Now with elections postponed, more opportunity to use the $4b !

With the PNP starring down the barrel of electoral defeat, due to poor candidate selection, the dead babies scandal and refusal to public health sector audit report and the UK Prison deal, the PM had no choice but to pull back on a 2015 election.

The PNP PR machinery has not been as effective as it has been in the past and this is due mainly to increased usage of social media, which acts as a gateway to provide more info that one would get in the tightly controlled main stream media.

This 3 months break however, will provide Dr Peter Phillips, with time to spend a significant portion of the $4b windfall provided by the IMF.

Comrades don’t be alarmed food ago run just now and we will do whatever it takes to form the next government, because what is good for the PNP is good for Jamaica.

 

PNP tricks civil servants once again!

The Government has proposed to pay a portion of retroactive travelling allowance owed to public sector workers next month and the rest in April 2016.

Second Vice-president of the Jamaica Civil Service Association, Jullian Corrodus, says the proposal was put to the union by the Ministry of Finance at a meeting on Friday.

Corrodus says the union is to hold discussions on the offer and give a response to the finance ministry by Wednesday.

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20151123/government-makes-new-offer-pay-civil-servants-retro-travelling-allowance

 

The timing of the second payout is interesting because it will come after over 10,000 civil servants are due to be sent home.

It will be interesting to see if they accept this offer, which is yet another PNP trick

Irrefutable Proof that comrades do not listen or understand what they hear

First time MP Hugh Buchanan last night introduced the chairman of the party as Robert Bobby Montague, to the loud cheers of comrades who were jubilant and blowing their vuvuzela.

Clearly they did not hear what he had said or heard but really did not know the difference between Robert Pickersgill and Robert Montague.

Clear proof that comrades are mindless and do not listen or fail to comprehend what they have heard, even applauding sheer nonsense.

Just watch this video of proof of this.

http://www.loopjamaica.com/content/video-comrades-shocked-mp-makes-huge-blunder-introduces-jlps-montague-pnp-chairman

Overweight jockey “dashes” PNP election plans

Peter Phillips has put on too much weight, so when Portia checked she found that the Jockey was overweight. So he cannot ride d horse

Recall folks Dr Peter Phillips is the PNP campaign director (aka the jockey). So when the Prime Minister checked the weight of the Jockey, the condition of the saddle and the bridle, she found the jockey was overweight, so she has decide she not going into a race with an overweight jockey.

The Campaign Director has therefore been given another two months to get his weight down before the gate can fly.

Bless

Portia to wait on Voters list and not her “Master”

The Prime Minister has been told that the PNP is in a losing position and its better for her to wait before calling General elections. Last week the Prime Minister told us she was waiting to be touched by her “master”.

I suspect that her “masters” in the PJ has told her that they party is not in as pole position and they risk losing if elections is called now.

So in another twist which clearly shows the misfiring of the PR machinery, the Prime Minister has told us she is now waiting on the nee voters list before calling the elections.

 

Portia says no elections this year, horse not jockey not ready

So I check the weight of the jockey, I check the saddle, I check the bridle and I just realize that nether d horse nor the jockey not ready

 

Given the fact that from August we have put comrade on notice and now that I am doing my final checks before the start of the race, it is clear we have more work to do, because we do not have a comfortable lead.

The above could very well be the words of the PNP camp, who from August though the caught the JLP napping.

Clearly the JLP has been energized by the PNP bungling and the PNP PR machinery has been ruined by social media who really does not need PNP media release of PNP henchmen in the media to dictate the news.

Social media has made a mockery of the PNP PR machinery,which has been misfiring badly.

Portia jockey and horse nuh ready despite the fact that they have been training since August.

PNP is definitely in a losing position now.

PNP policies have driven down oil prices, hail the PNP

The great policies implemented by the PNP since they came into power in 2012 have driven down the price of crude oil to historic lows. This has resulted in  a positive impact on the Jamaican economy.

Fuel prices are down by at least 35% and electricity cost is down by about 40%, which is a testament to the  Great done by the PNP administration.

The issues being experienced in the health sector has nothing to do with the PNP and instead is a manifestation of the bad policies of no user fee implemented by the JLP in 2007.

Crime is a problem today, not because of the policies not implemented by the PNP administration, instead it is a result of the JLP strongman Dudus who was removed from Jamaica in 2010 and imprisoned in the USA.

