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cause it gi dem sexual vigour....Jamaica remains an island of complex realities...some cannot afford a loaf a bread while oddas remain fixated on dem privates....sigh
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is that the reason some a nayam crocodile now?
mi di tink sey it was jus Mr Chin had a liking for it why dem was eating it.
but form back in my days yuh could buy bread by the slice/half loaf /quarter loafWhen its hot in the jungle of peace I go swimming in the ocean of love..... -
jus like you can buy a portion of a pack of laundry detergent.
single stick of cigarette
even single matchesWhen its hot in the jungle of peace I go swimming in the ocean of love.....Comment
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both....Missa Chin carry di news bout wat it can do so allll a jump pon board...sighOriginally posted by RichD View PostComment
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$20 a slice
The harsh economic times have forced many inner-city shopkeepers to become more creative in pricing basic food items to suit the pocket of their strapped-cash customers.
Selling a single slice of bread may not be the norm in Jamaica, however, it is in many of these areas where shopkeepers retail a slice of the product for $20. Leroy 'Lick Shot' Williams prepares a meal in his road side shop in Kingston Central.(Photos: Bryan Cummings)
Glass case in Tivoli Gardens with sliced bread on sale. (Photos: Bryan Cummings)
"When you operating business in the inner-city you have to come up with creative ways to meet customers," said Sandra Campbell.
Leroy 'Lick Shot' Williams prepares a meal in his road side shop in Kingston Central.(Photos: Bryan Cummings)
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Campbell, who operates a shop in her Tivoli Gardens community was one of several persons who said that with people buying less, local businesses were forced to do more to keep their doors open.
"You find that people are buying less, as they are not earning as they would like as many of them are unemployed; in other cases things are just naturally hard," Campbell told the Jamaica Observer.
Pauline another shop operator in Olympic Gardens agrees.
According to Pauline, she has been purchasing items by the bulk and selling them in much smaller parcels for several years.
She ,however, admits that in recent times she has had to further reduce the size of the items for sale.
"People are really struggling right now. Them spending power gone so if you don't get creative you bound to suffer," she said, while attending to a customer at her shop last Friday.
Pauline explained that her customers can purchase a quarter of a loaf of bread.
"Well for me I sell a quarter of the bread for $50 and if they want, people can purchase a cut of butter for $20," said Pauline, explaining that this butter is just enough to spread on two slices of bread.
In Kingston Central another shop operator has also had to further reduce the quantity of some basic food items in order to meet her customers' budget.
"Right now all half pound ah flour, rice or sugar me sell at my shop," said the pleasant-face business owner who identified herself as Merl Davis.
The shop owner said half pound of rice or flour ranges from $25 t0 $30.
Operator of a wayside cookshop, Leroy 'Lick Shot' Williams, said this is a way of survival for residents in these areas.
"Yes man I am fully aware of the practice that is how we shop and restaurant owners have to structure our prices to reach out to customers; If we don't do that we will suffer,' said Williams as he uses a machete to cut up pieces of meat.
Williams explained that at his food shop, customers are able to purchase a meal of rice and peas and chicken back for $100.
"With one of these meals a youth who nah work can buy a food and a small drinks and still survive,' he said.
In the same community Samantha 'Poochie' Beckford shares similar sentiments.
A liquor store-owner and operator, Beckford said this approach is essential to the survival of businesses.
"Yes because even at my business people are able to buy liquor and other drinks and juice much cheaper than what they could get at a regular shop," she said.
In the St Andrew Community of Maverley, a road side restaurant operator who identifies himself as Wayne agrees.
"Economically things are getting harder so business operators have to be trying to find ways to slash prices to meet the customers," he said
The Statistical Institute of Jamaica reports that the unemployment Rate in Jamaica increased to 16.30 per cent in the second quarter of 2013 from 14.20 per cent in the first quarter of 2013.
The report stated that Jamaica's unemployment rate averaged 13.89 per cent from 1991 until 2013, reaching an all time high of 16.50 per cent in December of 1997 and a record low of 9.80 per cent in December of 2007.
In Jamaica, the unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labour force
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CASCADE, Jamaica (AP) — Crocodiles were once so abundant along the salty rim of southern Jamaica that images of their toothy jaws and spiny armor crown the tropical island's coat of arms and are stenciled on the bumpers of military vehicles.
Now, the big reptiles are increasingly difficult to spot, and not just because they blend into swampy backgrounds. These days, a growing taste for crocodile meat and even eggs in Jamaica has conservationists worried that the reptiles might be wiped from the wild altogether, although they've been protected by law since 1971.
"I went from never hearing about anyone eating crocodile meat, much less crocodile eggs, to hearing about it all the time. There's just so much carnage going on," said Byron Wilson, a reptile specialist at Jamaica's University of the West Indies.
Crocs have steadily reclaimed their range in Florida, their only U.S. habitat, after rebounding from the edge of extinction. But experts believe the reptiles may be reaching a tipping point in economically struggling Jamaica. A recent newsletter from the Crocodile Specialist Group, a global network involved in croc conservation, said the situation appears dire on the island as the impact of habitat loss deepens with a "new demand for crocodile meat, both for personal consumption and for local market distribution."
