ML. Simms
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Every Jamaican should he able to view this video. Protect our mangroves.
Scale model showing how mangrove forests protect the coasts from wave erosion
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My aunt had only 6 students logging on for online class today out of 27 students. This is the most she has had since the start of school. We are losing a generation of Jamaicans right now.
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Occurred to me this morning that Pearnel Sr who was incarcerated under 1976 SoE lived to see his two children elected to Parliament, meanwhile Duncan, a key member of Manley’s team during that period has lived to see the Jamaican electorate unequivocally reject his two daughters.
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So far, Police hasn’t sealed off SSL’s headquarters and neither have they restricted access to SSL’s computer network.
Neither have they raided homes of all directors, senior employees and former directors to collect documents and computer equipment🥴🥹
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I understand why people who support Holness gets piqued by the adoration given to Mia Mottley. It shows up how ordinary Andrew Holness is, yet within the Jamaican space he represents the best of us. We should find this fact worrying.
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The fact that this accused wasn’t taken into custody is a big part of our inability to reduce crime. Now a lot of intelligence is lost.
No doubt his demise will be celebrated as swift justice but it isn’t, its a showcase for some inadequacy within our crime fighting setup.
#BREAKING
: The gunman has been identified as Damion Hamilton.
Hamilton is a deportee. He was reportedly shot dead following a confrontation with the Police this afternoon.
2 other Police personnel were injured during the incident which led to the demise of Hamilton.
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Twitter has given me a whole new understanding of Jamaican society and its different layers. The political class isn’t the sole reason for Jamaica’s anaemic progress since independence. No state can progress when ignorance is a hallmark of each group within our society.
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PM Seaga said this:
“Irregardless of what governments think, the people of Jamaica have their own views. And irrespective of the government in power, the people of Jamaica had these views through the last regime in power and through the present, and they have not changed[]”1/2
Regrettably, consultations were underway w/ Kingston which did not conclude in time for the close of vote. 🇯🇲 welcomes the action taken by the UNGA, and hopes that it contributes to progress. JA chairs the CARICOM caucus at the UN and earlier delivered the statement attached.
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I find it shocking that representatives of the Government of Jamaica are engaged in a public spat with Jamaican students in Ukraine, when those who remain there are in mortal danger.
Tell us what you are now doing to identify their locations and the effort to get them out.
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Jamaica is a strange place, imagine people will borrow large sums to go into an imaginary ark to escape pandemic but wont go to vaccine sites for the freely distributed covid vaccine which reduces their risk of severe ill health, if they become infected.
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What France has accomplished today is the most obvious example of a first world State benefiting from the ‘talent and brain drain’ from developing countries. I despair with the sinking knowledge that our countries will never succeed.
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Whether rich or poor, ensure that you leave very clear instructions on how the estate is to be distributed.
People do get greedy and unreasonable in the aftermath of the death of the estate holder.
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Ian Carrington
@RealDuttyMan
|I am neither shaken, stirred nor deterred by your comment.
Of note, I do not hide behind a burner account to advance views, as I do not lack cojones. If you need one or two balls to claim your profile I’m happy to not just lend but buy you a pair.
@NestaJA
That one bitter bad Nesta. Can't hack it here in Jamaica, yet not accepted as equal where they choose to live, so they have to bitch about everything. It must be an exhausting experience...
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We do ourselves a disservice when we render these flawed juxtapositions. Fact that USA is going thru a crisis doesn’t render Jamaica as a preferable place to live, raise a family and do business.
Fact is that we are so crime ridden that many people live under a state of siege.
Jamaica. We're doing well. Lots to improve but we're doing well. The fallacy we believe is the grass is greener on the other side. Truth is, despite our problems and hardships, the grass is green right here. Water it. Let's all work to build Jamaica
#Democracy
#StrongerTogether
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Can you imagine, an abuser passing legislation which affects lives of persons who have survived abuse?
We need a March on Belmont Road and on the Parliament.
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Is this the same court where the massive fraud case concerning the Manchester Parish Council is being conducted? If so, how unsurprising.
Probe underway into major fire at Mandeville Court House in Manchester. Front of the building was seen on fire at just before 4:00 this morning. Fire department was called and blaze now under control.
