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di interview wid Portia...ah sah...in times like dese we all in an uproar ovah wat was said..y she neva juss kibba har mout n mek di article recede from di news...now it is all dat peeps a chat bout...at least dem stop worry bout job wile dem tek side ovah dis yah issue..ah sah
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Speaking with RJR News Monday afternoon, OPM Press Secretary Lincoln Robinson explained that that while Mrs. Simpson-Miller <span style="font-weight: bold">did make reference to a Greek style bail-out for Jamaica</span>, <span style="font-style: italic">the comments were not made during the formal interview with Bloomberg. He said the prime minister made the comment while preparing to take a photo, after the actual interview had ended</span>. </div></div>
u know if dis was not such a lame joke i would laff...so now dem saying she did mek such a statement , BUT NOT during the interview...and of course is like people naw kill people a JA di way dis is all di chat....dem seh war dung town as i type butttttttttttttttttttttComment
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AUDIO: Portia dismisses call for Falconer to resig
AUDIO: Portia dismisses call for Falconer to resign
Published: Monday March 5, 2012 | 5:27 pm with audio | 0 Comments
Damion Mitchell, News Editor
The Gleaner/Power 106 News Centre
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has responded to a call by the Opposition for Senator Sandrea Falconer, her minister with responsibility for information, to resign over reported developments relating to a controversial story published by Bloomberg.
Falconer has reportedly denied that the Prime Minister made statements suggesting that Jamaica would do well with a bail-out similar to that of Greece.
But in an interview with The Gleaner/Power 106 News this afternoon, Simpson Miller dismissed the Opposition’s call.
“She didn't do anything that was wrong. They would have to prove to me what she did wrong,” Simpson Miller said this afternoon.
According to the Opposition, there is now clear evidence that Falconer misled the nation in respect to comments made by Simpson Miller in the Bloomberg interview in Montego Bay last week.
The Opposition spokesman on information, Senator Arthur Williams, says the statement attributed to Simpson Miller, <span style="font-weight: bold">was vehemently denied by Falconer who was also reported as saying a note was being drafted by the Government to send to Bloomberg for allegedly misrepresenting the Prime Minister</span>.
The Prime Minister is reported as saying: “If Jamaica could get a bailout like Greece, lord have mercy, the country grow and flourish.”
Williams says Bloomberg is sticking to its story and pointed to utterances by the Prime Minister’s Press Secretary, Lincoln Robinson, as saying Simpson Miller did in fact make the statement.
However, Robinson said the statement was made off record in preparation for a photo opportunity.
Williams said the JLP, while insisting that Falconer is duty bound to resign, wants her to tell the country the truth as to how she came to make the denial.
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listen Nationwide juss now wid di discussion
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Re: listen Nationwide juss now wid di discussion
Aye sah. Poor wi. Literally and figuratively.
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Jamaica Seeks Greek-Style Bailout to Aid Growth, Leader Says</span>
By Eric Sabo - Mar 3, 2012 11:58 AM ET
Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller said the Caribbean island would benefit from a Greek-style bailout as it negotiates a new loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund.
“If they could give a bailout like Greece, lord have mercy, you would see Jamaica grow and flourish,” Simpson Miller, 66, said in an interview yesterday in Montego Bay. “The European countries got together and tried to do something so that they can give some serious aid to Greece. We know we would never be able to get the same level as Greece, but if we could get some consideration from countries or the IMF, we would be on our way.”
An IMF accord that included a $1.27 billion loan fell apart after the previous administration failed to share information with the Washington-based lender for almost a year, Simpson Miller said. The loan had been linked to the successful swap of $7.8 billion of local bonds in 2010 for securities with longer maturities and lower interest rates. Jamaica’s debt burden was 126 percent of GDP in 2011, according to the IMF.
The IMF accord had paved the way for Moody’s Investors Service to raise Jamaica’s credit rating and the IMF, which devised the debt exchange, to approve a 27-month, $1.27 billion stand-by credit.
The governing People’s National Party has since agreed to boost taxes and limit pensions as part of reaching a new IMF accord. Jamaica will not tax the most vulnerable, said Simpson Miller, who is island’s third prime minister since October and previously served in the post in 2006-2007.
Economic growth will rise to 2.4 percent this year from 1.4 percent in 2011, according to the IMF.
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An official with the opposition Jamaica Labour Party called Simpson Miller’s statements inaccurate.
