Haitianisation; almost complete

It has happened.
Visitors now require Interpreters.

A police woman, proud of her 'langwij', told me
how business people hire interpreters.

Sitting in the court room as a police liaison
officer, (to explain why police do not attend
court)her smile was radiant.

Not just Japanese or Spanish visitors
but American and English need interpreters,
for they can not understand the 'langwij'.

And most Jamaicans can't understand them.

One has to laugh.

Why in hell would anyone want to do business
with Jamaica of all cess pools when they
can do it with Antiqua, Barbados, Trinidad...
there are twelve English speaking Caribbean
Islands?

Beaches as beautiful, if not more so.
Crime low, locals interested in education and
advancement, not sex and drugs and crime.

Why should anyone come to a failed state?

The police woman smiles, I smile back.
I don't care what language she and her
children speak or don't speak.

They aren't saying anything
anyway, nothing to listen to.

Do you need to know what the lyrics of that
song mean? Surmise; sex.

It has taken 30 years to go from English
speaking to non-English speaking. 30 years
to reach the level that visitors, be they
diplomats, businessmen, tourists, need to
hire an interpreter.

Haiti has claimed its niche as the poorest
nation in the Western Hemisphere; Jamaica
seems hellbent on challenging.

Keep 'em Stupid

1995 the single Telecom company, C & W, deigned
to allow Jamaicans to access the Internet.

Connectivity was offered free from April to November.

Between April and November the number of
subscribers was about 17%.

After November, when people had to pay for it,
the number of subscribers remained at 17%.

In August of 2010 Internet penetration is 17%.

Those who can afford it will use Flow others C & W.
Everyone anticipated what Digicel would do.

Digicel entered the market with an extremely overpriced
'4G' connection.

Whether Digicel banks on its name, or assumes there is
a lacuna with coverage or resistance to the other
providers; (primarly C & W, operating as Lime, it
is about to learn failure.

The problem with Connectivity is price.

Firstly, computers are ridiculously expensive.
Crap notebooks sell for over 65k.

Secondly, cheap connection, which was less than
$500 a month unlimited, (using a cell phone as
a modem)has been withdrawn.

This helpful service which was island wide has
been replaced by charges based on usage; that
is per Meg.

This was done to kill the service and prevent the
less wealthy from connectivity.

The average person who is interested will gain
Internet at school or work, maybe the library.
And that's it.

Unless they have a notebook and know the
'hot spots' or can hack into a system
there is no Internet for them.

As the majority of Jamaicans haven't been sold on the
Internet this is not a problem.

Although a pump attendant might have a Blackberry
phone as a status symbol he has never done more
than make and receive voice calls.

The good thing about having such a small Internet
community is that it is easy to keep the people
stupid.

The problem is, how stupid is stupid enough?

Some may aver the population is remarkably ignorant
of just about everything and as the desire to learn
has been destroyed, keeping Internet service expensive
is unnecessary.

Unlike China which has to censor and track Internet
usage, Jamaica is freed from that role of 'Big Brother.'

To have maintained 17% penetration for over 15 years
is testimony to the success of the dumbing down process.

Hanging Harold Out To Dry

Harold Brady has always been a pompous sort.
This is what made him such a useful pawn.
His own arrogance and self importance would
carry him along, and he would never ever believe
that Bruce Golding would use him.

I am sure Brady wasn't the first person Golding spoke
with, when he concocted the deception.
Others, not as fat on their self-importance would have
seen the worm in the fruit.

Simply put, any American firm which deals with a
foreign government must declare it. As Bruce was
planning on denying that the Government of Jamaica
hired Manatt, what better dupe than Harold Brady?
Set up Brady, give him 'authority' and when everything
goes ass over tea kettle, claim to know nothing about it.

Golding is known as a guy who will sacrifice anyone or anything
on the altar of power. One must never trust Golding. He is
one of the most remarkable liars...he can look into your
eyes, keep his expression and voice controlled, and tell you
the most unredeemable lie.

And if you act on it, he will slap his hand to his chest;
"I never told you that!"

When do you stop believing?

I made up my mind I would be virtually silent
during the first 18 mos. of Bruce's reign...
too often I blurt the answers to questions
so that other people never get a chance to
think...

Not this time.

I enjoyed the Extradition Request performance
by Golding.

Bold faced lies...fed to the public, which
licked it up like hungry pigs in the pit.

Everyone knows that American citizens and firms
have to declare when they work for foreign govs.

Manatt's declaration proved beyond doubt that
they worked for the Ja. Gov. If they had been
hired by a non-gov agency; i.e. the Red Cross
they would not be forced to declare.

