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nocotecThe observer today reported something that we have all speculated on for some time now and has been gathering evidence to support our point.
We have always been very careful with our post and as usual we will not call any names but will simply point your nose in the right direction and you can make your own judgment.
Check out these two companies called out in the report on page 10, item # 2.4 (page 10 of the adobe file, not the report page number).
The liquidator said just over US$135M was forwarded to these companies, amongst others which where not identified. So who are the principals of those two companies.
Well you have to do a little digging, so we have decided to do it for you. Check out these legal proceedings that have been filed against Usimo, and use a little ingenuity and you will know at least one for the principals.
http://dockets.justia.com/search?q=USIMO
For those unfamiliar with the case just browse the blog and you will find a ton of information.
See details as it appears in the Sunday Observer.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/US-wants-info-on-Ja-billionaire
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…..”US officials are said to have zoned in on the US$80-million he used to pay for a franchise, which has subsequently been broken down into several companies under one umbrella. One of the companies in particular has attracted the interest of the grand jury, necessitating the request.
The US believes that monies from the investment organisation were laundered through that specific company.
The purchase is said to have raised red flags in the United States, as although the fairly young businessman has access to immense cash, his personal wealth appears to be excessive.
The businessman has also been linked to the trafficking of Eastern European women between Jamaica and the Turks and Caicos Islands. The allegation is that he flew the women here, where they engaged in high-priced prostitution on the North Coast. After that, they were flown to the Turks and Caicos Islands.”……….
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/US-wants-info-on-Ja-billionaire
Jay:
You made a post sometime ago relating to the source of funds that financed that franchise acquisition. It appears now that it was right on the money!!
Drug trafficking? That’s a new twist. I wonder if the unnamed one had anything to do with the over 1200 pounds of hash oil found in the water tanks of his father’s Yacht?
No, he had nothing to do with the Hash Oil, that was some else who has since been “deceased”.
“Deceased” is in quote as the “deceased” one was said to have been spotted in Miami, months after his ash was said to have been thrown in the Caribbean Sea.
We understand Mr. Joseph Issa has booked his passage to head to London to obtain the “best” legal advice that money can buy.
Just remember, Uncle Sam has much deeper pockets and we will challenge the source of the funds that you will use to pay the retainer fee for your English lawyers.
Are you sure you want to continue lying about giving all proceeds from OLINT to David Smith? Based on our research we know differently.
What about your previous business partners? We have some who have come forward and are willing to cooperate with our efforts.
I suggest you quickly give up the scam and come clean. We have been patient but as time winds down we are heading in the direction of an INDICTMENT.
The Government of Jamaica has protected you thus far. It may not be in a position to do so for much longer!!!
booked passage? Mr. Issa flies commercial?
if America has its way he could be flying CON AIR….
lol-u too bad
What a COOL story!
I bet even the average JOE ISs Absolutely certain to be interested in this one!
Good one from “the cynic” 🙂
Former Shower Posse boss Vivian Blake dies
Monday, March 22, 2010
FORMER Shower Posse boss Vivian Blake died at the University Hospital of the West Indies yesterday after suffering a heart attack Saturday. According to a close associate, Blake had been ailing for some time.
Jamaica Observer
http://vodpod.com/watch/2726656-bets-american-gangster-jamaican-shower-posse-full-documentary-inside
Gov’t’s credibility called into question
Sunday, 21 March 2010
The ongoing issue of the reported relationship between the government and United States law firm Manatt, Phelps and Phillips has brought into question the administration’s credibility.
This according to Judith Wedderburn, social commentator, who was speaking on RJR’s weekly news review programme “That’s a Wrap” on Sunday.
Ms Wedderburn says the Prime Minister’s initial denial of any relationship then an admittance of contact the following day raises several questions about the government’s credibility.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/25963/26/
A word of advice to the Government
The subsequent revelation by the prime minister that after “investigations” he was told of contact between the solicitor general, Mr Douglas Leys, attorney Mr Harold Brady, and the law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips on issues relating to extradition has left the Government with a lot of egg on its face. It is an issue that could easily get worse before it gets better for the Government. As our sister publication, the Sunday Observer, pointed out yesterday, apart from other considerations, there is the puzzle of who paid whom, for what, and for what purpose.
Then there is the allegation that the tourism ministry breached procurement rules and that the minister, Mr Edmund Bartlett, may even have misled the Cabinet on the airlift agreement with American Airlines. There is plenty of evidence that the agreement worked for the good of Jamaica’s tourism. But on the substantive allegations, Mr Golding and his Government need to recognise that they must account to the Jamaican people.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/editorial-march-22_7498471
Then there is OLINT and the ‘spending’ of people’s funds without their consent. And when does the reimbursement start?
Hey all. Is it true that a certain “slippers” hotelier has had his US visa revoked?
Red P is you are talking about GD then my sources tell me its not true. Rumours dem a spread.
My what interesting times we are living in eeh Jay?
Bwoy, nutn like a hard earned honest dollar, eatin bread by the sweat of your brow. Mek you sleep better and you dont have to fret bout investigations LOL
“…plea bargaining is suddenly gaining acceptance in Britain”
The paper explores Lord Woolf’s recent proposals that would, for the first time, formally embrace plea bargaining in England. Traditionally, it has been officially denied in England that plea bargaining occurs. What were called the Turner Rules specifically prohibited a judge from revealing to a defendant the terms on offer in exchange for a guilty plea. Yet, reputable scholarship has established that over 90 percent of all cases in the magistrates courts and approximately two-third of all cases in the higher Crown Court were resolved through a guilty plea or a finding of guilty upon failure of the defendant to appear in court.
It considers how the practice has interplayed historically with politics, the role of the judiciary and differing approaches to sentencing.
http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/1/6/1/8/1/p161817_index.html
BRITISH companies will be able to admit bribery offences in return for more lenient sentences under a plea bargain-style system to be put forward by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) this week.
While regarded as a peculiarity of American law, plea bargaining is already part of the British legal system. The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act of 2005 allows for those who are cooperating with prosecutors to be given immunity or reduced sentences.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article4276223.ece
Plea bargaining is soft on crime. It means people aren’t properly punished for crimes they’ve committed. The British practice of ‘discounting’ for a guilty plea is also soft on crime. A sentence should be a sentence: the fact that the guilty admit they’re guilty doesn’t change their guilt in any way. Both approaches reward the career criminal who is happy to ‘play the system’ and it results in sentences that are far more lenient than the perpetrators deserve.
http://www.idebate.org/debatabase/topic_details.php?topicID=330
Tumult in interim Government
TENSIONS are continuing to mount within the interim administration with two shock resignations – and more on the horizon.
http://www.tcweeklynews.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=1&twindow=&mad=&sdetail=1942&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=2404&hn=tcweeklynews&he=.com
Helen Garlick, former assistant director of the office, said: “The concern that I and others have is that the shake-up has been too radical and left the SFO significantly underpowered.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8159207.stm
Think Jamaicans love to travel to the US? Check Turks and Caicos Islanders…and the expats on the islands too….stiff upper lip?
Proceed….then learn.
The truth is coming to light…..hmmmmmm…
Vivian Blake dead
Vivian Blake, Blake, who returned to Jamaica last year after being released from prison in the United States, died at the University Hospital of the West Indies Sunday evening.
It is reported that he was ailing for sometime.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/25975/26/
I’m surprised at the young businessman that has been implicated in the aforementioned allegations mentioned by the US. Nothing that happens in Jamaica surprises me anymore. There are too many hidden things in this small country. Secrets abound. It seems like those who have been living high on the hog , and became greedy for more, may be in for some serious punishment from the US. If this story blows up, the very prominent and highly respected Jamaican family will be greatly embarassed. Such a pity that he divorced his family business and entered into business with DS.
However a Justice Department document dated November 12, 2009 names the Government of Jamaica through Harold Brady as the Foreign Principal in the arrangement between Brady and Company and Mannat, Phelp, Phillips.
INFROMATION Minister Daryl Vaz says he is hoping that an amended contract letter between attorney-at-law Harold Brady and international law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips — which the prominent lawyer claimed corrected the error on a document naming him as government consultant — will be produced soon.
Where is the ‘clear the air document’ that was handed in LAST FRIDAY.
Party of all parties
Now, y’all know you have a good thing going when socialites, powerbrokers and political leaders postpone their weekend out-of-town excursions until after your party.
Also out were…
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20080810/social/social1.html
As long as corruption is seen as being clever, i.e. ”a way of getting ahead”, rather than a moral and behavioral deficiency, an illness, then there will not be the proper invoking of conscience or will by the society as a whole to choose to move away from it……….until we hit bottom.
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=2498&id=8
Seriously guys… lol… You ever wonder how Jcans fall for major scams like the Olint and C+ ponzis… We are about due for another one. We will believe any conspiracy theory… and if it appears in the newspaper, it must be true… especially if it is something bad about the other political party…lol.
Now let us take a look at this article. I cannot say it is true or untrue. However given the history of this paper I am unwilling to accept something written in this way, just because it appears in the paper.
Consider this is a newspaper, it is not a blog… Why is it writing an article making allegations against some unnamed person? Leaving readers to guess who this person is? The truth is an absolute defense against libel. As a newspaper, why are you writing gossip. If a credible newspaper does not have the evidence, it either does not write the story or gets the evidence.
Notice that this is the same paper that allowed its columnists to write the PR for Olint… Jcans accepted it as gospel… dark folks we are…
If the article is about JI… do you realize there is an ongoing feud between the owner and JI? Do you realize the unnamed source in the article is just repeating the same diatribe we have seen from floridian and his doc and lawyer friends? Does that not suggest the source… lol.
The reason I don’t fall for scams is that I don’t accept info as true just because someone says it… got to have proof or credibility. If it turns out to be true so be it… another opportunity will be along.
“If a credible newspaper does not have the evidence, it either does not write the story or gets the evidence.”
You seem to be sure on selective points. You have proof that the Observer has no evidence?
How Brady letter coming along Noncs? Manatt, Phelps, Phillips under serious problem. Diatribe? Like everything up to it reveals itself as truth in time.
Government awaits Brady’s error correction not in
Up to late last night it could not be ascertained whether attorney at law Harold Brady had produced evidence that an error regarding a reported deal with US law firm, Manatt, Phelps and Phillips had been corrected.
The attorney has maintained that he contracted the US based law firm to work for the government is a mistake which has been corrected by the company.
He had been given until Friday by the Bruce Golding administration to produce the evidence.
Cabinet was yesterday expected to review the documents from Mr Brady on the matter.
Mr Brady has been ordered to explain the aspect of the contract with Manatt claiming that he was acting on behalf of the Jamaican government.
http://www.go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=17875
Government awaits Brady’s error correction evidence
2010-03-23 10:32:23 | (0 Comments)
Up to late last night it could not be ascertained whether attorney at law Harold Brady had produced evidence that an error regarding a reported deal with US law firm, Manatt, Phelps and Phillips had been corrected.
The attorney has maintained that he contracted the US based law firm to work for the government is a mistake which has been corrected by the company.
He had been given until Friday by the Bruce Golding administration to produce the evidence.
Attempts to reach Mr Brady and the minister with responsibility for information, Daryl Vaz were unsuccessful.
Cabinet was yesterday expected to review the documents from Mr Brady on the matter.
Mr Brady has been ordered to explain the aspect of the contract with Manatt claiming that he was acting on behalf of the Jamaican government.
The contract between Mr Brady and Mannat has been posted on the US Justice Department’s website.
It indicates that Brady was acting on behalf of the Bruce Golding led administration in political and economic matters including treaties.
However, Mr Brady said that aspect of the contract was a mistake, which has since been corrected.
According to him, the contract with Manatt was a private business matter.
The contract between Brady and Manatt provides for the US firm to be paid US$100,000 per quarter for its work on behalf of the Jamaican Government.
Meanwhile, the Opposition Leader Portia Simpson-Miller has said that severe and immediate sanctions are required if its found that Mr Brady misrepresented the government.
@floridian: You seem to be sure on selective points. You have proof that the Observer has no evidence?
LOL… Sure on selective points?… no, I am not you. I am not stupid enough to invest in an obvious ponzi scheme and then think that one of the parties, the JLP, is responsible for my idiocy.
It should be obvious that if the Observer had the requisite credible information, it would not resort to writing gossip. It would name the person and further state the name of its source(s) or state sources at the justice dept etc… the way serious newspapers usually do…
The article as written is simply gossip. Sometimes gossip may even end up being true but credible newspapers should not be publishing gossip on its news pages as news … especially if it is gossip against someone the owner has a vendetta against..
Awaiting the diatribe…
would not be suprised if brady sends the government acopy of the letter from the justice dept. website with the section referring to the GOV of JA. wiped out with correction fluid and vaz shows it on TV as proof the next day
Oh there it is… Clockwork
One of the oddities of this case is the fact the law firm Manatt, Phelps and Phillips represents many Hollywood clients that are a part of the “boycott Jamaica” campaign tinsel town initiated a year ago, through a member of the U.S. Congress and separately racist, n-word using gay blogger, Perez Hilton, due to certain dancehall artists’ anti-gay lyrics.
Manatt, Phelps and Phillips represent Hollywood stars that have irrationally slammed the entire nation of Jamaica, for the deeds of a few anti-gay rappers. Manatt, Phelps and Phillips have also represented members of Hollywood’s “gay mafia” as they are called.
Manatt, Phelps and Phillips does not mean Jamaica well in any measure, nor does some of its clients in Hollywood that tried to destroy the island nation last year with an international boycott they called for that failed.
Where most sane people call for boycotts of products or companies, nasty Hollywood called for a boycott of an entire nation of men, women, children and babies, because they disliked the free speech lyrics of a few people that do not even constitute 1% of the island nation’s population. That is the definition of ignorance.
http://aishamusic.blogspot.com/2010/03/hollywood-law-firm-embroiled-in.html
Man keep it in your cabinet and leave Jamaica alone!
…of course, entitled to his opinions and beliefs, but I draw the line at supporting someone
who pretends to be one thing to us, only to learn that he has promised the opposite to
someone else.
Click to access MattTorreyLetter.pdf
Manatt hires a law firm to represent them on the issue. In Jamaica heads dive into the sand.
What happens to the ostritch rear when he sinks his head into the sand?
Noncs, go back two years and see the ‘vaseline’ blogs.
Bradygate?
Those of you old enough will remember this political satire produced by Anthony Gambrill and others on the Jamaican political reality.
It was very amusing with notable Jamaican personalities being brilliantly portrayed to the delight of packed houses revelling in the political foibles.
One memorable performance was that of Harold Brady who portrayed Rex Nettleford. Brady, dressed in black leotards, spun and danced his way around the stage as if Nettleford had indeed choreographed himself in the role. The voice and mannerisms were impeccably replicated. Brady was brilliant then with his twists and twirls. He was convincing as Rex Nettleford. The audience applauded his performance and some returned to experience the act again and again
http://jacynic.blogspot.com/
Pressed for a response on the controversial link which has been denied by the Golding administration, Martinez would not budge.
“I understand your questions, I do, and I wish that I was in a position to help you, but we don’t have anything to add to the story.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100324/lead/lead6.html
It is you who are in need of help. But when lobbying for a boycott of Jamaica, you never thought of that.
Ehh Noncs, Think and Check!
In the five years that he has held the the job, Mr Christie has won the respect of Jamaicans for the fearlessness with which he has pursued errant public officials for their failure to adhere to government’s procurement rules and for his hounding of those perceived to be corrupt.
But he is frustrated at his inability to reverse Jamaica’s culture of corruption. Mr Christie doesn’t quite put it this way, but he feels that he is battling an inert prosecutorial system, represented by what he perceives as a somnolent Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and an overburdened judicial system.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100324/cleisure/cleisure1.html
I wonder what the two prominent former DPP’s of Jamaica who are OLINT member’s think about that?
Somnolent….lol?
@floridian: One memorable performance was that of Harold Brady who portrayed Rex Nettleford. Brady, dressed in black leotards, spun and danced his way around the stage as if Nettleford had indeed choreographed himself in the role.
LOL… here is some gossip… reportedly Seaga did not like Brady or PJ for the same reasons… lol
In Nocotec’s Cabinet. Or puppetmaster of the pheriphery?
Yes Nonco,’ not in my Cabinet but my personal consultant behind the scenes’
Gossip Noncs?
So it’s official? Brady is a queer…….
Hear the teefing Deacon DS, “They protect me!” Bwoy Noncs. To gain certain protection you spread thin….
What them seh …how it go again Nonco, “When a fool speaks, he thinks he’s speaking to an audience of fools….(suppen like that)
Thou Shalt not Steal…
Nonco, you always posing as a political expert. You can date the photo?
I give you a hint (no more anagrams)
Joseph ‘Culture’ Hill sand a tune with a line, “What a hippabambayeah when the three 7’s clash”
The Bruce Golding led administration is yet to comment on reports that the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has taken an interest in the controversial contract involving the US law firm Manatt, Phelps and Phillips and Harold Brady.
RJR news has been reporting that the FBI is eyeing the case.
Mr. Brady who crafted the arrangement with Manatt, Phelps and Phillips has refused to disclose whether payments have been made to the law firm.
He cited client confidentiality for not disclosing any information about payments to the American firm.
However, RJR News has obtained a copy of the latest filings with the Department of Justice which indicate that almost US$50,000 has been paid to Manatt by Mr. Brady’s firm.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/26042/26/
Mr. Wellesley told RJR News that Mr. Crooks claimed he is not returning to Jamaica, because he has no faith in the Justice system and a man of his age, if convicted will die in prison.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/26028/26/
What a corrupt nation. Sad.
Dr. Phillips says government’s pronouncements on the issue so far were half truths and said it was impossible that such high level meetings happened with a law firm said to be acting on behalf of the government and the Prime Minister and the Cabinet were not aware.
“I do not want to venture into the realm of speculation what is clear is that adequate answers have not been provided by the government, by Mr. [Harold] Brady, by Manatt Phelps and Phillips by anyone at all who is in a position to know what has happened and since it involves a fundamental matter of public interest and public policy in Jamaica, we are not going to let the government or the JLP treat it as if it were a private matter, it is not,” Dr. Phillips said.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/26047/26/
Where is the Rev Al. now that there is a need for a Bruce-Brady Bawl Out?
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100324/lead/lead6.html
At the start of this new century, there is a 50-year history of constitutional changes that have not bedded down into the people’s consciousness; a history of corruption amongst politicians; and, worse, examples of Ministers charged in the USA with felonies and drug trafficking, yet continuing to hold public office. We also have examples of a civil service that is blatantly embroiled in politics
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=760
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090809/out/out6.html
n his only public comment on the matter, Brady has claimed that he contracted the firm for commercial matters and any indication that it was on behalf of the Government was a mistake that has been corrected.
However, the US Department of Justice website still lists the original documents.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100324/lead/lead6.html
Although Mr Dodgson was only a peripheral member of the advisory team, he would have had access to highly sensitive information
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article7074157.ece
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/engineering/article7073658.ece
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/cartoons.html
There, indeed, seems to be a nexus. For Mr Golding had cause to admit that Mr Brady had raised with Mr Leys – when both men just happened to meet on a flight – the possibility of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips acting on behalf of Jamaica.
On the face of it, Mr Leys, as we have said before, was guilty of poor judgement – unless he can claim to have received instructions/clearance from his political superiors to invite an official of a private firm, canvassing for Jamaica’s business, to a meeting between agents of two sovereign states discussing official, and supposedly private, matters.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100325/cleisure/cleisure1.html
It was, however, a fact that Mr Brady, a lawyer who has been a parliamentary
candidate for Mr Golding’s party, did sign an agreement with the US firm, in
which he purported to be a ‘consultant’ to the Jamaican government. Mr Brady
said that this categorisation of himself was soon corrected. Filings to this effect
by Manatt, Phelps & Phillips are yet to appear on the website of the US
Justice Department.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Marks-Set-No_7504040
Cold Observer,
The headline reads “Marks Set Go” and the link says “Marks-Set-No.”
You must be in the “Marks-Set-Know”
the link actually reads “Marks-Set-No_7504040”
the “No” refers to Number , # 7504040
Floridaian, yu too bad 🙂
* On what basis did the solicitor general believe it was appropriate for private foreign citizens — in the persons of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips — to attend a meeting between the Government of Jamaica and the Government of the United States involving highly sensitive and confidential issues?
* Was the Ambassador of Jamaica to the United States in Washington present at any of the meetings held between the solicitor general and the United States Government authorities at which private foreign citizens from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips were also present?
* The question further arises, was the Jamaican Ambassador to the United States in Washington aware that Manatt, Phelps & Phillips were stating that they represent the Government of Jamaica and did he report this to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade or anyone else in the Government of Jamaica?
* On what basis would Manatt, Phelps & Phillips have been convinced that they were representing the Government of Jamaica and could so declare to the Justice Department of the United States Government, which continues to report this fact on their website even up to today?
* Did representatives of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips meet with officials of the Government of Jamaica other than the solicitor general? If so, with whom, when and where?
* What steps has the Government of Jamaica taken to clear the record with the US Justice Department to indicate that Manatt, Phelps & Phillips is not a representative of the Government of Jamaica?
* Who paid the US$49,892.62 that Manatt, Phelps & Phillips reports to have been paid for services rendered?
* Is it mere coincidence that the date on which the first diplomatic note was sent from the Government of Jamaica to the United States Government requesting additional information concerning the extradition request happens to be the same date on which payment was made to Manatt, Phelps & Phillips for services rendered, which Manatt, Phelps & Phillips maintains was paid on behalf of the Government of Jamaica?
* If it is true, as the Government of Jamaica claims, that Manatt Phelps & Phillips does not represent them, who then is the real client of Manatt Phelps & Phillips?
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/More-questions-on-US-law-firm-deal_7503497
With Audrey’s links to OLINT and her lobbying on OLINT’s behalf I don’t think she’s going to exhale as Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States.
Deacon again….never far from ANY of the issues ehh Deacon?
OLINT and David Smith is the center.
Tip:
How does one know this?
The most significant issue facing the country is the one embedded media is the most silent on.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/tools/cartoons/Ed-cartoon-mar-25-2010
http://74.203.140.250/gold
Re: Violation of the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA)
Attorney General of the United States of America
Honorable Eric H. Holder
United States Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001
Dear Mr. Holder,
I wish to share with you a matter that appears to be a violation of the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) of 1938, 22 U.S.C. § 611 et seq.
This matter has potential significant implications with regard to National Security and thus my desire to share the pertinent facts with you.
Specifically, I am making reference to registration # 5864 filed by Manatt, Phelps and Phillips on behalf of the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) through Mr. Harold Brady, of Brady and Company, Jamaica with the National Security Division/Counter Espionage Unit of the US Department of Justice.
The contract which is of public record was executed on Oct 1 2009 and it was filed on Nov.2 2009. The signatures were Susan Schmidt, Partner of Manatt, Phelps and Phillips and Harold Brady acting as a Consultant to the Government of Jamaica (GOJ).
The parties mentioned appeared to have violated the FARA by not declaring the extent of their lobbying activities and also the source of the funds for their lobbying efforts.
Based on evidenced gleaned from a private investigative service, it would appear that the lobbying effort was financed by Mr. Christopher Coke (a.k.a “Dudus”) who has been named by the US Department of Justice to a list of “consolidate priority organization targets” which includes persons the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) says are the “world’s most dangerous narcotics kingpins”. Mr. Coke is a US fugitive and he has been indicted by a Grand Jury in the Southern District of New York. (Please see Exhibit 1- Indictment of Christopher Michael Coke)
The apparent criminal violation of the FARA is also suggestive of money laundering as the senior partner in the Manatt, Phelps and Phillips law firm, Susan Schmidt visited Jamaica in 2009, met with Mr. Christopher Coke knowing he was a US Fugitive, the Hon. Daryl Vaz- Jamaican Minister of Information and Mr. Harold Brady. The law firm Manatt, Phelps and Phillips then received from Mr. Coke the sum of US $49,892.62 as an installment towards their legal lobbying fee of US$400,000 per annum. This installment was given to Manatt by Mr. Harold Brady who was then promoting himself as a consultant to the GOJ.The funds originated from Incomparable Enterprises Limited a Jamaican Corporation owned by Mr. Coke and was laundered through the “Tourism Enhancement Fund”. This amount was issued on a check drawn on a Bank of Nova Scotia Account.
Ms. Schmidt thereafter met with the Hon. Bruce Golding- Prime Minister of Jamaica at Jamaica House. The signature of Ms. Schmidt on documents filed with the US Department of Justice cross reference to the signature of a similarly named individual in the Protocol Directory at Jamaica House.
It is apparent that Mr. Christopher Coke is very benevolent to the GOJ and its members.
Indeed Mr. Harold Brady hosted at his home a party for the Jamaican Attorney General the Hon. Dorothy Lightbourne, with the source of funding for the celebration being Mr. Coke.
Based on evidence gleaned to date and my enquiries with the Southern District of New York, this case may be currently subject to an “Obstruction of Justice” Investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.).
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips is a large sophisticated “AV” law firm and is certainly aware of the intricacies of the FARA. How could they have claimed to be an agent for the “GOJ” when the so called consultant, Harold Brady is denying his association with the law firm?
Further, the attached newspaper articles demonstrate that the Jamaican Prime Minister- the Hon. Bruce Golding was unaware of the fact that the Manatt, Phelps and Phillips law firm was representing Jamaica and lobbying on behalf of Mr. Coke.
You will note the Observer Newspaper article of 3.18.10 that indicates the Jamaican Minister of Information- Hon. Daryl Vaz, as being perplexed about this contract between the “GOJ” and Manatt, Phelps & Phillips in which he suggested that no contractual relationship of this type exists.(Please see Exhibit 2- Jamaican Newspaper articles).
