http://disqus.com/by/NOSHELL/enFri, 21 Aug 2009 11:56:40 -0000http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090821/letters/letters5.html#comment-15196988<p>TO ME ITS NOT ONLY THE POST OFFICE, BUT THE WHOLE GOVERNMENT IS SLACK AND IN NEED OR RESTRUCTURE.</p>NOSHELLFri, 21 Aug 2009 11:56:40 -0000http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090821/letters/letters1.html#comment-15195237<p>MR LYNCH.</p><p>I COULDN'T AGREE WITH YOU MORE!.... HERE ARE SOME TELLING YOU WHAT GOVERNMENT IS DOING WITH MONEY, BUT WHAT THEY FAILED TO UNDERSTAND, IS THAT SOME OF THESE MONEY ARE ONE TIME SPENDING!... NOT MONEY THAT WILL HAVE TO BE SPEND EVERY DAY,MONTHS,YEARS AFTER !... WILL THE TEACHERS AND POLICE ACCEPT A RAISED JUST FOR 3 MONTHS AND THEN 3 MONTHS LATE THEY ARE BACK TO THE SAME SALARY BEFORE THAT RAISED?.... THIS IS WHAT THEY SHOULD UNDERSTAND . INSTEAD OF BASHING YOU. WHEN YOU LISTEN TO THESE TEACHERS AND POLICE PERSONNEL. IT MAKE YOU THINK WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHAT THE SUPPOSEDLY WELL EDUCATED PEOPLE AT THE SCJ DID WITH THAT SUGAR DEAL. HOW COULD A HIGHLY EDUCATED PEOPLE MAKE SUCH A GRAND MISTAKE?... MAY BE THE TEACHER SHOULD THINK THAT THE EDUCATION SYSTEM HAD FAILED AND THEY SHOULD BE GLAD FOR WHAT THEY ARE GETTING. SAME GOES TO THE POLICE!.... IF SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPEN IN THE STATES IN A GOVERNMENT AGENCIES THERE WOULD BE AN INVESTIGATION AS TO HOW SUCH A HUGE GAP WAS NOT SEEN BEFORE THE DEAL WAS SIGNED. KNOWING THE STATE OF THE PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY OF THE FACTORIES!...</p>NOSHELLFri, 21 Aug 2009 11:18:09 -0000http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090821/business/business2.html#comment-15194048<p>THIS IS SO DUMB THAT THIS GUY SHOULD BE FIRED WITH OUT EVEN QUESTION. 18% HOW CAN YOU GROW A ECONOMY ON SUCH INTEREST RATE?... HOW MUCH ONE HAVE TO CHARGE TO BE ABLE TO RUN A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS IN JAMAICA. IF HE OR SHE DON'T WANT TO BE A SLAVE TO THE BANKS THE INTEREST RATE AT THE CENTRAL BANK SHOULD BE NO MORE THAN 10% !....<br></p>NOSHELLFri, 21 Aug 2009 10:53:54 -0000http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090820/news/news3.html#comment-15157611<p>THIS IS A VERY GOOD IDEA AND START.</p>NOSHELLThu, 20 Aug 2009 22:33:03 -0000http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090820/news/news2.html#comment-15157593<p>THE COUNTRY IS TOO SMALL FOR THIS TO HAPPEN. I HAVE A SOLUTION TO THIS.<br></p>NOSHELLThu, 20 Aug 2009 22:32:03 -0000http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090819/business/business5.html#comment-15092985<p>STEVE L. ALLEN .</p><p>I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU GET THIS COMMENT I POST. BUT HERE IS THE ARTICLE FROM WHICH MY COMMENT COME FROM. BECAUSE FROM YOUR COMMENT . IT DOES NOT SEEM LIKE YOU HAD READ THE NEWS STORY, SO HERE IT IS.</p><p>The real price of Eridania's sugar</p><p>Published: Wednesday | August 19, 2009</p><p>Lavern Clarke, Business Editor</p><p>Minister of Agriculture Dr Christopher Tufton.</p><p>The 79,000 tonnes (174 million pounds) forward-sold to Italian-owned Eridania Suisse SA, could cost the state as much as US$45 million ($4 billion), assuming that the factories perform at 2008 levels when unit costs were 26 US cents per pound.