Yet Bruce lies.
Lies that it was the JLP which hired the firm.
Lies that the firm was not hired for Dudus.

Manatt waivers...maybe more money changed hands.
But now, with it's own ass in the clamps, it has
to prove to the US Gov. it acted legally.

So who paid Manatt?
Gov of Ja?
Dudus?
If it is the Gov of Ja; well who authorised that?
We want our money back.
If it is Dudus...
would that be the so-called proceeds of crime or
would that be from the 300M of contracts the Gov.
of Ja awarded him?
And if it is from those Contracts, how were those
contracts executed?
Was one for the road that collapsed in Portmore?

Bruce lies so well, so honestly, and his band
of thieves back him at every turn.

Although some Veranda sitters have gone quiet,
others grasp onto the image of St. Bruce
because they really can't admit how well
they were played.

We Pay Dead People

"The Chairman of the Public Sector Transformation Unit Consultative
Monitoring Group has revealed worrying discrepancies in the civil
service. Peter Moses says the discrepancies include a system where
the names of dead people on the Government’s payroll."

I could of told him that.
Some are really dead and been dead for years.
Some are actually breathing but haven't been near the office for years.

The Jamaican Government actually was paying a blind security guard.
But hey...
this is a Kakistocracy, right?

"The head of Transformation Unit, Patricia Sinclair McCalla says an
audit is now underway to find the duplications on the Government’s
payroll. However, she says the lack of adequate technology in
Government’s payroll system is making it difficult."

Did anyone expect the Government's payroll to have even 1990 tech?
How could they steal if there was some kind of master list?

They also seemed to notice the exorbitant rents paid by Ministries
and government agencies.

Hmmmm...
bet nothing will be done.
Except firing enough people to make sure the Civil Service is
really inefficient.

Swimming in a Cess Pool

When you swim in a cess pool
You keep your mouth shut.

You try to get to the edge so
as to hoist yourself out.

But you do this quietly.
Because if anyone thinks you
are going to escape
they may assume you have some
information they do not wish
to be shared.

You do this quietly.
Because you never want anyone
to ever ask you about anything.
Ever.

When you swim in a cesspool
you have to know when to look away,
when to make it clear you weren't there.

You have to learn the value of sickness
which gets you off the front line when
the scene is going down.

You have to learn what not to say, when
not to say it, and how to deliberately
miscontrue.

You have to learn when to leave the room,
when to show up, how to appear to be part
of it all, while being pushed to the fringe.

You learn what positions you don't want,
which Boards you don't sit on.
Who is not to be trusted at any time
and who can be trusted with specific
information which isn't all that volatile.

If you think that 'Whistle Blower' legislation
will get you any more than a coffin, leave
Jamaica now.

Taking Videos of Police Murder is a Non-Insurable Risk

The chap who took the video of the police
killing in St. Ann...BE WARNED.

To step forward will immediately invalidate
your insurance polices.

I suggest you forget all about what you saw, where
you were, take the chip out and lose your cell phone, now.

In this way, you will be able to do little things like breathe.

Student's Loan Bureau

As is usual in a kakistocracy the very worst people get the big posts. Over at SLB this gal stepped onto the Gravy Train and was just recently kicked off.

She ran scam on top of scam and of course, the Board was blind/deaf/dumb as most Boards are. For never forget, in a Bureacracy it is everyone else's problem and no one does anything, unless some wacked out honest person is accidentally put on a board and the others have to pretend to have integrity.

Now if this gal got 0 pay in January, (caused she'd borrowed so much and taken so many advances) in February, even Forest Gump would try to find out how is she surviving on 0 pay. Nahhhhhh...that would infer that the Board was interested in more than the pastries.

Things got so bad that the Auditor had to step in, and alas, the PNP, knowing nothing except; "If the JLP wants to dump her, we have to protect", actually said something about her Fifteen Years of Service...as if for 15 years she gave service to anyone but the guy in her bed.

That she could have gotten the post makes you shake your head. That she was allowed to squat in it for so many years pales besides the fact that there was a Board, meeting once a month who knew, and did nothing.

You know They'd walk

So, get this part...the DPP wants the guy who
took the camera video.

Now you know if he betrays his identity his
life span ends in about twenty minutes.

Did anyone think that the police would actually
be charged?

I mean just because they were captured on video.
Just because we know who they are.
Just because we saw this cop kill this man
live and direct.
Does not mean that the Police will be charged
with murder.

The guy who took the video; I'm sure there are
a few choice charges to slap on him.
And he won't slip away.
He's not a Police Officer.

What It Got Is Worse

So-called Independence Day.
Going to Central because a nervous mother
calling every minute on the minute wanted
to insure her son was returned to the lock-up
at Port Royal.