I would like the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips law firm specifically Charles Manatt and Susan Schmidt to be sanctioned for the deliberate misstatements to the US Department of Justice and for Mr. Harold Brady to be investigated for criminal violation of the FARA.
It is unacceptable, unethical and dangerous for a Manatt lawyer to have met with Mr. Coke in Jamaica knowing he is a US fugitive who had already been indicted by a US Grand Jury. Also, of paramount concern is the fact that the law firm Manatt, Phelps and Phillips did not sufficiently declare the nature and focus of its lobbying efforts on behalf of the “GOJ”.
It would appear the law firms real client is Mr. Christopher Coke who has been charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and marijuana and conspiracy to illegally traffic in firearms.
???
But wait you can hear the prompting of what they are to say in the background of the radio. hahahahahahahaa
Under my reading of the Foreign Agent Registration Act it would be illegal for a private citizen to join with a Foreign Agent in a meeting with State Department representatives ,if the meeting addressed official matters. Manatt does not think that their conduct was illegal.
Immigration records tell no lie.
The principals of this blog are such liars…isn’t these the same guys that “reported” that “all the money” was “gone”?
Mr. Golding admitted that the agreement was indeed signed by the Chairman of Jamaica Vacations without the approval of the Cabinet is a clear breach of government policy.
The Prime Minister made it clear to parliament that he told the minister and the Chairman that there must be no recurrence.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/26089/26/
Retroactive, hahahahaa. Deacon, is that them tell you too? “mus be no recurrence?”
Don’t believe the hype.
Is there a list of authorized Government consultants registered with the Contractor General. How would a law firm like Manatt Phelps know if an attorney is a Consultant to the Government?Could a website with the names of the official Government consultants be developed?
“I want to categorically state and challenge anybody to bring forward any documentation to support the claim that the Jamaican Government entered into any contract, with any party, outside of the Attorney General who is our legal advisor,” declared information minister Daryl Vaz yesterday.
To date, the contract posted on the US Justice Department’s website still lists Manatt, Phelps and Phillips as representing the Jamaican Government in treaty matters.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100326/lead/lead71.html
Please start by having the contract that states that consultant to the government, Harold Brady represents the people of Jamaica from the State Department of the United States of America website.
Please that’s just a start. Every day that this signed contract is on the State Departments website is an offense to the people of the country.
Please this is a misleading contract and an embarrassment to the country. Thoroughly out of order. Even if the govt. of Jamaica hired Harold Brady to represent us we reject that as people of Jamaica.
Regardless of who claims authority to speak otherwise.
Please take the contract off the website as a start to restore the country’s integrity overseas.
Why do Jamaicans have to suffer every day and see a contract on the US govt. website that Harold Brady represents us?
Every day we have to live with that?
Where is the diaspora on this shame? In the senate ensuring that Jamaicans abroad don’t get a vote?
Farcical.
‘THEY SHOULD BE ASHAMED’
Al Miller says Parliamentarians should weep over injustice in Jamaica
Friday, March 26, 2010
“They should be ashamed that an external power has to ask us to act justly,”
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/al-miller-should-be-ashamed_7489418
A team of esteemed lawyers was appointed last month to help claw back cash believed to have been pilfered by the former administration.
Top UK anti-corruption experts, Laurence Harris and James Maton of international law firm Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge (EAPD), will head the group.
Mr Maton worked on a string of similar cases in notoriously corrupt Nigeria where state Governors amassed small fortunes while in office.
http://www.tcweeklynews.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=1&twindow=&mad=&sdetail=1954&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=2404&hn=tcweeklynews&he=.com
Helen Garlick takes over David Smith case
Smith, who is a Belonger (bestowed for economic contribution) of the Turks and Caicos Islands, is presently on $1million bail in respect of a number of financial crimes.
Meantime, this writer has also been reliably informed that the Special Prosecutor and her team of 30 investigators have been investigating persons other than those mentioned in the Commission of Inquiry’s final report.
I
n a recent report, liquidator Joseph Connolly, who is also a member of the Interim Government’s Advisory Council, of which the Attorney General is also a member, noted the following in relation to the David Smith case: “A further $1.8 million has been restrained by the Attorney-General of the Turks and Caicos Islands. This relates to an individual who received a transfer of approximately $2.5 million just prior to the closure of Olint TCI. I believe that we have a claim against these funds.”
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=761
deacon put every single Jamaican Belongership up for scrutiny and review.
Those blogs were almost two years ago Noncs…can I get a lol for these again as well?
No mention of Tracy Smith charges? Well it is THE TCI SUN….only thing sure there is Clovis’ cartoons in it.
[The] Smith[s], who is a Belonger (bestowed for economic contribution) hahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahaha….hahahahahaahahahahaa
In August 2006, a company associated with David Smith, i-Trade FX LLC, became registered as a futures commission merchant in the United States.
Oh Oh…
The OCG notes that irrespective of what discussions took place in the Cabinet meeting, Mr. Bartlett’s Cabinet submission, which has legal force and is still on the public record, has, to date, neither been amended nor withdrawn, nor was its content challenged or clarified by the Cabinet Secretary in his sworn written response of November 3, 2009.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=18024
Irrespective
irrespective [ˌɪrɪˈspɛktɪv]
adj
irrespective of (preposition) without taking account of; regardless of
adv
Informal regardless; without due consideration he carried on with his plan irrespective
irrespectively adv
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 6th Edition 2003. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003
Olinters on the move…joining the ranks of Allan Hutchinson.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/26114/26/
From: Audrey Marks [mailto:apmarks@paymaster-online.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 4:45 PM
To: dsmith@kasnet.com
Subject: Better future
Dear David, just a quick note to say; so far …. so good with the results, just waiting on the next two recounts to exhale. Regards, Audrey.
Audrey Marks is the new Ambassador to the US
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/26121/26/
In an interview on Friday afternoon in Montego Bay, Mr. Leys said there was nothing unethical in the move to involve the US law firm in a meeting with the US authorities.
He claims that they were merely there to observe and familiarize themselves with issues in the event their services would have been required later.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/26122/26/
Ralph Janvey, the receiver for R Allen Stanford’s businesses, sued former Texas Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes to recover consulting and lobbying fees he got from the indicted financier during the past five years.
Barnes “did not perform services of reasonably equivalent value in exchange for those payments, and in many instances performed services that simply furthered the Ponzi scheme,”
http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/business/business.php?news_id=22112&start=0&category_id=14
Bartlett gets slap on the wrist for AA deal
4NX Investment Corporation/OLINT
16324 SW 15 St
Pembroke Pines
Fl 33027
USA
Tel: (954) 447-1405
EDMUND OR CARMEN BARTLETT, A/C NUMBER 10005072 $986,945.27
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Golding-on-AA-deal_7505989
MINISTER VAZ’S SON ON GANJA RAP
Saturday, March 27, 2010
ADAM Vaz, the son of Cabinet Minister Daryl Vaz, was yesterday arrested after a small quantity of ganja was allegedly found in his hand luggage as he attempted to board a flight from the Tinson Pen Aerodrome in Kingston.
The 18-year-old Vaz was about to board a flight to work in Montego Bay, St James in the afternoon when his hand luggage was searched and the illegal substance allegedly found.
The younger Vaz was charged with possession of ganja and taken to the Newport West Police Station where he was later released on a $10,000-bail bond.
The teenager, who is being represented by attorneys Tom and Chris Tavares-Finson, is scheduled to appear in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court on April 6.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/searcharchive.aspx
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=489
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100327/lead/lead4.html
The Government has allocated a further $40 million to the commission of enquiry into the 1990s collapse of the financial sector, despite coming under fire in January last year for its spending on the commission.
This would mean that spending on the now-stalled commission of enquiry would be in the region of $120 million – a figure which could grow based on the days allocated for the sittings
While there was no other comment on the figure, Shaw has already made it clear that he is committed to having the commission continue as long as necessary.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=853
Paul Chang
3/27/2010
cheers to Minister of Tourism Bartlett for making a sound business decision … sometimes in business we just need to make bold swift decisions, and he did so and helped save our industry.
4NX Investment Corporation/OLINT
16324 SW 15 St
Pembroke Pines
Fl 33027
USA
Tel: (954) 447-1405
EDMUND OR CARMEN BARTLETT, A/C NUMBER 10005072 $986,945.27
We’ve heard a lot of these tales in recent years, alas. Foreign tax havens like Switzerland, Liechtenstein and some Caribbean countries thrive by keeping their clients’ money under wraps and safe from tax authorities’ reach.
Now, Congress is attacking some of these schemes, courtesy of interesting provisions aimed at curbing tax avoidance that legislators wrote into the new jobs bill, known as the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act.
@floridian
LOL…
floridian it looks like your are everyone’s sucker… Everyone just takes your money from you at will… DS and now these guys… Did your legal fees go to pay for this “investigator’s” report that you posted here? https://investforlife.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/rich-jamaican-businessman-under-us-probe/#comment-24495
Looks like this may be the same guy feeding gossip to the newspaper… and as I surmised, is related to you and your friends… See how JA newspapers are… Like with MW, DR and others these papers will possible all kinds of crap by people pushing all kinds of agenda… Used to publish crap by people supporting the ponzi schemes… And now… hehe
Wonder who is paying that guy… You and your fellow scammed money? First you gave your money to an obvious ponzi scheme and now you are giving your money to run some political agenda… lol.. you are the everyman’s sucker 🙂
Dude you need to wake up and stop being such a patsy.
Wrong again…awesome dude.
First you gave your money to an obvious ponzi scheme and now you are giving your money to run some political agenda…
Money coloured glasses…money as the driver of everything…Pityful. It’s a wide World out there Nonco. You can be better than that. You could evolve. You could be somebody…one day….
Money can’t take you there…
Meantime, this writer has also been reliably informed that the Special Prosecutor and her team of 30 investigators have been investigating persons other than those mentioned in the Commission of Inquiry’s final report.
http://www.suntci.com/
Nonco, you a backup singer? LOL
Remember “Rob” and “Fab” at the Jazz Festival? hahahahaaha
Nonco, For a Red Ferrari and a ‘cut the years off the sentence pass’ please Identify the following persons:
Which one is Milli and which one is Vanilli?
Nonco check this interview….
This dude was like on the sailboat with gyal all bout, muscle up, hair going on and ting…
What happen to him? how him sound so?
Like him stay away…..like…like…. how can I put it …like him seem ……ahh….effeminate?
You know why Nonco? Because after him pull the scam (sucessfully) him get…..
hold on Nonco the phone a ring
I’m back, Nonco you think a dude like that can get in the Cabinet?
Happily, Marks is not from electoral politics which provided Seymour Mullings and Anthony Johnson, both of whom had relatively brief tenures.
In due course, we expect to hear how Marks plans to disengage from her private business activities to keep at bay opportunities for conflict of interest.
From: Audrey Marks [mailto:apmarks@paymaster-online.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 4:45 PM
To: dsmith@kasnet.com
Subject: Better future
Dear David, just a quick note to say; so far …. so good with the results, just waiting on the next two recounts to exhale. Regards, Audrey.
AUDREY MARKS GOING TO WASHINGTON IN TROUBLED TIMES
A few things that she should know
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Audrey-Marks-_7509280
Nonco, who paid the 49,000 US to Manatt Phelps?
Is this something that the Jamaican public has the right to know? Why would Manatt file a Registration if they were not the Government of Jamaica’s lawyers?
Are you worried about these issues as a patriotic Jamaican?Do you believe the Solicitor General’spronouncements that Manatt lawyers went to the meetings and did not engage in representation?
Are these questions that Ambassador Marks will answer for us,when she hits the ground running?
No Northtech. Marks would first have to explain the association with David Smith.
Floridian, Can you answer my questions? Nonco is
in sweet repose today.
was there a relationship between Ms Marks and former US Ambassador Cooper ? What are her qualifications? Is she a foreign affairs professional?
http://wiv4.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/0324-tci-lime-light/
“Special Prosecutor Helen Garlick and her Prosecution Team have taken over the prosecution of the case against Jamaican multi-millionaire David Smith, whose company Olint has been charged in connection with millions of dollars in financial crimes.
Investigations by The SUN revealed that Garlick and her team have taken over the case on instructions from the Attorney General’s Chambers.
Smith, who is a Belonger (bestowed for economic contribution) of the Turks and Caicos Islands, is presently on $1million bail in respect of a number of financial crimes.
The SUN understands that one of the reasons why Garlick and her team were asked to take over the prosecution of the case, was because it was felt that no one in the Attorney General’s Chambers was capable of handling the many serious charges against Smith.
Meantime, this writer has also been reliably informed that the Special Prosecutor and her team of 30 investigators have been investigating persons other than those mentioned in the Commission of Inquiry’s final report.”
The fact that the GOJ decides to present Ms. Marks as its representative does not speak well.
We are not impressed especially bearing in mind her previous indiscretions with a former Ambassador. The DOS has however officially approved the request to have her be Jamaica’s Ambassador to the USA.
It is our sincere hope Ms. Marks did not derive any profit and did not operate or facilitate in any way the Ponzi scheme operated by David Smith known as OLINT.
As our investigative efforts continue should such evidence become unearthed, it would be another of the now frequent Jamaican scandals.
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/missing
Jamaica deja vu: “… owes so much to a man who has used every trick in the book to keep his fortunes offshore.”
In David Smith’s case what is owed is not his fortune… it is theft.
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=2518&id=8
Does the former Barbadian Prime Minister have an interest in Paymaster? Has Ms Marks slept at his private residence in Barbados?
She told the NEC and delegates at Wexford Court Hotel that until the unanswered questions are addressed, the government should remove Mr. Brady from the boards of all public bodies.
She says if Mr. Brady was not acting on behalf of the government then he would have been impersonating a government official, which is inappropriate.
The PNP President wants the General Legal Council to investigate Mr. Brady’s actions.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/26142/26/
Responding to questions from The Sunday Gleaner, Leys said he was approached by Brady sometime in September with the suggestion that the Government should engage the services of Manatt, Phelps and Phillips.
Golding claims that this approach was made in December when Leys and Brady were on a flight headed to Washington.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100328/news/news2.html
What is the real Washington reaction to the appointment of Audrey Marks during a bi-lateral crisis?
Nonco, the spin doctors win again!
Why is the venerable Farquason institute quiet on the
Brady-Manatt affair? Maybe they should close it down.
It is old and irrelevant.
J. Gary Cooper 16 hours ago
Ms. Marks will be a great Ambassador!!!
J. Gary Cooper, Ambassador of the United States(ret)
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LostinLubrication 2 hours ago
J.Gary Cooper.
Ask yourself if this is appropriate.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100328/cleisure/cleisure1.html
@Northtech: Nonco, who paid the 49,000 US to Manatt Phelps?
Is this something that the Jamaican public has the right to know? Why would Manatt file a Registration if they were not the Government of Jamaica’s lawyers? Are you worried about these issues as a patriotic Jamaican?
LOL…
Dr. Samuel Johnson told us that Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Folks like you, floridian, his lawyer and doc buddies with your tribal politics are why JA has become so corrupt. You are not interested in truth or are against corruption… Folks like you are against one political party… In your cases the JLP. When the PNP was engaged in massive corruption which is what got us here… you were quiet and some of you loved it because it kept them in power.
The extradition matter and its related issues that have you guys about to orgasm has it roots in the former regime… The fact is that the indictment period covers the past gov… The fact is that JA as a cocaine trafficking point started, grew and flourished under that regime… Where were you guys then?
Some of us are on record as not being concerned about political parties but about the country. You guys have no credibility. These are issues that need the information made public but do not pretend you guys are trying to be patriotic.
You folks that invested acted like arrogant punks, ignoring all advice and attacking the folks who knew these schemes were ponzis. Now some of you with delusional minds think it was because of the JLP.
Here is a dose of reality for you… This was no Madoff scheme… The regulators and numerous others warned you publicly. You chose to ignore all such warnings and cussed the knowledgeable.
There are 2 deserving consequences because of your actions:
1. You guys that ignored the warnings and cussed folks like me deserve to lose your money.
2. Separately, the fraudsters like DS and CH deserve to be punished for their crimes.
The 2 are not mutually exclusive.
There are 2 deserving consequences because of your actions:
1. You guys that ignored the warnings and cussed folks like me deserve to lose your money.
Is that what you wish for over 10,000 victims? It is not happening dude. Sorry to be the one to break the news to you. Your warnings… thoughts on what I deserve or not or me cussing you is …well….not about me…… exactly… your point above is ……….all about……… YOU.
“Good for you!”
Warnings? One gives money to DS. One asks if the money is intact. One is told yes (whether it is true or not). One says give me my money. One does not receive it.
What Nonco the ‘game’ stops there? Game over? Really?
Buddy, this is not the SANDBOX at Kindergarten.
Well…for Madoff and Stanford it is. Now.
You warn many people Noncotec. Waste of time. It is David Smith you SHOULD have warned.
Trinidadians have been placed on election alert just halfway through the current administration’s five year term in office.
Prime Minister Patrick Manning told a rally of his People’s national Movement on the weekend that he was merely responding to opposition calls to go back to the electorate.
The next election is not due until 2012
President of CLICO Barbados pleads for more time
The top CLICO executive said the company had not received any financial assistance from Government, and the management team was trying to fix the problems on its own.
In a frank response, Mr. Thornhill admitted that CLICO had not properly handled its engagement with the public even months after its image took a slamming following the debacle of its parent company, CL Financial in Trinidad and Tobago.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/26168/88/
Mr. Manning announced that candidate screening would begin on April 7, two days before opposition leader Kamla Persad Bissessar is expected to file a motion of no confidence against him in parliament.
Arawak Indian
3/29/2010
Dear America,
Your relationship with Jamaica remains strong. Afterall, Golding fooled us too. We were hoodwinked.
Please wait for the next election when we vote him out unceremoniously on his jackass.
Amen,.
For despite the foreign ministry’s confirmation of Ms Audrey Marks’ appointment as Jamaica’s envoy to Washington, it is obvious that there is some amount of unease in the ties, as the Americans offered – when this newspaper queried – only that they were awaiting her credentials before giving the go-ahead.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/March-29-Editorial_7511937
From: Audrey Marks [mailto:apmarks@paymaster-online.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 4:45 PM
To: dsmith@kasnet.com
Subject: Better future
Dear David, just a quick note to say; so far …. so good with the results, just waiting on the next two recounts to exhale. Regards, Audrey.
@floridian: Is that what you wish for over 10,000 victims? It is not happening dude. Sorry to be the one to break the news to you. Your warnings… thoughts on what I deserve or not or me cussing you is …well….not about me…… exactly… your point above is ……….all about……… YOU.<
You warn many people Noncotec. Waste of time. It is David Smith you SHOULD have warned.
LOL… Again I am not you… I warned about the scheme, I did not invest. You got greedy and stupid and invested, as I said, despite the warnings of the financial regulator and many others. Now YOU want yours back and YOU think the JLP is why YOU lost your money 🙂
Warnings? One gives money to DS. One asks if the money is intact. One is told yes (whether it is true or not). One says give me my money. One does not receive it.What Nonco the ‘game’ stops there? Game over? Really?
Here is dose of reality for you:
1. You invest against numerous warnings.
2. You invest in a scheme that the most basic analysis would realize is impossible.
3. It is a ponzi scheme. Most of the money went back to pay other investors. Money used by DS for plane rides, entertainment etc is gone… It will not come back… Get it! You can only fight in court over some remnants that fell off the table… Got it! But as you said if you get any, you will give it to charity… 🙂 Hmmm, Why not give it back to the other people that lost it? 🙂 Or is it just about YOU and not the other victims.
4. You give money to DS with no audited statements.
5. You give DS money with no agreement as to how much or what percentage he will take for fees. You are greedy, your only concern is that he return about 10 % per month. You think he can do this with only 20 % of the money. As long as he does so he can take the other 80 %. 🙂 Now you are upset with what he did with it.
6. You finally suspect something may be wrong, so you then go to the thief and ask him… “Hey buddy, some bad dudes are saying bad minded stuff about you… The money is alright, isn’t it? 🙂 You kill me.
7. Asking a scammer if the money is ok… You are surprised that he said, “yes it is, don’t worry youself my yute.”… Hehe.
And yes… If you decide to throw away your money, you deserve to lose it. I got bad news for you dude. This is exactly how real life works. Or do you forget what you guys used to say… “I am investing only what I can afford to lose” … So you effectively knew you were throwing it away… So how come now it is different. You no longer feel that you deserve to lose what was ok to lose? hmmm.
You O.K Noncs? You sound perturbed….not the Nonco of old. If points 1-7 are referring to me you are ill informed…of the mark.
can’t go through all of them right now but for example I personally never asked anyone if my money is/was safe..that was always a ‘given’ whether Smith was aware of that fact means ditto to me…in FACT it is currently safe but his antics cause a slight delay….no problem (a Jagans say).
I gave you a general scenario and you ‘run wid it’ Good for you!
Money gone never to come back is not my concern or problem that is the domain of the relevant others who did the spending etc.
greedy…..who cares? That is a right of any individual. Stealing? Different. I advise against it but you free to take on those consequences…..I don’t bottle feed.
what else in your points…
“Hey buddy, some bad dudes are saying bad minded stuff about you…
Should I address that Nonco…mi nuh enna people lives…that’s boring..rob and steal from mi? That is not my choice. Can’t control that.
Upset? But for a non-investor sage…it is you who seem upset….
One has to Observe Nonco that for a non investor, wrning sage your interest in the OLINT issue becomes pitiful. A mean why aren’t you warning people about some new and fresh scams….you yourself says OLINT scam is over and has been a success…?
Noco,
floridian DOES raise a good point here. PLENTY new scams surface everyday in Jamaica, The caribbean, and the World (TVI Express?), wouldn’t it be right for the investforlife team to provide some insight into those new scams?
Noncs, what you really saying? I put these people in the vip section of the arena?
Oh I see Nonco, I caused David Smith to be political.
Get a life Nonco, David Smith and what he does or does not do or how he lived and who he is ,,,,,that’s BS.
He did not even interest me to the point that I would have been able to hear a warning about him.
DS took my money. He can choose to pay it or not Simple…why your attitude? …Nonco…why did you not warn him not to? You should have…
Nonco, for someone who ‘saved the world’ with warnings and benevolence you sure do seem uptight.
Sometimes you sound uptight like Motty…you use the bathroom since morning?
Noncs, correct me if I’m wrong. To me your argument follows a ‘logic’ basically saying
To whom it may concern:
1. Smith was ‘given’ money not ‘taken’
2. Warnings were sent out across the Globe to all members.
3. That’s the end of that.
Nt/ In addition the ‘warners’ are to be praised blind.
– THE END-
Nonco it seems to me that the reality now obtains something completely different to the fairy tale above .. now the current situation upsets you.
@floridian: Noncs, correct me if I’m wrong. To me your argument follows a ‘logic’ basically saying
To whom it may concern:
1. Smith was ‘given’ money not ‘taken’
2. Warnings were sent out across the Globe to all members.
3. That’s the end of that.
I have news for you…
1. Yes DS was given money. He did not take it. This is why there is a difference between theft and fraud statutes. You would not deserve to lose your money if he came to your house broke in and stole it. And so to 2…
2. Yes, Warnings were sent out… And so you were foolish to give your money to scammer about whom public warnings were being sent out. If you were foolish enough to do that… I have news for you… It is real life and you learn by getting your fingers burned when you do not listen to Daddy and Mommy.
3. As I said, DS being punished for his crimes… Needs to happen. You losing your money is your own fault and greed.
Look the fact that you decided to pursue a lawsuit against him was commendable… Though your greed made you wait way too long. However the fact that you try to link everything back to a political party is delusional.
Your posts have become about taking unrelated political stories and posting an email or account # that tries to draw a link between unrelated matters. Your link to tribal politics has managed to distort your view of the world. You view the entire world through this prism that distorts your reality.
“Your posts have become about taking unrelated political stories and posting an email or account # that tries to draw a link between unrelated matters. Your link to tribal politics has managed to distort your view of the world. You view the entire world through this prism that distorts your reality.”
You’re in the SANDBOX again Nonco…..
My view through your opinion Nonco?
Your greed…
Your posts…
Tries to….
You view….
You were foolish…
You would not deserve…
You try to link…
I have news for you…
Your reality…
You You You You….Look in the mirror Nonco and tell the bloggers who you see….
Nonco you should debate in Parliament….your
debating skills are par for the course…
Upper or Lower SANDBOX Nonco? Which do you choose?
Careful when you get there Noncs, don’t forget your little Fiscer Price plastic shovel (for digging a hole with a gavel is strenuous).
There is a lot of sensitivity to the’ you “DESERVE” to lose your money’ line of reasoning over in Kinder 1 & 2.
“You deserve to loose you money” infering that those who have stolen money “deserve to have it”
What an interesting value system.
And we wonder why Jamaica became a failed state in less than two years….
When the answer, appearing swiftly like the proverbial deer in the headlights can be found in such a rudimentary philosophy of values…
The end justfies the means! Eureka Nonco! I see the light you have been trying to shed on OLINT
Hold on…I going run go tell mi neighbah!
Auntie Roachy seh, “The end justifies the means”
Now I can understand the AA/ Bartlett system.
Nonco, help….how does it apply in the Manatt, Phelps, Phillips/Brady affair?
Nonco. I’m back. Mi neighbah cut dung my argument.
She say, “It is contingent on the point at which, and by what the END is defined”
Nonco,
The rate of debt has increased faster than at any time in the history of Jamaica. The fiscal and economic and social statistics are at an all time low.
The ‘explanation’ from and for the ‘thinking’ among us has been ‘world recession’.
Yet after the coldest winter’s in both Europe and North America in over 30 years the ‘improved’ tourist arrival statistics are sold to the public as a function of policy and strategy?
Ooops….Brrrrr..Brrrrr…Brrrrr
Why not Minister Bartlett for Minister of Finance then?