</p><p>But if, as sugar officials intend, the factories are upgraded and the new efficiencies introduced are sufficient to bring production costs down to 18 US cents per pound in time for this year's crop, Eridania's supplies would cost US$31.3 million (J$2.8 billion) to churn - still more than double the seed money available to Jamaica.</p><p>Agriculture Minister Christopher Tufton has said, however, that Jamaica can produce Eridania's sugar at US$21 million (J$1.87 billion).</p><p>But getting to that price would require the limping sugar factories to become so super-efficient as to outperform even Brazil, which is on top of its game at 14 cents per tonne.</p><p>Eridania, a European company based in Geneva but owned by the Maccaferri Group of Italy, has committed upfront payment of US$15 million for the 79,000 tonnes, the source from which Jamaica says it will finance the next sugar crop.</p><p>Some 43,000 tonnes will be done at Frome, and 36,000 tonnes at Bernard Lodge but processed at nearby Monymusk.</p><p>Jamaica has already got a US$5 million downpayment from Eridania, and will receive the rest in two tranches, according to Tufton and his sugar advisors, speaking at a meeting with Gleaner editors and senior writers.</p><p>The other US$22.7 million of an estimated US$37.7 million (euroor €335 per tonne at full payment for the Jamaican sugar, will be remitted at a later date - schedule unknown.</p><p>The two parties will also share any profits accruing from the sales when the sugar hits Europe.</p><p>Jamaica is still tidying up negotiations with Eridania but feels assured that the deal is virtually sealed, because of supply gaps in Europe.</p><p>This week, the opportunities in the world market opened up even further, sending sugar prices to new highs of 23 cents per pound on demand by countries like Mexico which announced a week ago it had a 400,000 tonne supply gap and needed the sweetner to buy.</p><p>Europe, according to Ambassador Derrick Heaven of the Sugar Industry Authority, consumes 17.5 million tonnes of sugar, but supplies are at 13.5 million tonnes - a consequence of the weeding out of inefficient beet producers whose operations became unsustainable after the EU, under free trade pressure, became less generous with sudsidies that were distributed under the rubric of the Common Agricultural Policy.</p><p>Downpayment</p><p>Eridania reportedly commands 30 per cent of the European market, and sees the opportunity to grow its share, according to Heaven and sugar negotiator Aubyn Hill.</p><p>Jamaica will use Eridania's US$15 million downpayment as working capital to fertilise fields, install an irrigation system, and retool the factories in preparation for churning of the cane at the start of the crop year, which normally kicks off in late November or December.</p><p>That still leaves the Sugar Company of Jamaica - which Hill is tipped to chair after finalization of the asset sales and reconfiguration of the organisational and corporate structure - short of US$16 million to US$30 million, depending on the level of efficiency attained in the operation of the factories to remain in state ownership.</p><p>A US$21 million figure has been floated as the cost to produce Eridania's 79,000 tonnes, but Hill later told Wednesday Business that was something of a moving target.</p><p>It was however on that estimate that Tufton reported to lawmakers in mid-July that the next sugar crop would leave Jamaica with a funding gap of US$5 million to US$6 million which he hoped to cover by finalizing the sale of the estates up for divestment.