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Re: Veteran journalist John Maxwell is dead
oh no...so sad fi real...i had been missing his column and i know he was ill an had even gone abroad for treatment....this is sad...really sad...
another sign of the end of an era in Jamaica
may he rest in peace....
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Re: Veteran journalist John Maxwell is dead
I'm so sorry.
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John Mawell died...
Few of the old school pre independence journalists now remain..Comment
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I first learned of Jean Maxwell when he was excoriated by Tuff Gong as an alcoholic liar or some such in the International forum. This is as good an endorsement as he could have and it led me to read as much as I could of his writings. He made eminent sense.
He will be as missed as much as John Cocteau is.Comment
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: johnnycakes</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I first learned of Jean Maxwell when he was excoriated by Tuff Gong as
an alcoholic liar or some such in the International forum. This is as good an endorsement
as he could have and it led me to read as much as I could of his writings. He made eminent
sense.
He will be as missed as much as John Cocteau is.
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I knew him personally. Yes, he was an alcoholic liar and more. He was also a Journalist,
but he prostituted his Independence in favour of the Party as it carried on a war of
attrition against Jamaica people.
Maybe it is for something that the Troika of Rex Nettleford, Barry Chevannes and John
Maxwell left the firmament in the same strong, as surely, it has to be the end of a most frightening era of destruction and grand hypocrisy in Jamaica land we love.Comment
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Re: John Mawell died...
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Wahalla</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Few of the old school pre independence journalists now remain.. </div></div>
yes, the type who respected the power of the word, and thought carefully about how they constructed their thoughts before they wrote them down. of the morris cargill school.Comment
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Re: John Mawell died...
Yes Tuff Gong,
And now that Joshua, JEAN Maxwell and so many others responsible for the mess that Jamaica is in today are gone, the absence of their lying voices will allow Jamaica to become the shining star of the Caribbean.
All that remains to be done is to get the JLP back in power and things will turn around in short order.
Maybe you can get Obama to run in 2012 when he becomes unemployed and then he can create the same real change in Jamaica that he brought to the United States.
You have to have hope.Comment
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Re: John Mawell died...
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: johnnycakes</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Yes Tuff Gong,
And now that Joshua, JEAN Maxwell and so many others responsible for the mess that Jamaica is in today are gone, the absence of their lying voices will allow Jamaica to become the shining star of the Caribbean.
All that remains to be done is to get the JLP back in power and things will turn around in short order.
Maybe you can get Obama to run in 2012 when he becomes unemployed and then he can create the same real change in Jamaica that he brought to the United States.
You have to have hope. </div></div>
The only way you can make a point is to put words into my mouth stop. err....MsBi3ch Stop.....I am fully capable of setting down my thoughts, in my own words, in my own time!Comment
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Re: John Mawell died...
Here is what I like about these conversations. The persons most likely to bring up the JLP and Eddie Blinds are persons who are vehemently against the JLP or worse Eddie Blinds.
I am not a supporter of neither the JLP nor Eddie Blinds and I don't need to talk about the JLP or Eddie Blinds to point out the destructive nature of the PNP under Menlie, Patterson and now Portia.
What I am in favour of is progress in Jamaica. The only time since the Independence that Jamaica has tasted progress is under Eddie Blinds. If I would be given a choice I would take Eddie over Micheal, Portia and Bruce all day, every day.
I don't need idiots to parse my words, I will tell it as is!Comment
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Re: John Mawell died...
Jamaica enjoyed rapid growth rates during the 1950s and 1960s as the bauxite industry boomed. Real GDP growth averaged about 4.5 percent during these two decades. Economic growth was sporadic and weak from 1972 to 1986, however. Indeed, the Jamaican economy did not register two consecutive years of significant growth during that period. Between 1973 and 1980, the island experienced seven consecutive years of negative growth. The economic downturn in the 1970s demonstrated the highly mobile nature of both labor and capital in Jamaica, as skilled labor and investment capital left the island. The democratic socialist government of Michael Manley from 1972 to 1980 was popularly blamed for the poor performance during the 1970s (see Political Dynamics, this ch.). Nevertheless, Manley's successor and conservative political opponent, Edward Seaga, was also unable to turn the economy around during his first six years in office. The economy experienced sporadic and unsustained growth in the early 1980s. GDP declined by 4.5 percent in 1985 but rose again in 1986 by more than 2 percent. In the mid1980s , the Jamaican economy was about where it was in 1980 in terms of real GDP. Negative growth in the 1980s was generally attributed to the acute decline in the world bauxite market.
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: johnnycakes</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Jamaica enjoyed rapid growth rates during the 1950s and 1960s as the bauxite industry boomed. Real GDP growth averaged about 4.5 percent during these two decades. Economic growth was sporadic and weak from 1972 to 1986, however. Indeed, the Jamaican economy did not register two consecutive years of significant growth during that period. Between 1973 and 1980, the island experienced seven consecutive years of negative growth. The economic downturn in the 1970s demonstrated the highly mobile nature of both labor and capital in Jamaica, as skilled labor and investment capital left the island. The democratic socialist government of Michael Manley from 1972 to 1980 was popularly blamed for the poor performance during the 1970s (see Political Dynamics, this ch.). Nevertheless, Manley's successor and conservative political opponent, Edward Seaga, was also unable to turn the economy around during his first six years in office. The economy experienced sporadic and unsustained growth in the early 1980s. GDP declined by 4.5 percent in 1985 but rose again in 1986 by more than 2 percent. In the mid1980s , the Jamaican economy was about where it was in 1980 in terms of real GDP. Negative growth in the 1980s was generally attributed to the acute decline in the world bauxite market.
http://www.photius.com/countries/jam..._overview.html </div></div>
LOL it is great to post crap without context.