4NX Investment Corporation/OLINT
16324 SW 15 St
Pembroke Pines
Fl 33027
USA
Tel: (954) 447-1405
EDMUND OR CARMEN BARTLETT, A/C NUMBER 10005072 $986,945.27
The star government witness in the Cuban light bulb trial, Rodney Chin, on Tuesday admitted that he received more than $200 million in government contracts while he was an accused in the case.
Mr. Chin agreed with suggestions from Mr. Knight that none of the contracts he received went to public tender.
He said he was invited by the National Works Agency to submit tenders for the contract.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/26208/26/
LOL…
Alas floridian… Let me explain real life to you. These are lessons that your parents should have helped you learn as a kid… But alas your education is sorely lacking.
This is how life works…
Mommy or Daddy tells the child… “Do not touch the stove or you will get burned”.
The child does not listen and touches the stove. The child gets burned. The child learns a lesson that heat or fire is bad for you and will burn you up.
Lesson dude…
The child deserved to get burned. The burn teaches humans a lesson about the danger of fire. If the fire did not burn the child and the pain was felt… The child would keep his/her hand in the fire until it was burnt off.
Olint lesson dude…
You ignored the warnings and even cussed off those warning you. You deserve to lose your money. This is real life and the human experience. When you ignore warnings from experienced folks you are taught painful lessons. If not so, then humans would have been extinct because we all would never learn anything and would keep repeating dangerous incidents until death.
Hey floridian, another lesson for you…
You can tell a real idiot when he/she thinks that if you did not invest in Olint, you should have stay out of it… Why are you concerned… We do not need to hear from you 🙂
Life lesson again for you… Alas at your age I should not need to teach you this stuff. This stuff is akin to Olint/C+ investors…
Does anyone remember this incident some years ago…
A tanker truck carrying gasoline ran off the road going down Spur Tree Mountain… Killing the driver in a fiery crash. The ‘sideman’ jumped off the truck escaping with his life.
The ‘sideman’ related what happened. The driver was heading down the mountain… The ‘sideman’ being experienced with many trips down the mountain… thought he was going too fast. He told the driver… “Driver you need to use low gear down this hill…
The driver akin to floridian and other olinters 🙂 … told the ‘sideman’… Yow this alright, mi know what mi doing…
Like Olinters, thinking to himself… Mi is big driver with license… you is sideman without license… Just leave big driver alone… Me know what me doing… Left me, mek me drive truck and don’t business wid me. You don’t see me is driver and you is sideman, stay out of the driving.
Well see what can happen when you fail to listen to experienced folks… Unfortunately for him, it was not just truck damage which he would have deserved…but he lost his life. Painful lessons are deserved for bad decisions to teach humans to avoid bad situations in the future or it may lead to more catastrophic situations up to an including loss of life.
Deacon, “There have been many mis-calculations”
How a Pilot to ply his trade without a visa?
Nonco said,
“Painful lessons are deserved for bad decisions to teach humans to avoid bad situations in the future or it may lead to more catastrophic situations up to an including loss of life”
Exactly Noncotec.
DS has a sermon to build on there.
But I will leave ‘judgement’ and personal opinions on what people ‘deserve’ to the beholder.
To jump off a ‘bus’ might impress you Nonco but I humbly suggest to guage things from your landing.
The times demand it.
You can jump in a ride and collect a visa from the Embassy….jump over to your travel agent….jump on a plane in Jamaica….. Jump off the plane at the terminal abroad.
You don’t reach no where yet….but a lot of jumping…
The policy of truth? Special request Deacon.
Brady to correct documents linking himself/Gov’t & US firm together
Friday, 19 March 2010
The government has issued a 24 hour ultimatum on attorney Harold Brady to amend all information in his contract with the US firm which give what it says is the false impression that he is authorised to act on behalf of the State.
The deadline expires at the close of business Friday as disclosed by Daryl Vaz, Information Minister, in an interview with RJR News Thursday night.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/25924/26/
Will Bradygate bring down the government? That filing is STILL on the US govt. website TODAY! Can’t it be taken down?
theCynic, on March 31, 2010 at 9:46 am Said:
Noco,
floridian DOES raise a good point here. PLENTY new scams surface everyday in Jamaica, The caribbean, and the World (TVI Express?), wouldn’t it be right for the investforlife team to provide some insight into those new scams?
No Cynic, for some “hard to figure..heh heh” reason the fixation is on OLINT.
$240M LOTTO JACKPOT CLAIMED
Another Sad indictment on the State of affairs in Jamaica….I can hear the foreigners asking, “why is he in heavy disguise?”
$240M LOTTO JACKPOT CLAIMED
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/-240M-LOTTO-JACKPOT-CLAIMED
Another Sad indictment on the State of affairs in Jamaica….I can hear the foreigners asking, “why is he in heavy disguise?”
hahahaa…Nonco what message is he saying with his hand…Powa?
The fist for a credit balance and for a deficit…
I guess we have to live with it for Manatt, Phels, Phillips has said it “leggo” the current Jamaican government ONLY last week Thursday.
But while Mr Golding continues to stick to the line that the Jamaican Government has not engaged any US firm “in relation to any extradition matter”, there is a huge credibility gap between the official statement and information in the public domain.
Further, “The undersigned, Harold Brady, consultant to Government of Jamaica, hereby confirms that he is authorised on behalf of the Government of Jamaica to approve of the engagement of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, as set forth in this letter.”
Since the agreement was entered into last October, the firm has listed several actions undertaken on behalf of the Government, including two meetings with a deputy assistant secretary of state and a telephone contact with a national intelligence officer. Harold Brady and Company has been billed, and paid, just under US$50,000 for these services.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/Claude-Mar-21
Manatt, Phelps and Phillips has publicised information about the termination of its contractual relationship with the Government of Jamaica through local attorney Harold Brady.
In a filing on the Department of Justice website, the US law firm says “Manatt ceased activities on behalf of the Government of Jamaica, through Harold C Brady of Brady and Company as of February 8, 2010”.
The filing was just two days after opposition parliamentarian Dr. Peter Phillips first raised the matter in Gordon House.
The public notice of a termination of the contract implies that despite repeated denials by the government, there was a contract between Mr. Brady for the US firm to provide legal services on behalf of the Jamaican government.
High Court ruling throws Antiguan government into a tailspin
Not long now Deacon….Don’t cuss them. Dem can’t do s…. for u.
You guys listen to Breakfast Club this morning?
The good doc was in flying form, and his every word was lapped up by the oh so neutral Prof.
only breifly did they discuss the good doc’s conflict and all too clear motives.
they allowed him to wrap himself in the green and gold when his alleged patriotic stance is nothing but a farcical cover for histrue motives.
that said, the govt. of today is finding itself in a real credibility bind and i am sure that his actions are noticed and have the intended effect of turning up the heat at jamaica house.
how it plays out will be interesting.
blocking day today
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100330/lead/lead7.html
Manatt mystery deepens
The Manatt, Phelps & Phillips mystery has deepened, with the American law firm contradicting claims by local officials that it has never worked for the Government of Jamaica.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100401/lead/lead2.html
bobette lauriston
4/1/2010
more restrictions are coming; have anyone heard that a few high profile entertainers USA visas was revocate a couple of days ago: bounty, beenie, movado, aidonai and ricky trooper. God help us
http://forum.dancehallreggae.com/showthread.php/200629-BREAKING-NEWS!!-According-to-Raga..-visa-revoke-for-top-artist
I wonder if Dr. Walker has a Visa or Green Card.. the man talk about he is a patriot, how he loves Jamaica, and is crying over what is happening to our country.
Thus he is providing evidence to the US government to save Jamaica.
Chances are him is a citizen who only visit Jamaica to go to the north coast and Negril
Motty implying that the DJ’s loose the visa’s because of bad behaviour. Like the Observer’s article. But yet some remain in Krome in Fl and thoose who give up the green card at the airport on demand have been allowed to return home.
Sumptin nuh right.
And they are not entertainers…
???
Top entertainers visas revoked
http://www.go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=18162
Mr. Golding says the letter should also outline that local attorney Harold Brady is not a Government consultant, neither does he have the authority to represent the Government.
A contract between Mr. Brady and Manatt posted on the US Justice Department’s website indicates that Manatt through Mr Brady was acting on behalf of the Government in political and economic matters including treaties.
Mr Brady has since said that aspect of the contract was a mistake, which has been corrected.
http://www.go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=18163
Seemed Manatt, Phelps & Phillips reconfirmed with the new filing…. when will Brady correct this?
How can it be confirmed and denied at the same time? Interesting.
This is an about turn from the position that Mr Golding had advanced 29 days ago in Parliament.
Since then the Opposition with former national security minister Peter Phillips leading the charge, prominent attorney Lord Anthony Gifford, and the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) have insisted that the matter should go to court.
http://www.go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=18164
Lord G…nuh one a Smity football team of lawyers dat? About turn? Who’s money paid the fees and with permission from whom?
`Floridian,
The Press Agent of the United States Attorney S.Bhara in the Southern District of New York says that Brady and Prime Minister Golding are targets of a Grand Jury investigation up here. What have they done? The investigation involves the Manatt law firm, the same firm who represents
Warner Brothers. Does this have anything to do with Olint?
There are some things money can buy, and one of them is a license to issue credit cards from MasterCard and Visa. Some questionable banks do just that, gaining credibility from the brands
Hallmark Bank & Trust, headquartered in the Turks and Caicos islands, enjoys a valuable relationship with one of the best-known brands in consumer finance: the credit-card giant MasterCard (MC). Hallmark, like other banks, pays MasterCard for the right to use its name on the cards Hallmark issues to customers. MasterCard also receives a percentage of sales made with those cards.
Hallmark, despite its homespun name, has a checkered reputation.
MasterCard has been named as a defendant in four of the five Florida suits. In court filings, it has denied any wrongdoing. The company’s Golinsky declines to comment on the litigation. She says a bank’s being accused of wrongdoing could affect whether MasterCard continues to do business with it. Inquiries from law enforcement agencies “prompt a second review.” Mastercard, she emphasizes, monitors its licensees vigorously.
BusinessWeek.
manhattan
Unlike other bloggers who I engage I have checked who they are. I’m on vacation now.
Manatt represents many clients including the gay lobby.
In the meantime why not ask the subjects of your query?
Ask Harold C.W. Brady.
I work for a small community radio station which focuses on minority interests
in New York. Does Manatt represent many Jamaicans ?
manhattan
ACON might be what you need:
http://www.associationofconcernedolintmembers.info/
or
The station that is always last…. the farsical news…they won’t be back till Tuesday and are basking in the reprive.
What have they done?
manhattan,
Most people would say an ‘about turn’ but Motty says no to that. It must be a new dance then…the “Motty Shuffle???”
Former Junior Minister in the Ministry of Works, Joseph Hibbert, the man at the centre of the Mabey and Johnson bribery scandal, was picked up on Thursday morning by members of the Organised Crime Investigation Division (OCID) who questioned him for several hours.
He said the cops were forced to go to the home of the former junior minister after he failed to honour an agreement to come in for questioning.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/26285/26/
St. Andrew businessman Rodney Chin on Thursday denied suggestions that his friends in the Jamaica Labour Party administration had vowed to help him after he was arrested and charged in the Cuban Lightbulb affair.
Chris Walker is one of the absolute most dangerous and unpatriotic jamaicans to ever have lived.
He wrote to the US govt asking for AID to b withheld from a country struggling to stay alive….he wld have tried to put in jeopardy the lives of 3m persons for his own selfish agenda!
manhattan
18 U.S.C. §§ 371 and 372–conspiracies to commit any offense against the United States, or to prevent or retaliate in response to the lawful discharge of the duties of Federal officers (overlap with 18 U.S.C. §§ 1503, 1505, 1510, 1512, and 1513). see generally United States v. Frankhauser, 80 F.3d 641, 653 (1st Cir. 1996) (conspiracy to persuade witness to destroy or conceal evidence for use in an official proceeding); United States v. Fullbright, 69 F.3d 1468, 1472 (9th Cir. 1995) (conspiracy to mail arrest warrants to a United States Bankruptcy Judge); United States v. Mullins, 22 F.3d 1365, 1367 (6th Cir. 1994) (conspiracy to alter flight log books of police officers to prevent information from reaching the grand jury); United States v. Jeter, 775 F.2d 670, 683 (5th Cir. 1985) (conspiracy to obtain secret grand jury information), cert. denied, 475 U.S. 1142 (1986).
Will our PM be the first sitting Caribbean leader since Norman Saunders of the Turks and Caicos to be indicted by a Federal Grand Jury?
The PM’s red passport will not help him if he is indicted for hiring Manatt on behalf of Christopher Coke. It will be a narcotics indictment which will revoke his diplomatic passport.
Ignore what Brady is telling you Mr. PM. Do not travel to the USA!!!!
1503. Influencing or injuring officer or juror generally.
1505. Obstruction of proceedings before departments,
agencies, and committees.
1510. Obstruction of criminal investigations.
More than likely larry.
The Grand Jury convened on Thursday. It deliberated half day on Good Friday.(not a Federal holiday)
convened on?
Who is lying?
http://www.sunheraldja.com/2010/03/who-is-lying/
Mr.PM,
You should take my advice and not HB whose poor advice might get you in jail.
Imagine this man has misled you and may bring down our party.
Go quickly and get yourself a criminal lawyer who has been qualified in the USA.
Personally, you can expect to pay US $400-600 per hour but be rest assured it is worth every penny.
Prepare yourself properly and surround yourself now with the brightest members of our party. You have seen what trouble a certain sect has caused us.
Lying before a Grand Jury is a criminal offence. Susan Schmidt who is expected
to testify before the Coke Grand Jury next week, is not going to lie about her trip to Jamaica.
does any know if the 7 mil that was ceased from ingrid loiten in africa was ever returned to her. if so wen
LOL…
Hey larry/manhattan/Free Legal Advice… you must be back to jerking off like you and your friends were when you thought 10 % per month was going to turn your hundreds of thousands into mega-millions… LOL
You love spreading rumors, nonsense and lies… But I guess you know Jcans… they will believe anything if it fits their agenda… plus we have a lot of really really ‘dark’ people… and I do not mean skin color…
Worse there are some really, really unscrupulous, unethical, lazy or dishonest people in the local press… Take the story about the DJ’s losing visas… not to mention some of these JA DJ’s should never get visas in the first place… they are criminals involved with violent gangs…
But I digress… obviously the mailing list was a April Fools hoax… The US embassy does not release lists like that but local media had it like a legitimate story…
Take the story of pilots losing visas… rumors because one pilot had personal issues… but the media had this like a legitimate story…
Take the story at the top… unsubstantiated rumors written like blog gossip…
It is clear that the local press is being manipulated with the Dudus issue as background… but this is how ‘good rumors’ spread… remember how MW used to write articles and the idiots on the blogs about Olint… they would quote grains of truth about FX trading as a backdrop…
These stories are nonsense… People with visa issues are facing personal issues which folks in JA and every country face… Check the the US DOS web site… about half of all Jcan applicants for visitor visas are denied each year… and each year there are people that routinely get their visas revoked for various personally related reasons…
None of this is new… however agents of propaganda and who are supporters of the opposition party are liking these routine actions to the Dudus issue.
How about a real patriotic Jcan response to the extradition issue… This is the real issue and tragedy of JA….
Extradition treaties are really meant to prevent criminals committing a crime in country A and then fleeing to country B. For example someone that committed a murder in the USA is not able to flee to JA and avoid prosecution. He can be extradited or returned to the country of the crime to face prosecution.
In other words it is meant to prevent folks from avoiding prosecution by simply fleeing to another jurisdiction.
Extradition treaties are not meant to have another country prosecute your own criminals for crimes they commit in your own country. The extradition matter is about crimes that are criminal in JA and were committed in JA too… Every puss and dawg in JA knows that there are really big criminals running criminal organizations in JA… and most every puss and dawg knows who these people are…
Yet we are concerned about them being extradited… We have a country where we are not prosecuting our own criminals… well known… and are now dependent on others to extradite them for the same offenses that they are committing in our country. And we do not even want to let them get prosecuted in other countries…
A lottery winner has to have his picture taken in disguise… This is who we are… Tragic indeed.
Blame Dudus for everything that happens to every Jamaican from here on.
Just take a look at the Ricky Tropper video on youtube, the idiot was even threatening the PM with gun in hand.
Take a look and you decide the reason he lost both visa he was boasting about in that video.
Link?
Nocotec , I agree with your entry of 8.04 pm in its entirety. I am not Larry or Free Legal Advice, and I think the tone and content of your 752 pm entry is unfortunate. Why the abusive language and the reference to ” jerking off ” from one of the senior and regular contributors to this blog?
@manhattan Nocotec , … I am not Larry or Free Legal Advice, and I think the tone and content of your 752 pm entry is unfortunate. Why the abusive language and the reference to ” jerking off ” from one of the senior and regular contributors to this blog?
Because many folks are spreading lies, rumors and propaganda… just like they did when the Olint ponzi was in full swing… they are excited to the point of jerking off… when in fact, yet again the story is not as they would have us think.
The extradition story is of course legitimate… but it is not related to the Olint ponzi scheme in any way… as some deluded folks would have us think… visa cancellations or not… are not related to the extradition issue.
In short… there are a lot of folks spreading rumors and propaganda for political, personal and other reasons. They seek to twist the realty. If you are not larry or the other guys, you sound awfully similar…
As Jay said… blame Dudus for everything… every Jcan that gets a visa denied or canceled will now say is Dudus and Bruce fault… lol
The reality is the indictment will not go away… he will either be extradited eventually or killed by law enforcement or other criminals… and suppose he is still there when the PNP returns to power… how will they handle it?
Nonco.
On the visa Issue. Some visa’s have been taken away. Some are in the media therefore ‘public’ UDC Chairman, Entertainers etc.
I read a blog (not here) that the UDC Chairman has secured a another valid visa. But nothing is made public on that alleged info. It was essentially the UDC Chairman who fueled the publicity surrounding his own cancelled visa. Letters were written to the press etc. Arguments were put forth that the publicity was necessary as his role as Chairman of UDC might be affected by the cancellation and with regard to his job requirements/mandate etc. it was necessary to state his immigration status vis a vis USA.
So why is it that if a visa or visa’s have been replaced (as blogged) would there not be a public statement?
It could be as simple as “I Mr/Mrs/Ms ______ do hereby categorically state that I have not had any dealings with David/Tracy Smith…no material gain…plane ride….sleepover etc..”
Also (On visa), If persons are locked away through immigration/visa and/or have taken an option to relinquish documents at Port of Entry and voluntarily turn back yet are not public personalities and have not written to the papers about their embarrassment then how does John Public know.
If the UDC Chairman has been issued a new visa it would ease the concerns of many if he stated so.
So too the Entertainers.
It would also ease the minds of many (Especially JLP supporters Noncs!) If some certified written statements from many individuals and entities stating clearly and unequivocally their association with David Smith were forthcoming. These could be published easily with no expense.
Until such time then Nonco….
Nonco, (on emails)
When many emails became public it seemed to have coincided with a bout of widespread ‘stammering disease’. For some the emails themselves became the issue as opposed to their content. A similar pandemic resurfaced with the wiretap issue.
Back to stammering….
While the afflicted were contemplating many wide and varied remedies one very significant and important person confirmed that emails sent from him were authentic.
The stammerers looked behind and saw that their erstwhile colleague had ‘run them out’ as their bails and stumps were horizontal all over the grounds.
Long contemplative walk back to the Pavillion…..
They had narrowed the remedy by that point….Immodium and Pepto Bismol and Phillips Milk of Magnesia started to sell.
Many decided that times hard and money SHOULD LOOK scarce…so instead of heading to the pharmacy they used the Jamaican homeopathic remedy of choice which is called “Ostrich”.
Other animals joined the fray like “who will bell the cat” and the “Camel who sees for the first time just how small the eye of the needle really is” and the Jamaican legend “John Crow who nuh work pon a Sunday”
Well it is Sunday now. Give thanks and praises. How about a good book after service? I recommend “The tortoise and the hare..”
Not exciting enough? then try Peter Benchleys classic, “JAWS”
For those who like Comics (many adults are fans from ever since) you might get nostalgic with the likes of Captain America.
You see….
Wonder Woman was basking in the Sun on the beach…. radiant as ever. Well the Invisible man spotted her from his cruising altitude of 30,000 feet. He decided to descend on Wonder Woman for a quick squeeze and so he did.
“Coincidentally” Superman had also been cruising at 30,000 feet and had the same idea. He descended with stern intent and fixity of purpose.
After the passionate embrace Wonder Woman asked invisible man “how was it for you?” To which he replied, “It was great but my arse hurts”
Nonco, the story of Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand’ is for another day.
Some explaining to do
The imbroglio involving JLP stalwart Harold Brady and the US law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips still smells like bad fish at Easter. Brady is yet to unequivocally explain the aspect of the contract with the US law firm claiming that he was acting on behalf of the Jamaican Government. Now the hallmark of any half-decent lawyer is attention to detail and the marshalling of facts. Brady is a lawyer who has represented, among others, Cash Plus and MiPhone, and he must be patently aware of the importance of avoiding ambiguity and obfuscation.
The Government was declarative, indeed combative when the minister of information said: “The Government has no contractual arrangement with Mr Brady, Harold Brady & Company, or any other private law firm in relation to the current extradition matter.”
A missive on the US Justice Department website reads: “The undersigned, Harold Brady, consultant to the Government of Jamaica, hereby confirms that he is authorised on behalf of the Government of Jamaica to approve the engagement as set forth in this letter.”
Now, if somebody signs as being authorised by the Government of Jamaica and they subsequently make it clear that they do not represent Jamaica, then questions need to be asked and clear answers given.
Brady has since said a mistake was made but has yet to put this matter to rest. The prime minister initially appeared to be speaking without being aquainted with all the facts thereby exacerbating matters further. All that is required is that Brady be true to his profession and outline the case in a forthright manner or, in any event, beyond a reasonable doubt.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/business/The-Wild-Bunch-apr-4
A US official speaking on the matter at the new Red Bones, which incidentally is fantastic, said: “Jamaicans have to be aware that the US Government is not obliged to publicly state why visas get revoked or cancelled, and Mr Chen missed that point.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/business/The-Wild-Bunch-apr-4
THERE IS MORE THAN ONE WAY TO SKIN A CAT
Never mind the broad smiles and assurances of the Americans. They know, as do we, that there is more than one way to skin a cat.
There’s no need to close down embassies or pull out of Jamaica over this issue. We are, after all, talking about one man… 33, counting Mr Golding and his team.
The latest leak — Mr Golding’s parliamentary assertion that his Government had no relationship with the US law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips in relation to the ‘Dudus’ issue — is getting bigger and bigger as if by design.
No undiplomatic venting, no inappropriate scenes, just a systematic unveiling of information that raises serious challenges to much of what is coming out of the Government’s mouth.
Take the most recent notice of amendment filed by the law firm with the US Department of Justice to the effect that it “ceased activities on behalf of the Jamaican Government through Harold CW Brady of the Brady & Company law firm as of February 8, 2010”. Clearly, somebody has been lying through their teeth on this one.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/Editorial-for-April-4–2010
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1. US unseals indictment for Christopher COKE for drugs and guns (Shower Posse)—–August 28 , 2009
2. Prime Minister Bruce Golding of Jamaica prevents Jamaica police from arresting Coke.—–September 2, 2009
3. Golding hires US law firm Manatt Phelps with money from Christopher Coke using Jamaican attorney Harold Brady as conduit ——September 28, 2009
4.Manatt Phelps in Washington files false Foreign Agent Registration.—–October 2, 2009
5.Golding denies knowledge of Manatt relationship in Jamaican Parliament—– March 18, 2009
6. Manatt terminates its contract with Jamaica dated March 15 as of February 8, 2008.
7. Christopher Coke , not in custody 8 months after Grand Jury warrant issued and submitted to Jamaica.
8.Golding and Brady have Obstructed Justice by using a false FARA registration. 18 USC 1509, 18 USC 1510 Chapter 73 United States Code
Deacon, remember one that goes like this. “Sorry fi mawga dawg…mawga dawg tun roun bite yu?”
It might be a matter for the US Attorney General’s (US AG) Office to investigate. It should want to know if MPP violated the act by not disclosing the full extent of its activities. Did any of its representatives travel to Jamaica, meet with any member of government and receive payment? Since MPP cannot do business with a criminal, the US AG should call upon them to prove that they didn’t meet or receive payment from a wanted fugitive.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100404/focus/focus3.html
All I have to say is Jamaica is one interesting place.
Jay and Nocotec hail. I am still around
Floridan and the rest greetings… no resolution in the David Smith matter… December was 2 years, July will be 2 years.. What gives?
What is the status with Dubai and the Cash Plus ‘money’? Is Carlos Hill is free?
Where is Ingrid Loiten and May Daisy, no flowers yet?
What about Noel Strachan, is his world of investors any wiser?
Floridian, there is a rahtid investigation into the Manatt Phelps- Christopher Coke anancyism in New York.
Apparently bruce hired this firm to defend Christopher Coke under the guise of lobbying for the government of jamaica. A law firm cant lobby for a fugitive, is crosses that.! the white girl dem hire turn over all the information to the feds.bruce and brady visa soon gawn!De money come from dudus himself. bruce and brady and dudus might be extradicted together! grand jury a run things now.
MPP cannot do business with a criminal— de white girl has immunity.She can chat the whole story.Jamaica going mek headines again,bruce inna club fed.
wayne chen’s attempts to get a new visa failed. he will never visit America legally for at least 7 years.uncle sam dont need no chiney laundry.
Hail John Doe..and the rest.
Bagjuice if Wayne Chen’s visa application has failed why would he not publicly say so?
If he can not get a visa then why not resign from UDC etc ? It was Chen who said the visa (ability to travel) was necessary to function in the positions he is appointed to.
What of Brady and the Hilton hotel/Cash plus deal?