</p><p>A US$21 million bill would, at a Wednesday Business estimated unit cost of 8.6 US cents/pound, require Jamaica to be twice as efficient as Brazil which produces at 14 US cents, and as locally owned Worthy Park whose cost is around 18 US cents/pound.</p><p>Indeed, Tufton and Hill have said that the aim, at the very least, is to match the cost structure of the privately owned Worthy Park, eventually.</p><p>Market access</p><p>Last year, Jamaica produced 140,872 tonnes of sugar, which at the 26 US cents price quoted by Hill, would have cost more than US$80 million or J$5.8 billion equivalent to mill.</p><p>At June 2009, the estates had produced 123,395 tonnes and exported 108,000 tonnes, with one month left to go in the crop.</p><p>The guaranteed price for Caribbean sugar entering the EU will no longer apply under the Economic Partnership Agreement<br>, starting with this coming crop, but market access is still assured.</p><p>Jamaica in 2008 earned US$104.7 million (J$8.4 billion) for 136,070 tonnes of export sugar, a US$24 million premium on Wednesday Business' estimated cost to produce the sweetner.</p><p>Jamaica is selling as many of the sugar assets as it can. Eridania, for example is said to be interested in buying Frome for conversion to a sugar refinery. Other assets have been sold to Golden Grove, a partnership of Seprod Limited and Fred M Jones Estates, and to the Hussey family.</p><p>SCJ is selling the assets free of debt.</p><p>Instead it will spin off some J$18 billion of liabilities into a company called SCJ Holdings Limited, to be chaired by Robert Levy. Levy is the current chair of the SCJ.</p><p>lavern.clarke@gleanerjm.com</p><p>A tractor load of cane being transported on the Frome estate in Westmoreland where the majority of Eridania's sugar will be produced. - File photos </p>NOSHELLWed, 19 Aug 2009 17:17:50 -0000http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090819/letters/letters6.html#comment-15060235<p>JOAN.</p><p>YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. AND I WOULD LIKE TO DIRECT YOUR ATTENTION TO THE SUGAR STORY IN TODAY'S PAPER. AND IF YOU ARE THE RADIO HOST. I WOULD LIKE YOU TO TAKE MR TUFTON UP ON THIS . SUGAR DEAL SO HE CAN COME CLEAN AND EXPLAIN HOW COULD HE AND HIS ENTOURAGE MAKE SUCH A BLUNDER. OR IS IT THAT THE DEAL HAD INCLUDE THE SALE OF THE FACTORY TOO?...</p>NOSHELLWed, 19 Aug 2009 10:16:37 -0000http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090819/business/business5.html#comment-15059343<p>MR TUFTON.</p><p> I FIND YOUR EXPLANATION HERE . TO BE DISHONEST. OR YOU ARE ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE FOOLS WHO ARE RUNNING JAMAICA INTO THE GROUND!... THERE IS NO WAY, YOU CAN TELL ME THAT YOU DID NOT KNOW THE COST OF PRODUCTION , BEFORE YOU ACCEPTED THE 79,000 TON SUGAR DEAL. FOR THE MERE $15,000 000.000. MAY BE YOU ARE TALKING TO THOSE JAMAICANS WHO CANT READ AND WRITE, AND KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION.. AND THOSE WHO JUST COLLECT GOVERNMENT MONEY BECAUSE OF PARTY AFFILIATION SO THEY DON'T CARE!... I HAVE A GREAT PROBLEM WITH THIS. BECAUSE I HAD SENT YOU AND THE FORMER MINISTER . ROGER CLARKE EMAILS . TO RECONSIDER WHAT YOU ARE DOING ON THE SALES OF THE FACTORIES!...