Peter Phillips in 2006 declared that should Portia Simpson Miller win the next election, Jamaica would be as poor as Haiti . Thankfully Portia and the PNP lost the election in 2007 thus delaying that prediction by Dr Peter Phillips for 4 years.
The PNP won the next election in December 2011 and in just over 15 months in office the PNP government lead by Portia has managed to make Jamaicans significantly poorer that how they were up to 2011.
As the opposition vividly displayed in a Parliament last week, $3000 today can only buy you half of what in could in 2011 and just goes to show how badly the PNP lead government has “managed” ( err mis-managed) the Jamaican economy.
Now Portia is visiting ( by now has visited) for a Summit of Caribbean heads, during which I am sure she will fine tune her policies on how to make Jamaica surpass Haiti as the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. How best to learn from a country that to visit them, see how they do it and come back home and implement the very same “poor people” policies.
Hail Queen Portia, the destruction is just now ready to be completed
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O.K., I know that Jay was in such a hurry to get to church ontime, that he did not get a chance to print this story. I know it has nothing to do with the fact that JLP-aligned Activists were able to get houses constructed for the “poor”, although the Activists already owned homes and are in fact renting these newly acquired homes.
I know that Jay only had enough time (before church) to highlight Portia Simpson-Miller’s (his favorite target/obsession) trip to Haiti and remind all of us about the comments made by Peter Phillips back in 2006/2007. I have full confidence in Jay and he will condemn what took place in Southern Trelawny once he fulfills his religious duties. Afterall, Jay is non-aligned and calls it as he sees it, without any consideration of the offending party and/or persons involved. The JLP’s Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert better watch out, since she is in for a tongue lashing from Jay. We all expect that Jay will call for an investigation and will go even further, requesting that Mrs Marisa Dalrymple Philibert step down even before the investigation gets underway. In fact, I expect to see such comments coming from his Blackberry device immediately after exiting the church! 🙄
WHO GOT THE HOUSES?
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“If it is discovered that there has been a breach, we will have to insist that a post-audit be done to ensure that the persons that apply for these houses are the ones that are actually in need of them,” said Mahfood.
“Where it is found that there was misrepresentation, the necessary action will be taken,” added Mahfood.
He was responding to claims that houses donated by Food For The Poor to the poorest people in the constituency have ended up in the hands of Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) activists, who are already homeowners.
MP DISTANCES HERSELF
The member of parliament for the area, the JLP’s Marisa Dalrymple Philibert, has denied knowledge of the distribution of the houses, but several questions are being asked after The Sunday Gleaner confirmed that at least one key member of her team in the constituency is one of the recipients of the houses.
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http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130428/lead/lead1.html
Test, I read the story and it cannot be substantiated. An investigation will occur and if it is true that the houses are not be distributed properly, I have two things to say. First, Portia built homes for the victims of hurricane Sandy and they went to the greedy and not the needy. Secondly, I am strict conservative, therefore I don’t believe that the government should build houses for people
You are one scary individual. Maybe you might want to reconsider any ambition of a future run for public office. 🙂 Where is it written that a “strict conservative” should not support initiatives whereby government provide subsidized housing to its most vulnerable citizens? Hundreds of thousands of working class poor Jamaicans are now proud homeowners due to subsidized housing built by the GOJ. This has been going on since the early sixties. I can’t think of a single country where the State is not involved in some form of subsidized housing. Can you?
BTW, the houses in the Gleaner article were built by “Food For The Poor” and I’m unsure why there was a need to involve the MP in the process.
The problem over the years with government involvement in housing for the working poor is that some people will find ways to “beat the system”. I saw a development being built in a rural Parish (government subsidized), where the 2-bedroom 1 bath units were of the order of maybe 1,000 square feet, housed on some small lots (~3,500 S.F.). I went back there a year later and a number of these units were modified, with one house that extended to the property line on three sides and a 2nd story added. This finished house was probably about 4,000+ S.F, with zero land space. The initial price of these homes was JA$2 million. The person who brought this house was obviously not part of the targeted population for these houses, since they probably spent $5 million on the addition alone.
I have a number of strategies to grow the economy. These strategies have been published in THE GLEANER in the form of letters to the editors. A number of them have received the coveted letter of the day award. However, I stand for something and I am not willing to compromise my views for anything. For example, if I become the pm I will have a number of unconventional policies. For example
Privatizing State homes and all lossmaking government entities, example JUTC, NWC.
Abolishing the post of the Governor General and irrelevant commissions like the Integrity Commission. There will be only one leader me – the prime minister. The Ombudsman will no longer exist and mps will be required to debate issues in Parliament.Only competent people will be ministers they will come from the senate
A union industrial council will also be created. This means that a representative from every union will be on the council. The government will be required to negotiate with the council and not the unions. These representatives will serve for five years. The purpose of this initiative is to limit the power of the unions.
Reduction in Corporate Tax, dividends etc. All basic food items will be taxed. The elderly will receive path benefits. In addition, path benefits will be based on academic grades. I have a lot of good ideas to grow the economy, but like Margaret Thatcher I am not for turning.