Why are some visa revocations given through press release, some informed of at the Jamaican airports …and some at the foreign airports?
Where are the real journalists? Scrounging bun and cheese in the trough when they should be toiling through the night?
Many pertinent questions abound…not farsical…pertinent.
On February 4 , 1988 a Federal Grand Jury in the Southern District of Florida
indicted Manuel Noriega on drug related charges. Noriega who was the chief of Panama’s military forces was charged because his associates met with Medellin Cartel associates regarding the transshipment of cocaine. Cocaine was trans-shipped through Panama to the United States without interception. Indicted Panamanian drug dealers were not extradited to the US. see US v Noriega 746 F Supp1506. There is recent precedent for the indictment in the United States of a Caribbean leader,see also the US v Norman Saunders and Stafford Missick.
@JohnDoe
Been a while… I am sure like me you get busy for spells.
@floridian
The Observer editorial you quoted…
Did you see their quote from the US Vice Counsel.
… about 120,000 US visas issued to Jcans each year…
(note that as I pointed out earlier this is about half of all applicants)
After all, Mr Stone’s explanation that the small number of visas that are cancelled on a yearly basis are done so for reasons that are personal and unique to the individuals, is perfectly plausible.
Again what I explained previously… there has been a campaign to scare folks since the extradition issue…
With the greatest of respect Nocotec, at JFK airport last week the American Airlines Jamaica flight was segregated from the other common carriers. All
the individuals were inspected before regular ICE inspection and 6 were taken out of the line. One was immediately handcuffed and her child taken away by ICE. I do not know what happened to the other four; they were all young men and women.One of the men had dreadlocks. I personally observed this frightening occurrence. I hope, that if you respond, we can have a cogent exchange of views without you accusing me of ‘jerking off”.I took this behavior by ICE to be unusual and discriminatory. I link it to the Dudus extradition problem.
Did GD of the JTB have his visa cancelled recently?
@ Manhattan – GD visa was not canceled based on the information that has been made available.
There has been a lot of misinformation being presented as facts, in particular as it relates to visa and the Dudus issue.
Quite frankly a lot of it has been hogwash. Take for example the recent case of DJ’s having visa canceled.
Immediately we here is because of the Dudus issue, not true, but that is how its being made to appear.
Over the last couple of weeks, there has been a systematic release of information to the public, some true and some not, but no one is spending time to figure that out.
So as usual one person say this to that person and soon it spreads like wildfire and ” if everbody a seh so den it must be true”.
That Jamaica for you.
@ Manhattan
New rules for entering USA were introduced last week, so what you saw may have been the new rules taking effect and nothing to do with the Dudus affair.
Ever thought of that angle, of course not – just blame Dudus.
U.S. Decision Not to Extradite Confessed Mumbai Terror Suspect Angers India
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/63321
No those straws have no grip. For some time people have been questioned about David Smith/Olint at airports(s). That is fact.
Antigua’s Governor General Dame Louise Lake-Tack has signed the order revoking the knighthood of alleged fraudster R. Allen Stanford.
Stanford was knighted on the recommendation of the main opposition Antigua Labour Party in 2006 during Antigua and Barbuda’s Silver Jubilee Independence celebrations.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100405/lead/lead4.html
Edith Smith got national honours in 2008 from Bruce Golding. David Smith was a major donor to the JLP giving them money that did not belong to him. Will the honours be revoked? We will see.
Chuck’s Mouthful Of Nonsense
But, perhaps it is the case that Chuck wishes not to rock the political boat to the extent that it would earn him the wrath of his compatriots
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100405/news/news3.html
“…there remain questions about Jamaica’s relationship with Manatt, Phelps and Phillips, the US legal/lobby which told the US Department of Justice that it was contracted to do work on ‘treaty matters’ for Jamaica, through Harold Brady’s law firm. The Government denied any such arrangement although it admits that its solicitor general, Mr Douglas Leys, did meet with Manatt’s officials and that they were invited to a meeting he had at the US State Department on the Coke matter.”
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100405/cleisure/cleisure1.html
That word “MISTAKE”
A second fugitive, Eaton Evans, was mistakenly released from police custody three weeks ago and is on the run.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/26320/26/
Jay, Nonco, John Doe etc.
Speaking of facts:
If you think that Harold C.W. Brady has not, in the past advised the P.M. on OLINT cases then you are truly naive more than you are mischievous.
THE PIRATES OF THE CARICOM
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Moss-Solomon-Apr-4
This viewable evidence and the dates of original filing and any subsequent amendments leave a lot of questions unanswered:
* Has the US law firm visited Jamaica in connection with their contract?
* Who did they meet with in Jamaica?
* Has the US law firm been paid any money?
* If yes, who paid them the money?
* If paid, was it via cash, cheques, draft or bank transfer?
* If it was paid through a bank, which bank, and whose account?
* Has that been properly disclosed to the relevant authorities in the USA?
* If any of these things are so, is their law firm in “deep doo doo”
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/tools/cartoons/Ed-cartoon-apr-5-2010
US PROBING 3 GOV’T MINISTERS
‘Dudus’ Grand Jury says officials blocking information
BY INVESTIGATIVE COVERAGE UNIT icu@jamaicaobserver.com
Monday, April 05, 2010
The investigators believe that the firm’s service was retained by officials connected to the Government, to lobby Washington not to pressure Jamaica to extradite Coke. In that regard, several influential Americans connected to the US administration were contacted by the law firm, including the administration’s nominee as Ambassador to Niger.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/dudus-US-probing-3-ministers_7521467
Well-informed Observer sources said the Americans are contending that the Jamaican Government officials had conspired to prevent information from reaching the Grand Jury in the Coke case — the latest in the fallout from the Manatt Phelps and Phillips law firm controversy.
I wonder if the three are out of the few that don’t have clear proven ties to David and Tracy Smith?
I think there will be indictments and prison terms. This OLINT/TEEFING govt. was never going to work.
Jay, I will research the information available on the new procedures required to enter the USA. Can you refer me to a US.Gov link?
David Smith
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
The essential problem was posed by Plato in The Republic, his work on government and morality. The perfect society as described by Socrates, the main character in this Socratic dialogue, relies on laborers, slaves and tradesmen. The guardian class is to protect the city. The question is put to Socrates, “Who will guard the guardians?” or, “Who will protect us against the protectors?” Plato’s answer to this is that they will guard themselves against themselves. We must tell the guardians a “noble lie”.[1] The noble lie will assure them that they are better than those they serve and it is therefore their responsibility to guard and protect those lesser than themselves. We will instill in them a distaste for power or privilege; they will rule because they believe it right, not because they desire it.
Manhattan see below
http://www.dhs.gov/ynews/releases/pr_1270217971441.shtm
Jay , Thank you, the enhanced security may very well be explained in this connection. I appreciate an informed non-abusive dialogue.Do you think the recent Muslim cleric deported to Jamaica from Kenya has led to Jamaican flights being red-flagged by US as possible terrorist threats as discussed in the referenced briefing?Do you think the Americans consider Dudus a terrorist threat ?
Manhattan,
I am not sure you have been following the cleric story properly.
Firstly the cleric was deported from the UK to Jamaica sometime in 2007.
He spent two years here then went to Kenya. While there he was said to have been preaching which was in violation of his visitor’s visa.
He was later arrested and deported back to Jamaica.
To answer your question, I do not believe that Jamaica is under any special watch as it relates to terrorism or terrorist activities because of the cleric.
The USA can choose to flag whoever they choose due to their own internal security criteria used for selection and as such I would not want to speculate.
As part of the new security arrangements you could be stopped simply because your name (recall many of us share the same name) appears on the USA flight listing to be checked on entry.
Now all flights leaving Ja for example going to the USA have the flight manifest sent to the USA port of entry prior to the flight leaving Jamaica.
The USA border patrol agents thus know before hand who is coming and will simply remove you for further screening if your name appears on that list. Once they are satisfied that you are who you say you are and not a person on interest you are free to go on your way.
Re: Dudus – The USA has clearly said the guy is wanted for drug charges, racketeering etc so as far as I know that’s the extent of their interest.
Could someone please break down in simple terms what all the fuss about the law firm being hired by the Jamaican govt. is about? Also, if possible could somebody in as unbiased terms as possible, explain the possible results of all this ‘hoopla’?
On a sidenote, funny how the observer seems to have all these ‘inside sources’ now that provide information on everything from the actions of the U.S. Govt. behind closed doors all the way down to the plight of a few local entertainers, but yet, couldn’t find a SHRED of information into the whole OLINT/Cash Plus/May Daisy/Lewfam/F1/Higgins Warner/etc ‘conspiracy’ (and i use that word very loosely).
Ja Cynic you too bad iyah. Re Lewfam etal
Ja Cynic see this post below
Conspiracy theory ?
BTW the observer is acting like a blog these days providing tit bits of information and not calling out names.
If they know all of what they claim to know then lets have the names.
Ahhhh….so it all becomes clear now….
Pity my jaded Jamaican gut tells me that little if ANYTHING will come of all this.
@manhattan
If you are not trying to be an agent of mischief and propaganda maybe you should not try to post the same diatribe with differing aliases…. reading the blog for a long time one learns to detect the same folks back with the same old same old.
Visas issues are personal issues. There are currently no US visa issues related to the Dudus affair and any attempt by anyone to make such links is simply an attempt at mischief and propaganda. Period
@theCynic
You will recall how easy it was for DS/Olint to get information in the newspaper supporting him and purporting to explain how what he was doing was legitimate and quite possible… These local newspapers should be read not with a grain of salt but a pound. If you did not and you read articles about DS you may have invested… only to find out later they were feeding you DS propaganda. I can personally attest to how easy it is to manipulate their news stories… some stories are simply plants.
Notice how the very same folks that were against them… because they helped DS rob them… have now figured out the toilet tabloids… they are a disgrace… these same folks are now using the same papers to feed info that is being printed like gossip but appearing on the news pages… note how floridian hated them but now quotes them liberally to support his viewpoints 🙂
Recall how CH of C+ boldly threatened to sue about his criminal record being revealed… how come they did not use innuendos to name CH. The facts are the truth is still an absolute defense against libel and slander. If this is not about mischief and propaganda then they should simply name the persons they say are being investigated.
In the US press they name the persons but leave the source as sources with knowledge of the grand jury process. And by the way, it is illegal for anyone to disclose the secret grand jury proceedings.. so if they are, disclosure is meant for propaganda effect and to cause panic.
@theCynic
To the law firm issue… It is not unusual and in fact normal and routine for foreign governments to hire law firms which are often also lobbying firms to act on their behalf in foreign countries. These folks have expert knowledge of the foreign laws, customs and access to powerful foreign officials lacking by the local gov.
Local gov officials often have little to no knowledge of the foreign process… In fact it is often the reverse in JA… we often bundle negotiations, sale of assets, agreements etc because we fail to hire the relevant foreign experience.
Take the current bungling of the sale, transfer or whatever it is of Air Jamaica… at the last minute they figured out that the US Dept of Transportation gave licenses to Air J to fly the routes they do in the USA… and a new entity like Caribbean Airlines cannot simply just start flying the routes because the JA gov gave them Air J routes … LOL… clearly there was the need for folks involved in the process to have the benefit of experts familiar with the US DOT process.
US law requires firms that are engaged by foreign govs to disclose and file information that they are working on behalf of a foreign gov. Failure to disclose such info is a violation of law… or to disclose that you’re an agent of a foreign gov when you are not…
In gov… there are official gov acts by officials and there are personal acts by the gov officials… The relevant thing here is who is authorized to engage a foreign law firm to act on behalf of the JA gov… usually with JA law, it would be safe to assume that such authority rests with a Minister and often with such procedures he is also required to notify cabinet… but this is general info and I do not know the specifics.
Failure to follow such procedures… recall the Tourism minister allegedly not getting cabinet approval for the American Air deal… but it did not void the deal because of the Minister and the appropriate gov officials signing the deal. Clearly if the law firm had a deal with anyone that is not authorized under Jcan law to engage or hire parties for the gov… then they were not acting on behalf of the gov but on behalf of those individuals.
Note that because someone is connected to the gov does not mean they can or have the authority to hire firms on behalf of the gov.
This leads to a potential issue for those folks… since their actions would be personal and thus they would not have immunity for official actions… interfering with the process to apprehend someone charged for a crime among other things may be criminal obstruction of justice under US law.
This leaves a potential conundrum for the folks involved with the law firm process… If the gov hired the law firm to act for the JA gov then these are official actions and they would most likely not be personally liable… but if the firm was retained but not by the gov then they may be guilty of some crimes for attempting to interfere with the process… on the one hand scandal for the gov… on the other personal problems for the parties.
See how even folks that are lawyers in one country can run afoul of laws in another country… often they just do not know the law… which is why it is usually best to hire experts at the law in the other country
note how floridian hated them but now quotes them liberally to support his viewpoints
How mi fi hate people mi pity longer than you could remember?
Cynic, I have read Nonco’s post above.
Seek the facts on the internet..the post above is full of the usual wind.
Nonco is always talking about the ‘folks’ there is a time they talk about the ‘folks’ a lot. Warm and endearing to the ‘folks’ . You see ‘folks’ the noose is taught now.
After the ‘folks’ stage you get like MOTTY Perkins into the “I don’t know about that”…..”I never knew” …hehehe….right Noncs?
“I can’t remember. I send hundreds of emails and I am not denying that I am aware or have knowledge or know David,” Robertson said.
“I am not denying that there was contact.I am denying nothing but in terms of that specific, I can’t answer that.”
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090213/lead/lead2.html
Coming in from the cold Nonco?
nocotec, on April 5, 2010 at 10:45 am Said:
I can personally attest to how easy it is to manipulate their news stories… some stories are simply plants.
Notice how the very same folks that were against them…
nocotec, on April 5, 2010 at 11:14 am Said:
…usually with JA law, it would be safe to assume that such authority rests with a Minister and often with such procedures he is also required to notify cabinet… but this is general info and I do not know the specifics.
This leads to a potential issue for those folks…
This leaves a potential conundrum for the folks involved with the law firm process…
See how even folks that are lawyers in one country can run afoul of laws in another country… often they just do not know the law…
Is ‘folks’ the con Artist word of choice? or is it don’t know the specifics? hmmm
@floridian Cynic, I have read Nonco’s post above. Seek the facts on the internet..the post above is full of the usual wind.
LOL…lol… you are accusing my post of being full of wind… lol…
Back to form… delusional ponzi scheme investor does not like to hear that 10 % per month is nonsense and that his dream investment is in a ponzi scheme… so how many times did I get accused that my posts are wind, false blah blah blah … hehe…
Floridian, dude you have the title of the most deluded poster to have graced the blog… your continuous posting of questions in the form of riddles is you believing you have info only you have and it makes you somehow feel important that others don’t have it… in reality such folks usually have no info of any importance or consequence… but they have an illusion 🙂
brady and bruce salt now! Dem just a drop in one hole after another. Why bruce wont stop tell lie? De white man ago lock up brady, bruce and dudus.Only Susan Schmidt gwine get weh.US Marshall badda than secret service bruce so dont travel to USA bruce. sealed indictment could fix yu business. word of advice ask the canadians to give yu amnesty in dem embassy in Ja.
is brady an official of the govt. i hear him travel nice with first class ticket and red passport. him stay at the waldarf asstoria. is taxpayer money dat?
Every decade or so we see an individual emerge who stands up on behalf of his peers for what is right. We remember Mahatma Gandhi, Rev. Martin Luther King, and Nelson Mandela to name a few.
As this Manatt scandal develops most of us as members of the clergy have noted the lack of transparency and honesty of members of the government, headed by our PM.
My good friend and fellow member of the clergy, Rev. Miller has been a loud voice demanding an end to this untenable situation, which if allowed to continue for much longer will result in the collapse of our economy affecting every Jamaican.
We all have noted that a few people have taken a stance demanding an end to this and actually demanding a higher standard for Jamaica. I took notice of the Doctor who spoke on the radio enlightening us of the findings of his investigative team.
What is remarkable is that this man with his resources has challenged us as Jamaicans to do better and realise more. I did note in his radio address, that he addressed the concern that his motive may be a revengeful. His answer convinced me that he is not revengeful, but rather that he has the intestinal fortitude and intellect necessary to move obstacles which are hampering the progress of Jamaica and that he has a real desire to see a better Jamaica for us all.
No one can argue the point that losing millions in OLINT must have been painful but most would have suffered the loss in silence, looked forward and would never invest or believe enough in their country to spend their resources, vast they may be, in helping those of us who are left to the mercy of the perpetrators or a potentially corrupt government.
He has clearly hired the best team of experts in their respective field and this should help us to unearth the truth and put us back on the path to recovery.
Without doubt he like many other well thinking Jamaicans will be ridiculed and some will even cast aspersions on his integrity. To you Doctor and all Jamaicans, I say ponder on the words set forth below, a summary of my Easter message to my congregation:-
“The good news of the Easter message is that Jesus can open your eyes to spiritual reality. He can forgive your sinful rebellion, dissipate your fear, protect you from your enemies and he can give you life to the fullest right now. All you need to do is turn to him as Savior and Lord.”
Romans 10:9-10 explains that “…if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved; for with the heart man believes, resulting in righteousness [being made right with God], and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.”
It is my fervent prayer that we as Jamaicans will stand proud again and live up to the dreams of our fore fathers- Sir Alexander Bustamante and Norman Manley.
God bless Jamaica
Nonco, dude!!!…how the folks…..how many times Carlos Hill said Folks
Floridian, dude you have the title of the most deluded poster to have graced the blog… your continuous posting of questions in the form of riddles is you believing you have info only you have and it makes you somehow feel important that others don’t have it…
‘feel important’ among who? Nonco…you? Dude….Dude…such linear perspective.
Kid you get so emotional….sticks an stones…Kindergarten…and the truth is you don’t do too badly (for your level) when the emotion is in check….come on Nonco
The bloggers are tired of you studying me they want to hear about Smith and the gang.
Like Jacob Martinez’s now infamous, “Congratulations JLP!” what a simpleton and an ass to boot…
Look there are people who think that warning people of a con absolves them. people who right now think they are not going to jail. I warned of that Nonco…so what is your fuss?
Why you a fret bout it? You warned the World o.k dude…want a medal?
Let it go….move on…if you can’t take this stage. O.K. folks.
@floriaian
hehe…
If you want someone to lecture… please inform your Reverend Doctor friend posting above… that he sounds deranged posting about himself and congratulating himself 🙂
… And quoting the Bible reminds us of Ingrid Loiten and the other scammers that made a living while scamming and quoting scripture… Soon as you hear someone quoting scripture to support his personal actions… one hears a liar.
… And floridian how do we know someone who simply keeps moving from one error to the other… he tells the folk who are right each time… You warned the World o.k dude…want a medal? Let it go….move on 🙂
… And then he just keep making mistake after mistake… all the while confused about how smart he believes himself to be…
But you are not deranged congratulating yourself. hmm
Nonco, for a non-investor who stands to lose anything you sure do get emotional sometimes.
How this Olint/JLP things stirs you while you claim to be immune to any consequences is truly interesting.
I could continue two years of warning that ‘fools’ going to be locked up but my warning of it won’t stop it from happening.
Warning that Olint was a ponzi (as opposed to a money laudering enterprise) and stating that persons were warned can not define the end. You seem to be stuck there like a record? Do you really believe that? Do you really believe that culpability can just hide under a mattress? Float away? Dave and teefing Tracy walk into the sunset?
A best you start gathering some serious amount of money together..trust mi.
Great sage Nonco,
If Perkins is on tomorrow how many times shall he say “I don’t know about that” before the mid day news? Thrice?
The longest day
Brady has redefined the meaning of 24hrs. It has been over two weeks!
Nocotec’s comments about the Doctor are extremely disparaging and negative. Dr. Walker is a patriotic Jamaican who is supported by many other Jamaicans who have wholesome christianity as their way of life. Only courage similar to the Doctor’s will destroy organized crime that obtains in Jamaica.
@floridian
LOL… Man there you go again… how many times have I seen that… When the logic gets over powering… a ponzi scheme investor says, why are you so concerned about something you did not invest in… recall my story about you as the driver of the truck going down Spur Tree… or was it too complex for you 🙂
Here is something real easy for you… No need for you to answer with riddles…
The PM said he was not complying with the extradition request because of illegal wiretap. Later turned the wiretaps may have been legal but a police person gave the info illegally to the US….
Now the period of the indictment covers when your party, the PNP, was in power… So it is reasonable to assume the wiretaps were during the PNP gov…
And so it is then logical that they had evidence of the alleged criminal activity…
My question to you… How come he was not charged and prosecuted? We know you and your friends say they are patriotic and want to restore JA… Restore it to what? 🙂
@larry
Let us look at the facts…Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel… and this like Christianity… when that card is pulled one is supposed to defer to the person that wraps themselves in that cloak.
Sorry…
The Doc is someone that:
1. Foolishly ignored warnings about a ponzi scheme and invested huge sums… part of which he says did not belong to him but to a close relative
2. The foolishness was further compounded by the fact that money invested for older folks should be invested conservatively in things like bonds and CDs and sparingly in high risk investments… especially if they may need it soon… since they cannot afford to lose it because their major earning days are behind them and they cannot work to earn it back… this is basic stuff.
3. The Doc is about his personal stuff… he is trying to get his money back… nothing wrong with that but…
4. The Doc tried to get the whole country punished by urging foreign powers to stop aid until he essentially gets his money back.
5. The Doc thinks his money was lost because of the JLP and as a PNP supporter is engaged in activities to try and discredit or destabilize the gov.
Nothing patriotic to be found there 🙂
Now as to Christianity… Sorry I do not subscribe to the tyranny of the religious… If you do not believe in what religious folks do, many of them think you are a bad person… and they want to impose their beliefs on government and the society.
Why are you a believer in Christianity? Let me clue you in… For almost everyone… it is an accident of birth location or parents. Had you been born in Saudi Arabia you would be telling me about Islam… in parts of India Hinduism … to Jewish parents, Judaism…. etc
There is little to no crossover … born in a Indian tribe… you would have been a believer in their religion… born in JA, if religious you will be 99% likely to be Christian… etc etc. In Saudi Arabia, Islamic…
Now given that it is accident what you happen to believe in… you are free to believe but don’t expect me to defer to you because you try to wrap yourself in it and that by so doing your motives are supposed to be pure…crap. And as I said those that like to draw that card often have the least pure motive.
Noncs,
You would not do badly in swaying the general blog BUT the constant use of false innuendo about me damages your credibility as you are going along.
Jared may well be a Christian …you see you speak so definitively that your credibility gets thrown to the wind.
“The conditions have to do with fighting corruption,” Lightbourne told Parliament last week during the sitting of the joint select committee.
Input legislation
She said the Jamaican government had been told to put in place legislation to fight corruption and to improve the justice system.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100406/news/news2.html
But Daryl Vaz, Information Minister, claims the Observer report is false.
He also cautioned the media about reporting on the Manatt, Phelps and Phillips issue.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/26342/26/
So there! hahaha…no comment on Brady’s 24 hours? £ week marker coming up.
http://www.csmenetwork.com/2/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7197:statement-by-dr-peter-phillips-mp-chairman-communications-commission-bradymanatt-phelps-phillips-contract-march-24-2010&catid=146:opinion&Itemid=383
Visa issues?
And the BITU is claiming that it has received information that some members of Air Jamaica’s flight crew are having difficulties renewing their work visas.
Mr. Gayle believes this is due to the cloud of uncertainty surrounding the sale of the airline.
“And as we speak there are some groupings that have sought to apply for crew visas and have not been able to attain such crew visas and we estimate that they have not been able to acquire such visas because of the possible closure of Air Jamaica and it is not imminent that they will be employed anywhere else not having any signed deal,” he said.
Last week, Air Jamaica boss Bruce Nobles denied reports that a large number of Air Jamaica workers were facing problems renewing their US work visas.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/26344/52/
“If the government of Jamaica did not pay, who paid? Who was the real client of Mr. Brady, who was the real client of Manatt, Phelps and Phillips? Who was actually paying for this lobbying effort in which the Government of Jamaica collaborated,” Dr. Phillips said.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/26351/26/
Whoever paid Brady received access to John McShane at the White House. This is now out of hand.I dont know Doctor Walker but I admire him.Bruce Golding does not understand satellite surveillance or he would stop doing some of the things he does. My cousin was a military analyst in Afghanistan he says they can tell you what brand toothpaste you use.
The entire Stone Love crew lost their visas today (6). Lady Saw lost her visa also.
Bruce is this worth it , all because of your political favourites?
Manhattan,
trying to stay unbiased here….
Manhattan, what proof do you or anyone else have that ANY visa rejection or loss is related to the actions of the JA Govt. or, related anyone but the individual who is having issues with their visa?
Clearly I have no proof, but if i were a betting man, i would bet that each year a few high profile people either lose their visas, or are denied. The same i would assume applies to entertainers. If anything couldn’t one just as easily propose that the recent issues being faced by entertainers is related to Buju currently being held for cocaine?
We all ‘love’ the blog for the information it provides (some useful, some not so much), but sometimes it would be great if some of the suggestions being made by members were substantiated with even a SHRED of tangible evidence…
cans on asensi]
I have no empirical data.It is obvious though that the visa cancellations are related to the poor bi-lateral relations between the US and Jamaica.
Email between the Prime Minister and Smith thanking Smith for paying for he conference (s) and SHRED of evidence is still being demanded hahahahahahahahahahaahahahhahahh
Financial Secretary Dr Wesley Hughes has contradicted a statement from junior finance minister Arthur Williams that Jamaica has passed its first International Monetary Fund (IMF) test.
Hughes, writing in this newspaper yesterday, said the assessment of Jamaica’s performance in meeting the March 31 target would be completed in another four to six weeks.