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Interesting, note to law students, seek post grad specialization in Space law. Next frontier. |Nasa said to be investigating first allegation of a crime in space - BBC News
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@djmillerJA
@NCBFoundation
Heroes must speak to each generation. Rihanna does for our generation. Not all heroes build systems of governance as we know it, some build identity.
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But when you really reflect on the annotation in Daryl Wesley Vaz’s passport, he shouldn’t be a Minister of Government or even a Member of Parliament.
But this is Jamaica…💆🏾♀️
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Anyone interested in Jamaica’s development must reject re-emergence of Paulwell. Fact that Phillips is giving Paulwell a platform of prominence + leadership should signal to Jamaicans that Phillips should be rejected too. In building a new Jamaica, some pple must be left behind.
PNP President
@DrPeterPhillips
has told the party's National Executive Council, (NEC) in Moneague that East Kingston MP & former Energy Minister
@PhillipPaulwell
has been appointed as PNP Campaign Director for the next General Election campaign.
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There is a malevolent underbelly to Jamaican twitter driven surprisingly by middle class elements.
They hide behind their burner accounts and launch vitriolic attacks against individuals for no other reason than that they express views contrary theirs.
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Latoya Nugent gave Jamaica
#MeToo
before US had its watershed moment which is continuing. Instead of us accepting the movement, Ms Nugent was ‘feathered and tarred,’ and faced a penalty through legal system. Fact is empowered men and women keep their knees on necks of survivors.
In other Countries there would be a demand for his resignation. It is time to establish
#MeToo
movement in Jamaica so that conversation can keep going. This is a knee on the neck of Women.
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How many people know that lawyers mounted protests against Marlene Malahoo-Forte when she was a presiding judge? A full protest! As we say, the more they climb...
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Justice Bertram Morrison finds that Andrew Holinesses now serial and routine SoE is UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Finally, a judicial authority confirms long held view that SoE breaches constitution.
Of note, only P Bunting in our Parliament saw it for what it was-a constitutional breach.
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So many people believe that if they get covid they will brush it off as they are healthy(exercise, eat well and no health issues). But they aren’t living to tell tale, as they are dying.
One of the healthiest persons I know, who was also an antivaxxer died from covid this week.
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Well, the Maroons aren’t crazy when they assert that they own the Cockpit country. How many of you have read the treaty between the Maroons and the British? A treaty that was entered into in 1738, long before the notions of Jamaican statehood came into being.
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If you have a safe place to lay your head tonight - be abundantly grateful.
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Congratulations to Mia Amor Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados and the second Caribbean woman to be acknowledged in Time100, with the first being former Prime Minister of Jamaica, Portia Simpson Miller.
Well deserved acknowledgment.
“
@miaamormottley
is an embodiment of our conscience, reminding us all to treat our planet and therefore one another with love, dignity, and care,” writes Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (
@NOIweala
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#TIME100
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Jamaica is a burial spot for bright and talented Jamaicans, returned to JA with a masters from a competitive university and couldn’t get an interview for AG’s Chamber and other places - because some places need links to get into.
When I came back to Jamaica, I saw a job that was my absolute dream job! They wanted A, B, and C, with D, and E also being "desirable". I had all of them. And direct experience with all! It was an entry level position and I thanked God it opened up when I came. So, I applied.
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Haiti isn’t curse, instead it shows how easy a state can descend into and remain in a hellish cycle of destruction when it is starved of resources for 200+ years, and is failed by its internal leadership and continuously exploited by external actors, such as humanitarian orgs.
1/4: I confess openly to being at a lost as to how much more our brothers and sisters in
#Haiti
must endure. For real -
#HowMuchMore
? Our prayers go out to all of the families losing loved ones and to the people of Haiti generally. When will our
#global
#conscience
be stirred?
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The destruction of our newly constructed roadways tells of all that is wrong with our governance.
Now we must find more money to fix it which then gives the corrupt another opportunity to earn.
The Jamaican space is tiring, as progress is often notional than real.
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To clarify, only article 29(3) of Vienna Convention on Consular Relations deals with issue of embassy flying flags on their premises.
They are permitted to raise their national flag, so long as it is consistent with domestic laws.
LGBT flag isn’t illegal under Jamaican law.
