Councillor Troupe... Playing Solitaire pon Tax Payer Money!

One would think after a scamming scandal and now the St. James Parish Council debt, you'd think Councillors would try to put on a better show!

http://corvedacosta.com/exclusive-parish-council-meeting-in-montego-bay-jamaica/

Mello FM Making Waves from Montego Bay!

As media in western Jamaica becomes a force to be reckoned with!

‘VW AD is a mockery of brand Jamaica’

Why does it seem all criticism of the Volkswagen advertisement is bungled as people taking things too seriously, or conflated with the racist argument. Is any criticism of the advertisement valid?

It seems we are prostituting brand Jamaica, and not benefitting financially from it. I am also skeptical of Volkswagen and its historical link to Hitler and his brand of racism/nazism etc. In Black History Month, is that what we want to be linked to? 

Does ATL motors need more money? Who benefits from this alleged tourism boost the advertisement is said to be bringing in? My grandfather fought in World War two to stop Hitler, only to see his off-spring and that of his oligarchy thrive from exploiting Jamaican imagery or culture.

I was privy to an anthropology study that showed brand Jamaica doesn’t benefit the local man, or craft vendors and the like, only transnational companies like PUMA etc.

Some will ask “should we get money when somebody imitates our accent? How does that work? Who do you approach for “permission” to imitate the accent? Who do you write the cheque to? And for what?”

To them I say, ask the Italians how they collect royalties for pizza. People and musicians in Jamaica collect royalties for songs that play as far away as Serbia and Romania. We can ask every cultural ministry in every country that has one, how they collect royalties. 

If we continue to neglect revenue, Jamaican people will forever be left behind. We are late in commodit-izing and cashing in on culture. Financial liberation is our salvation, and the VW ad is a mockery of brand Jamaica. 

Criticism and critical thinking are all dead. long live the age of everybody happy, and everything goes as political correctness is king.

CARTOON HITS

Montegonian Toons

Montegonian Editorial Exclusive: POLITICIANS CRIMINALISING JAMAICANS

The atrophy of socialism, social welfare, the welfare state and the growth of the penal state represent a double criminalization of poverty. Criminalising Survival, Vending, Hustling, Small Businesses, Corner Shops, Street Life Street People Street Hustling... Street children might not be securely lodged in the life-patterns that the middle class impose on young people, but their reward from trying to maintain a minimum standard of living that their parents and governments are unable to provide them is infinitely preferable to living in the absolute poverty that surrounds them, yet police and state will incarcerate them... in juvenile centres and later on in life in BIG PRISON... We know there is a Marginalised Black male, A lack of opportunity, a lack of education, a lack of funds and lack of land and access to it. We born in Jamaica and then they say you are a squatter, "wah mi supposed to do, born and float above the ground, since me cannot get any plot of land via birth right. rent an existence forever"

The government needs to stop seeing the people as a mass of cattle for culling taxes and revenue! The poor appear to be just another commodity, good, product... to be speculated, traded and profited from by the gang of bankers and political cronies

This folly continues by using a stance on Weed and drugs as an excuse to systematically incarcerate even non-violent youth. Black religious expression and such is facing serious repression. while court houses and tax office are cash collectors. They take much and give us so little.

The transition from welfare to taxfare and the proliferation of young bodies behind bars taken together work to marginalize Jamaica's black poor population, with an economy forcing them out of Jobs and no public aid, on the one side, and holding them under lock, on the other, and eventually pushing them into the peripheral [and deeply precarious] sectors of the labor market and farther on the road to poverty

We don't live in a direct or indirect democracy, in reality. We live in a police state, controlled by oligarchic forces, a two head serpent. The heads of state lack the will to HELP people out of poverty. instead we have generation that go from Cradle to Prison...

 This country is based on slavery and land grabs by a small plantocrasy. Had they been decent people, to begin with this plantation class would have asked for permission to share this land with the Tainos and or Arawaks. Instead, through force and genocide they took the land and resources and divided them up, as they did again after emancipendence, when they divided the land and this country among the descendants of slave masters and the indentured labourers and buffer classes, just as we do now by letting the wealthy determine the laws and by making slaves of the have-nots, through debt and financial slavery and usury.

If Jamaica is ever to be fixed... land reform, education reform, energy reform, economic  and spiritual reform are now absolutely necessary!

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