“There was no failure to share information with the IMF for one year,” Audley Shaw, a spokesman for the party on economic and finance issues, said in a statement. “The lack of several IMF reviews under the Stand-By Agreement was as a result of slower than expected pace of implementation of critical structural reforms to tax, pension and public sector wage settlements.”
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Jamaica’s debt burden in 2011 ranked it the eighth most- indebted country in the world, behind only Antigua & Barbuda and St. Kitts & Nevis in the Caribbean. Zimbabwe led the list at 231 percent of GDP, with Greece fourth at 165 percent.</span>
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The stalled agreement with the IMF “further detracts” from Jamaica’s credit rating, Standard & Poor’s said in a Feb. 22 report. The country’s debt is rated B- by S&P, while Moody’s rates Jamaica at B3, or six steps below investment grade. The Moody’s rating puts the island of 2.9 million in the same category as Argentina and Belarus.
The extra yield investors demand to hold Jamaica’s dollar bonds instead of U.S. Treasuries has fallen 5 basis points, or 0.05 percentage point, since Simpson Miller took office on Jan. 5 to 8.14 percent, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s EMBI Global Diversified Index. The Jamaican dollar has fallen 0.1 percent this year to 86.42 per U.S. dollar.
Simpson Miller said that austerity measures to pay off debt could harm efforts to control drug gangs. Former Prime Minister Bruce Golding declared a state of emergency in 2010 to contain violence related to the extradition of an accused drug lord to the U.S.
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“Criminals will be allowed to survive if we can’t provide for the peace-loving people who live in communities the gangs operate in,” Simpson Miller said.</span>
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Drug Lord</span>
Tourism, which accounts for about 10 percent of gross domestic product and half of foreign exchange earnings, has rebounded since drug dealer Christopher “Dudus” Coke was captured and prosecuted in New York, she said.
Gangs still control areas of Kingston, the capital, though the violence has not affected the beaches, resorts and golf courses popular with tourists on the country’s north shore.
Simpson Miller, who was Jamaica’s first female prime minister, joins a recent crop of female leaders in Latin American and the Caribbean, including Dilma Rousseff of Brazil, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner of Argentina and Laura Chinchilla of Costa Rica.
To contact the reporter on this story: Eric Sabo in Montego Bay, Jamaica at [email protected]
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Joshua Goodman at [email protected]Comment
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Re: dem seh Bloomberg a go release di transcript of
Step 1: nuttin nuh go so
Step 2: it nuh go so but it nearly go so
Step 3: I can't recallComment
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Re: AUDIO: Portia dismisses call for Falconer to resig
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: evanovitch</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
According to the Opposition, there is now clear evidence that Falconer misled the nation in respect to comments made by Simpson Miller in the Bloomberg interview in Montego Bay last week
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Falconer jus call de studio.
Just in from de airport where she meet prince and it jus sweet her so til!Comment
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Re: AUDIO: Portia dismisses call for Falconer to resig
So now de transcript wrong. Aye sah!
Pappy show!Comment
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Re: dem seh Bloomberg a go release di transcript of
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: evanovitch</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Speaking with RJR News Monday afternoon, OPM Press Secretary Lincoln Robinson explained that that while Mrs. Simpson-Miller <span style="font-weight: bold">did make reference to a Greek style bail-out for Jamaica</span>, <span style="font-style: italic">the comments were not made during the formal interview with Bloomberg. He said the prime minister made the comment while preparing to take a photo, after the actual interview had ended</span>. </div></div>
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Well I did say it is just common sense that Portia did in fact make the statements attributed to her because what motivation could this reporter from foreign possibly have to come to Jamaica and attribute statements to Portia that she did not make. Off the record??!...a joke ting dat.Comment
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Re: AUDIO: Portia dismisses call for Falconer to resig
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: xigaM</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: evanovitch</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
According to the Opposition, there is now clear evidence that Falconer misled the nation in respect to comments made by Simpson Miller in the Bloomberg interview in Montego Bay last week
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Falconer jus call de studio.
Just in from de airport where she meet prince and it jus sweet her so til! </div></div>
seems nuff tings sweet har ascawding to wat u mite hear...heh heh...but i is not one to gossip so u naw hear it from moi....<span style="font-style: italic">mek mi go pray an repent fi badmindedness...
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but mek mi ask dis if in case anybody know..was she a love bird at one time...u know, wuk fi Air Jam 
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Re: dem seh Bloomberg a go release di transcript of
Comrades still a milk Dudus!Comment
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Re: AUDIO: Portia dismisses call for Falconer to resig
Yes she was.Comment
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