When news broke yesterday that the famous Ricks Cafe in Negril had hosted a massive party in Negril catering exclusively for tourist, social media and many well known social commentators exploded in outrage .
Many expressed outrage that while Jamaicans were locked out of the entertainment industry for over a year and were in deep financial trouble, the Holness administration issued and permitted or otherwise sanctioned the event and gave it its blessing. Some may even suggest they made no effort to stop it if it was that they never sanctioned the event
They accused the government of displaying double standard in how the rules were being applied in the covid restrictions and expressed alarm that the government could have given such an approval.
Carole Narcisse, a well known social commenator wrote on Twitter in response to JTB denying giving written or implied approval for the event
Another well known commentator Ingrid Riley chimed in with her own version of the truth and wrote
Not to be left out of the barrage of machine gun on automatic like tweets, Senator Lambert Brown fired off his own tweet
Social media platforms have provided an avenue for people who had no platform to get their voices out, but at the same time it has provided a avenue for those with a voice to speak even louder.
People like Carol Narcisse and Ingrid Riley are among many other who will be quick to point out that there is a deep sense of distrust for governments built up over the years. They will be the first to say this is because governments have lied so many times that they could very understand why there is this distrust.
What is over ironic is that neither of these persons’ are helping to build any sort of trust and to change that perception, when they continue to rush to social media and propagate comments to suggest as in this case the government agencies are lying when they themselves have no factual basis to support any such statement. In fact what they have skillfully done is to continue to present information to cement that perception of lack of trust in government deliberately so I must add.
Carol Narcisse etal must resist that innate urge to sully the character, reputation and integrity of people who work in government as they seek to “attack” the government for perceived wrong doing without facts. We simply cannot allow these social commentators to dirty up people’s character then slither away when they have been proven to be wrong, which has occurred over and over again.
People must recall that we all have family members working in government and its the responsible thing to do, to seek answers by asking questions but not to accuse people of wrong doing without facts or even dismissing these official statement simply on he basis of ” Me nuh trust dem, we not idiots , we can figure it out on our own” . Its not only unfair its also reckless and disingenuous
I will not use this medium to ask for any insincere and fake apology, as their modus operandi has gotten clearer and clearer to me over the years of reading the output from these folks, the fact is they meant what they said in the first place.
The government has moved to rescind the designation of Rick Cafe as being covid compliant entity as well as suspending their license to operate for 7 days following the revelation that they held an event, which now appears to have in fact NEVER been sanctioned and was indeed a breach.
The next statement I expect from these very people is this is all a sham and the government is only reacting in a knee jerk fashion to save face, or simply silence from them as they have done since the Dayton Campbell pedophile allegations rocked the nation.
The management of Ricks Cafe has yet to respond with a strongly worded or any statement yet to the actions of the government , which appears in and of itself to make a statement, but I won’t fall into the hole that many commenters do by rushing to make any statement of fact comment, and will therefore wait on Ricks Cafe to comment before passing judgement.
I rest my case.
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