Port Royal lock-up is among the better hell-holes.

So I went to Central.
One door was locked 'for security', and I came in
the other to confront what I'd called the underbelly
of a snake.

The JCF ranks way down; maybe the Ton Ton Macoute
or the North Korean Police Force is worse, but
it can't get much worse than the JCF.

The handful of useful intelligent police would be
off on a holiday, leaving the most useless idiots
available.

The Desk Sargeant at Reception needed me to stand
at a particular point. It was impossible for her
to deal with me unless I stood right at that point.

And this is a Sargeant of Police.

I then went to Flying Squad, which did boast officers
of triple digit I.Q.s.

They weren't there, and some moronic rejects sat
quivering as if something might happen.

They were as useful as an ipod for a dead man.

At the lock up the double digits needed
Identification from me.
Apparently those at the Bar Ass have these I.D.s
which a lawyer has to present, and I don't have one.

However, after about fifteen minutes it was proven
the accused had been returned to Port Royal.

Thirty years ago, when I first confronted Police
they were on par with High School Graduates.
Graduates of real schools, or those who could
read and write and reason within a narrow band.

Today, they are on par with those from lesser known
primary schools and should not be allowed any weapon
more powerful than a pea shooter.

I can deal with them because I can deal with feral
animals. But a normal person who isn't accustomed
to feral animals, who makes the mistake and thinks
that Jamaican Police are (in the widest definition)
human, may find him/herself with little pieces of
lead in their body.

It is here, with the JCF one comprehends what the
Poll meant.

The people like the State of Emergency because they
were confronted by soldiers, who apparently are far
more civilised than the police.

The people who supported the State of Emergency do
not support the police.

It is overtime to get rid of the JCF.

Firstly, create a number of specialised units
with highly trained and intelligent persons.

Secondly, begin moving the more repellent members
of the JCF to small footsoldier units under the
command of a responsible person.

Thirdly, create Parish forces so that each Parish
has it's own mini hierarchy, i.e. the Commissioner
for St. Ann.

Fourthly, with the various units which can be
deployed island wide, the rabid useless members
would not be on their own, constantly supervised
by those who trained differently and are not
'Squaddies'.

At this point the JCF would, in essence cease to
exist, and the ability to close down a particularly
offensive batch of police would be efficacious.

If you have to deal with Police, think of them of
psychotic wildebeests. And you might survive.

Obeah

The number of Jamaicans who really don't believe in
Obeah could probably fit on a few Tour buses.
The majority believes in this samfie.

Obeah is NOT a holdover of an African religion.
No Obeah man/woman can call the names of the African
"Obi" (gods) from which the name 'Obeah' arises.

No Jamaican can explain the connection between one
thing and another...because no Jamaican knows it
or cares to know anything beyond...Where da money dere?

The first time I actually slammed into this insanity
was when I was registrar of Gun Court and was requested
by the Judge to contact a lawyer who was absent.

The Lawyer, an excellent practitioner told me the people
hadn't paid even half his fees.

I stood on the veranda and asked who was there for
(name of the accused) and a portly woman pushed up
and I told her that she better pay her lawyer so
he comes to court.

Subsequently the lawyer arrived and within a few
minutes disposed of the case as the evidence in
the police statement was incredibly weak.

The man, who had spent months in custody was
released, (he would have been released on day
one if his mother had actually paid a lawyer
to attend).

I went outside seeing the mother in ecstasy
and she was exclaiming; "Him good, him good..."
to which I mentioned that the lawyer was known
to be very good.

She wasn't talking about the lawyer
she was talking about her Obeah man.

I said; "Yeah, man, he was the only one who
could keep a man in custody for eight months."

This woman had paid xyz thousands to some semi-
literate obeah man, and had to be forced to
pay x to the lawyer.

A few weeks later a man was shot dead at the
Gun Court when he went to walk out.

Although the police and warders called 'Halt'
he didn't stop because he had on his
'Invisibility Ring' his people had gotten
from 'Mother Campbell'.

Later the deceased's family went to Mother
Campbell's balm yard to get back their money.
The police had to be called to disperse them.

Most recently, my idiot neighbour started to
keep pigeons to protect him from 'Obeah.'

Despite telling him of the 30 different fatal
diseases pigeons carry, he didn't listen.
He got sick.

I told his wife to tell the doctor that he
kept pigeons.
She didn't.

When he came home on the usual furlough before
death, I told him to tell the doctors he kept
pigeons.

He smiled that depreciating way, because I was
too ignorant to understand.

I didn't go to his funeral.
Nor will I go to the one of his wife.

Now does any one wonder why Jamaicans are so
easily confused?