</p><p>YOU ARE SELLING THE FACTORIES. AND YOU ARE KEEPING THE DEBTS. WHAT KIND OF STUPIDNESS IS THAT?.... WHO ARE YOU FOOLING?... THE SELLING OF THE FACTORIES IN THE FIRST PLACE WAS TO DO WITH THEIR DEBTS . SO I CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHY YOU WOULD SELL THEM AND NOT THE DEBT WITH THEM. AND AT THE DUMB PRICES I SAW COATED IN THIS NEWS PAPER IN JULY!.... WHY DON'T YOU COME CLEAN AND TELL JAMAICANS THAT ERIDANIA IS THE OWNER OF THE FACTORY IT HAS BEEN NEGOTIATING FOR!.. . THE $15,000 000.00 AND THE 79,000 TON ORDER WAS DOWN PAYMENT FOR THE FACTORY!... WE HAVE A DIRTY WAY OF DOING THINGS IN JAMAICA. NO WONDER FOREIGNERS TAKE US FOR FOOLS.... YOU ARE TELLING ME THAT WE HAVE TO BORROW MONEY FROM THE (IMF) INTERNATIONAL MAFIA FUND!.... TO PAY AN ITALIAN/EUROPEAN COMPANY TO GIVE THEM JAMAICA SUGAR?.... HOW MUCH MORE STUPIDER CAN WE GET?...</p><p>MAY BE THESE FIGURES ARE TOO BIG FOR JAMAICANS TO DISCERN SO THAT'S WHY YOU SEEM TO ACCEPT IT WITH OUT DOING YOUR HOME WORK. YOU MAY BE LIKE ME WHEN I WAS 6 YEARS OLD. WHEN I TAKE A PAPER MONEY TO THE SHOP AND GET BACK CHANGE . THINKING I GET BACK MORE THAN I TAKE TO THE SHOP.!... THIS IS HOW I SEE YOUR APPROACH TO THIS DEAL. AS A BUFFOON!.... THERE IS NO WAY , YOU GONNA TELL ME THAT YOU WERE SOBER WHEN YOU ACCEPTED THIS DEAL!...</p><p>MR TUFTON AND THE REST OF BUFFOONS AT THE SCJ. I AM SO MAD WHEN I READ THIS NEWS. THAT I WANTED TO USE SOME CHOICE WORDS TO DESCRIBE YOU GUYS..... BUT "I HAVE TO TRY AND RESTRAIN MYSELF BECAUSE I WANT TO KEEP MY PLACE HERE ON THIS BLOG TO CONTINUE TO CONTRIBUTE MY CRITICAL THINKING TO THE JAMAICAN PEOPLE WHO GET TO READ MY OPINION. ON THINGS. SO IT WILL SPUR THEM TO ACTION TO MAKE THEIR CONTRIBUTION TOO.</p>NOSHELLWed, 19 Aug 2009 09:58:04 -0000http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090818/cleisure/cleisure2.html#comment-15041993<p>NAME FROM WHAT I SEE YOU WRITE HERE , YOU EITHER A PNP. OR AN IGNORANT DUMMY.... I AM IN CANADA. AND EDUCATION IS FREE UP UNTIL YOU FINISHED SECONDARY SCHOOL/ HIGH SCHOOL IN JAMAICA. MEDICARE IS FREE IN THE SENSE . WE PAY FOR BOTH THROUGH OUR TAXES. WHICH IS SAYING . THAT A EDUCATED YOUNGSTER WHO FINISHED SECONDARY SCHOOL WILL BE MARKETABLE. HE WILL BE ABLE TO FIND A JOB. NOT TO GO SIT AT SOME DONS YARD AND BEEN GIVEN A GUN. BECAUSE HIS PARENT COULDN AFFORD TO SEND HIM TO SCHOOL . BECAUSE THEY DID NOT HAVE THE MONEY TO PAY THE TUITION FEES. ITS PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO WRECK JAMAICA. BECAUSE YOU ALL ONLY THINK FOR YOURSELF AND GREED. YOU NEED 2 THINGS FOR A COUNTRY TO BE PROSPEROUS. AND THEY ARE , EDUCATION, AND GOOD HEALTH CARE.<br> A SICK PEOPLE BREATH A SICK SOCIETY.</p><p>YOU HAVE TO LOOK BEYOND THIS NARROW MINDEDNESS. AND LOOK AT THE FUTURE. IF ALL THOSE 12 AND 25 YEARS OLD YOUNGSTERS I READ ABOUT IN YESTERDAY GLEANER WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MOST OF THE CRIMES IN JAMAICA INCLUDED THE GUN CRIMES.!.... MAY BE IF WE PUT MORE EMPHASIS ON EDUCATING OUR PEOPLE IN ALL ASPECT. INSTEAD OF TREATING THEM AS COMMODITY AND SLAVES. WE PROBABLY WOULDN'T BE DOWN THIS MURDEROUS ROAD WE ARE NOW!.... SOME HOW I SUSPECT YOU ARE NOT LIVING IN JAMAICA. AND IF I AM WRIGHT . THEN YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF. BECAUSE EVERY COUNTRY YOU GO YOU HAVE TO PAY TAXES. AND SOME TIMES MORE TAX THAN YOU WOULD PAY IN JAMAICA!....</p><p>SOME PLACE HAVE SEVERAL DIFFERENT TAXES. BUT THE DIFFERENT WITH THESE COUNTRIES THAT RUN BY TAXES. IS THAT THEY CAN SHOW TO THEIR PEOPLE WHERE THEY TAX DOLLARS ARE SPENT. IN JAMAICA ITS SO CORRUPTED. THAT YOU DON'T MIND THAT THE SAME POOR PEOPLE YOU ARE TRYING TO DENY A BASIC EDUCATION!... ARE THE SAME PEOPLE WHO ARE ARE SUBSIDIZING THE PRIME MINISTER AND THE MPS CHILDREN EDUCATION IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES AND THEIR MEDICAL BILLS TOO.?...