Williams had declared last week that Jamaica had passed its IMF test.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100407/lead/lead4.html
A wave of United Kingdom visa restrictions now looms for several Caribbean nations.
The possibility of these restrictions comes at the same time as current immigration rules make it tougher for Caribbean and other Commonwealth nationals to work or seek residence status in Britain.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100407/lead/lead3.html
The headline of the lead story yesterday, ‘Dudus will not hurt ties’, was not a quote from our interview with United States chargé d’affaires to Jamaica, Isiah Parnell.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner//20100407/lead/lead2.html
A norm is defined in the Oxford Dictionary as ‘… customary behaviour etc’.
Those of us, who have chosen to remain in Jamaica, may find ourselves in the insidious position where we have come to accept the nine killings we record every two days as the new norm.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100407/letters/letters1.html
JSE BULL RUN CONTINUED IN MARCH
The top 10 advancing stocks gained from 24.4 to 51.4 per cent over the month of March, led by Mayberry Investments, followed by GraceKennedy, up 44 per cent; Hardware & Lumber, up 41.4 per cent; Berger Paints, up 34 per cent; Radio Jamaica, up 32.9 per cent; Kingston Wharves, up 32.7 per cent; Jamaica Producers Group, up 29 per cent; Seprod, up 26.7 per cent; Pan Caribbean Financial Services, up 26.67 per cent; and Supreme Ventures, up 24.4 per cent.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/business/Jamaica-stock-exchange-bullish_7522571
What an unbelievable set of monthly gains!…ehh Nonco? How much per MONTH?
Nonco? Shhh…..you going to warn them?????
OLINT Jamaican Corruption Investigation coming?
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/business/Total-SA_7522772
n answering a question posed to him in Parliament yesterday, April 6th, Chris Bryant, Minister for the Overseas Territories appears to signal that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has heard and is acting on the advice of the Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC), as stated in the FAC report of March 31rst, for the UK to directly fund Helen Garlick’s efforts in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=2548&id=8
@theCynic
manhattan/larry etc is most likely the Doc.
When you have good recollection you can see the same posts, just different issue… you could the same with me if you looked… always on the side of logic 🙂
Recall the same bold and false statements about JA not getting IMF money… and others… same false no evidence statements meant for propaganda. same trying to make it look like it is not personal issues but he is being a patriot. Now he is at it with the visa issue… hehe.
The guy has his own personal issues caused by his own actions…
By the way… If you take your elderly relative’s money and inappropriately squander it in a high risk ponzi scheme… Shouldn’t your relative sue you for theft, gross mismanagement, gross negligence or breach of fiduciary duty or some such… And if mentally they are not in a position to do so… shouldn’t someone ask the state to do so on his behalf? hmmmm
This would be very appropriate especially if the relative’s money was squandered and they needed it… and if medicaid or some other gov agency had to pay out money they are entitled to go after the squanderer… are they not? States have brought cases against people for doing stuff like this to their relatives.
See when you are busy accusing other people of stuff you miss your own issues and what you are liable for… 🙂
Nonco, where is Brady’s response that he was ordered to produce in 24 hrs several weeks ago?
Wednesday’s adjustment by Manatt, Phelps & Phillips confirms earlier reports that attorney Harold Brady had contracted the services of Manatt as a consultant. Brady has handed over to the Solicitor General a report explaining his actions.
Information minister Daryl Vaz told journalists that the Solicitor General’s findings would be made public over the weekend.
http://www.sunheraldja.com/2010/04/pressure-on-manatt/
The visa issues are real. It is related to the Dudus affair, there is no hard proof, but it is consistent with how the US operates as a tactic for pressuring government.
it is highly unusual for the US embassy to give press release when it is revoking visa’s unless they want to do it as a statement. Sending the letter to a wide variety of airlines officials is the same as giving it to the press.
They could have just revoked the visa’s and them find out when them find out like anyone else.
It is highly unusual for so many name brand persons to be losing there visa’s at the same time. A message is being sent.
Not all visa’s been lost at this time is related to Dudus, but the higher than usual amount demonstrate that there is a correlation
What is the other rationale for the revocation of the Visas of these entertainers?
is it a result of Gay bashing? When did that become a reason to be denied a US Visa?
The visa issues are real. It is related to the Dudus affair, there is no hard proof…
That must be why who ‘recuses themselves’ from green card on the spot are back home and those who fuss are in Krome etc.
Many problems at airports relate directly to Olint….those blogs are over 2 YEARS old. Go back and read prophesy if you think is lie.
@floridian
What an unbelievable set of monthly gains!…ehh Nonco? How much per MONTH? Nonco? Shhh…..you going to warn them?????
LOL… A leopard never changes his spots and I suppose a ponzi scheme investor never does either.
Among the first rules of investing… after you see the big gains and want to jump on the bandwagon… it is usually already too late. Slow and steady wins the race. Every study always shows that people that try to time the market end up over time worse than those that use the slow and steady method.
Like all the other Olint investors you just cannot get it… We are not saying 10 % or greater returns are not possible in any 1 month… we are saying it is not sustainable over time.
But as I said before… it is actually now overdue for Jcans to find the next big thing… I know you are itching to find one… hehe… I cannot believe all this time later you are still thinking nothing was wrong with DS’s claims… claims were fine… it was just the man that was bad… LOL
@cullKull
The visa issues are real. It is related to the Dudus affair, there is no hard proof, but it is consistent with how the US operates as a tactic for pressuring government.
You are beginning like many other Jcans to buy the propaganda… same thing with Olint… spread half truths and to a conspiracy theorists it is plausible… spread something with no semblance or resemblance to anything real and even the conspiracy theorists will not believe.
This is not how the US actually operates… the folks whose visa have been revoked all have very valid personal reasons why.
If the US starts to deny or revoke high ranking officials and other high profile persons visa for no valid personal reason… then yes that is how they operate.
What message is sent by taking away a visa from someone that is not eligible for or would normally have his visa denied or taken away?
Nonco, “Slow and steady wins the race.,,,” yeah that’s how the feds do it but the warnings were not headed….oh well
David Smith tricked many ‘fools’…so too did Carlos Hill. One love…One nill LOL
But the ‘trick’ that now obtains is the real heights…sick
It is in your face (pre exposed to you and yours) and you have to slowly watch it unfold knowing the outcome…
As opposed to Smith who one had a chance to try to get out after heeding ‘warnings’…the answer back takes it a step colder…
You get warned every day….and you can’t do anything about it..
hahahahahahahahahahhahahaaa
Levels of the con, Nonco ehehehe
Smith con people having blindfolded them….now he will face one himself no blindfold..hahahahahaha
Slow…slow…slow
But he should not feel humiliated…none of them should….I don’t
hahahahaha
Early days..5 ace intact.
Deacon, you’re a good ‘sport’ right Sling?
So why not cool dung the bawl out…? When you did a con we wid you haw haw haw lol?…we did a bawl?
@ nocotec, on April 7, 2010 at 12:08 pm Said:
No one has a right to a visa, and the US can take it at anytime, without giving a reason and you do not have the right to appeal.
Most of the artists whose visa’s were revoked did not do anything new. what is new is the Dudus standoff..
The artists were always singing about gangsters/anti homo/ smoking weed etc.
we sometimes do the same behaviour we warn people about. Many people overlooked the obvious when Olint and Cash Plus began to dangle the 10 % with obscure financing.
We would also be overlooking the obvious if we do not see the visa cancellation as a tactic by the U.S.
quote from nocotec
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Worse there are some really, really unscrupulous, unethical, lazy or dishonest people in the local press… Take the story about the DJ’s losing visas… not to mention some of these JA DJ’s should never get visas in the first place… they are criminals involved with violent gangs…
But I digress… obviously the mailing list was a April Fools hoax… The US embassy does not release lists like that but local media had it like a legitimate story…
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this have proven to be false, as the mail was real and the DJ’s have lost there visa’s. but instead of admitting you are wrong, you still profer the argument that it is unrelated .
you have also taken the behaviour of a lot of the ponzi clients, who when proved wrong do not change there thinking, but try to put a different spin.
you have also seem condescending to determine who should/should not get visa’s. there was a thinking a while back that only brown uptown people from Jamaica should get visa. I believe the consular officer made the decision to give them visa’s like everybody else, and they are entitled to it like any other Jamaican.
Bruce has said that he would pay the price on this Dudus affair, what he really meant was other Jamaican will pay the price !!!
The Jailer and the Jailed are both in Jail. Floridian compass is way off, but yours might be off in trying to prove him wrong instead of judging the recent facts.
Them can study mi…
Compass off? So….the PM going to be indicted in the USA or not?
Take the plunge….put credibility on the line…mine is still intact and many detractors have come and gone.
most still read in silence though.
Work permits and visa revocations were written about on this blog long (years) before the dudus indictment became public.
Look back…it os there for all 2 see. Compass? fi wha?
Minutes of the Unsecured Creditors Meeting ofOlint TCI Corporation Limited (‘Glint
TCI) held on February 25 at the offices ofPwC.
Those in attendance were the creditors committee comprising:
• Dean Shaw
• Trevor W. Stines
• Rachael Eaton
• George Wilson
And the liquidation team comprising:
• lP.Connollly-Official Liquidator
• Caydion Campbell-Senior Manager
The meeting began with a review of the status ofthe liquidation:
The Official Liquidator confirmed that he had taken legal advice on the funds held by
Hallmark Bank and Trust Company Limited (Hallmark) and this had confirmed that these
funds are held on trust for those individuals or entities that had deposited money with
Hallmark.
The effect of this advice is that Olint TCI has no liquid assets to fund the liquidation. The
work that had been done up-to-date, which had assisted both unsecured creditors and
potential trust beneficiaries (PTBs), confirmed that Olint TCI was a ponzi scheme. A
significant number of the unsecured claims came from the transfer of the Overseas
Locket/Olint Corp.Ltd. liabilities to Olint TCI. Although there was a transfer of the
liabilities there was no corresponding transfer of assets which is one reason why there are
no assets available for the unsecured creditors of Olint TCI.
There is a claim by Olint TCI that has been filed against Glint Corp. Ltd, but our
preliminary investigation indicates that Glint Corp Ltd. has no available assets. It is
possible that a detailed investigation of the Olint Corp. Ltd. operations would reveal
contingent assets, but that would require the appointment of a liquidator (or similar
officer) in Jamaica to investigate the actions of Olint Corp.Ltd. There is no indication
that such an appointment will be made.
There are potential claims against those organizations that facilitated the ponzi scheme,
however such claims are far from certain and likely to be costly.
The continuation of the liquidation is dependent upon the PTBs continuing to fund
activities which serve the interests of both sets of claimants. The recently elected PTB
committee has restricted our work until the beneficiaries have been clearly identified.
The net effect of the above is that we have no funds to continue our investigation of
potential Olint TCI assets and that once the beneficiaries have been identified it will be
their decision what further monies, if any, can be expended on activities which will serve
both groups of claimants.
Without additional monies being made available the assessment from the Liquidator is
that there will be no distribution to the unsecured creditors. It seems clear that the
majority of these funds were lost prior to the transfer ofliabilities to Olint TCI by
Overseas Locket/Olint Corp. Ltd.
The Liquidator indicated that he would arrange a further meeting once the PTBs have
indicated what further steps, ifany, they wish to take.
J,P,Connolly
Report of the Potential Trust Beneficiaries Committee – April 6, 2010
As your duly appointed representatives, we recognise the importance of communicating to you the
information received and also informing you of further developments with the Official Liquidation Team
at PricewaterhouseCoopers TCI.
We therefore apologize that this communication is coming almost two month’s since our appointment.
This is due to the time it took to organize our first meeting with the Liquidator Mr. Connolly and other
members of his team, receive information that was requested and subsequently meet again to discuss and
arrive at a decision.
Now that we have received more details as to the status of existing funds as well as other funds that may
possibly be recovered, there are a few very important decisions to be made regarding how we proceed.
The Official Liquidation Team has submitted an invoice for approximately USD$250,000.00 which
represents both legal and accounting fees for work carried out between November 1st 2009 and January
31st 2010.
In the best interest of time and after evaluating the alternatives, it is our opinion that this payment should
be approved in order for further work to be done and to maintain the progress already made. However,
consequent on negotiations which we had with the Official Liquidation Team they agreed that a discount
rate of 15% should be applied to all future invoices. Additionally they have agreed to assign a relatively
junior but capable member of staff to conduct the majority of t he remaining clerical work to ascertain the
quantum of claims and then determine each members “net” claim..
Additionally you need to be aware that whereas there is a degree of certainty regarding the funds in the
Hallmark account, there is another sizeable amount of approximately US$4.5 million that appears to have
a relatively high chance of being recovered if proceedings are instituted by the Liquidator to recover the
same. The Liquidator estimates that it should cost approximately US$1.5 million for such litigation if
pursued.
Due to the sensitivity of such information in relation to the potential action we will not be able to provide
you with full details of all that has been discussed on the Website. However, we took the view that you the
members should have an opportunity to participate in the decision making process as far as is possible.
Therefore we have asked that the Liquidator provide you with that opportunity by the following method:
Please reply send an email to the liquidation team’s email responding to their request for payment and
whether to initiate and pursue the potential act ions to recover the additional US$4.5M with a YES or NO
answer.
Based on the number of emails that have been received by the due date, the vote will be counted for a
majority decision.
If your majority votes are YES, in respect of both questions then the payment will be approved and the
actions will be filed.
If your majority votes are NO in relation to payment, then the liquidator will file an application to court in
order to have the payment approved.
Submitted by:
Denise Kitson Dr Lloyd Goldson David Lee Doreen Forbes Alastair Macbeath
ACON? ……. Pap Dung?
I agree with Cullkull there is a connection with Dudus. Nocotec and the other pro-young turks JLP spin doctors are going to have a severe awakening soon.
The Feds send messages before they act. When politicians with a shady background like Bruce Golding confront the US openly they are asking for trouble.
A few years ago Golding was running a poorly managed bakery.He renounced garrison politics. Now he is befriending and embracing indicted cocaine traffickers in his capacity as Prime Minister.This is a catastrophe which has destroyed his administration. Rampant crime threatens tourism while Bruce facilitates Dudus’ contact with John McShane at the White House.
What next? A Grand Jury indictment? Maybe already sealed?
I invite Nocotec to review the indictment of JLP supporter Fitzroy Salesman who described himself to the Feds as a “close friend” of senior members of the Jamaican Government. See Miami Herald International edition April 5. It gives an idea of how the Feds operate.(Salesman was not allowed to call Jamaica on the day of his arrest for bribery.) How close was he to Bruce?He dropped Bruce Goldings name several times to the arresting agents and police officers. Why?
Maybe after his sentencing Saleman will tell the Feds in Ft Lauderdale more.Was David Smith a friend of Saleman too……..?Did Salesman have an Olint account ?Research gentlefolks, research.
@cullKull
Yow you need to emancipate yourself…
you have also seem condescending to determine who should/should not get visa’s. there was a thinking a while back that only brown uptown people from Jamaica should get visa. I believe the consular officer made the decision to give them visa’s like everybody else, and they are entitled to it like any other Jamaican.
We used to see the blog full of that crap… holding down small man… uptown holding down downtown…
And yes black people used to be slaves too… and yes only white people had privileges… so what. We know racism still occurs… And so you read into what I said that somehow I am implying only brown skin DJ should get visa. Wake up and get rid of the inferiority complex.
I said these DJ’s should not have visas in the first place because under US law they should not based on their personal behaviors… anyone engaging in those behaviors is not eligible for visas under US law and policy. And didn’t Barbados recently cancel a show with 2 of them… is Dudus cause that too I suppose.
If these visas have been canceled… it is more likely related to the DJ that was arrested in Miami and that he is probably giving up info on the others… and why did the US set him up… is it not obvious they had info on him before the setup… and on whom else from their sources? Why do you think that every adverse visa action is now related to Dudus… they happened all the time… you just did not have propaganda pushing it.
And by the way… Recall the VB guy that headed the notorious posse… how come he was released after only 8 years… they said he was responsible for over a 1000 murders… think back on the period of the indictment… obviously he cooperated 100 % and gave up a lot of West Kingston folks… that is how the Feds work… and there is another one up there giving up more recent stuff… But we try to find a conspiracy behind every thing 🙂
@manhattan
I agree with Cullkull there is a connection with Dudus. Nocotec and the other pro-young turks JLP spin doctors are going to have a severe awakening soon.
LOL… hey doc now I have a new angle… this stuff is really hilarious… Pro JLP… hehe… I am not partial I do not like JLP idiots just as much as I do not like PNP idiots… Don’t worry, If some JLP idiots start frequenting the blog… I will soon be anointed as a PNP supporter …. you guys kill me. LOL
Whenever you don’t like my message I am a supporter of the other side… anti olint first then pro Olint hehehe…
And yes doc has been spreading propaganda from the start and continues to do so… hmmm… Did doc not report we would not be getting an IMF loan? hehe
SURPRISE!
Attorney-at-law Harold Brady has failed to convince Solicitor General Douglas Leys that the American law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips had corrected the “false claim” that it had been contracted to represent the Jamaican Government.
But the Bruce Golding administration is yet to decide if it will exercise its option of taking action against the attorney.
“I can’t tell you what action is being considered … but I’m sure that you will hear after everything is perused as to what the actions are, if any,” Daryl Vaz, the minister with responsibility for information, told a post-Cabinet media briefing yesterday.
After going through the documents submitted by Brady, the solicitor general returned them to the Cabinet indicating that he was not convinced.
“Because, obviously, this matter has implications both ways,” Vaz said.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100408/lead/lead2.html
In the Trafigura scandal, confidential information was illegally passed on to Mr Golding and the person who did that was seen as a heroine. Why is Doe not a hero?
Mr Golding, you cannot eat your cake and have it.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100408/cleisure/cleisure2.html
The Trinidad government has fired the board of a state agency that oversees billions of dollars in public construction and is the subject of a corruption probe.
Attorney General John Jeremie said the four-member board and senior staff at the Urban Development Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago, or UDECOTT, could face criminal investigations.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100408/business/business1.html
THE United States Department of Transportation (DOT) has failed to grant a desperate request from Air Jamaica by April 5, 2010, that would have allowed the airline an easier transition to ownership by Trinidad-based Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL).
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/air-jamaica-misses-deadline_7517302
Phensic Nonco….take a Phensic
In addition, Senator Dorothy Lightbourne, Attorney General, has been instructed to write the US law firm once again.
She is to make it clear that attorney-at-law Harold Brady was not acting on the government’s behalf when he contracted its services.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/26404/26/
“In addition”…hahahahaha…yes massa…right awasy massa..hehehe..hawhawhaw haw
Put or shut up says Vaz
Harold Brady.
When asked if Harold Brady will be made the fall guy for the scandal in order to protect others, the information Minister could not say.
He was also asked directly about allegations of his own involvement and that of other government officials in meetings with the US law firm.
“Absolutely not. After people make accusations such as that, it’s time to come with the evidence and I challenge anybody to furnish any evidence to implicate either myself or the Prime Minister at any of these meetings,” Mr. Vaz replied.
AGAIN???? Deja vu? The last time it was Put Up that prevailed. Brady got his knickers in a twist and then scurried away…fast.
‘Strategy need a change now..’
Record needle stuck Nonco… re-calibrate the old compass Nonco. Try find ‘True North’
Put up or Shut Up?
Financial analyst Dennis Chung says Shaw can ill afford not to address the issue surrounding whether Jamaica has passed the IMF test.
Junior finance minister Arthur Williams had declared a pass last week but Dr Wesley Hughes, the permanent secretary in the finance ministry, says the result may not be known for weeks.
Air Jamaica’s visa?
Failed agreement
Airline insiders yesterday told The Gleaner that the delay in finalising the deal was linked to the Government’s failure to secure an agreement with the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) for Air Jamaica to continue flying to that country during the transition period.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100408/lead/lead1.html
The Attorney General confirmed that Helen Galrick’s team has taken over the prosecutions of the David Smith and Olint criminal cases because, as he stated, they overlapped into her areas of investigation.
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=2552&id=8
‘The proof is in the pudding’
The Attorney General
At the end of the press conference the Attorney General, Kurt da Freitas, answered a question about how his department and tenure had come in for such strong criticism in the recent FAC report by making a short statement bemoaning what he said was his unfair treatment since he said that he had not been approached by the FAC to answer any questions before they produced their report. He also said he felt he had been unfairly maligned by the media over the last two years.
Members of the FAC, Commissioner of Inquiry, Sir Robin Auld and Special Prosecutor Ms. Helen Garlick, have all indicated in no uncertain terms that holding elections in the TCI next year would not make sense.
http://www.suntci.com/
David Smith case linked to corruption probe
A well placed source in the Attorney General’s Chambers says the David Smith financial crimes case is linked to Helen Garlick’s corruption probe and that’s why the Attorney General Mr. Kurt De Freitas, QC, agreed for the Special Prosecutor to take over the matter.
Reliable sources had told The SUN that one of the reasons why Garlick and her team were asked to take over the prosecution of the case, was because it was felt that no one in the Attorney General’s Chambers was capable of handling the many serious charges against Smith. The SUN has now learned from the source that this information was incorrect.
Meantime, The SUN understands that Garlick’s probe has extended beyond the former ministers of Government who were recommended for prosecution by Sir Robin Auld.
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=780
After going through the documents submitted by Brady, the solicitor general returned them to the Cabinet indicating that he was not convinced.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahhaa…hawhawhawhawahwhaw..haahhheheheh..hahahahhaahhaaa
At 30,000 feet it may look different Douglas Leys..hahahahahahaahaa
@ nocotec, on April 8, 2010 at 1:36 am Said:
although this may be a side issue you .. you seems to imply that I must be a black person with an inferiority complex to show up the flaws in your argument… look at the substance
the U.S has freedom of speech as one of there hallmarks, so DJ’s and Rap artists , Rock and other popular music sing about drugs,sex,gangsters and a whole litany of topics.. somehow you feel that only our DJ’s should be refused visa as they would go and pollute the U.S. airwaves.
A lot of our DJ’s are Studio badman , Just like how Rambo is only a movie badman and the Terminator is a Governor of California.
you still have ignored the obvious and still offer that maybe is Buju and Vivian Blake and others maybe the ones who are causing the DJ’s to lose there visa’s . Sometimes we fall into the same behavior we warn people of.
Do not ignore the obvious .
your words
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But I digress… obviously the mailing list was a April Fools hoax… The US embassy does not release lists like that but local media had it like a legitimate story…
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you have been prove incorrect, but you still find an alternative explanation !!!!
The same way in which people said Carlos Hill was a crook and was jailed for fraud, the people said they need proof to believe that, when proof was supplied they said that he has changed and mean people well.
Being on the Blog too long makes people become dogmatic and polarized..objectivity seems to be a casualty of zealots.
my simple point is that you may be right on a lot of issues, but you are wrong on the visa cancellation issue, it is related to Dudus … you do not lose points, your erudition is not being questioned..
Do not be like Bruce, who is sacrificing his integrity by defending a wrong position with this whole Brady/Dudus affair
Lobbying Pact Puts Manatt at Center of Jamaican Political Storm
The three Manatt partners identified in the FARA filings as playing a role in the Jamaican lobbying effort–Manatt, Schmidt, and litigation partner Kevin DiGregory–either declined to comment or did not return calls when contacted by The Am Law Daily.
Mukasey adds that in his experience it would be highly unusual for an outside firm to get involved in an extradition case on behalf of a foreign government.
“I’ve never heard of a foreign firm being hired by a private government to fight a U.S. extradition,” says Mukasey, the son of former U.S. attorney general Michael Mukasey. “U.S. firms fight extradition all the time on behalf of individual defendants..
http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/amlawdaily/2010/04/jamaica.html
Nationwide- “Brady han di hextradition matta”
Harold Brady, “Now, let me start at the.. the… last statement made by the Minister of Information. My Position is, knowing what he knows…. knowing that I know what he knows… and having proceeded to make those statements after post cabinet briefing…..he is either daft or he needs to have his head examined..”
Brady you sound like a defendant! hawhawhawhaw… you want the tape of the first breakfast club? For what? Sick a dat!
Brady you sound like David Smith…hmm Deacon?
Brady, “…I dealt with Samuda for a long period of time.. Karl has been around… so have I for that matter…”
Hugh Cliff
Brady says your Nationwide News Network needs to get to your research… what a dis
The Disapora abroad is very concerned about what is currently happening in Jamaica. The PM needs to go to Florida and address the diaspora.
Some business leaders of society should go to address the concerns of the Jamaicans overseas. Maybe Leeeching, John Issa , Butch Stewart could go with the PM and reassure the diaspora in Florida that things o.k
@cullKull
my simple point is that you may be right on a lot of issues, but you are wrong on the visa cancellation issue, it is related to Dudus … you do not lose points, your erudition is not being questioned..
Ok… you should know that as I stated way back… there are some people that really really hate people that are ‘always right’… they are always trying to dissect what you said to find some perceived error and then they latch on it like a pitbull … you should know I have always had this problem since school… and I do not care 🙂
But to the issue… you on the one hand quote me in saying some of these DJ’s should not have had a visa in the first place… and implying brown skin v black spin babble… In other words, I am saying I am not surprised if their visa got canceled cause they should not have had them in the first place… you made hay out of that.
The 2nd thing you are all over was my mailing list/April fools hoax and the embassy does not release mailing lists like that… This was taken from the context of a rjr story on the website that implied their was a ‘mailing list’ going around that the reporter had seen… A mailing list which was apparently in the hands of a reporter. I stand by my statement that the embassy does not release mailing lists like that…
Obviously when visas are revoked as in the case of UDC chair… the embassy must notify the airlines… this is how he found out at the airport. Apparently someone at an airline converted this normally confidential group of people whose visas were revoked to a mailing list and forwarded it on to various folks… the list that the reporter came from somewhere but not sent to them by the embassy… so pick at it all you want.
