dem seh PNP leff out di green eena di Ja flag at

[evanovitch]

the swearing in ceremony in the Mobay area...di picture mi see dem mek a huge flag out of black wid di yellow a cross as usual but dere was no green...rumour seh dem , di PNP seh dem neva wan di JLP colour at dem swearing een...anybody else know bout dis...dis is pass being ignorant not to mention divisive in the worst way...a so we really reach a yaad...n yet dem want all abroad fi buy di bonds dem about to sell fi get money....

[Tuff Gong]

Re: dem seh PNP leff out di green eena di Ja flag at

Have you got a link to the pics?

[Dr.Dudd]

Re: dem seh PNP leff out di green eena di Ja flag at

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Have you got a link to the pics? </div></div> it's a blackboard tge placed teo pieces of Yellow ribbon perpendicular from the two top corners instead of getting a flag.

[Tuff Gong]

Re: dem seh PNP leff out di green eena di Ja flag at

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Dr.Dudd</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Have you got a link to the pics? </div></div> it's a blackboard tge placed teo pieces of Yellow ribbon perpendicular from the two top corners instead of getting a flag. </div></div>

LOL!
I would like to see it!

[diabolical_Tanya]

Re: dem seh PNP leff out di green eena di Ja flag at



from FB OGNR

[diabolical_Tanya]

Re: dem seh PNP leff out di green eena di Ja flag at

doesnt look like a blackboard to me

[SmoothOperator]

Re: dem seh PNP leff out di green eena di Ja flag at

You have to understand this was a PNP function. Displaying green even in a national symbol would have been inappropriate.

The people do get the leaders they deserve.

[Tuff Gong]

Re: dem seh PNP leff out di green eena di Ja flag at

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: diabolical_Tanya</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

from FB OGNR </div></div>

Blackboard Jungle!
I was hoping Dr. Dudd was<span style="font-weight: bold"> write</span> and it was just illiterate Comrades at work,,,,,,but in the 50th year of our Independence could Comrades sink so low as to desecrate Jamaica's Flag to make a Tribal Political Statement?

[CyberPhobic]

Re: dem seh PNP leff out di green eena di Ja flag at

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
Blackboard Jungle!
I was hoping Dr. Dudd was<span style="font-weight: bold"> write</span> and it was just illiterate Comrades at work,,,,,,but in the 50th year of our Independence could Comrades sink so low as to desecrate Jamaica's Flag to make a Tribal Political Statement? </div></div>

It is exactly as it appears. Di eediate dem inna di jrivahz seet .

Happy In-deep-pen-denSe JA!

Dem kno juss how fi shayme Jamaicans everywhe in one clean sweep.

#JUSSSICKMISTUMUK.

[evanovitch]

JLP hierarchy endorses boycott of KSAC swearing in


JLP hierarchy endorses boycott of KSAC swearing in


The hierarchy of the JLP is endorsing the action of its councillors-elect in the KSAC in boycotting Tuesday's swearing-in ceremony. JLP leader, Andrew Holness, says the party decided to make a statement out of Tuesday's proceedings <span style="font-weight: bold">as it has observed, of late, a politicising of civic ceremonies, which should not have been allowed to happen.</span>

<span style="font-weight: bold">Mr. Holness also expressed disappointment over the booing of former Portmore Mayor, Keith Hinds, during last week's swearing-in ceremony for Mayor George Lee and the Municipality's Councillors.</span> Meanwhile, JLP Deputy Leader and former Chairman of the KSAC, Desmond McKenzie, says the councillors-elect are willing to to get on with the business of the council, but they could not participate on Tuesday, as a matter of principle.

[Blackstar*]

Re: dem seh PNP leff out di green eena di Ja flag at

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: diabolical_Tanya</div><div class="ubbcode-body">doesnt look like a blackboard to me </div></div>It actually looks like a curtain. Someone must have had the &quot;bright idea&quot; of putting up the yellow band but clearly didn't think through how it would look bad with regards to the country's symbol.

[mountaingal]

Re: dem seh PNP leff out di green eena di Ja flag at

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Blackboard Jungle!
I was hoping Dr. Dudd was<span style="font-weight: bold"> write</span> and it was just illiterate Comrades at work,,,,,,but in the 50th year of our Independence could Comrades sink so low as to desecrate Jamaica's Flag to make a Tribal Political Statement? </div></div>

to make a tribal statement, wouldnt the pnp colours have been used?

it just looks to me like poor event planning. they likely did not have flags for the backdrop and made a poor substitute with the saltire across the stage curtains.