</p><p> SO I SAY FREE EDUCATION TO SECONDARY / HIGH SCHOOL. LEVEL AND FREE MEDICARE FOR ALL. THERE ARE SO MUCH THINGS THEY CAN TAX. BUMP UP THE LICENSE FEE , BUMP UP CIGARETTES, BUMP UP SPEEDING FINES, LEGALIZE GANJA. PRODUCE CROPS AND LIVESTOCK FOR EXPORT. TAX IMPORT GOODS THAT CAN BE ALREADY FOND IN JAMAICA., DROP WATER RATE. COLLECT THE LAND TAX. AND DON'T SQUANDER THE MONEY.SCRAP THE MILITARY!... WE ARE NOT GOING TO FIGHT ANY WAR. . MAKE MILITARY TRAINING MANDATORY. AT AGE 18. FROM AGE 10 THERE SHOULD BE A CADET SYSTEM. UNTIL AGE 18 YOU START REAL MILITARY TRAINING. AND WE ALL STAY IN RESERVE. THAT'S IS SAVINGS. WHY SACRIFICE HEALTH AND EDUCATION?....<br></p>NOSHELLTue, 18 Aug 2009 22:30:57 -0000http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090818/letters/letters4.html#comment-15007760<p>WELL CONCERNED CITIZEN.</p><p>I GUESS YOU ARE RIGHT TO BE ASKING FOR TRANSPARENCY AND THE 90 DAYS APPROVAL PROCESS. BUT HERE IS THE PROBLEM. 1 THEY THEMSELVES DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING. SO THAT'S WHY IT IS TAKING SO LONG. 2 THEY REALLY DON'T HAVE ANY SET CONCRETE AGREED POLICY ON HOW TO PROCEED. AND THE FULL LOW DOWN OF THE PROCESS. AND ALL ITS MECHANISMS. WHEN YOU HAVE PEOPLE MAKING POLICIES BASED ON PARTY AFFILIATES. THIS IS WHAT YOU GET.</p><p>UNTIL WE HAVE THE ADMINISTRATION SPEAK THE SAME LANGUAGE AS ALL JAMAICANS. NOT THAT OF THE PNP OR THE JLP. BUT THE LANGUAGE OF THE PEOPLE. THEN WE WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE THESE TYPE OF THINGS YOU SPEAK ABOUT!.....</p>NOSHELLTue, 18 Aug 2009 09:11:56 -0000http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090818/cleisure/cleisure2.html#comment-15007146<p>THIS IS WHAT I HAVE BEEN SAYING. WE MUST GET PASSED THIS BUILT BY LABOR AND PNP MANTRA. THIS IS WHY JAMAICA CANNOT GET BETTER BECAUSE INSTEAD WE WORK TOGETHER TO FIX THE THINGS THAT COULD NOT BE DONE DURING AN ADMINISTRATION MANDATE. WHAT WE DO IS TO BRAKE DOWN WHAT GOOD THEY DID AND TRY TO START ALL OVER AGAIN. THUS GETTING US AS A NATION , NO WHERE. WE HAVE TO STOP THIS UTTERLY RUBBISH OF TRYING TO TEAR DOWN EACH OTHER AND WORK WITH EACH OTHER TO BETTER OFF THE COUNTRY. BECAUSE AS THE SAYING GOES. ONE HAND WASHES THE OTHER.</p>NOSHELLTue, 18 Aug 2009 08:47:49 -0000http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090817/int/int1.html#comment-14955959<p>EVERY SINGLE INVESTMENT IS A GAMBLE WHETHER YOU PLACE IT WITH A BANK OR A PRIVATE FIRM. THEY ARE ALL GAMBLING WITH YOUR HARD EARNED CASH. IF ONE DON'T BELIEVE ME . JUST CALL ALL THE PEOPLE YOU KNOW THAT HAVE SAVING AT A BANK AND SAY 60% OF YOU GO AT ONCE TO WITHDRAW ALL OF YOUR FUND AND SEE WHAT HAPPEN. THE BANK WILL CLOSE. BECAUSE IT PLACED YOUR MONEY IN OTHER GAMBLING DEN AND THEY CANT GET IT BACK SO EASILY. SO I GUESS WHAT PEOPLE SHOULD BE DOING IS BUYING THINGS THAT WILL KEEP THEIR VALUE AND SOMETHING THEY CAN HAVE IN THEIR HANDS OR THEIR EYES ON EVERY DAY. FARMING WOULD BE THE BEST PLACE TO PUT YOUR MONEY. BECAUSE PEOPLE HAVE TO EAT. NO MATTER WHAT.