You then state I am wrong on the visa issue and that it is related to dudus and I will not lose points… Ok… so where is your evidence for your statement… you previously said you had none but it was your belief… but now it is to be accepted as fact with no evidence offered… reminds you of the ponzi schemes?
Incidentally on the DJs… My statement is not about their lyrics… it is about actions… I know… you do not have to accept that I know or how I know that many of these DJs are involved in really bad stuff… you can continue to compare it to Rambo… you should do some investigation… not hard in JA.
Winner media byte of the month
“Because, obviously, this matter has implications both ways,” Vaz said.
Very quick wit!
hahahaha…hahaha…
The source noted that a senior lawyer Patrick Patterson, who has worked in the Attorney General’s Chambers on ocassion and who has dealt with several civil litigation matters on behalf of the AG’s Chambers, had been handling the Smith Case as the lead counsel.
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=780
Nonco, At school your language teacher would have told you that your whole paragraph:
“Ok… you should know that as I stated way back… there are some people that really really hate people that are ‘always right’… they are always trying to dissect what you said to find some perceived error and then they latch on it like a pitbull … you should know I have always had this problem since school… and I do not care”
could have been abbreviated with, “I’m Noncs and I’m insecure”
You could even spice it up by adding “Jamaica is largely where it is today because of people like me” or some more interesting path for the reader like “my insecurity though dear to my heart….finds its source in history”
Spice up the writing Nonco…The boasting is fine…but spruce up the writing for your fans.
Live&Let Live? Meetings?…..
US Press Highlights Manatt Saga
The continuing saga involving the Government of Jamaica and the American law firm Manatt, Phelps and Phillips has attracted the attention of one of the most respected legal publications in the United States (US).
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100409/news/news6.html
Good to be reminded that the source of choice is right here on this blog. Keep reading Gleaner!
EDITORIAL – Speaker Chuck Should Recalibrate
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100409/cleisure/cleisure1.html
Recalibrate the Compass? Keep reading the blogs Gleaner!
“Over and again, as we sat on the tarmac waiting for our flight to get to the top of the take-off line, he kissed teet, switched back and forth between the three BlackBerrys clipped on to the seat pocket in front of him and swore that he intended to buy his own plane so that he wouldn’t have to wait “pon dis eff-ry”. He was way down the line from the top-ranking but he was big enough in his own mind.”
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Barbara-Gloudon-April-9—Entertainers-life_7524416
Deaco? hahahaha
We would like to place for consideration before the public, what we feel is one of the most important steps we can take in order to eliminate corruption and create a better life for all citizens and residents of the Turks and Caicos Islands.
As long as success during an election is determined by the money that a candidate or party raises in order to buy the favour of the voters, there will always be a strong incentive for corruption. Thus, in a minor or major way, we will be doomed to repeat some of the more embarrassing events of the last 30 years.
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=2553&id=8
Olint stolen money paying for election campaign?
Furthermore who could argue against the need to revise the whole political and administrative system?
Answer; perhaps those who wish to exploit that very system?
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=2556&id=8
Christie argued that while the procurement process used to select Brooks appeared to be impartial and transparent, the country’s security officials
fell asleep at the wheel when it was time to do background checks.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100409/lead/lead2.html
‘fell asleep at the wheel’….that’s why the bus constantly in the body shop
[I]test [/I]
@ nocotec
quote
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Ok… you should know that as I stated way back… there are some people that really really hate people that are ‘always right’… they are always trying to dissect what you said to find some perceived error and then they latch on it like a pitbull … you should know I have always had this problem since school… and I do not care 🙂
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I learn as I have gotten older. you make assumptions. same false assumptions that the ponzi clients make, showing that we are not much different from those who we oppose. You assume that somehow I/(any others who find fault with your logic) are lurking to find fault and prove you wrong.. ha ha ha.. well that may be true of Floridian as he is always here posting everyday.. I tune in every couple of months to see what is new/catch up
I was a person who was looked on as being ‘always right’. it served me well at first, but that I learned that it becomes harder and makes thing a bit drawn out , especially when I am on shaky grounds. It is sometimes better to acknowledge the correction and effect it.
it makes one good at being a spin doctor, but it may alienate you from people who then start regards you as being somewhat disingenuous
for example . Harold Brady said one thing ON RECORD.. he was not dealing with any extradition matter/ has nothing to do with Dudus issue in relation to Manatt Phelps. The Solicitor General said the opposite and said how Harold Brady engaged him about extradition matter and how to deal with the Dudus affair via Manatt Phelps.
When confronted with the evidence, Harold Brady then said,
1.we are focusing on the trivial, but we should be focusing on the more substantive issue.
2. He is not saying the Solicitor General is wrong and Harold Brady is not wrong either , and even if the position are direct opposite, he will not reconcile them because of lawyer/client privilege.
he then dances around the issues, that is how people who think that they are always right operate.. after a while, people who start question their integrity.
WE ALL MAY BE GUILTY of putting what we think as the truth, because you posited that you know the DJ and there nefarious activities.. without proof and that others should investigate it. That is spurious logic at best. We could use that to malign anybody.. I know XXX is drug runner / gunman and if you do not know you have not done your homework as good as I .. which is wasteful boasts..
you and others have posited that we should always check the facts .. not what someone claims. ask them to back it up .. remember “David Smith is a top 5 trader ?”.. and if you do not know that, somehow you have not done proper research.
I could address a lot of your other points, but I always wonder what would happen when two people who are always right get into a battle on the internet…. answer a lot of heat but very little light.
“I tune in every couple of months to see what is new/catch up”
Same diagnosis as Noncs here Kull. Rampant Pandemic in Jamaica.
Thanx for all the info Floridian, I logged on from 6 this morning and i must say i am enlightened, keep on doing what u doing
You don’t need to explain why you ‘tune in’ and meticulous reporting of the frequency with which you do or don’t can only be some personal guise.
Fawning does not really work on this blog. There are many who have learnt that…too many to mention. But they know themselves.
Anyway How about that Brady interview on JLP radio? The man backpedalled faster than those bloggers we no longer here from this long time….albeit clumsy bar none he did it fast.
Washington Post want talk to him…’busy singnal’ hahahahaa… Duke of Jester need to seek an exclusive interview for Brady scarcer than Deqacon David Smith. The management style shows the ever predictable similarity.
Well Brady is Cash Plus and Bertram Hill iii is on the Olint list ..so nothing unexpected there.
Noncs/Kull why them asking their fans thoughts on calling an election?
I listened to the interview yesterday morning too, and knowing how some of these guys operate its not gonna be long before people start “deading”
GOLDING FACES BIGGEST FOREIGN RELATIONS TEST — BBC
Friday, April 09, 2010
BBC Caribbean is reporting today that the US extradition request for “alleged drug lord” Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke has provided the JLP Government with its biggest foreign relations test in office.
The article quoted an editorial in Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper on Monday, which said that the Coke case had “caused a rift in the relationship with Washington”.
Coke is wanted in the US on drugs and gun charges. The Bruce Golding government has so far refused the US’ request for his extradition, stating that the evidence used to indict Coke was obtained illegally.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Golding-faces-biggest-foreign-relations-test—BBC
OLINT has been their biggest ‘problem’. It will continue to be. The big elephant of Belmont Road is OLINT. They will comment on Manatt and all kind of things. They never speak OLINT out them mouth. With good reason.
It is not what is spoken of….it is the unspoken that is screamingly obvious.
Deacon?
Nonco takes it up but alas Nonco…love alone is not enough.
The incident threatens to expose political corruption in the government of Prime Minister Bruce Golding…
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/seeking-mr-coke/article1522834/
What????
“The case places Mr Golding in an extremely difficult situation with both domestic and international political implications,” said the Economist Intelligent Unit in an assessment.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news/story/2010/04/100409_coke.shtml
Golding administration silent on latest Manatt revelation
There has been a deafening silence from the Bruce Golding administration nearly 24 hours after a revelation concerning the Manatt, Phelps and Phillips Affair.
The attorney at the centre of the deepening saga, Harold Brady, suggested on Thursday that he and Information Minister Daryl Vaz knew more than they were letting on.
Our news centre has been trying unsuccessfully to reach both Mr. Vaz and Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) General Secretary Karl Samuda who has been assigned to speak on issues relating to the Manatt Affair.
No statement has been issued by any of the parties in response to Mr. Brady’s pronouncement.
On Wednesday, Mr. Vaz suggested that Mr. Brady would be punished at the party level because he had not adequately cleared up the Manatt, Phelps and Phillips mess.
The attorney was supposed to submit documents making it clear that he was not acting on the government’s behalf when he hired the law firm.
Talk of punishment saw the attorney fighting back when he was interviewed on a radio programme on Thursday.
He issued a veiled threat to Daryl Vaz, which seemed to suggest that both he and Mr. Vaz knew more about the issue than has been revealed to the public.
His comment also seemed to suggest that the information, if revealed, would be damaging to Mr. Vaz.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/26453/26/
In attempting to stem reports of Mr. Vaz coming under fire from inside the party, Mr. Samuda said the controversial Manatt, Phelps and Phillips matter is being aggressively examined by the party.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/26474/26/
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? is a Latin phrase from the Roman poet Juvenal, which is literally translated as “Who will guard the guards themselves?” Also sometimes rendered as “Who watches the watchmen?”
Mrs. Simpson-Miller says there is considerable confusion in the minds of members of the government about their party political interests, affiliation and loyalty and their public duties.
According to her, given this level of confusion and the continued failure of Prime Minister Golding and his government to provide the necessary answers to the numerous questions posed an unimpeded commission must be established.
“I really think the Prime Minister should, because if this issue continues with this kind of confusion that is currently taking place, both Jamaica and Jamaicans in the Diaspora will be affected. I believe it’s time the government takes a serious stand on this particular issue,” Mrs. Simpson-Miller said.
She added that the decision to refer the matter to the JLP General Secretary will only add to the confusion.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/26473/26/
PRESSURE MOUNTS ON GOVERNMENT
JCC, PNP want independent probe into controversial US law firm issue
Saturday, April 10, 2010
The JCC also urged the Government to deal with the matter “in a manner which removes it from the centre of the controversy and which allows the findings to be regarded as credible”.
Noting that the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips controversy has become a matter of real concern for the Government, business sector and the nation, the JCC urged that the independent investigation be carried out expeditiously.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/JCC-PNP-pressure_7525410
A Cabal Within The Government?
But this is, sadly, Jamaica. Nobody resigns from anywhere or anything. Not even where co-conspirators/defendants have confessed or been convicted in other jurisdictions. Not even when an elected member of parliament has been charged and is facing trial in the courts of the land.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100410/cleisure/cleisure3.html
FSC Announces the Closing of TCI Bank
“Obviously, we must await the conclusions of the provisional liquidators’ work; but I am afraid that depositors must expect that they might not be able to recover all of their savings.”
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=2557&id=8
There is nothing in the law authorizing immigration officers to grant Belonger status. Only the Governor has that authority. The Governor then has to follow the procedure authorized by law which is to issue a Certificate of Belonger Status with his seal and signature on it.
This process can even amount to a criminal offence (Tampering with an Official Document, or Defacing an Official Document).
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=2558&id=8
THE EMBATTLED Attorney General has broken his silence after months of attacks questioning his integrity, dubbing the allegations “grossly unfair”.
Kurt de Freitas – who is shortly to exit the post – has often come under fire in the media for apparent ineptitude.
Tensions reached a pinnacle following the damning Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) report released last week which claimed Mr de Freitas “turned a blind eye” to Government corruption for five years.
http://www.tcweeklynews.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=1&twindow=&mad=&sdetail=1976&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=2404&hn=tcweeklynews&he=.com
If 1,250 acres were sold for $12.5m the land must have been sold for a pitiful $10,000 per acre.
Sold at its real value – estimated by locals to be around $200,000 an acre – the Government could have received up to a whopping $250m, enough to settle national debt.
The issue is now in the hands of special prosecutor Helen Garlick who is investigating a wealth of potentially corrupt transactions.
http://www.tcweeklynews.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=1&twindow=&mad=&sdetail=1975&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=2404&hn=tcweeklynews&he=.com
DEA has played a tape of Walker radio interview with D’Aguillar to senior State department staffer together with corroborative evidence.Schmidt silent at lawyers instructions. PM ‘s report to Embassy makes Brady the scapegoat.
Brady visa under pressure.
Nonotec I am not the doctor.You have reduced the blog to personality assassination rather than free exchange of views within a logical
and respectful framework. Let us keep the discussion polite and civil.Even if you are not well bred, pretend.
THE PLOT THICKENS…
Sunday, April 11, 2010
In the meantime, the controversy has deepened with the latest utterance by Mr Harold Brady, the attorney-at-law accused of taking it upon himself to hire US law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips on the Government’s behalf without the Government’s knowledge.
According to Mr Brady, the Government knows more than it is letting on.
Surprise!
We think the entire country has known, for some time now, that the Government has not been coming straight on this issue, which seems inextricably linked to the ‘Dudus’ issue, from the get-go.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/EDITORIAL-FOR-APRIL-11–2010
‘Surprise!” hmm where have I seen that before? Good to know Observer that like the Gleaner and RJR you are on the blogs regularly. The IP addresses tell no tales. 🙂
Far more telling are the hours that have passed since Mr Brady’s rather damning hints during a radio interview on April 8, that Information Minister Daryl Vaz is hiding information.
Who? Shalimar?
According to yesterday’s edition of our sister newspaper, JCC President Milton Samuda said the matter has now reached the stage where it warrants independent investigation.
We submit that the matter has been begging an independent investigation for some time now.
What next?
Sunday Observer.
What next Observer? Ans: OLINT strap on you seat belts.
But Horace Levy, the outspoken peace advocate who frequents volatile communities, has refused to give significance to the graffiti.
He described them as a calculated move orchestrated by a worried JLP to slander Phillips.
“The JLP is pretty desperate,” declared Levy
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100411/lead/lead1.html
Another Jamaican who is also a US resident was willing to comment but was stopped in his tracks by his female companion, who was not travelling. While he was unpacking his overweight suitcase laden with bun and cheese, the man said he was not concerned for himself, as he was a green-card holder, but he was concerned about the possibility that more Jamaicans could have their visitor’s visa revoked. But before he could speak another word, the woman who was helping him offload the bun and cheese into smaller bags, leapt into the conversation and said, “we don’t want to say anything.”
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner//20100411/lead/lead5.html
hhahahahaa…your name on the OLINT list baby? …or is IRS you thinking of?
Manatt Mystery, It’s a conspiracy!
The matter was abruptly taken out of the hands of Information Minister Daryl Vaz following heated public exchanges with Brady late last week and placed under Samuda’s responsibility.
Samuda also declined to outline his terms of reference when pressed by The Sunday Gleaner. “I am not going to comment on either the process or progress being made on what we are engaged in at this time,” he asserted.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100411/news/news1.html
‘Conspiracy theory’ Nonco! hahahahahahaa..hh
Perplexing situation
This is a most perplexing situation. Our Government is denying that it had a contract with MPP. The US lawyers say they had a contract with the Government and reported that they were paid a part of the amount of money contracted. Citizens ought to believe the word of their government without demur. Integrity and transparency require that our leaders tell us the truth and not lie to us. They may chose not to tell us something at a particular point in time, but when they talk to us, we must be able to trust their word.
Mr Brady has further whetted our appetite for truth with his recent comments about what he knows that Minister Daryl Vaz knows but seemingly the rest of us are yet to know. The reputation of our country has been seriously damaged by what appears to be a scandalous and dastardly attempt to mislead senior officials of a friendly foreign government. The damage is being compounded by the incredible cowardice, if not complicity, on the part of our government in abandoning its responsibility to always protect and preserve the best interests of Jamaica. Outsourcing that function to a political party, as the Cabinet is attempting to do, is tantamount to an abject betrayal of the nation. The Government should resign and save Jamaica further shame and disgrace. O what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100411/cleisure/cleisure5.htmlh
What if one of those ministers, who are being, or who might at some time be investigated, is the prime minister (PM)?
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100411/focus/focus2.html
THAT 800-POUND GORILLA IN THE ROOM, AGAIN
The prime minister disdainfully dismissed the questions, saying he had to deny the former national security minister the headlines he was seeking.
No one was engaged to represent Jamaica and lobby the US government, the prime minister affirmed. And Mr Brady, identified in the documents as a government consultant authorised to engage Manatt to provide the services described, was a ‘mistake’ which was corrected “last year”, presumably some time after the arrangement began in October.
But as the weeks passed the headlines and editorial comments have not been going as Mr Golding appeared to expect when he spoke March 17. The Opposition has kept up the pressure and a sceptical civil society keeps demanding more and better information to close the gaping holes in the official stories.
To ease the pressure, the Government instructed Mr Brady to submit proof of the correction of the ‘error’ to the solicitor general.
Now, if Mr Vaz is to be believed, the solicitor general does not believe Mr Brady’s story. “What the Government is saying is that, based on what documentation has been provided to the solicitor general, it shows nowhere that (MPP’s claim that it was representing the Government) has been corrected.” So the plot thickens.
Clear the air, prime minister
Mr Golding owes the country a full and clear explanation of the events. Like the proverbial 800-pound gorilla in the room, it cannot be ignored. It’s too big and the implications are too grave, especially at a time when the Government needs to focus on the daunting task of guiding the economy and the society through an extremely difficult period, which requires fixity of purpose by the state and unprecedented cooperation by all of us as citizens.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Claude-Apr-11
Jay Brown
4/11/2010
Bruce cannot wiggle his way out of this one.
This is what happens when you cannot manage the people under your charge.
This is what happens when private money is used to fund elections and those who provide the funding believe they are “bigger” than the country itself.
I wont call any names but the emails are their for everyone to see, you just have to look with your eyes wide open.
—Private money or stolen money Jay?
There also needs to be some mechanism to provide temporary credit to individuals so that they can buy food and other necessities in the immediate days ahead. Some depositors find themselves with no cash in their pockets and with no way to buy food, having to rely on the generosity of already stressed family and friends.
Insiders were telling the public their money was safe, while at the same time removing their own funds from the bank. (Shareholders and politically connected individuals.) There should be a commitment by the authorities to examine all large withdrawals over the last six weeks.
Many politically connected individuals, as well as NIB executives, have received sweetheart deals by way of massive unsecured loans from the bank.
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=2562&id=8
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=2560&id=8
Senate Judiciary Committee contacts FARA office re “What is going with this Manatt-Jamaica crap?” We want a report now!
Nonco…I found yu neighbour…voting for…
gary lee
4/11/2010
I may be naive but what is wrong with hiring a US law firm to advise on US govt. matters, the matter of the extradition treaty as it applies to US laws and vice versa. If Dudus was indirectly benefited by the hiring of this law firm to advise the govt. I see no harm or wrong on the part of govt. He is innocent until proven guilty, and a Jamaican citizen whose rights the govt. are trying to protect. He is not required to appear before a US court without ample and legal evidence. The US govt. must tread carefully as their laws do not supersede ours.
Gary, even leaving the GOJ alone for the moment….this could totally destroy Manatt, Phelps, Phillips ..for starters. You know how many employees they have and what is the mean salary? Do some research Gary. This is not no “my parents were veranda labourites with veranda and a waters time…old time thing dat…the 80’s have passed.
THAT 800-POUND GORILLA IN THE ROOM, AGAIN
gary lee
4/11/2010
It is too early to pass judgement on the JLP as caretakers in govt.. Let them simmer two more years, then vote in a third party if things do not improve, meaning crime and inflation.
Talk about ‘boxed in’ is begging them turn to now? Can’t blame them. For there could be nothing else but begging.
Deacon, Dem a beg you a ting.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Claude-Apr-11
It will be VERY interesting to see what the JLP will tout as its major accomplishments during its time as the ruling party.
Mr Golding owes the country a full and clear explanation of the events. Like the proverbial 800-pound gorilla in the room, it cannot be ignored. It’s too big and the implications are too grave, especially at a time when the Government needs to focus on the daunting task of guiding the economy and the society through an extremely difficult period, which requires fixity of purpose by the state and unprecedented cooperation by all of us as citizens.
I wonder if the ‘nayba dem’ understand what happens after a clear explanation?
They think that means bruce will still be there!
hahahahahahahahhahahhaahaahahaaaahahahahha
Lloyd Scott
4/11/2010
It is apparent that Mark Wignall would go to any length to circumvent the real issues at hand.Jamaica is being administered by the most incompetent regime ever in our fifty-plus years of becoming an independent nation! Yet Mr.Wignall would do anything to equate this clueless JLP government with the PNP.
And,yes, Mark, what about the present impasse between the GOJ and Washington? Not a single whisper from you,yet you write this nonsense about the PNP being broke.Is this of national interest? FIY, Mr.Wignall, the way it stands now, the PNP does not need to campaign to win an election if it is called now because the people have realized their mistake in voting the JLP into office.Bear in mind that they were doubtful,and hence, the meager majority.
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But Horace Levy, the outspoken peace advocate who frequents volatile communities, has refused to give significance to the graffiti.
He described them as a calculated move orchestrated by a worried JLP to slander Phillips.
“The JLP is pretty desperate,” declared Levy.
He suggested that Phillips was being targeted because he seems to be the point man in the Opposition in relation to both the extradition and the Manatt, Phelps and Phillips-Harold Brady affair in which the JLP administration is embroiled.
Means nothing
Levy argued that the presence of the graffiti in PNP strongholds does not mean anything. “Men could have gone into PNP communities into the night, sprayed them on the walls, and got away with it.”
But there are others in West Kingston who are of the view that Matthews Lane has been estranged from Phillips since Donald ‘Zekes’ Phipps, the leader of that section of West Kingston, was placed behind bars two years ago on a double-murder conviction.
They claim that Phillips turned his back on Zekes, who supported him in the 2006 presidential election.
Phillips, who maintains that he will not support any form of criminality, was depicted in graffiti painted in other communities as being an informant to the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100411/lead/lead1.html
In an editorial printed last week, one of Canada’s largest Newspapers, The Globe and Mail has weighed in.
It adds that the incident threatens to expose political corruption in the government of Prime Minister Bruce Golding, underscoring the reality that criminal gangs and politics are still linked in Jamaica, as the two main political parties rely on garrison dons to produce votes during elections.
RJR
EDITORIAL – Karl Samuda’s Disingenuous Observation
Published: Monday | April 12, 20100
It is the habit of Jamaican governments to view criticism and critique purely in personal terms and to impute narrowly partisan, political motives to those who do not agree with their policies and positions. The trait is increasingly obvious in the current lot.
Clearly, Karl Samuda, who has been given the assignment to clean up the Manatt mess, is inventing a political spectre with the probable intent of corralling the JLP base. For, he knows better.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100412/cleisure/cleisure1.html
Senate Judiciary Committee has subpoenad Vaz and Brady’s travel records
together in November of 2009 on American Airlines from Jamaica to Washington DC. This info comes from Manatt. Vaz did not tell us that he travelled to Washington in November of 2009 and saw Manatt with Brady. Airline tickets dont lie. Manatt is spilling the beans……Obstruction of Justice, messenger for Dudus…….?
Manatt affair to dominate JLP meeting
The Party has been left in an uncomfortable position as the saga surrounding the hiring of the US firm to act on behalf of the Government in treaty matters continues to deepen.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/26499/26/
Uncomfortable? People a get indicted!
Who? When? Where?
The Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC) is moving to dissociate itself from statements reportedly attributed to Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) General Secretary Karl Samuda which suggest that the private sector group is acting in collusion with the Opposition against the Government.
“I am not surprised although I am a bit disappointed in the reaction of the honourable minister, it reminds me of the reaction of the former government when we issued the statement on Trafigura. People will see conspiracies where none exists and I ask him to accept that it is purely a coincidence. I would suggest to the Minister to listen to the message and ignore the form of the messenger,” Mr. Samuda said.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/26498/26/
Always in the news ehh Jay? Loiten Lawyer, Cash Plus lawyer, Prime minister lawyer and the many David Smith lawyers…
Trafigura concerned campaign finance. Trafigura is more akin to David Smith taking money stolen from the people of Jamaica and others around the World and buying influence and ‘protection’.
Seems like that money was WELL spent by Mr. Smith. Up to now not a SINGLE charge, mention, note, ANYTHING reached him from Jamaican authorities.
All is not as it SEEMS Cynic.
The Cuban light bulb trial resumed Monday morning with star prosecution witness, Rodney Chin, testifying that he received more than $371 million in government contracts while he was an accused in the Cuban light bulb affair.
Under cross examination by defence attorneys, Mr. Chin said he received 10 government contracts when he was charged in the matter and an additional eight after the criminal charges were dropped.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/26508/26/
Levy, known for his relentless activism for sustainable peace in volatile communities, stressed yesterday that his comments in The Sunday Gleaner were not intended to impugn the leadership of the JLP.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100413/lead/lead4.html
“The JLP is pretty desperate,” declared Levy.
Bankers Association Statement Regarding TCI Bank
The Banks licensed in the TCI, represented by the Bankers Association, regret the failure of TCI Bank and extend our sentiments to staff, depositors and investors. We will act sympathetically towards customers of TCI Bank requiring access to banking services in the coming days, weeks and months, wherever practical and reasonable.
The failure of TCI Bank, while an isolated incident, is truly regrettable. It is a challenge to the reputation of the country and the sector that the remaining banks will need to face.
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April 13, 2010 – Press Statement from Bankers Association of Turks & Caicos
Bankers Association of Turks & Caicos
Press Statement
12 April 2010
Bankers Association Statement Regarding TCI Bank
The Banks licensed in the TCI, represented by the Bankers Association, regret the failure of TCI Bank and extend our sentiments to staff, depositors and investors. We will act sympathetically towards customers of TCI Bank requiring access to banking services in the coming days, weeks and months, wherever practical and reasonable.