[evanovitch]

Black, gold and...

Black, gold and...

Green missing from J’can flag backdrop at swearing-in ceremony; MoBay mayor apologises

BY MARK CUMMINGS Editor-at-Large Western Bureau [email protected]

Wednesday, April 11, 2012
















MONTEGO BAY, St James — Chairman of the St James Parish Council Glendon Harris has apologised for a foul-up in the decoration of the historic Montego Bay Civic Centre for the recent swearing-in of newly elected councillors in which the colour green was left out of a backdrop designed to depict the Jamaican flag.

“I think somebody messed up and I want to apologise publicly,” said Harris, who was sworn in as mayor of Montego Bay during the ceremony.


“Someone was contracted to do the decoration, and the only time I knew that was when I was authorising the payment for it. So I have nothing to do with it (the decoration),” said Harris.

A close look at the backdrop revealed a huge piece of black cloth with a gold saltire, which divided it into four sections, similar to the Jamaican flag.

The Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), as well as members of the public have been critical of the backdrop with some charging that the People’s National Partycontrolled Council was being petty and tribalistic because green is the colour of the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP).

Former mayor of Montego Bay Charles Sinclair believes that the omission of the green in the decoration was deliberate.

“What was confirmed to me was that the backdrop was to have been the Jamaican flag, but the decision was that the green was not to be in there... and seeing how some PNP activists operate, I believe it was deliberate,” Sinclair told the Jamaica Observer yesterday.

Harris said however, that while he could not “speak to” whether the omission of the green from the backdrop was “deliberate”, care should have been taken to ensure that all the “Jamaican colours” were used.

“It was a civic function, and so if it’s the Jamaican colours that are being used, then it should be all the Jamaican colours,” he argued.

He pointed out that he was told by his technical staff that the persons contracted to do the job had said that “they ran short of material”.

He however promised that there would not be a recurrence.

“I have spoken to my technical staff and I will ensure that something like that will not happen again,” said the veteran PNP councillor.

Seventeen elected councillors (13 for the PNP and four for the JLP) were sworn in during the ceremony which saw rowdy PNP supporters at times booing the JLP councillors.

Meanwhile, JLP Deputy Leader Senator Christopher Tufton said care should be taken to avoid “our most popular national symbol” from being corrupted or used in a partisan political way.

“Our flag should always be a symbol of pride and national unity,” he argued.

“Whether in this case it was intended or unintended, the perception of our flag being corrupted and used in a partisan way seems to have been strong enough to cause discomfort, and this justifies a clarification on the issue and an apology to those who were offended,” said Tufton.

He said, in the future the Government must establish clear protocol guidelines for the use of our flag to avoid even the appearance of political partisanship and more generally the compromising of our most significant national symbol.


Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz1rk0pdNbL

[Tuff Gong]

Re: dem seh PNP leff out di green eena di Ja flag at

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> make a tribal statement, wouldnt the pnp colours have been used?

it just looks to me like poor event planning. they likely did not have flags for the backdrop and made a poor substitute with the saltire across the stage curtains. </div></div>

Could have but this is not an isolated incident. The Montego Bay swearing in made the news for the behaviour of Comrades towards Labourties......before the flag issue was highlighted.

This <span style="font-weight: bold">raw political Tribalism</span> nothing else.
Even as we are getting more Peaceful Elections and Supporters of either camp are accepting that each is entitled to his/her opinions, without the blood. The Comrade Leadership of the PNP has not changed.....still the same Tribalistic war boats.

[Dr.Dudd]

Re: dem seh PNP leff out di green eena di Ja flag at

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> make a tribal statement, wouldnt the pnp colours have been used?

it just looks to me like poor event planning. they likely did not have flags for the backdrop and made a poor substitute with the saltire across the stage curtains. </div></div>

Could have but this is not an isolated incident. The Montego Bay swearing in made the news for the behaviour of Comrades towards Labourties......before the flag issue was highlighted.

This <span style="font-weight: bold">raw political Tribalism</span> nothing else.
Even as we are getting more Peaceful Elections and Supporters of either camp are accepting that each is entitled to his/her opinions, without the blood. The Comrade Leadership of the PNP has not changed.....still the same Tribalistic war boats. </div></div> If it was done intentionally it is really petty and tge contractor should nit be compensated and rather be held responsible for breach of contract. This is disgraceful uf it was otherwise intended.