<br></p>NOSHELLMon, 17 Aug 2009 09:37:31 -0000http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090817/letters/letters6.html#comment-14955195<p> I guess we really need a coup to wake up these sleeping political fools who have been squandering the country resources for years. we seem to need some one the likes of FIDEL CASTRO. OR SADDAM HUSSEIN. who will ruled with an iron fist and discipline . show criminals that crime really don't pay. and police that corruption don't pay. i think Jamaica need some one like me for say 10 years. to rule. then they will see Jamaica come back to its once glory. because who don't like it the sea is there they can go. but we definitely need some one who will not think or talk about party. and only focus on the need of the country and its place in the wider world. this thing of up easing criminals because they are tied to our party. The parties are to be blame for the rampant crime rate in the country. political parties should not have ties to any one. other than during election time. you vote for who you believe in, and then that's it. whoever win go on to govern Jamaica. not PNP or JLP sectors of the country. such as is customary now. and they failed to see or realize why Jamaica is in such a mess.</p>NOSHELLMon, 17 Aug 2009 09:22:57 -0000http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090817/letters/letters1.html#comment-14953929<p>MR JACQUES.</p><p>WELL PUT. BUT DO WE HAVE THE POLITICIAN WHO WILL BE HONEST IN THEIR FORCAST AND ATTITUDE TOWARD ACHIEVING THIS. OR IT WILL BE "OF JUST TO GET THE MONEY. AND LATER DOWN THE ROAD , NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE . THE MONEY HAS BEEN SQUANDER ONCE AGAIN. AND WE ARE BACK TO SQUARE ONE.</p><p>TO ME WHAT WE REALLY NEED IS TO GET READ OF HOW POLITICIANS ARE ELECTED. WE NEED HONEST PEOPLE TO RUN THE COUNTRY. NOT CONNECTION BY POLITICAL PARTIES. WE ALSO SHOULD MAKE IT A QUALIFICATION FOR HIGH OFFICE. THAT WHOSOEVER ATTAINED IT SHOULD BE WORKING FIRST FOR THE COUNTRY. AND THE PARTY HE REPRESENT SHOULD ONLY COME UP WHEN HER OR SHE IS ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. OUR POLITICIANS PRESENT , AND PASS CANNOT BE TRUSTED. </p>NOSHELLMon, 17 Aug 2009 08:37:00 -0000http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090816/business/business6.html#comment-14944786<p>TO BE HONEST. SOME TIMES I WONDER WHY THE GLEANER WAST TIME AND SPACE PUBLISHING STUFF LIKE THESE. THINGS THAT ARE NOT BENEFICIAL TO THE 90% OF JAMAICANS. BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHICH ORDINARY JAMAICANS ARE LEFT WITH $6000.CLEAR PER WEEK AFTER THEIR RENT, BILLS AND FOOD... TO BE ABLE TO TAKE PART IN THESE RETIREMENT SCHEMES THAT ARE PUBLISHED HERE.... THIS IS WHY I FEEL ITS A WAST OF TIME TO PUBLISHED THIS. </p>NOSHELLSun, 16 Aug 2009 23:41:56 -0000http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090816/business/business4.html#comment-14930666<p>THIS IS ONE OF THE REASON WHY I SAID EITHER THE GOVERNMENT STUDY WHAT IT MEAN TO INTRODUCE A CREDIT AGENCY IN JAMAICA. OR SCRAP IT ALL TOGETHER. BY READING THIS BUSINESS REPORT ON DEBT SERVICING BY INDIVIDUALS IN JAMAICA. ITS NOW MORE IMPORTANT THAT THE GOVERNMENT TAKE THIS ACTION VERY SERIOUSLY. AND CLIP THE WING OF THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS. BY ALSO INTRODUCING IN THE SAME BILL A BANKRUPTCY CLAUSE LIKE CHAPTER 11,7, AND CHAPTER 13. SO THESE INSTITUTION CANT DECLARED ANY BODY BANKRUPT. THE INDIVIDUALS HAVE THE RIGHT TO DECLARED THEMSELVES BANKRUPT . AND MAKE SURE THAT THERE ARE LAWS IN PLACE TO PROTECT SOME ASSETS THAT CANNOT BE TOUCHED BY A LENDING INSTITUTION. WHERE THERE IS SCHOOL AGED CHILDREN ARE IN A FAMILY.