Take Good Care of Me&quot; closes it.

The Garden was inspired by listening to a piece of music that I had enjoyed. Very often when I write songs my processing and appreciation of other artists triggers my own creativity in some shape or form. “Take Good Care&quot; was different. I had written a verse of this song after I heard about a chemical spill.. and put it down for a bit.. Out of the blue, a fellow song writer/ producer contacted me to ask if a song that might be appropriate for a project he'd been commissioned to do - a compilation of songs by various artists to promote environmental awareness. I finished the song but never heard from him.&quot;

In the Garden there is the refrain &quot;Why?&quot;, it is a refrain that is repeated throughout Jamaica for Sale. Della included this refrain in the song because &quot;these decisions made to destroy the environment are incomprehensible to me. Man/woman is an integral part of nature. We destroy nature we destroy ourselves.&quot;

““Take Good Care&quot; - is a call to action, that we must appreciate and take care of the natural environment that we depend upon. In this version, Della duets with Tarrus Riley. &quot;I began my third album, during the production of “Take Good Care&quot; the song seemed to beg other voices.. I had dueted with Tarrus on his 2nd album &quot;Parables&quot; on his song &quot;Family&quot;, so I asked him if he'd consider joining me on this song. It was a wonderful experience to work with him in the studio again.&quot;

Della is committed to raising our awareness about the importance of the environment and her music is part of her dedication to seeing that we change our attitudes and behaviours. &quot;I hope that we do whatever and everything we can to maintain preserve and improve this amazing country of ours. That the campaign /awareness for littering and preservation of the environment becomes a part of everyone's DNA. That recycling becomes reflexive rather than a voluntary action for all of us. .. that we educate - which is the reason why I agreed with the producer of the song that it be used as the theme song for the Green Expo in 2009. Finally that we learn to love the environment, each other and ourselves. These are my hopes for Jamaica.&quot;

Thank you Della!


JAMAICA FOR SALE CHAPTERS DVD
GREAT FOR TEACHING


Jamaica for Sale is available for international distribution. Purchase DVDs Online just go to the Buy Now button on any page. One exciting new feature is our DVD of Chapters and Extra Content. Each chapter covers an issue and is at a length appropriate for classroom teaching and workshop/community discussions. It is a great tool for focusing on problems and exploring solutions. Jamaica for Sale is being taught across the globe in a wide variety of disciplines including: African Diaspora Studies, Anthropology, Architecture, Caribbean Studies, Cultural Studies, Development Studies, Economics, Engineering, English, Environmental Studies, Film Studies, Gender Studies, Geography, Globalization Studies, Governance, International Relations, Law, Political Science, Post-Colonial Studies, Sociology, Tourism Studies. Let us know how you are using Jamaica for Sale with your students and your community groups.

CHAPTER ONE: JAMAICA FOR SALE (Introduction) – same as documentary

CHAPTER TWO: HISTORY OF TOURISM - same as documentary

CHAPTER THREE: SOCIO ECONOMIC IMPACTS – extra content

CHAPTER FOUR: IMPACT ON MARINE ENVIRONMENT -
same as documentary

CHAPTER FIVE: BEACH ACCESS – extra content

CHAPTER SIX: REGULATORY FRAMEWORK – extra content

CHAPTER SEVEN: PENDING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS –
extra content

CHAPTER EIGHT: PROGNOSIS FOR TOURISM – extra content

CHAPTER NINE: TOURISM &amp; THE PICTURESQUE – new content

CHAPTER TEN: CREDITS - same as documentary


..