Dr Daniel Thomas and other members of the Love March movement gather across from the
@USEmbassyJA
to protest a hoisted LGBTQ flag. Thomas says the flag is in breach of the Vienna Protocol and should not have been flown on Independence Day. - David Henry video
#GLNRToday
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SA vs Israel is Judge Robinson’s last hearing as an ICJ judge.
Proud of his work and contributions to the intl project on accountability for intl crimes, development of bilateral treaties and settlement of state disputes. A fine example of the talent our country can nurture 🇯🇲
Here are the 15 judges from the International Court of Justice (plus one each selected by South Africa and Israel) who will hear the claim today that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinian civilians in Gaza. .
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Hearing in the Adidjah Palmer and others has started at the Judicial Privy Council:
Case of Adijah Palmer (Vybz Kartel) and others to be heard this week Wednesday and Thursday (Feb 14-15) at the Judicial Privy Council. Hearing will be live-streamed.
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Surviving a rocket attack in Baghdad, Iraq
Surviving covid-19
Surviving the loss of a parent
To all, have a wonderful Christmas and count your gifts of peace, hope, faith, joy strength, grace and patience🎅🏿🤶🏿
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Fact that he hasn’t tendered resignation is a damning commentary on quality of our governance.
An MP who brutally beats another person, more so his partner shouldn’t be exercising any legislative power.
George Wright needs to resign. His colleagues should pressure him out!
JUST IN: Confirmation has come from the governing JLP that embattled MP, George Wright, is to withdraw from the party’s Parliamentary caucus.
Mr. Wright is to also apply to take leave of absence from the House of Representatives.
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Most aren’t arguing against opening of borders to tourist, instead most are contesting the lax entry provisions which are in start contrast to the hell that Jamaicans locked outside borders had to go through before being allowed in. Don’t bother wid the red herring arguments!
Over 350,000 jobs are linked to Tourism in Jamaica (a quarter of our labour force), much of our foreign exchange comes from it plus billions in tax revenues & earnings. We are carefully opening up to stave off a massive economic collapse/possible social unrest.
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In honour of the sensitivity of Shower Rangers in this period of heightened scrutiny, I’ll be tweeting every morning until Election Day the following:
“PM Holness was reckless and driven solely by political opportunism in calling the general election in a surge of covid+ cases.”
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Conviction squashed:
1. Direction to jury was inadequate in relation to the bribed jury;
2. Trial continued with corrupt juror, fatal to safety of conviction;
3. Judge should have considered whether one or more of the jurors became prejudiced to the accused.
Seems Privy Council website cannot handle the incoming traffic as the live link isn’t working properly. A note that no justice system, even fairly well resourced one, is perfect☠️
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Case of Adijah Palmer (Vybz Kartel) and others to be heard this week Wednesday and Thursday (Feb 14-15) at the Judicial Privy Council. Hearing will be live-streamed.
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@guruintraining_
Career:
1) be flexible in your approach to career building;
2) learn processes and language of your organization before you make your presence known;
3) seek out mentors at your level and higher;
4) manage your responses to colleagues and
5) avoid gossipers and don’t gossip.
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When people give Mia Mottley ratings and anoint her as Prime Minister of CARICOM don’t debate, since she has been elevated to PM she has been innovating on a seismic scale, read up on the Mottley clauses and now watch her as she launches BIM as a ‘work from home’ destination.
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Pretty soon many Jamaicans who can afford to will travel to Florida to get their covid vaccine at Walmart stores.
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@_lesliethomas
@EssexBarrister
It shouldn’t matter that person subjected to the systemic discriminatory behaviour is an outstanding scholar. Its reprehensible behaviour for any person to be treated like that because they are black.
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I feel confident in saying that under Edward Phillip George Seaga and Bruce Golding that George Wright would have been told to light a candle, sing a sankey and leave Parliament.
Both men are controversial for different reasons but both understood governance very well.
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And note, Barbados kept their borders opened and received CARICOM nationals rejected by their countries of birth.
BARBADOS GOES 6 DAYS STRAIGHT WITHOUT A POSITIVE CASE.
Also, 2 more people have recovered.
25 people have now recovered while 45 others remain in isolation. A total of 1098 tests have been conducted.
35 tests were carried out yesterday.
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See we are complaining about the heat in Jamaica. It will get much worse. Thus, important to lobby government to focus on an environmental policy which puts lungs, as in trees back into our cities and rural areas. Also, must insist that government protect existing green spaces.