The failure of TCI Bank, while an isolated incident, is truly regrettable. It is a challenge to the reputation of the country and the sector that the remaining banks will need to face.
We would like to take this opportunity to reassure the public that the remaining licensed banks in the TCI are strong, stable and well capitalised.
Banks in the TCI are in a strong position due to a number of reasons: conservative lending policies and security-backed lending; international parents or majority shareholders; years of experience and a proven track record.
All of the retail banks currently licensed in the TCI benefit from significant shareholding or complete ownership by international or foreign institutions including CIBC, Royal Bank of Canada, Scotiabank and Cayman National. In the case of the private banks which are generally not in the lending market their capital ratios far exceed the required international standards, e.g. TCBC (Turks & Caicos Banking Company), Hallmark Bank and Bordier International Bank. Most banks operating in the TCI have built a strong and successful track record over many years.
All the banks in the TCI are well capitalised and respect lending limits set by national legislation which do not allow one lender to borrow more than 25% of capital and ensure assigned capital to risk weighted assets is not less than 11%.
Despite over a year of unparalleled turmoil in the financial markets, world economy, national economy and national politics, existing licensed banks in the territory remain in a strong position. This is testament to our conservative business models, and strong lending practices.
– Ends –
Notes to editors:
About the Bankers Association of the Turks & Caicos
The Bankers Association was incorporated in December 1999 to represent the banking industry in the TCI and promote and protect a successful banking sector through the use of information, representation and collaboration. The association represents 8 licensed banks holding over $1billion in assets.
Current members of the Bankers Association are: Bordier International Bank & Trust; Turks & Caicos Banking Corporation; Scotiabank; FirstCaribbean International Bank; Hallmark Bank & Trust; British Caribbean Bank; Royal Bank of Canada, and International Banking Group.
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=2576&id=8
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/tools/cartoons/ed-cartoon-apr-13-2010
http://interceder.net/news/Harold-Brady
http://interceder.net/news/Manatt-Phelps
mi hear seh dudus jury charge bruce, brady and vaz and dem seal it down. Dem a wait to see whether bruce gwine sen dudus.what a preke! bruce gawn a jail. obama nu like bruce, him say bruce is a liad.dem have ten thousand jacan visa fe cancel. Mi glad mi have mi blue passport from last year. afta bruce dem gwine start on de syrian dem.Dem want to know how
saleem get him american papers wen him down a tivoli everyday.
dem know bout LIVITY also and which bike Lawyer Tom give him to ride. all kinda picture abeam up from Tg nowadays.Dem know Tom give Vaz the check, and dem know where de check came from. Dem need to know how a shady car dealer tun Minista?Dem know what agwan inna standing committee an who dudus plan to kill next up a brooklyn.
brady trying to cut a deal with the feds to chat the truth.
HB has got an immunity agreement from the Southern District of New York, to speak fluently and clearly about dear DV and our beloved PM, the Hon BG’s involvement in lobbying for Dudus,
Of course, this was done behind the backs of the above mentioned with the help of Manatt lawyers- true Brady style!!
@ Harry,
If you have the facts to back up what you have said then fine, post the link.
There has been a lot of misinformation being spread in this case, and your comments above seems to suggest that may once again be the case.
@ Bagjuice,
Big man ease up off the rumours dem.
Lets keep the conversation as close as possible to the truth, to much ” mi hear dis and mi hear dat”.
BG will not speak on OLINT and will not speak on Bradygate/Manatt.
For Obvious reasons.
I have been reading these blogs, and am really puzzled at the basic dishonesty of many who have written up here.
For the record I am totally uninvolved as either an ‘investor’ or ‘participant’ in any of the Olint saga. Therefore I have no ax to grind other than to help in getting to the truth – not the nonsense that I have read up here.
I have been sitting on the sidelines listening to many of the those involved directly in this so-called investment scheme.
The “Rich Businessman’ story is NOT about Joe Issa, but somebody else. This was put in the cowardly Butch Stewart rag, as he is losing his case with John Issa and just being spiteful.
Sure, Joe is got too close to the head thief who ran this Ponzi scheme, and was just as greedy and naive as the rest of you who believed there was some magic in getting 10% a month.
Remember high risk = high rewards. This is pretty basic isn’t it?
Oh please!
Most of the comments up here sound like somebody who went to the casino and lost their money and bawled for it back after wards.
Remember the old mantra from Goldman Sacks? For those who don’t know, it is this:
Bulls make money – Bears make money – and PIGS get slaughtered.
This is the whole story isn’t it?
And the Shell story – well the coward who is spreading that rumour should recognize that the source of the money is in the public record. He/She is staying anonymous as they know the repercussions of being honest enough to stand up and be seen.
And finally……………our friend Nesbeth who thinks he can throw stones. Isn’t he the same guy who was caught stealing J$30m from Shell and had to bargain his sorry ass from jail in the Resolutions Disputes Agency. He is the last person to bawl – he is a thief and liar – but underneath knows it, too.
Hey Nesbeth, bet you would love to know who gave you up so you got caught by the cops as you tried to run to the airport and escape justice…………well you can continue wondering. Just remember everything you get up is known. It will be even more interesting when the truth about you gets out…….
Otherwise, carry on writing, but all should understand that Smith had your cash, wasted it on high living and a big Ponzi scheme – and his crew of cronies got any. spare cash before the pyramid crashed down.
Heh heh heh, you sound like an Issa supporter or the man himself. Aren’t you guilty of the very same thing you are accusing others of? You are quick to point out the follies of others as it relates to the subject of the article, yet went on your own tirade about “Nesbeth”, someone I can’t remember being a target of any discussion on this blog. Don’t you see that on the surface, it DOES appear that you DO have an axe to grind….maybe you should take your “grinding” somewhere else….silly you!!!
Mike D. I admit to knowing Joe Issa, but it does not make me blind to his folly either. What stung me into writing was the blatant abuse of the free press by Butch Stewart. The hinted ‘young businessman, etc’, was in the fact somebody else. But Stewart tried to hint otherwise for his own ends. Hence the comments I made.
The reason I mentioned Nesbeth, is that he has been kicking up a storm in the USA, claiming to be a US citizen and not the same crook, who stole from Shell. I suspect the money he stole is the money he invested in OLINT. I also know he has contributed to these blogs under a false ID.
My issue, which was my intention, was to point out the hypocrisy behind some of the postings up here. Not to defend anybody in particular. The one common denominator is the general failure to acknowledge that all confidence tricks are based on playing on greed of the ‘investor.’
The sad truth is that everybody has been screwed by Smith, who did not trade for over two years before the scheme crashed. (This information came directly from somebody from King Fish). Yet most of those who lost their money, did so, when he was actually running the Ponzi scheme. I also understand that Smith was actually trading before but offering much lower interest payments. It was the advent of Cash Plus, which took away the income that drove him into the 10% a month syndrome.
Is this justified? Of course not! But getting the truth out there does matter, as well.
There are also those who invested in Cash Plus. I read about how Carlos had recently come out of jail in the USA before coming down here to do the same thing, yet folk here decided he was ‘a man of the people’ and still gave him their cash.
My interest is to discourage the ‘crabs in a barrel’ syndrome and focus on getting the crook and his cronies into jail for their fraud on innocent (but still greedy and gullible) people. Beating up each other only distracts everybody from salvaging what they can.
I suggest strongly you read the liquidator’s report (if you have not already and apologise), as this confirms a lot of what I am saying.
Take care..
Consumer and business confidence in the economy have plunged to their lowest levels since 2003.
The drop in the confidence levels come despite the government inking a deal with the International Monetary Fund.
The agreement is billed as a means of getting Jamaica out of the economic downturn.
But a recent survey has shown that the confidence in both sectors is woefully down.
Head of Survey at the University of Michigan Professor Richard Curtin presented the findings at press conference Monday morning.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/26545/52/
The survey also found that job availability remained the bleakest ever recorded for the second consecutive quarter.
A record 93 per cent of consumers surveyed reported that jobs were scarce while only 17 per cent anticipated better job prospects in coming months.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=18407
‘You and yu nayba…voted fi layba’
JAMAICA IS IN DEEP CRISIS SAYS OMAR DAVIES
“What must not be forgotten is that the stock of debt has increased by 55% under this Administration.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Jamaica-is-in-deep-crisis-says-Omar-Davies
…not the nonsense that I have read up here.
Which (if any) email is untrue?
The “Rich Businessman’ story is NOT about Joe Issa, but somebody else. This was put in the cowardly Butch Stewart rag…
So who is the story about? Who is Butch being cowardly against if not Issa?
“Sure, Joe is got too close to the head thief who ran this Ponzi scheme…”
Joe can speak for himself. A confident public statement like Brady’s own can set everything straight.
“…and was just as greedy and naive as the rest of you who believed there was some magic in getting 10% a month.”
Problem (for you it seems) is that ‘greed and naivete’ don’t carry a sentence when taken in isolation. Nor do they inhibit people seeking restitution.
“And finally……………our friend Nesbeth who thinks he can throw stones. Isn’t he the same guy who was caught stealing”
This logic is a prevalent disease…it permeates society a lot. Especially recently. Because someone is corrupt that is my defense for being corrupt. come on. David Smith robbed me…and others….if I rob him then the same horrid fate that he can never escape won’t reach me?
Because you were at a funeral was why I led one….
“Otherwise, carry on writing, but all should understand that Smith had your cash, wasted it on high living and a big Ponzi scheme – and his crew of cronies got any. spare cash before the pyramid crashed down.”
And while he did these things I never bawled. So why the bawling that he faces the music? I’m not even face no pressure yet!
Squealing like a what? …ehh a what? a P….I…G??????
Anyway thanks for therhetoric. “Non Olint ‘investors’ and ‘participants’ take the time to read the blogs.”
The Internet Protocol Addresses and the providers accounts have never lied but thanks for the ‘reminder’
What a lot of ‘non-participants’ read so regular….
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=internet+address+lookup&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
Was David Smith greedy? Who cares???
Is David Smith naive? Certainly.
Is he alone there? No.
Bwoy pull a antics and don’t know which way is up…..a nuh mock exam.
@larry: Nonotec I am not the doctor.You have reduced the blog to personality assassination rather than free exchange of views within a logical and respectful framework. Let us keep the discussion polite and civil.Even if you are not well bred, pretend.
I know you are not the doc… just his alter ego or twin 🙂
Lets see now… I am not well bred… hmmm… I guess unlike you, my parents did not get around to that… they were too busy with teaching me how to avoid the following:
1. Lie and worse do so continuously
2. Spread rumors, lies and propaganda.
3. Posting on one blog under several pseudonyms continuously… attempting to convey that it is several persons saying the same thing, thus attempting to give credence to the lies, rumors and propaganda
4. Greed chokes puppy
5. How to not get greedy and how to spot ponzi schemes
Shall I go on?
The facts are that there has been no evidence presented that any visa cancellations to date are related to the dudus affair. Interestingly the Observer had an article recently about the cost to the DJ’s bottomline of visa cancellations. The persons quoted in the article that know the DJ’s, such as managers etc referred to speculation about personal issues such as taxes… none of them were quoted referring to the cause as the dudus extradition matter.
In other words, if you know people that know many DJ’s, their managers etc… one knows that many are involved in bad activities. I believe it was the Herald that wrote recently about a supposed paid informer on one DJ… it is far more likely this person would also give info on other DJ’s too… After luring that DJ into a trap, it is unlikely that others would be that dumb… it is more likely visa cancellations followed. This is a far more likely scenario than the dudus matter.
The US method is readily apparent in the process with Iran… Officials, company heads, law enforcement personnel etc are the ones targeted for visa cancellations or denials. These are not persons that would otherwise not get visas.
Go figure… let us say the relationship had deteriorated to the point of visa cancellations… so you go about canceling the visas of people that otherwise would not get a visa… hmmm. So if the relationship thaws… what will they do to show the thaw, give these people back their visa… lol
GOV’T FAILS IMF DEBT CRITERION
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
THE Finance Ministry confirmed yesterday that the Government failed to meet the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF’s) debt target, but declined to say whether the multilateral agency will overlook the missed target.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/business/Goverment-fails–misses-IMF-debt-target-by–17-billion_7528844
Primary responsibility
As the chief executive of the state, the primary responsibility clearly rests with Prime Minister Golding, who must show that his executives, the Cabinet, are clean and uncompromised.
Mr Golding might start by personally interviewing each member of the Cabinet, minister of state and parliamentary secretary about his or her connection, affiliation or relationship with gangs, gang leaders or their proxies and/or other criminal elements. Ministers and parliamentary secretaries must also declare whether they are, or have been, engaged in acts of public corruption or other illegalities, and these declarations should be legally binding.
Further, the sworn declarations should be buttressed by polygraph tests, which prime ministers should make mandatory for membership in their Cabinets, but which, preferably, should be written into the Constitution.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100414/lead/lead2.html
More importantly, we can assure you that all of the principals involved in this crisis have given assurances that they will appear as soon as it is appropriate to do so to give a full public accounting of their respective roles in this matter.
All the same, we are extremely concerned about what failures not only in the management but also in the FSC’s supervision of this bank may have contributed to its closing.
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=2582&id=8
Nocotec, Do you think that a Cabinet Minister who has lied to Parliament and the public about the Manatt affair should attract US sanction?Should this be a criminal sanction if it affects US National Security, leading to a mis-statement to the daily White House briefing? Should it matter if the mis-statement also obstructs the Grand Jury as Floridian and the Observer seem to suggest?There may be big news on this soon, so your humble opinion is craved?Perhaps visa cancellations are enough?Has this Jamaican Cabinet shown any respect to the Grand Jury in the Southern District of New York ?
The Gleaner’s article on the use of polygraph tests is an excellent piece of journalism, to be commended to both political parties.It may be too late for this Government but if promptly adopted might avert US-Jamaica bi-lateral catastrophe.
BOTH PRIME Minister Bruce Golding and Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller are aware of the widespread perception that Jamaican politicians are linked to gangs and criminals and are, therefore, complicit in the criminality that has contributed to more than 460 murders so far this year.
Yet, these leaders of the Government and the Opposition do nothing, or little, to purge these apparent links to criminality.
Who is lying?
http://www.sunheraldja.com/2010/03/who-is-lying/
@manhattan: Nocotec, Do you think that a Cabinet Minister who has lied to Parliament and the public about the Manatt affair should attract US sanction?…
Ok doc or twin…
What is your fascination with the US while claiming to be patriotic… your entire goal seems to be to get the US to do our job and or to punish the country. If a minister has done what you allege, he should face sanctions in JA. What the US does depends on breaches of US law and is up to the US.
The extradition of Dudus should occur to honor our treaty as long as he first has due process in JA under the treaty. However any idea that this will somehow make us a better country is an illusion at best.
His father had his role before him… faced extradition and died in jail… he took over the role. Crime has only gotten orders of magnitude worse since then… and we did get rid of that one person.
Thinking somehow that the US punishing the occasional person, while successive govs do nothing to rein in the problem, is not going to help us and has not. Your clamoring for the US to intervene is nothing but your political partisanship at work. The 2 political parties have the same relationship with criminal elements and that is our major problem.
“What is your fascination with the US while claiming to be patriotic…”
Nonco is that question directed to dual citizenship MP’s? Or is it directed to a dual citizen Director of Elections?
Because both the MP’s and the Director were in breach of the rules then it’s all o.k?
Really green there Nonco.
The ‘both’ argument has been on the rise (as predicted) recently. With indictments the ‘both’ argument will be screamed..I’m sure. The thinking show will be officially changed to the “both argument” show.
A lot of “both argument” on the horizon. Boring….but what else can they do?
@floridian
It is partisan idiots that help to make the country so bad. These idiots think that the problems are limited to the other party when in reality the problem is entrenched to both parties.
When I asked you the specific question that if the wiretap of dudus occurred during the PNP gov, how come he was not arrested and charged in JA. As usual your one track brain ignored the question since it challenged your partisan agenda.
With regards to dual citizenship… This is just you devoted to the former colonial masters. The dual citizenship matter arose because the former colonial masters wrote this into the constitution. Nothing great about it… they wanted the ability to retain their positions after independence and so commonwealth citizens are allowed to be MPs.
This means that for example a white Australian is deemed to be a more patriotic ‘citizen’ and can become an MP than a retuning Jamaican that became a citizen of the US and returns with the goal of helping his/her country.
However partisans like you see it as a JLP problem. The entire dual citizenship thing in the constitution is crap and a vestige of the colonial masters. It should be amended to simply require that all candidates declare their citizenship and residences at nomination. Voters are then free to elect whom they think can best represent them.
All you do is scour papers to find something that seems to agree with or support your warped views and ignore all else.
See…same ting..the “both argument” (which by the way is a cop out. Full stop)
LASHING out at the rampant level of corruption in the country, Reverend Dr Roderick Hewitt, senior clergy of the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, said he has lost all confidence in any of the two major political parties to solve the country’s desperate crime situation.
“People are losing confidence in our political parties and also other leaders who are constantly getting themselves involved in corrupt activities,” the clergyman said.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Political-parties-can-t-solve-crime-problem–says-reverend
OLINT pastors and feeders have NO immunity.
Wha happen to The sing for supper network?
The singing get loud recently and voices cracking and shaky…..wha a gwan ? Supper look short for the team? Only eight dinner for the first eleven? What happen when only half a dinner in front a yu?
Don’t turn on each other like Brady!…..learn fi share di bikkle wi unno one an odder.
MAJOR SHAKE-UP AT PCJ
A major shake-up at the senior management level of the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ) has been ordered by the board of directors, the Observer learnt last night.
According to a highly-placed source, the decision was taken after a review of a forensic audit of the PCJ that was ordered some time ago.
The source did not give details, offering only that the measure will likely result in the separation of at least two of the PCJ’s top executives.
A statement is expected today from the board.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Shake-up-at-PCJ_7529969
Of Bradygate…
Outright Lies And Half-Truths
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100415/letters/letters5.html
“Both Argument” on the rise (as predicted)
The following press statement by McAllister Hanchell “Piper”, who was Minister of Natural Resources in the Michael Misick administration, and thus oversaw crown lands, is quite fascinating. At the heart of his “defense” is to say that he did nothing different than what others did.
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=2590&id=8
@floridian: “Both Argument” on the rise (as predicted)
LOL
Typical ponzi scheme investor brain… The argument is correct… it is both. However the one track brain focuses on only one side of an issue and cannot see the other side…
Sort of like… there is going to be lots of gold at the end of the Olint rainbow… cannot see the other arguments… so loses shirt…
By the way… It is interesting how you and the doc are patriotic Jcans…. the pseudonym you chose for your blog identity is interesting. No longer consider yourself Jcan? 🙂
Man Jcans can believe in conspiracy theory… People like the doc’s lawyer, doc & floridian have manged to confuse the confused… 🙂
This quote from the embassy in the Observer yesterday is their actual position on the visa issue. Of course you will not see those quotes from floridian, doc or his alter ego, it goes against the propaganda they are trying to spread…
Visa validity
In recent weeks, the US Embassy has received numerous queries from individuals, who want to “check on the status” of their visas. The Embassy Consular Section usually issues 10-year tourist visas, which are valid until the date of expiration, unless they are misused or the visa holder takes an action that changes his or her qualifications. The Consular Section must provide cancellation notice to visa holders who are no longer considered eligible for visas or have misused them. In many cases, consular officials are able to make appointments with the visa holder to discuss the cancellation and to ensure that they have the correct information and that the visa holder understands the reasons for the decision. Because consular officers follow this process, they do not respond to queries about current visas. Unless a visa holder has abused his or her visa, there is no need to verify its validity.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Ask-the-embassy_7528571
THE United States White House and State Department declined yesterday to confirm or deny reports out of Washington that a career diplomat has been identified as ambassador-designate to Kingston.
“A career diplomat has the requisite skill to manoeuvre in a situation where there is disagreement with a foreign government. They are almost always deployed to trouble spots,” the Observer source said.
And Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding has found a detractor in the influential Canadian newspaper, the Globe and Mail, which described Golding as “unwise” in a recent editorial on the issue.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/US-Dudus-continues_7529858
“impeccable source” …. once again, very strange how the observer has the BEST sources now, but a relatively short while ago, not a PEEP on Olint and what was REALLY happening. To this day, not a PEEP on what if anything IS happening.
Observer, your “impeccable” sources not even able to find out what’s going on with Mr. SMith? Mr. Strachan (Haven’t heard from HIM in a while), Mrs. Loiten? Max Higgins? Ok, easy one…. Carlos Hill? He’s right here in Jamaica!! (Not implying that the other’s aren’t here pretty regularly themselves. Who knows?)
Nonco di man still deh a Krome! Mi naw go tell u him name…who fi know know already… (Hhahaha sound like Brady Noncs haha)
Di odder one take the deal cut up the green card a turn back! Dem nuh tell him no reason….Him nuh ask neither…smart
Sometimes the time short and a quick decision and goodbye to the emotional ties of a green card is best.
Stop mislead people Nonco…leave the lobbying to Manatt….they are large and that is what they get paid to do. 🙂
How about the leadership and a select set of corporate giants from Jamaica keep a press conference at Disney in Orlando to show the sheep…I mean public that everything cool….
Is that 2 much 2 ask? A few yet to be sold private aircraft could ferry the gang up and back in a few hours…
or…they could fly ‘commercial’ hahahaha…ehh Deacon? Deacon when last you fly commercial?
US EMBASSY SAYS VISA CANCELLATIONS NOT POLITICAL
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/embassy-cancels-visas-for-jamaicans
So it’s PERSONAL then?
Hmmm…. If we follow floridian the doc and their lawyer the French will soon have their visas canceled 🙂
Surely the non-proliferation of nukes is higher on the US agenda than Dudus… after all he just had 47 head of states to Washington to discuss it… largest such gathering of heads of states since world war 2…
France Goes Against U.S. on Iran Less Than 24 Hours After Nuke Summit Ends
Only 24 hours after an Obama-led summit won solemn pledges from world leaders to crack down on proliferation of loose nuclear material and know-how, prosecutors in France signaled that they were backing away from supporting a U.S. attempt to extradite an Iranian businessman accused of acting as a clandestine purchasing agent for Iran’s nuclear and missile programs.
In March 2009, Iranian citizen and resident Majid Kakavand was arrested by French authorities after the U.S. lodged a request for his extradition in connection with an investigation of alleged smuggling of U.S. technology to Iranian military entities. An indictment from April 7, 2009, issued by federal prosecutors in Northern California, charged Kakavand and two codefendants with running an international network that allegedly purchased thousands of military and commercial products from American companies.
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/archive/2010/04/14/france-goes-against-u-s-on-iran-less-than-24-hours-after-nuke-summit-ends.aspx
Anybody who confuses a cocaine trafficker with a military merchant is not worth
debating with.
Noncs, Plant some cassava. If you ‘loose’ in OLINT and you are family to the right Minister and/or the ‘right’ political analyst you can collect back the Olint loss through contract if you keep quiet.
Constrction contract a reach people who never work in construction yet…have mercy
“Put your X beside the head!” ..memorable…unforgettable…Fortuitous.
Run wi it. Take the money yes. Don’t spend it one place though. Take it to Canada all you want.
One thing…when the *^% hit the fan? DO NOT BAWL SEH YOU WERE NOT WARNED.
Phd in marketing rasta belt? No shame? Just teef.
US on the verge of blocking levy on international calls
There are revelations that the US Government is on the verge of blocking the Bruce Golding administration from continuing to access millions of dollars through a special levy on international calls terminating in Jamaica.
The fund was set up in the wake of the liberalisation of the telecommunications sector to provide a special pool of resources to outfit Jamaican primary schools with computers and to provide access to broadband internet under the e-learning initiative.
The former Minister said that to date $7 billion has been collected and placed in the consolidated fund but many intended projects under the e-learning programme have stalled because the government is using the money to finance other activities.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/26604/26/
Fire trucks running out of fuel
The response mechanism of the Jamaica Fire Brigade could grind to a halt Thursday in the wake of reports that the Department’s trucks are close to running out of fuel due to the non-payment of the gas bill.
t is reported that Advance cards which are used to purchase fuel for the trucks have not been topped up by the Department of Local Government and service stations are refusing to provide petrol on credit.
General Secretary of JALGO, Helene Davis-White, says the fuel shortage facing the Fire Brigade has reached crisis proportion.
“It seems like everything is grinding to a slow halt in the Fire Brigade at this time. There is no petrol and we understand that in some instances vehicles are parked because tyres are not available. The fire fighters are concerned because the public may not be aware of what is happening and there may be a perception that they do not want to carry out their duties but they are prepared to carry out their duties, they just don’t have the wherewithal,” Mrs. Davis White said.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/26610/26/
Advance card? Done like the Trowbridge/Smith Compass MASTERCARD?
He explained that the delay was due to issues concerning the new Budget.
“As you know this is the end of a financial year and the beginning of another one, we’re in the middle of the Budget Debate….
Is you craft that answer Nonco?
Unusual lobbying case strains U.S.- Jamaica ties
Thursday, April 15, 2010
But now, the unusual arrangement has fallen apart amid a flurry of charges and countercharges that have reverberated from Kingston to Washington.
And above it all hangs a question: If the government of Jamaica didn’t pay Manatt, who did?
The dispute highlights the opaque and sometimes risky world of international lobbying, in which governments, political parties and foreign companies hire well-connected U.S. lobbyists in an attempt to sway Washington policies to their advantage.
“It was unusual, but this whole case is unusual,” said one administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case.
The agreement — worth $100,000 per quarter to Manatt — was co-signed by lawyer Harold C.W. Brady of Kingston, a ruling party member who was “authorized on behalf of the government of Jamaica” to make the deal, according to the contract. Brady had already paid just under $50,000 to the U.S. law firm two weeks earlier, records show.
The records filed by Manatt under FARA regulations say only that “treaty issues” were discussed. But administration officials confirmed that the conversations were primarily focused on the Jamaican government’s opposition to extraditing Coke.