[blugiant]

Re: jamaica for sale

lang thyme wii knoo dat boat aff ja majar politrixx party a pimp jamaica meybe dat y marley sing bout a pimpers paradise

bruce iss tekkinn ting too annada xxtreme

openinn upp annada airport inn st mary, soo imm sell aff air jamaica. iff yu openinn upp annada airport dat mean increase traffixx fii ja, soo bruce decided fii use reccession as pretext fii gitt ridd aff sum high payinn air jamaica jabs

bruce decide fii legalies casino fii help close budget deficts. da prablem iss dat historee show casino doan help reduce deficts soo mii wandar woo imm foolinn

mii doan like oww bruce a raid de barn fii putt ja inna more debts

[jah_yout]

Re: jamaica for sale

i was planning to go...

see you there

[blugiant]

Re: jamaica for sale

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i was planning to go...

see you there </div></div>

yess mii tekkinn mii dawtah

[Seveen]

Re: jamaica for sale

MEDGAR EVERS:

where was he born

what did he do

how come he died

have reverence for the whole experience - not just the film

[jah_yout]

Re: jamaica for sale

r.i.p. to mr. evers...a big poster of his image is in the auditorium of this beautiful school named after him and serves the community well...

nice little film- &quot;jamaica for sale&quot;...

got the chance to see it thank god...

it's beyond sad what these people have done to my beloved yaad...

god naah sleep!!!

[Ja. Jewel]

Re: jamaica for sale

Good article connected to this documentary..... http://www.eturbonews.com/5874/video...urism-industry

[jah_yout]

Re: jamaica for sale

yes the film-maker is a conscious lady from st bess...

should be required viewing for all j'cans but i won't hold my breath...

unfortunately the modern-day jamaican is asleep and cares more about gaza vs. gully than the catastrophic environmental disaster unfolding in jamaica right under our noses...

a new colonization by the spanish- ironically the original rapist/plunderers of the island...this time as hotelier conquistadors...
as the current so-called jamaican leaders sell out our children &amp; grandchildren...

aye sah

[WiseJamaican]

Re: jamaica for sale

lmao your headline is so misleading. Here wondering what the driva was selling again otherwise than the beaches there is nothing left. Low and beyond it is musical elements. Anyway it is better than the beaches down in Ocho which are on the list to be sell out. lol

[Ja. Jewel]

Re: jamaica for sale-More in Font Hill developement

an email from the save font hill group on flickr:

WHERE IS FONT HILL?

Also sometimes known as Luana, the Font Hill property follows the coast about 6 miles west of Black River, between Galleon Bay and Scotts Cove. To landward it includes low coastal hills, with woodland and pasture, peppered with small freshwater ponds. The coast is fringed with the best remaining mangroves in western Jamaica, seagrass beds and coral reefs.

WHY IS FONT HILL IMPORTANT FOR BIODIVERSITY?

The importance of the coastal areas of Font Hill for biodiversity has long been recognized.

Natural services: The mangroves, seagrass beds and coral reefs protect the shoreline and replenish sandy beaches to the west and sustain the fisheries by providing an important nursery area for commercial fish and lobster, protect the coast from hurricane damage and reduce saline intrusion

Globally threatened species: The mangroves and seagrass beds and associated habitats provide essential habitat for many globally threatened species, including the American Crocodile, Hawksbill Turtle, West Indian Whistling Duck and West Indian Manatee and several other rare species. The Jamaican Slider (locally known as pond turtle or Hickatee) finds a refuge in the ponds. The woodlands support a unique orchid – a cross between two endemic species Broughtonia negrilensis and B. sanguinea. The White-crowned Pigeon (Baldpate) nests in the mangroves.

Migratory birds: The mangroves and woodlands support many migratory landbirds and shorebirds. For this reason they have been the site of one of the longest running studies of migratory birds in the world. Currently being implemented by the Smithsonian Institution’s Migratory Bird Programme, this study of American Redstarts has contributed greatly to global understanding of the bird migration. The ponds also support many migratory shore birds, some of which stay for the winter others pass through

Special geological features: Along the beaches there is an emergent fossil reef and an unusual polychaete &quot;reef&quot; that require special conservation measures.

WHY ARE WE OBJECTING TO THE DIVESTMENT OF FONT HILL FOR MASS TOURISM?