I have sources and articles but let's just go with what you just posted here.
<span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="font-weight: bold">From your snippet:</span></span>
Confirmed: Jamaica did grow till 1972 when Menlie was elected.
Confirmed: Jamaica's decline started in 1972
Confirmed Jamaica has been in decline since 1972.
Confirmed: Eddie Seaga did briefly turn the Jamaica Economy around till he was dumped.
<span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="font-weight: bold">Now the background:</span></span>
Menlie did run Jamaicans out of Jamaica. He said Jamaica was not a place for millionaires, anyone who wanted to become a millionaire could hop on one of the five flights per day to Miami.
As soon a Menlie came to power his goons started to destroy mainly White and Chinese Jamaicans businesses. I witnessed it personally, our area had the largest concentration of Chinese Shops and many White Jamaicans businesses. These were Jamaicans and not foreigners who migrated to Jamaica.
Not only did Menlie and his policy destroy White and Chinese businesses but it further wrecked many Black owned outfits, as the Financial Intelligence Unit was used to wreck havoc on many importers/exporters. I had to help many supporters of the PNP who had businesses to smuggle foreign currency in and out of Jamaica, sometimes in Bible and even canning.
When Menlie and his Gang left Jamaica Economy declined by 25% in 10 years so it hardly like that Eddie Blinds with 8 years would have made Jamaica whole again. Still he was able to attract factories to Jamaica that employed 45K Jamaicans and to date it is the only period in which Jamaica has experienced a positive growth between 1972 and 2007.
Even the Labour of Jamaicans produced more under Eddie Blinds:
Five-Year Average Change in Labour Productivity for Jamaica : 1973-2007
<span style="font-weight: bold">1988-1992 3.5 1.4</span>Comment
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Re: Veteran journalist John Maxwell is dead
I remember his commentaries on JBC-TV back in the day. Initially, I would l wonder why Mr. Maxwell was such a cranky pants! \0/ But invariably, upon listening to his entire commentary, he proved that he was the most talented man with words or truth. He could peel away at political hypocrisy just like that. He was a courageous man
From the article about his death, I learned that he was very much involved with protecting the natural environment in Jamaica
R.I.P, John.
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Re: John Mawell died...
Tuff Gong,
There is no argument that Jamaica under Seaga did incrementally better than under Manley.
Of course Manley did have the disadvantage of having the Cold War policies of Sam intrude on Jamaica's internal affairs and Seaga the advantage of getting the loans withheld from Manley and any other benefits that accrue from kissing up to Reagan by kicking out the Cubans and participating in the imperial invasion of Grenada but none of this is what matters.
What matters is that Jamaica is in a mess now.
Neither the JLP nor the PNP have workable solutions to the problems that confront Jamaica.
The problems are based on Jamaica's reliance on neo-liberal economics that simply do not work in relatively poor and underdeveloped countries like Jamaica.
Neither party is willing to address this truth as they are tied to it hand and foot.
Is life for the average person in Jamaica better than it was before 1960?
That's the question that must be asked and not who is to blame for the mess.
It's time to move on.
It's time for radical change and not for tinkering with the wreckage of a failed system in the blind hope that THIS time things that never have worked will now work.Comment
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Re: John Mawell died...
As usual the economic frauds conveniently ignore the oil crisis of the 70s that was mostly responsible for the negative economic growth.
The same strategy the developed world used against the third world countries like jamaica that forced manley to go quasi socialist , the are attempting to do with the middleclass in the developed countries <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: johnnycakes</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Jamaica enjoyed rapid growth rates during the 1950s and 1960s as the bauxite industry boomed. Real GDP growth averaged about 4.5 percent during these two decades. Economic growth was sporadic and weak from 1972 to 1986, however. Indeed, the Jamaican economy did not register two consecutive years of significant growth during that period. Between 1973 and 1980, the island experienced seven consecutive years of negative growth. The economic downturn in the 1970s demonstrated the highly mobile nature of both labor and capital in Jamaica, as skilled labor and investment capital left the island. The democratic socialist government of Michael Manley from 1972 to 1980 was popularly blamed for the poor performance during the 1970s (see Political Dynamics, this ch.). Nevertheless, Manley's successor and conservative political opponent, Edward Seaga, was also unable to turn the economy around during his first six years in office. The economy experienced sporadic and unsustained growth in the early 1980s. GDP declined by 4.5 percent in 1985 but rose again in 1986 by more than 2 percent. In the mid1980s , the Jamaican economy was about where it was in 1980 in terms of real GDP. Negative growth in the 1980s was generally attributed to the acute decline in the world bauxite market.
http://www.photius.com/countries/jam..._overview.html </div></div>Comment
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