</p><p> MEANING THE FAMILY HOUSE CANNOT BE SEIZE OR ACTION OFF. THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS MUST BE FORCED TO EXTEND THE LOAN ON THE MORTGAGE. SO THE OWNER CAN CONTINUE TO PAY WHAT HE CAN AFFORD. YES THERE WILL BE FEES AND SO ON THAT WILL RESULT. BUT THEY SHOULD NOT BE FORCED OUT ON THE STREET. CARS , AND OTHER LUXURY'S CAN BE AUCTIONED OFF. JAMAICANS ARE LIED TO AND BEEN WOOED WITH FANCY LYING ADDS HOW THEY WILL GET THIS AND THAT . BY LENDING INSTITUTIONS. THEN ONCE THEY SIGN UP THEY ARE SUCKERED IN . BECAUSE MOST JAMAICANS DON'T UNDERSTAND LEGAL RAMIFICATIONS WHEN IT COMES TO CONTRACTS. AND THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS . DON'T TAKE THE TIME TO EXPLAIN TO PEOPLE EXACTLY WHAT THEY HAD SIGNED. IN PLAIN PATWA THAT THESE SUCKERS CAN UNDERSTAND. THIS IS WHY THE GOVERNMENT MUST MAKE SURE THAT THERE IS A BANKRUPTCY CLAUSE TO PROTECT THESE PEOPLE. FROM THESE PREDATORS.</p>NOSHELLSun, 16 Aug 2009 23:15:06 -0000http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090816/news/news3.html#comment-14927179<p>OUR SOCIETY IS SLACK. WE DON'T THINK OF OTHERS AS WE SHOULD. WE HAVE NO LOVE . OR ELSE STORY LIKE TITUS AND OTHERS WOULD NEVER HAPPEN. ITS , IRONIC THAT ABOVE THIS STORY THE TRANSPORT MINISTER IS NOT PAYING HIS RENT. BUT POOR MOTHERS SHOULD KEEP PAYING HIM THROUGH THEIR TAXES. IT TAKE A VILLAGE TO RAISED OUR CHILDREN. AND THAT'S THE ATTITUDE WE MUST START TO LIVE BY . AND SEE HOW CRIME DRIED UP REAL QUICKLY.<br></p>NOSHELLSun, 16 Aug 2009 22:28:51 -0000http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090814/business/business2.html#comment-14832907<p>THIS IS TO SHOW THAT MR LATIBEAUDIERE.<br> DOES NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT A CREDIT AGENCIES DOES AND HOW THEY ARRIVED AT THEIR DECISIONS. MAY BE HE MIGHT WANT TO HAVE A MEETING WITH THEM AND THE PARLIAMENTARIAN WHO ARE CONSIDERING THE INTRODUCTION OF A CREDIT RATING AGENCY IN JAMAICA. BEFORE THEY GO AHEAD WITH SUCH RUBBISH. BECAUSE ITS THE SAME WAY THE JAMAICAN PEOPLE WILL BE SAYING TO THE BANKS AND OTHER LENDING INSTITUTIONS. IF HE DON'T KNOW NOTHING ABOUT CREDIT HE SHOULD STEP A SIDE.</p><p>HE WAS THE SAME ONE THAT JUST SAID THAT HE DID NOT KNOW THAT THE ECONOMY WOULD DROP SO FAST. SO HE BETTER SHAPE UP.</p>NOSHELLFri, 14 Aug 2009 10:07:44 -0000http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090812/lead/lead9.html#comment-14755685<p>LISTEN. THIS SUPPOSEDLY MIRACLE SHOULD NOT BE HARD TO VERIFIED. ALL THE GLEANER REPORTER NEED TO DO ID TO LOOK VERY CLOSELY. THERE SHOULD BE A MARK TO SHOW WHERE THE TREE WERE LAYING FOR THAT NUMBERS OF YEARS. NOTHING WILL GROW DIRECTLY UNDER THE PLACE WHERE THE TRUNK WAS LAYING. SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A ROCKET SCIENTIST TO DISCOVER THAT. SO THEY ALSO SHOULD AT THE TIME OF THE PICTURE TAKE OTHER PIC OT WHAT I HAVE SPOKEN ABOUT AND POST THEM TOO. BUT THINGS DO HAPPEN. BECAUSE IF ONE SHOULD GO TO THE INTERNET AND TYPE IN CROP CIRCLE. AND THEN YOU WILL SEE REAL PHENOMENON....</p><p>CHOPPING OFF THE BRANCHES WOULD NOT MAKE THE TREE GO BACK UP . NOT SUCH A HUGE TREE FROM WHAT I CAN SEE HERE. IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE AFTER 5 YEARS. THERE IS SOME THING TO WHAT THE VILLAGERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THE MIRACLE!...