A model for the South Coast: For more than 30 years the people of the south coast of Jamaica, tourism interests and environmentalists have been united in their support for a different model of development on the south coast of Jamaica. This model is based on low density, tourism based on small hotels, villas and community-based tourism catering for niche markets and thereby providing an alternative to the north coast. This model has been repeatedly endorsed in plans for the area as well as national plans for the tourism industry as well as biodiversity plans.

The South-West Coast Development Plan (funded and implemented by UDC), the South Coast Sustainable Development Plan (1999), the South Coast Sustainable Development Programme (funded by the Inter-American Development Bank and implemented by Tourism Product Development Company) all strongly recommended that large hotels were not an appropriate form of development for Jamaica’s south coast. This was based on local consultations, assessment of trends in the tourism market, assessment of ecological sensitivity, constraints of resources (including water supplies) and of the cultural impacts of the development of large hotels.

The direct consequences of inappropriate development of Font Hill include loss of ecological services e.g. accelerating decline of fisheries, increased vulnerability to hurricanes and storm surges, decline of threatened and endemic species. Indirect consequences include the loss of the option for developing the south coast differently from the north, with the loss of the image of the area, the destruction of a key site, and the increase in crime, would all affect the viability of the alternative vision.

A model for Font Hill: The Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica recognized the importance of Font Hill in the 1980s and established the 249 ha Font Hill Wildlife Reserve at the same time as it established the adjacent Font Hill Beach Park. It was declared a Wild Life Reserve in 1990. The reserve protects some of the best crocodile and sea turtle nesting habitat in Jamaica and is the location for the long-term bird studies. Many subsequent studies and plans have recognized the importance of maintaining this coastline – e.g. the documents listed above plus the Plan for a system of protected areas for Jamaica (1998), draft Black River Protected Area Management Plan (1999), the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (200x), the National Ecological Gap Assessment. Like the rest of the south coast, Font Hill is ripe for development – but not for large hotels. The problems of Sandals Whitehouse should have shown the deficiencies of this model.

[Ja. Jewel]

Re: jamaica for sale-More in Font Hill developement

more from the fb group

May 10, 2010
Press Release
For Immediate Release

DEVELOP THE SOUTH COAST IN JAMAICA - THE RESPONSIBLE WAY!

The recent announcement of the south coast being targeted for mass tourism development has sent ‘shockwaves’ to those of us who have nurtured this area and with pride marketed it as a unique experience with its fragile eco-systems, endemic plants and birds, crocodiles, rivers, wetlands, turtles, farming and fishing communities.

A South Coast Sustainable Development plan was signed off on some years ago by many of the south coast stakeholders who all wanted to see their area developed with the local people as entrepreneurs and to not create another north coast style of tourism. The plan called for low density development, protection of the natural environment, the heritage and culture and to make it the “attraction centre” of Jamaica with some boutique hotels, villas, cottages, guest houses and a few large hotels of not more than 300 rooms. We did not want to create a resort atmosphere as we had a strong desire to retain the natural rustic setting that so many visitors are now seeking more than ever before.

I suppose we became complacent in knowing we had a plan which included the public and private sectors, to protect us for the future.

But alas, this ‘bubble’ of complacency burst last week when we read and saw on CVM TV the news that the Ministers of Tourism and Mining were touring the 3000 acre Font Hill property with Fiesta, the Spanish hotel group, to consider developing it as a large-scale resort with a golf course, marina, convention centre and one of their large resort hotels with over 800 rooms!

Words cannot express how astounded, disappointed and disrespected all of us felt when we heard that Font Hill was being considered for such a development without any prior notification, discussion or consultation with the south coast stakeholders
.
But what is being considered is not restricted to one resort hotel. In the Daily Gleaner dated May 8 we read that the Spanish Fiesta Group is not just interested in doing a large scale development but would require an airport as the other airports are too far away! An airport on the south-west coast would destroy the area’s tranquility and affect its birdlife and the internationally-known bird watching market which can be more developed than it is.