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After the ‘bun and cheese’ saga they pulled the AG from photo header. In the meantime Fayval got promoted up to header😅😅😅
Looks like bun and cheese will lose seat.
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Interesting that a leader who claims some special quality as the first generation of post independence leader of Jamaica gladly embraces and cloaks himself in the Imperial Order and Council of the British Empire.
Her Majesty’s Privy Councilor😎
#PressRelease
: Prime Minister the Most Hon. Andrew Holness has been appointed a member of the Privy Council.
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“And it is a wise government that listens to the voice of the people. And when politicians, by artful contrivance, seek to separate us, they can separate governments if they may, but they can never separate the people.”
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Have you noticed that some of our Parliamentarians when they are giving speeches in Parliament sound as if they are struggling to read at the grade 4 level?
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PM Seaga also said to Mandela:
“Over the years, Jamaica has been a relentless opponent of the abhorrent policy of apartheid and we subscribe totally to the view that humanity can never truly be at peace with itself until this scourge is removed from the face of the earth.”
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Sending a big hug and simply positive energy to the many persons who are hurting so desperately from the loss of relatives, friends and just from the uncertainty of life and the compounding losses of so many people.
Peace and comfort.
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My WhatsApp is blowing up because friends in different parts of the world, who are NOT from the Caribbean think that PM Mia Mottley of Barbados is showing her mastery of content and charisma at
#COP26
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@jaevionn
The sign language interpreter took it for me🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣murderation in spoken and sign languages.
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PNP and Phillips are raising valid concerns and questions on corruption by the Holness Admin. However, public at large are disinterested in listening to them on this issue.
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In 2023, our post independence leaders, who have benefit of fast communication explained their failure to vote on critical UNGA res relating to peace+humanitarian access:
“Regrettably, consultations were underway w/ Kingston which did not conclude in time for the close of vote”
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Politicians are in a pickle largely of their own making. Jamaicans see politicians largely as corrupt and underperforming, as such legitimate efforts to improve their compensation is taken as another way to rob resources from the country.
It’s sad, that this is our reality.
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Relieved that she has been found. Hopefully decency and survivor centered policies will guide media in their coverage of case going forward.
As for all other agencies, JCF, etc please place an embargo on any further reports relating to her.
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Perhaps government should also impose serial SoEs in Norbrook and Cherry Gardens on suspicions that they are financing gang activities.
Let’s see how universal they would support these measures.
#JUST_IN
: 15 private sector groups including the influential Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica, the Chamber of Commerce, the Manufacturers Association, the Hotel & Tourist Association & the MSME Alliance are urging Senators to ensure extension of the States of Emergency.
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Even without issue of rental cost to house this ministry, it should be disbanded and re-incorporated into ministry of justice as a Division. There was no legal or business justification to have established this ministry, except political expediency.
Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Marlene Malahoo Forte, has disclosed that her ministry is paying $4.5 million per month to rent its Fairway Avenue location in St Andrew. Malahoo Forte also disclosed that the 3-year-old ministry has only filled 30% of posts to date.
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Norman Manley said this:
“As a nation […] it would mean so much to us, is to present ourselves to the world so that we can mean something in the world of free peoples and free nations. In other words we want a meaningful foreign policy in Jamaica as a nation.”
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If you need legal advice on public international law issues am available.
NB, not a scheme to get close to blow your abeng or to ride....
Blessed morning one and all. Thanks to all my followers so far. Your good wishes and sentiments have been humbly received.
I am looking forward to the interactions as I share more on who we are as a
#Maroon
nation, our Vision, Mission and Execution plans.
#Accompong
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@jaevionn
Some helpers can’t even use their employers plates and cups to eat and drink.
A universe of abusive and demeaning practices in that sector, if only the truth is told.
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Saw a funeral service announcement out of BVI for three members of a SINGLE family.
All three died successively - 8th, 12th and 17th July 2021, due to covid complications.
For those of us still surviving covid, please get vaccinated, wear your masks and follow safety measures.
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We need to pivot our laws towards supportive interventions instead of certain criminalization in cases like this.
The mother of the young boy who was seen in a video smoking and drinking what appeared to be alcohol has pleaded guilty to child endangerment and is to be sentenced in the St Catherine Parish Court on November 5. She was offered $150,000 bail when she appeared in court today.