</p>NOSHELLWed, 12 Aug 2009 20:39:49 -0000http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090812/lead/lead4.html#comment-14754500<p>PUMPI;<br><br>DO YOU HAVE ANY CLUE AS TO WHAT YOU ARE CALLING FOR? HAVE YOU EVER WONDER WHY THE POLICE FORCE IS SO CORRUPTED NOW? AND THE COUNTRY IS IN SUCH A BAD SHAPE? IT WAS BECAUSE OF THE SAME DR DAVIES!... he was borrowing from left to right with out regards to thinking as to how we were going to repay these loans!... HE SPEND LIKE A DRUNKEN SAILOR. AND THEN RUN THE SHIP A GROUND , AND YOU HAVE THE GAUL TO SAY YOU WANT HIM BACK? HE DID NOT HAVE THE FORTITUDE TO MAKE TOUGH DECISION THEM , IS HE GOING TO DO IT NOW?... YES HE WOULD BE VERY DELIGHTED TO DO SO, BECAUSE ITS NOT HIS PARTY ADMINISTRATION. SO THIS WOULD BE A WIN WIN SITUATION FOR HIM AND HIS PARTY. BECAUSE HE COULD SAY TO THOSE WHO VOTE FOR THEM , SAYING YOU SEE I HAVE TO RESCUE THE COUNTRY FROM THE JLP. SO WE WANT ANOTHER 18 YEARS. TO FINALLY SINK THE SHIP.</p>NOSHELLWed, 12 Aug 2009 20:01:49 -0000http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090812/letters/letters4.html#comment-14731901<p>I SUGGEST THAT MR R.J. HOPKIN MOVE TO ENGLAND.</p><p>TO ME WHAT HE IS SAYING IT WAS RIGHT FOR THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND TO HAVEN TAKEN US FROM AFRICA IN CHAINS AS SLAVES TO ENRICH HER . RATHER THAN TO SEE HER AS A DAMN EVIL OF THIS WORLD. HOW COULD YOU BE THE RICHEST WOMEN IN THE WORLD. AND YOU NEVER WORKED A DAMN DAY IN YOUR LIFE?... THE MAFIA TRIES IT AND THEY EITHER KILL THEM OR LOCK THEM UP. ITS TIME FOR US TO GET READ OF THE DAMN CRIMINAL QUEEN.</p><p>MR HOPKIN. JUST TAKE A LOOK IN AFRICA. NIGERIA IN PARTICULAR.HOW THEY HAVE OIL AND LOTS OF IT . AND POVERTY IS SO RAMPANT THERE!... WHY? BECAUSE OF BP ANS OTHER OIL COMPANIES WHO TAKE AND GIVE BACK LITTLE.<br></p>NOSHELLWed, 12 Aug 2009 14:11:43 -0000http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090812/lead/lead5.html#comment-14730769<p>HERE IS ONE FIRST STEP. WE CAN PUT A MARETARIUM ON IMPORTED VEHICLE FOR 5 YEARS. WE CAN ALSO MAKE IT LESS PROFITABLE TO IMPORT CHEAP GOODS FOR RETAIL, THAT ARE ALREADY BEEN PRODUCE IN JAMAICA. SUCH AS AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE. EXCEPT FOR THE PURPOSE OF AGRICULTURE.</p>NOSHELLWed, 12 Aug 2009 13:46:37 -0000http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090812/news/news1.html#comment-14729652<p>HOW LONG WILL THIS LAST BEFORE POLITICS CREEP IN TO IT?.... I HOPE THE MAYOR REALLY BELIEVE IN WHAT HE IS SAYING. AND HE SHOULD GET HIS OPPONENT ON BOARD SO IF AND WHEN POWER SHOULD BE TRANSFERRED THE MOMENTUM CAN CONTINUE WITH THE SAME VIGOR. WE HAVE A WAY OF CHANGING GOOD THINGS WITH POLITICAL CHANGES.</p>NOSHELLWed, 12 Aug 2009 13:21:19 -0000http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090812/lead/lead4.html#comment-14728138<p>MR SEAGA IS SELF SERVING, AS FAR AS I SEE IT. JUST LOOK AT THE US GOVERNMENT. LOOK HOW GREENSPAN HAD ATTAINED HIS JOB THROUGH BOTH DEMOCRAT AND REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATIONS . WHY?... BECAUSE HE WAS DOING A FANTASTIC JOB FOR THEIR COUNTRY... NOT FOR THE PARTY'S... AS THAT OF SEAGA AND DAVIES. THIS IS HOW WE ENDED UP IN THIS MESS. BECAUSE OF PARTY FIRST AND THE COUNTRY IF THEY EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!..</p>NOSHELLWed, 12 Aug 2009 12:47:23 -0000http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090812/lead/lead3.html#comment-14716643<p>I MADE A PREVIOUS POST ON THE SAME MATTER WHEN THE STORY BROKE. I HAVE NOT SEEN IT HERE. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHY?.... NOW I MAKE A SECOND ONE AND I HOPE TO SEE IT HERE AS WELL.</p>NOSHELLWed, 12 Aug 2009 11:25:38 -0000