We have also read (April 23) that Minister Robertson says &quot;The Font Hill property is ideal for a high-end tourism and new town development, with beach front golf courses, and air-strips. … There is going to be a greater demand for housing … .” In other words, the Government wishes to urbanize this precious and unique area.

It makes no sense to turn a tranquil and environmentally precious natural area into yet another sprawling, noisy, urban environment when we all know that we have allowed our existing towns to deteriorate, and have not found the means to restore their quality of life and environment. The south coast has always been acknowledged as an essential contrast and counterpoint to the north coast tourism model, and its importance in maintaining Jamaica’s distinctiveness and competitive edge is becoming ever greater.

Anita Mendiratta, of CNN Task Group/eTn in August 12 2009 wrote an article on the role of government in tourism which said “for all the rich rewards of tourism there are also great risks – and these risks are real, immediate, penetrating and potentially irreversible: risks to the environmental sustainability, risks to greater economic stability, risks to local culture, risks to social value systems to name a few” She continues to say “ simply put, in buying into the tourism phenomena, a destination can face the risk of selling its soul!”

Therefore, for the tourism sector to truly work for Font Hill, for the destination and for the south coast – for the good of Jamaica in the future, clear, visionary, focused leadership by government is vital and equally important, respect for the carefully developed master plan and South Coast Sustainable Development Plan is fundamental.

If the strategic planning that has been done is now disregarded, the south coast risks having its doors thrown open to the world and its soul sold. What makes the south coast unique and precious to its citizens, to Jamaica and to international visitors – its cohesive and caring community, its character and its culture – will be exchanged for more faceless and ultimately unsustainable development.

Anita Mendiratta ends her article by saying “Just as a conductor is responsible for carefully guiding his/her musicians towards the creation of musical magic as one united force, it is the government who must confidently lead the people of the destination’s tourism community, providing them the direction and inspiration they need to live and love the destination they call home – and proudly share with audiences around the world whom they know will truly love their art”

We on the south coast passionately love our home and lifestyle. We are eager to share it with visitors who want the unique community experience of our many diverse villages and natural environment and varied attractions, but we are not willing to sacrifice the irreversible degradation of our natural assets and culture in order to attract visitors. Investment must also be on the terms as outlined in the South Coast Sustainable Development plan

We are expecting the government in association with JAMPRO to seek suitable investors in keeping with the established guidelines and local stakeholders’ vision of a sustainable product. Other countries in the Caribbean like Costa Rica, Belize, and St. Lucia are developing a more responsible tourism product. The south coast is the last region in Jamaica to be developed for tourism – please give us a chance to develop our south coast the responsible way! Only this way, can the south coast retain its unique character and long-term earning power.

***************

Contributed by: Diana McIntyre-Pike, BSc, OD
Chairman/CEO Countrystyle Community Tourism Network
President, International Institute for Peace through Tourism (IIPT) Caribbean
Mandeville, Manchester. Jamaica West Indies

[Ja. Jewel]

Re: jamaica for sale-More in Font Hill developement

join up!

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=114999655206778&amp;ref=mf

[Yuriatin]

Re: jamaica for sale-More in Font Hill developement

All so depressing – depressing to the point where it’s almost physically sickening.

I remember, years ago, when Stephanie did “Life &amp; Debt”, the same type of uproar ensued.

Nothing changed.

Nothing changes.

These foreign entities have spread and embedded their tentacles even <span style="font-weight: bold">FURTHER</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold">DEEPER</span> – all aided by my very own government.

Nothing changed.

Nothing changes.

There’ll be little to nothing left.

[Yuriatin]

Re: jamaica for sale-More in Font Hill developement

<span style="font-style: italic">And Life and Debt is almost 10 years old!!!</span>

[sistactry]

Re: jamaica for sale

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: blakkgiant</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i was planning to go...

see you there </div></div>

yess mii tekkinn mii dawtah </div></div>

wish me did ketch it, cha, me feget!!!