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Jamaican politicians follow twitter views to their peril in this current coronavirus crisis. Those who are suffering and feeling its direct effects to a significant degree aren’t on Twitter in any significant grouping and even if they are, they are largely keeping silent.
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Not for the first time civil society is reflecting some of the problematic attitudes in our society. In sum, we speak and lead without empathy and always seeking the highest punishment.
Christie’s worst fears likely realized when his colleague was shot and injured.
Despite the circumstances, from which the Integrity Commission's
@integrityja
Executive Director spoke yesterday, JAMP is of the view that further loss of public confidence undermines the trust required for its success. We have called for the resignation of the ED.
@jayceejm
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Those who questioned the continuing advertising of NIDS by the Holness admin in face of the constitutional challenge are proven correct. It once more highlights this admin’s basic disregard for legal processes.
BREAKING: CJ Sykes says the court decided that the entire NIDS Act is null and void and of no legal effect as the unconstitutional provisions could not be severed from the rest of the Act
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Naw lie, each time you think you have seen the best of PM Mia and then she exceeds that standard. PM of CARICOM, when gyal good, gyal great.
ADDRESS: Barbados PM Mia Mottley mentions the COVID-19 experience will prompt a cultural shift in how Bajans do business & sees this as a time for Barbados to reinvent itself & create a new normal - engaging in more e-commerce & e-governance; briefly mentions new Barbados ID card
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Become more conscious shoppers, everytime you feel for KFC, go and support the pan chicken vendor! KFC has been doing business for many decades and while they aren’t a charity, we are disappointed in the lack of innovation to keep workers on staff. Dem nuh loyal!
KFC should be ashamed of themselves. For a company that benefits so much from Jamaica’s goodwill and support, I’m disappointed. How could they be laying off staff in a time like this after just a short period of slow sales?
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PM Holness is well qualified for lecture, firstly as recipient of declaration from JA court that his actions were unconstitutional. Secondly, as chief marketer of now serial-routine and diminished tool of SoE which Constition identifies as an exceptional measure👏🏿
#lifeisgood
!
This Afternoon, I will be presenting on “The State of Constitutional Democracy in Jamaica and the Caribbean,” at the University of Missouri.
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Sending heartfelt commendations to nurses, doctors and support staff at Covid Isolation Unit, Spanish Town Hospital.
When the family of a recently deceased covid patient can be comforted by the tremendous good care given to their relative, it requires thanks and acknowledging.
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PM Michael Manley said this to the UN in 1978:
“We believe that the idea of equality is the only enduring principle by which mankind may be guided in the conduct of national and international affairs.”
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PBunting spotted oncoming shift in the economic dynamics early, now a month later Dr Clarke has to call on IMF for their rapid response financial support. Now we will truly know if Dr Clarke is the best finance minister this country has ever seen. Tire hitting hot road!
Disappointed with the triumphal tone of Fin. Min.
@DrNigelClarkeJa
in his Budget Opening. Expected a sober presentation that addressed the inevitable social & economic fallout from
#Coronavirus
& what gov’t would be doing to mitigate the resulting human suffering & fin. hardship
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So I became curious about the timeline for filing a claim for sexual harassment. Jamaica proposes 12 months. Is this an appropriate length of time? In this regard, the limitation period in other jurisdictions might provide a useful point of reflection.
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@guruintraining_
Life in general:
1) try to be kind and respectful to all;
2) don’t just talk about things you want to do, take even the smallest steps to realize them;
3) be deliberate in building your support network;
4) live in present but be forward looking; and
5) imptly be honest with you.
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1st photo taken in Jamaica, 1812 and photo 2, post card sold in US.
Both got me thinking how long journey has been to our current liberties. A reminder that my own progress is built on sacrifice of so many.
As I observe
#EmancipationDay2020
I feel privileged to be borne free✊🏿
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Good, the Court will very likely reinforce the vaccine mandate. But its good to be told twice and often that we are in a pandemic and policies must be implemented to protect health of public, not you alone.
Five employees of pharmaceutical company Cari-Med and four workers of investment firm AIC Jamaica have gone to court seeking an injunction against the enforcement of their companies’
#COVID
vaccine policies.