The poaching problem has gotten so bad in Jamaica that a passionate reptile enthusiast, Lawrence Henriques, has set up a crocodile sanctuary and captive rearing program just outside a tiny northern mountain town called Cascade, far from the animals' southern habitat, as insurance against future loss. He also hopes to educate islanders who revile them or want to barbecue them.
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In this Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013 photo, two roughly seven-foot female crocodiles rescued from the wild …
His facility's fenced pens and ponds now hold about 45 gray-green crocs, including a nearly 11-footer (3.3 meters) nicknamed "Stumpy" because of a severed tail. Nearby, opening its big jaws to display sharp interlocking teeth, a nearly 8-foot (2.4 meter) female dubbed "Doris" basks in her new home. Last month, Henriques rescued her in southern St. Thomas parish after her mate was fatally shot in the head.
"It's very worrying that so many people just have no regard for the laws protecting these animals," said the wiry and tenacious Jamaican, speaking over a forest symphony of insects in his croc retreat, which has a sign warning the rare visitor that they enter at their own risk.
According to Henriques, some poachers use baited shark hooks to bag crocs, mostly sub-adults measuring about 7 feet (2 meters) long. People in St. Thomas also reportedly dig up eggs after nesting females deposit them on beaches.
Croc meat appears to be a specialty high-end business in Jamaica, with wealthy private buyers willing to pay as much as $35 per pound (about a half kilogram). Some of the meat stays in rural towns along the reptiles' brackish habitat, with secret crocodile-eating parties drawing men who insist it enhances sexual virility.
"It's totally underground and people keep it very hush-hush," said Sharlene Rowe, a conservation officer with the Caribbean Coastal Area Management Foundation who has seen two carcasses with tails chopped off floating down the Salt River in southern Clarendon parish.
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In this Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013 photo, a 2-year-old crocodile nicknamed “Sylvester” is held at a sanc …
The animals mostly live among tangled mangrove roots in places such as the Black River, which snakes through a marshland known as the Great Morass. Tour boat operators regularly take tourists along the river to gape at crocs accustomed to circling the boats, lured by the promise of chicken meat.
Compared to its fearsome cousins in Africa and Australia, the "American crocodile" species found in Jamaica is mostly reclusive, shying away from humans as best they can. But mature adults are very big reptiles and during breeding season they can be aggressive if they feel threatened. Three Jamaicans have been killed by crocs since the 1980s.
Reptile experts say it's far from clear why poaching is now on the rise. Some suggest the demand has grown due to a rising population of Chinese immigrants, who reportedly eat the reptiles. Others say cable TV food shows may be boosting a local demand for exotic meat.
Nobody is getting punished for hunting crocodiles, which is adding to the activity's spread. Even in the best of times, wildlife enforcement in Jamaica ranges from lax to nonexistent, and state agencies are dogged by a lack of financing, with scarce resources to do the investigations needed to catch crocodile poachers.
Andrea Donaldson, a manager at Jamaica's National Environment & Planning Agency, said attempts to catch poachers in sting operations haven't yet worked out.
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In this Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013 photo, crocodile enthusiast Lawrence Henriques shows identifying mark …
"It's been extremely difficult. We typically go and investigate areas where are reports that they're eating crocodile and we remind them that it is illegal," said Donaldson, adding that authorities are confident that none of the meat is being exported out of the country.
A recent operation had unprecedented success when suspicious meat was seized at a Kingston restaurant, but authorities are still trying to determine whether it's crocodile or imported alligator. Animal advocates are hopeful that a prosecution in this case will set an example to people who deal in the illegal wildlife trade.
While the government completes a crocodile management plan, many residents in Jamaica still dread the reptiles, and saving them is a mostly a mission of mercy for a handful of enthusiasts. Henriques, for one, said the government should set aside wildlife preserves to protect the iconic creatures, speaking as he sprayed water on several juvenile crocodiles rescued from threatening situations.
"As it is now," he said, "the resources to protect crocs are so small compared to the problems that we face that it will be a never-ending fight."Comment
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so now now jamaicans aggoo begg fe money fe buy a slice aff bread. maybee now, more jamaicans will tart bakinn dem own bread instead aff dependinn pon da so so chemikkkal nastee bread dem buy inn store
memba dem crocodiles neva baddar peeps woo walk by wen dem was sunninnComment
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They use to have a ting call peg bread, a kina individual portion did sell.Originally posted by evanovitch View Post
And I can memba when killing deh crocs became illegal but wi low lan cousin dem neva mess wid crocs like u wouldn't kill a god bud as it was a sin......ah suh morality change.
Ah wha dem freed den crocs at cascade? In Australia hit was chicken dem GI den captive crocs. ? But ah yard even chicken back too expensive...... Wha wi did sey when wi was pickni was DAT when alligetta hungry all dem duh is open dem mout an it smell suh bad hiit get full ah fly dem jus snap hit sshut.
Hence den childish insult u smell lama alligeta mout.Comment
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is datt weh di saying you batty fayvah two peg bread comes fromOriginally posted by Wahalla View Post
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