The man is so powerful that despite being out of the country for 5 years his influence on crime is still there.

Inflation is the lowest in 40 years, the dollar is right valued, interest rates are all time low, crude prices are at historic lows, IMF has given us billions and billons of dollar, the European Union continues to give millions, we have billions in new investments .

We have full public sector support as seen by recent negotiations, we have the private sector support and have full support of Japan, USA, UK and many other first world countries.

Despite all the above, the PNP has still not been able to generate growth in the country.

What more does the PNP need if it is to generate economic growth and prosperity for the people of Jamaica ?

 

 

How do you plan to fund ‘free education’ promise?

I read an article in the Jamaica Observer (today) and was quite surprised at the less than critical thinking that was brought to the matter of “free” secondary school education.

I have decided to challenge that  position and show how “free” education can be funded at NO extra cost to the tax payers of this country.

It is very clear to me that the 5% that the NHT collects ( 2% workers and 3% from companies) is way too much money for the NHT, which has a huge surplus and for which only about 25% of contributors benefit, needs to be changed.

In the 2012/2013 Financial year the NHT collected approximately $20b from contributors and paid of $3.95b as refunds to contributor.

I am making a suggestion that the rates being paid by PAYE to the NHT be reduced to 1% and that by employees be reduced to 1.5%.  The 2.5% combined total reduction should be directed to a newly created Education Fund, which goes into a special fund managed similar to how the NHT does its contribution.

This would add close to $10b per anuum to the education  sector.

The fact is the NHT is a cash rich entity, so rich that the GOJ decided to remove over $44B in suprlus that the NHT had sitting on its books to help pay down the national debt.

It is very clear to me that the NHT is collecting way more than it needs and with no where to spend the money has bought Outameni $200m and useless land from politicians running into millions of dollar.

Now let’s do some maths.

There are 163 high schools across Jamaica.

Lets assume that each high school has 1,500 students enrolled.

Total number of enrolled students = 163 x1500 = 244,500 students.

In your article you quoted JC fees of $31,000 but lets assume the fee on average is $40,000 per student and the Ministry pays $11,000 currently leaving a balance of $29,000 per student.

Additional cost were ministry to fund every student its full sum would be $29,000 x 244,500 = $7.09b

Total funds raised from above change in NHT structure and moving to education was $10b.

So in effect we could fully fund the cost of each student and still have a annual cash balance of almost $3b per annum.

All this needs is a simple stroke of the pen by the cabinet of Jamaica.

Like I said, nothing is impossible and if you really want a solution it can be found.

Now I really did not have to look too hard to find a very viable solution.

 

So how do we fund free education…?

I would love to hear your response to this one

.http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/How-do-you-plan-to-fund–free-education–promise_19238462

NP North East St Andrew Candidate Resigns Amid Criminal Charges

Gregory Sutherland, the People’s National Party (PNP’s) provisional candidate for North East St Andrew has resigned.

In a statement this afternoon, the PNP said Sutherland resigned today amid criminal allegations.

“Mr. Sutherland has been charged with simple larceny, submitting forged documents and impersonation,” a PNP spokesperson said in the statement.

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20151116/pnp-north-east-st-andrew-candidate-resigns-amid-criminal-charges?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

Its a welcome move to see the party finally doing the  correct thing. Good move by the PNP in not supporting wrong doing.

Jamaica needs a strong and decisive leader, Portia can’t cut it, end the experiment now

Portia Simpson Miller has shown time and time again that she is a very weak leader, who only seems to have strength for Andrew Holness and her critics.

The Prime Minister has failed the country every time she has been given a decision to make. She had a chance with Richard Azan and what did she do?

Dr Fenton Ferguson screwed up and instead of being decisive, the PM “dilly dallyed” until she was forced to make a decision. Now having been forced to action, she choose the easy way out and reassigned Fenton  to screw up another ministry.

In another clear sign of lack of indecisiveness, she seems not to know what she wants in terms of early elections. Now folks, elections are really due next year, but the PNP weeks ago told the country to get ready, It’s been nearly 6 weeks since then and the PM still does not seem to know what she needs because according to her ” we are a democratic party, I listen to the people and we include the people. we are not calling the elections (until the people tell me its time to do so)”.

There are times in leadership when you do not govern by consensus, you make a decision and live by that decision.

We need to end this experiment with Portia Simpson Miller as Prime Minister as clearly it is not working.

We need a leader ” in the real sense”.