This should have been placed under the Azan controversy post if you are seeking to draw a parallel.
No Jay, this deserves a story by itself. A cesspool you call it?
Bwoy Jay, you disappoint me as usual. After I set things up so nicely, your only comment was where I should place my post. Did I tell you I need any help with that? Sad… 😦
But wait, just when I thought a melancholy day was destined, Jay out did himself with this post in the Observer ( The Azan saga: The slippery slope gets steeper ). This had me LMAO….
jayjayja • 6 hours ago −
Tun up d ting PNP a people powerless we say. Dem caan stop we, no time. Dem can gwan beat up dem gum, dem have 4 more yrs a suffaration and when we dun wid dem, not even salt dem ago can buy.
We a go tun e up on dem until e buck.
Comrades fi life, a det we seh.
Cool-cool Jay!!
LOOK carefully there is more. Check the Gleaner too. DWL
No, let stick with the Observer. Here is one more of your comment ( JTA tells members to avoid violent fights between students ). Jay is now blaming the PNP for the breakdown in discipline in our public schools…WOW, talk about a someone having an extreme PNP fetish! May God help Jay or should we be soliciting divine intervention for his outlandish claims. Soon to follow will be the increase in UFO sightings in St. Thomas attributable to the PNP.
jayjayja • 20 hours ago −
Discipline goes to hell under every PNP administration and this is not a political statement, its stating the facts.
While I agree that parents have a greater responsibility to play, when they see wrong taking place in high place and nothing happens, then they too believe that its ok to do the wrong thing because ” u nuh see seh dem dweet too and a nuh nuttin”
Children live what they learn and thus the behaviour or lack thereof amongst our students is really just a reflection of the sick society that we have created.
May God help Jamaica
Is the statement a truism or not ?
Would be happy to hear your public views on discipline in the society and the views that children live what they learn. Also wrong doing is condone by this party more than any other one.
Let’s hear your position and stop being a coward .
Discipline goes to hell under every PNP administration? Really? So when people were clearly violating the law by blockading all road access to Tivoli Gardens in 2010 and openly rebelling against the state, that was under which PNP administration? Bruce Golding’s right? Or was it under the local KSAC administration of Desmond McKenzie? Because I’m pretty sure piling up pallets and setting live wires and gas cylinders as booby-traps with the intention of killing and maiming the security forces going about their lawful duties would qualify in the very least as “ill-disciplined”.
Of course given that a truism can be formed from incomplete truth conditions, then what jay says is correct, but incomplete. A more complete truism would be that “Discipline goes to hell under every PNP or JLP administration and this is not a political statement, its stating the facts”.
Here comes the tag team. Lol
How many times did the security force storm TG between 1989 and 2007? . What did Adams say after the last raid?
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Tag team eh? That’s seeing phantoms where they really don’t exist jay. And as usual jay avoids answering the inconvenient questions.
Who cares how many times the security forces stormed TG between 1989 and 2007 (the answer by the way is 2 times in force in 1997 and 2001 and 1 time without incident in 2005)? I asked under which PNP administration in 2010 did the people in Tivoli Gardens display wanton indiscipline by throwing up illegal barricades and setting booby traps before the security forces went in?
And jay couldn’t possibly be attempting to defend such actions by pointing out the 1997 and 2001 raids as some kind of justification for such clearly rebellious behaviour. Unless he thinks perhaps that places such as Jackson State should simply have a free pass as “police free areas” because of police incidents in the past (in 1970). I would think a place such as Jackson State (and heck, Jackson town itself) would have more justification for such a status (on the road to anarchy) than Tivoli given that the Jackson State was actually a case of the police shooting at people without guns (unless we are to believe that the policeman and soldier who died in 2001 simply killed themselves).
But continue ducking jay. I merely pointed out that ill-discipline goes to hell under every administration. Something any sensible person should clearly see and be able to agree with, but you seem intent on defending your half-truth.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130428/cleisure/cleisure2.html
Test this is one for you.
WHERE DID THE MONEY GO?
Indeed, money has been flooding into Haiti, billions and billions of it. Three years later, one is tempted to ask: Where did it all go? On looking around Port-au-Prince, you do not see much sign of the US$12 billion-plus that has allegedly been poured into Haiti since the earthquake. This is what is known as donor overload: throwing more money at a country than it can absorb.
However, there is one immediate sign of where a lot of the aid money has gone: Pajeros. Or Land Cruisers or Pathfinders take your pick, but Port-au-Prince’s narrow streets are jammed with big SUVs emblazoned with an alphabet soup of NGO logos.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130428/focus/focus8.html
We can almost remove the word Haiti and replace it with Jamaica
The “houses matter” and the “Azan matter” do not cancel out each other. They represent the nasty, dirty nature of the politics that has ruined this country.
Test maybe you could write something related eg Haiti is seeing major growth and PSM went to find out how they did it.
She would of course need someone on her team to explain to her what was said.
Go for it Lipton !
You have the foundation on which to build and time is on your side.