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This issue has been confusing, this article helps. Still don’t have an informed opinion. |What No One Is Telling You About Caster Semenya: She Has XY Chromosomes -
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In all of this, he remains a victim of a crime in which the perpetrator remains at large. This perpetrator may have been ignorant to his identity. Thus by naming him and highlighting his high position in the justice system may well have increased his risk profile.
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Political memory jog. Stoking discrimination against homosexuals or persons perceived as such has long been a part of our politics. So there was a time when Papa Eddie on a political stage accused PJ of being gay, using words, “no one had ever accused him of Boom, bye, bye."
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We often talk about values and attitudes of those in economic struggle and leave unexamined values and attitudes of those who are well off. I go further, that most assume that the economically able are intellectually advanced and are morally upright in contrast to other groups.
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Isat Buchanan shames every single person who advocated on his behalf to be admitted to the Jamaican bar.
He should be sanctioned by the General Legal Council.
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No welcome home as sweet as the windscreen wiper at Portia Simpson Miller square who after 2 years said to me this morning, “long time mi nuh see you sweet heart, yuh look sweet same way.”👌🏿😁BtW, was in a different car with different hairstyle, dem need fi do police work!
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Never lose your Jamaican accent, so many people love to hear us speak🤣Was just told by a British QC that they could sit and listen to me all day😅Got the same comment yesterday from their colleague🇯🇲
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So the commissioner of police is covid positive? Who else was exposed in the JCF?
If JDF and JCF are under Covid watch who will provide security for our elections.
Once more, the recklessness of the decision to call election into an upsurge is being shown for all to see.
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Interesting that both Ms Lisa Hanna and PM Andrew Holness found time to congratulate Jamaica’s representative to the Miss Universe pageant but have so far failed to advance any policy position and/or call to action on matters taking place in the Middle East.
Priorities🧐
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Spare a thought for women who came into adulthood with the only possibility offered to them was to become a man’s wife. As women of today, just pause to acknowledge and celebrate the progress which enables us to pursue edu and other pathways, including choosing marriage🙏🏿🙌🏿
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[Mia Mottley] has been transparent, stands up publicly against injustices, and has created authentic ties between Caribbean countries.
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If nothing else Jamaican Twitter has been a debut stage for undressing the assumptions that some have of the group of Jamaicans who are economically able. They appear to be contemptuous of the masses without whom they couldn’t acquire wealth to sustain their generations.
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If Christopher Fontana Columbus describes PM Holnesses response as weak then one knows the right description for it is really a disaster.
Political commentator, Kevin O’Brien Chang, says Prime Minister Andrew Holness has been very weak on the Covid-19 pandemic and appears to have become lazy since winning last September’s general elections.
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PM Bustamante said this as far back as 1935:
"Be not afraid, do your duty towards your countryman, towards humanity. They will thank you at least in silence, and at the right time when the good Lord sees fit, he will bless you, even though you might not be aware of it."
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Some of the same people who sanitize term ‘Brogad’ for the most honourable’s use are now the same people dissecting and critiquing use of current dancehall songs and slangs adopted by candidates to treat their constituents and country to some election vibes.
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What’s the added political value being lost here in their resignations? From my point of view, VERY LITTLE.
What is urgently needed are young, scandal free and emotionally intelligent comrades to step forward and take the spots.
Build new team!
BTW Hayles and Scott ain’t it!
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A society that is beset by violence yet sees violence as the solution to injustice will never thrive.
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Day 2 - Appeal hearing concludes.
My own view, verdict is unsafe due to issues of bias. Case should be remitted Court of Appeal for them to assess whether case should be retried.
DPP should constitute a team and proactively prepare for a retrial.
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Vaz leading a corruption offensive against PNP is like Judas leading church service on loyalty and honour after he betrayed Christ for 30 pieces of silver. God I pray that you place a hand of judgment over the Parliament of Jamaica and rid us of all who betray our people! selah!
The Campaign Director is a Well-known camper down at corruption avenue.
The Campaign Spokesperson drowning in a lake of nepotism in St Ann, criminal charges probably.
The Campaign Communications Director, CCOC, is Privy to scandals before the courts.
#WhoIsShieldingWho
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August 1st which marks the observation of the abolition of the enslavement of Africans, my forebears, in 1834 and 1838, usually finds me solemnly reflective and also grateful that my ancestors endured so that I could live free.
#EmancipationDay
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