Brady, who did not respond to telephone messages left at his office in Kingston, has said in radio interviews that the contract he signed was “a mistake” and that he was actually representing an unidentified private client.
State Department spokesman Charles Luoma-Overstreet said that “any question of the retention of counsel by the government of Jamaica should be directed to them.”
The Jamaican Embassy in Washington referred questions about the case to the Ministry of Information in Kingston; officials there did not respond to a request for comment.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
THE WASHINGTON POST
Dispute involving Manatt law firm, accused drug kingpin strains U.S.-Jamaica relations
By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, April 15, 2010; 4:43 PM
Last fall, the blue-chip law firm of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips signed a $400,000 contract to lobby on behalf of the government of Jamaica, spending the next several months talking with the White House and other administration officials about why the United States should not extradite an accused Kingston drug kingpin.
But now, the unusual arrangement has fallen apart amid a flurry of charges and countercharges that have reverberated from Kingston to Washington. The government of Jamaica claims it never hired Manatt; the attorney who arranged the deal says it was all a big misunderstanding; and opposition leaders allege that Jamaica’s prime minister was doing the bidding of a fugitive the United States wants to arrest.
And above it all hangs a question: If the government of Jamaica didn’t pay Manatt, who did?
The controversy has rocked Jamaican politics and further strained the Caribbean nation’s relations with the Obama administration, which has grown increasingly frustrated in its attempts to bring the alleged drug dealer, Christopher “Dudus” Coke, to New York for trial. The country’s prime minister, Bruce Golding, has led efforts to resist Coke’s extradition, arguing that the efforts to bring him to this country are based on illegal drug and gun charges.
The dispute highlights the opaque and sometimes risky world of international lobbying, in which governments, political parties and foreign companies hire well-connected U.S. lobbyists in an attempt to sway Washington policies to their advantage. The law firm at the center of the Jamaican case is headed by Charles T. Manatt, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee who also represents the Dominican Republic, where he served as ambassador a decade ago.
It is not illegal for a foreign government to hire a private law firm to lobby in an extradition case, but it is highly unusual, according to U.S. officials and lobbying experts. Such diplomatic negotiations are usually handled through embassies, government ministries or other official channels, officials said.
“It was unusual, but this whole case is unusual,” said one administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case.
Administration officials said they had no reason to believe that Manatt was representing anyone other than the Jamaican government. The Manatt firm, which is headquartered in Los Angeles, declined to comment, citing client confidentiality.
Coke, 41, has been labeled one of the world’s most dangerous narcotics traffickers by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and is suspected of playing a major role in supplying marijuana, cocaine and weapons to the East Coast of the United States, according to U.S. officials and court documents. Prosecutors say Coke’s organization, called the “Shower Posse,” operates from an impoverished area of west Kingston called Tivoli Gardens, which is a stronghold of the ruling Jamaica Labor Party and is represented by Golding, the prime minister.
A sharply worded State Department report on global narcotics trafficking released last month said that Jamaica “remains the Caribbean’s largest source of marijuana for the United States” and that delays in extraditing Coke and other drug suspects “have called into question Kingston’s commitment to law enforcement cooperation with the U.S.”
Some Jamaican officials and celebrities have accused the United States of retaliating for Kingston’s lack of cooperation by denying U.S. visas to a series of reggae performers and student track athletes; U.S. officials say politics played no role in the refusals.
According to Justice Department records filed under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), Manatt signed the contract to represent the government of Jamaica on Oct. 1, about a month after Coke’s indictment was unsealed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
The agreement — worth $100,000 per quarter to Manatt — was co-signed by lawyer Harold C.W. Brady of Kingston, a ruling party member who was “authorized on behalf of the government of Jamaica” to make the deal, according to the contract. Brady had already paid just under $50,000 to the U.S. law firm two weeks earlier, records show.
Attorneys from Manatt had at least six contacts with Obama administration officials over the next three months, including one meeting in mid-December that included a Jamaican minister and officials from the State and Justice departments, according to U.S. officials and documents. Those contacted by the law firm included John McShane, the White House’s intelligence officer for the Western Hemisphere, and Bisa Williams, a deputy assistant secretary of state who has since been nominated as ambassador to Niger, documents show.
The records filed by Manatt under FARA regulations say only that “treaty issues” were discussed. But administration officials confirmed that the conversations were primarily focused on the Jamaican government’s opposition to extraditing Coke.
The Jamaican Embassy in Washington referred questions about the case to the Ministry of Information in Kingston; officials there did not respond to a request for comment.
The Manatt contract became a public issue in Jamaica on March 16, when Peter Phillips, a leading member of the opposition People’s National Party, confronted Golding about the arrangement in the Jamaican parliament. Golding denied any knowledge of the agreement, kicking off weeks of back-and-forth allegations between political factions in Kingston.
Phillips said in an interview last week that “at the very least, it appears that the imprimatur of the government of Jamaica was lent to an exercise that was dedicated to serving the interests of Mr. Coke.” He also questioned where the money paid to Manatt came from if not the government, suggesting the funds could have come from Coke or his associates.
“Coke is a big figure, a notorious figure, who is very influential in the constituency of the prime minister,” Phillips said. “It looks like they cooked up this entire harebrained scheme so they could get the U.S. to stand down, which obviously was not going to work.”
Two days after the parliamentary confrontation, a senior Manatt partner, Susan M. Schmidt, filed papers with the Justice Department announcing that the firm had “ceased activities on behalf of the Government of Jamaica” as of Feb. 8. The firm has not reported receiving any payment from Brady beyond the $49,000 retainer on Sept. 18.
Brady, who did not respond to telephone messages left at his office in Kingston, has said in radio interviews that the contract he signed was “a mistake” and that he was actually representing an unidentified private client.
Tom Tavares-Finson, a Labor Party senator who also serves as Coke’s defense attorney, said in an interview that “we don’t know anything about” the contract with Manatt.
State Department spokesman Charles Luoma-Overstreet said that “any question of the retention of counsel by the government of Jamaica should be directed to them.”
“We are hopeful that we will be able to reach a resolution with the government of Jamaica with respect to the extradition request, in keeping with our solid record of law enforcement cooperation,” Luoma-Overstreet said.
Thanks Bruce for bringing shame to every Jamaican.
Imagine, the Newspaper that the US President, US Senators and Congress read has written an article like this!!!!
What’s next for poor Jamaica?
Titled, ‘De pon di line’, the advertisement has a drawing of Golding in a business suit walking a tight rope between the bell of the Jamaica Labour Party and the lighthouse of the National Democratic Move-ment (NDM), which he founded before walking away to return to the JLP ahead of the 2002 election, in the process disrespecting one of the greatest leaders of Jamaica- Edward Seaga.
His attire is completed by a striped tie, in the colours of the JLP and the NDM and, for footwear, he has chosen loose-fitting rubber flip-flops.
From one side of his mouth, Golding is affirming his passion for the NDM, and from the other side, he is saying he has no desire, or yearning, or appetite to go back to the JLP. The tag line at the bottom of the page asks the questions, ‘Can You Trust this Man?’
ANSWER:
a) Yes because he will sacrifice himself for one man based solely on principle
b) No- he is a scamp who has received political and personal contributions from Mr. Coke and therefore he does not want to send Coke to the USA.
Who else would Coke incriminate- most likely many members of the JLP cabinet.
Rattid- that would cause the government to collapse and they would not be in a position to tief peoples homes like the Hamilton family home in Cherry Gardens.
So which is it: A or B ?
Is there a court case still going on, with the david smith case.What the latest
@garth: Imagine, the Newspaper that the US President, US Senators and Congress read has written an article like this!!!!
What’s next for poor Jamaica?
First dude… DO NOT POST ENTIRE ARTICLES ON THE BLOG, POST EXCERPTS ONLY, IT IS A COPYRIGHT VIOLATION BY YOU.
LOL.. Dude here you go again… different name again doc? larry/garth et.al. hehe. Note the same fake crap the doc has in his letters and on the air… supposed concern for JA while working to sabotage the country… LOL… nice try
These political nuts… lost their money, idiots they were… and then set out on a campaign to destabilize the country… most likely writing/contacting the newspapers etc that are publishing these articles …
Do you recall the destabilization of the country when their socialist heroes were in power in the 70’s… his supposed hero Seaga (yeah right) did the same type of thing… helping to get negative articles in the foreign press… leading to major declines in tourist arrivals… panic etc.
Does this remind anyone of the same political partisans of a different era… visa panic by spreading lies as I showed above… possible affect on the tourist trade by negative foreign press articles… and calling for sanctions against the JA people.
Nonco, why are you so uptight? Why Why Why
The great sage Nonco…the hero who warned and saved the ‘fools?’ The legendary Nonco who lost nothing and made no material gains through fraud or Ponzie?
Why Nonco? Why? Writing in Caps and Bold and all that..
Why Nonco? WHY are you so UPTIGHT?
Even I am worried for you now.
Nonco? You use the toilet since mawnin?
Nonco, I think you should give the blog a rest for what is coming in the OLINT case might be too much for your blood pressure.
Mr Golding had claimed that the Government would not be swayed by concerns that Jamaica’s relationship with the United States could deteriorate…
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=18509
August 16, 2009
Ian Boyne
Did the Government wait too long to acknowledge the global crisis, and would an earlier acknowledgement and preparation put the country in a better position today? Was the Government wrong or dishonest in brushing aside earlier suggestions that they were gong to the IMF? Would an earlier approach to the IMf have put the economy on a better footing, and would it not certainly have prevented this disastrous Standard and Poor’s rating, which puts us in league with basket cases like Ecuador, Pakistan and Ukraine?
Is the present management of the finance ministry amateurish, incompetent, and is the job proving too big for Audley Shaw? What’s the issue with our primary surplus which was so strong under Omar Davies but which has plummeted under Man a Yard?
Journalists have been asking him questions in some exclusive interviews, but he needs questions to be put to him by the Opposition and government-in-waiting. How well is the Government really managing? We hear global crisis, global crisis every time we seek to assess Bruce Golding’s almost two-year tenure. He told Garfield Burford on CVM’s ‘Direct’, in answer to a question about his pre-election promises, that every leader elected since 2007 has had to adjust promises made. Is Golding hiding behind the global crisis, using it as a shield against legitimate criticisms of his Government’s economic stewardship?
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090816/focus/focus1.html
And of Olint Ian Boyne?
The records filed by Manatt under FARA regulations say only that “treaty issues” were discussed. But administration officials confirmed that the conversations were primarily focused on the Jamaican government’s opposition to extraditing Coke.
Brady, who did not respond to telephone messages left at his office in Kingston, has said in radio interviews that the contract he signed was “a mistake” and that he was actually representing an unidentified private client.
http://www.washingtonpost.com
Was it not Harold Brady who spoke on farcical about us all being educated by public funds?
My God.
“Many rivers to cross….”
Shaw did not expect any immediate negative impact from the financial sector fallout on remittances.
Direct impact
“Persons who send remittances are not normally typical employees of companies like Lehman Brothers, so we won’t necessary see a direct impact on remittances,” he said.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20080917/business/business1.html
On Bradygate and the 24hrs
Ethics is first and foremost about character.
Lying involves a kind of meditation. Consider a poorly constructed lie: “I couldn’t return your urgent call because I was out all weekend, hunting elephants.” Easy to see through the lie, for not much thought went into it. But a more carefully crafted lie requires more thought and meditation.
Lying is the very antithesis of prayer…
On OLINT
“A thief is preferable to an inveterate liar, but both are heading for ruin.”
http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/mcm/mcm_93antithesis.html
Furthermore, the newspaper reports that one of these meetings in mid-December was attended by a minister of the Jamaican government.
The Bruce Golding Administration has strenuously denied that any member of the political directorate was involved in any such meeting, and has acknowledged only a meeting involving Solicitor General Douglas Leys.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/26629/26/
The Golding administration has challenged anyone to provide proof that it contracted the law firm but has presented no evidence to the contrary.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100416/lead/lead6.html
However, Prime Minister Golding denied that the Government had retained the law firm, and Brady has since said he signed the contract in error.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Washington-Post-reveals-more-in-Manatt-story_7531019
Farmer joe you place your X in error! Cassava going run yu belly!
Yesterday, Minister of Labour and Social Security Pearnel Charles quipped that Farmer Joe would not be calling Simpson Miller because he can no longer afford to buy phonecards.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner//20100416/lead/lead7.html
Farmer Joe? No credit? No wata? Can’t offer nayba a drink of belly wash?
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/tools/cartoons/Ed-cartoon-apr-16-2010
A University of the West Indies graduate, Seiveright played a lead role in the JLP’s election public relations and communication and earned kudos from many party stalwarts for his hard work.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20091101/lead/lead6.html
Delano Seiveright, president, Generation 2000
“There is no doubt that Jamaica is in a tight spot economically but I’m relieved that the minister of finance, Audley Shaw, has his hands on the steering wheel and it shows that Jamaica is headed in the right direction.”
April 16, 2010
Again the local population and investing world is watching, & taking note, of the handling of these matters by our leaders.
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=2599&id=8
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/15/AR2010041503600_Comments.html
lbvanhoy wrote:
Telemachus wrote:
“This is a story I would like to hear more about and if there are any others like it. Drug dealers hiring lobbying firms with the cover of a national government. Now that’s Hollywood material! Any real reporters left out there? Pulitzer anyone? Anyone? No?”
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I’d like to learn more about this also. I have a feeling Barry is already working on this issue. He will issue a short statement soon and win a Pulitzer.
demtse wrote:
hogsmile wrote:
The K. St. (Gucci Gulch) tarts strike again!
Nothing is too sacred or important enough to prevent them from corrupting it, or at least trying:
– no moral standard;
– no administrative process of government;
– no American political institution;
– no statute of law.
“Pay my fat fee I’ll fix it for you, forget everything else …”, seems to be their motto; might as well be printed on the back of our dollar bills.
Oh, “it’s just a misunderstanding …”, they claim. It might as well be, “I was just obeying orders”, what every captured war criminal mutters, down through the ages.
How vile they are.
How disgusting they are.
Motty,
“Mr Golding can’t just leave it so….he has a moral responsibility to do something”
hahahahahahahahaha….Motty Road to Damascus? Empty? You alone deh pon it?
hhahahahahaha..
Motty, don’t exclusively hang out Harold Brady to dry. Who else you going to bum a ride from on your way to Damascus?
Hold on Motty, Alright, I have to go for a break….Thank you very much.
hawhawhawhawhawhaw….
What a lot of Conch and Lobster today Motty?hawhawhawhawhawhaw…
Dr. Bryan’s interview on Betty Ann Blaine was very informative…. farcical might one day grow to be something in the future.
I have to join this forum now. Enough reading. So wha this bout Delano Seiveright Floridian? When next you sneaking into Jamaica again? We hear u on Breakfast Club… fighting the cause… but him mek u loose your cool
Well done Motty…second hour of Conch/lobster drabble….well done Motty two of the gang’s ‘Setters’ -water woes and JPS/RGD etc. calls and it could be home and dry for the weekend….hawhawhaw…till Sunday at least….
Only a few more hours Today Motty….hold…hold… plus News, JIS and selective emails….you gone clear this shaky Friday….Kris …ginger biscuit.
kenarmy wrote:
It is immoral for the U.S. Government to engage in any conversations about a criminal extradition order with a lobbying firm. A legitimate interest by the Government of Jamaica wiould not be served by hiring a lobbying firm, that’s why they have an ambassador! Only an idiot would have spoken with that lobbying firm. And the logical upshoot. The Government of Jamaica denys any connection with this lobbyist, raising the logical suspicion that U.S. Government officials were having conversations with a lobbyiest (well connected to the Democratic Party) representing a criminal organization. Nice going. I predict that you will see this incident in Republican ads come this fall!
connerabr wrote:
First, the actions of the firm constitute further proof that some members of the bar have no ethical fiber, and are simply legal prostitutes of sorts with white House access! (Is that PC enough WaPost thought police?)
But moreover, the fact that some government wants to keep an alleged drug kingpin from being brought to the U.S. for trial, is just a clue that the DEA would be removing some politician’s cash cow and that would hurt – financially!
As for the country – Jamacia – in the region it’s second only to Haiti for corruption and violence. An no doubt the U.S. sees fit to send them an aid check to keep them on friendly terms with our government, but that is also anything but taxpayers’ money well spent…
US gathering evidence on Manatt affair
And the Parliamentary Opposition is describing as extremely disturbing the Golding administration’s deafening silence since a damning statement made a week ago by one of the players in the Manatt Affair.
The Government has said nothing since attorney Harold Brady hinted that there was more to the deepening saga than had been made public.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/26635/26/
SISSD1 wrote:
whenever you see the word LOBBYIST CORRUPTION is not far behind.
4/16/2010 11:33:39 AM
mokey1 wrote:
Totally reasonable for a country that worships pot and that is generally lawless.
Why do we need Jamaica? What does Jamaica do for us?
Cut them off.
4/15/2010 3:33:36 PM
“Sorry about that we seem to have lost him….”
hawhawhawhaw..hahahaha
Motty, the road to Damascus is long….but you will have plenty company!
hawhawhawhaw..ahahaha
When Davis Smith said he was protected by Bruce Golding and Audley Shaw what did he mean exactly?
Motty Perkins, that statement has not been refuted by the persons mentioned. Are we then, as you claim on your program, reasonable in assuming the statement by David Smith to be true?
Motty yu Backward.
25 D?
You know something Sling? You hard ears bad….
I’ve been reading this blog for a few months and it seems that “Floridian” is a staunch PNP supporter and that he really doesn’t have a life. Every post from 6:05PM yesterday was submitted by him. I thought the purpose of a blog was to exchange ideas.
In many months you have not figured the purpose of this blog. Since yesterday Nonco not been commenting…busy you see Subie.
What comment on Olint Subie? Exchange some ideas.
How come you grace us with your comments at this final stage?
The subject of this blog is an undisputed JLP supporter. He’s about to sell them to hell. What you going to do? Turn on a dime and label him a PNP Supporter?
A little over simplistic…nuh true Subie? Does Smith have no life? Or is it that he has a life when he’s accepted JLP and has none when labelled PNP.
Want to bet Smith will be labelled PNP in the near future?
Been reading this blog for 2 weeks now. I too lost money in OLINT but i have moved on. You guys shouls move on too. And So why this about Delano Seiveright Floridian. U clearly on a mission big man.
Warren let me ask you this. When innocent elder folk (Jamaican or otherwise) had their money stolen and hidden away can no longer purchase medication and sell their hard earned retirement homes or pay for their own burials or children and grandchildren’s education…. a who yu fi talk bout move on.
Big man, you move on…good for you. Remember this all who move on….a little tip. Hope it don’t burst yu bubble. The decision to move on was never your own.
If you are deemed necessary to report them dictate how when where ….If so I suppose you could ‘move on’ running but again, that would be moving on on terms you do not dictate.
If your ego wants to see it differently then ‘good for you’ proceed as you would. I only just hint the reality for the record.
Best Wishes.
I will say this
Over the period of the OLINT crimes I have been shocked at the low level or lack of understanding (particularly among Jamaicans) of how things work.
With license I will tell you that I did not expect the exclusively UWI trained element to grasp the material. Why? Because UWI is a great in educating the ‘technical’ as are many British universities.
What has boggled me is that so many people in Jamaica are educated in the more liberal institutions in the US. Yet the intuition and predictive capabilities of how the system works was just not evident in significant quantity.
There is no 9 day wonder in the US.
What was evident and always in excess on the rock was speculation based on insecurity, emotion and the ‘know it all’ syndrome….in a nutshell what we are all too familiar with and I have chosen to name ‘schoolyard logic’
look back on these blogs and see that all that has come to pass and more than likely what will come to pass was spoken about over 2 years ago right here.
Some things were shocking… outrageous they said..LOL LOL…(notice LOL is on hiatus). Many of the ‘adamants’ are long gone…remember ‘Olint for Life?’
At UWI you study say Accounting. UWI produce some of the best accountants. But how do you grasp the World you live in if it is not mandatory that you must take a broad range of courses in the humanities, arts, social sciences etc.? So you’re a doctor, lawyer (best and brightest..top cat)and don’t understand the wider World [outside the 4,244 sq mi (10,991 sq km).] and how things work?
You have this coveted visa and don’t understand the system and regime of Uncle Sam and cousin Fica when you land? Interesting.. I find it amazing.
We can watch Usain dominate the track Worldwide yet not put our minds around the World we live in.
Veranda geniuses? They are wrong 99.99% of the time. That’s a socializing thing not intellectual rigor and substance.
Look I not knocking UWI….just suggesting a more liberal experience. People leave American colleges to immediately conquer the World….not get articled to some traditionalist who realizes not, that the Globe turns all the while.
Just some food for thought.
I will ted.ll you this. The Prime Minister is a UWI grad and he knows (I promise you) The Scope of Things. I won’t take that away from him. He knows how things work beyond his formal training in Economics. He knows it well. He knows that those who speak of ‘move on’ need some work in the continuing studies module. You could wish ‘move on’ but are you in control to do so?
That is why today (Fri) he zipped it tight.
Many of his supporters seek of him a dismissal of the swarming flies using only the ‘magic wand of oratory’ I’m sure.
Many loyalists put forth their best ideas (some even genuine) for him to ‘borrow’ and ‘use at his will’ with confidence!
I’m sure such love does not go unnoticed or unappreciated.
HOWEVER
The times of flawed logic born of blind faith are no more.
He knows that this is not an undergraduate exam. The paper has been graded already.
See Nonco…I give credit where credit is due.
He should have known better than to take consul from Brady though.
“But there is no law against David Smith giving the people’s money to campaign financing!”
“But he gave dialysis machines to the hospital”
“The Olint Foundation was for Autistic Children!”
“But I enjoyed the Jazz Festival!”
“They are Christians..so there!”
Folks (CH favorite)…Folks…Folks… Your efforts have been noted.
mikecinaz wrote:
YaMon – as if it makes any difference – I don’t see how the U.S. can do anything when it comes to Jamaica. This is a tiny island who has dealt with U.S. bs before. What you gonna do to this 3rd world country that you haven’t tried in the past.
4/16/2010 8:51:14 PM
This reinforces my points above.
AS THE CRISIS deepens, have you thought of “bathing at the office”? Already, workers are bringing containers to the workplace to collect water for domestic duties when they get home. Why not speed up the process by bringing the housework to the office instead? For this, I here submit the following useful hints:
Use the restrooms as laundry centres after closing time. Clotheslines could be strung between departments. Ironing can be done on top of the desks. The multi-jet designer shower stall, recently acquired by the CEO to create a fresher approach to management, could be taken over by the union and made available to the staff in a well-calibrated system of rewards for performance. In that spirit, we could all aspire to bathe on the job. The privilege of who showers with the CEO would be carefully negotiated, of course, and included in the next Memorandum of Understanding.
A press release would be issued with a power-point presentation to follow, in keeping with the forward-looking policy of the company which will be diversifying shortly from Ponzi schemes to sparkling mineral water. This will be marketed for washing very expensive vehicles and maintain lawns whereon only the best dressed socialites will be photographed for That Certain Page…KEEP THE FAITH.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Barbara-Gloudon-April-16—Do-your-laundry-at-the-office_7530677
Cee Dubya
4/16/2010
Enjoyed your article, Ms. G.
Btw, do you know/remember the story of the rural church where most of its members were farmers? They held a special service to pray for rain. Well, after the service, as that version of the story goes, they had a downpour. But, alas 🙂 no one, except one little girl, could venture out. For, you see, everyone had come to pray for rain, but only the little girl had believed enough to bring an umbrella.
Every time drought hits (literally and metaphorically), I remember that story. We pray and hope (and probably do the dance) for rain. But, when the rains come, are the dams ready? If it’s even to remove what must be around 50% mud?
As the saying goes, we learn from history that we do not learn from history.
IT’S ONLY MONEY! /(the move on principle)
My money is my labour. My saving or property is the portion I store for a rainy day – I did not win a lotto or get “dead-lef”. Did you? Feel no guilt about holding on to your money. It’s your labour! Would you work three months for that person for free? If not, is he worth the equivalent of three months’ labour. No, siree!
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Franklin-Johnston-April-16_7529793
hhahahahahahahahaa….great article.
If you don’t ‘get’ the Gloudon Article the first time then try again and again…interesting
Thousands count losses after bank collapse
DISTRAUGHT Islanders have been counting their potential losses following the collapse of the country’s first and only indigenous bank – taking with it life savings, livelihoods, hopes and dreams.
The country suffered one of the most devastating financial blows in its history as news spread like wildfire that TCI Bank had gone into temporary liquidation.
Many people have been left with little more than the cash in their pockets.
http://www.tcweeklynews.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=1&twindow=&mad=&sdetail=1986&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=2404&hn=tcweeklynews&he=.com
Mattress….
Tears flow from depositors outside TCI Bank
A number of depositors wailed openly in front of the failed TCI Bank at Butterfield Square, Providenciales, on learning of the financial institution’s closure, some telling The SUN that the embattled bank has sunken carrying all of their lifesavings with it.
Scores of the bank’s customers who gathered outside the institution, some from last weekend, said they were caught by surprise, as they were even unsuspectingly allowed to make depositions hours before the bank changed hands on Friday, April 9. According to them, such funds could now be used to offset the ever growing monthly expenses, and as a result they were now flat broke and having nowhere to turn for support.
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=814
What was the motive for closing TCI Bank?
Did someone have prior knowledge of the events?
The FSC indicate that major depositors had lost confidence in the bank and were trying to withdraw. Major depositors I think are NIB, Eastern Caribbean Banks, the liquidator of Olint in liquidation and myself and my companies in fourth place.
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=813
@ Floridian
After all that babble it is clear to me that you are losing it.
YOU and I invested in a scheme that many warned was irregular.
The warnings were loud and clear. We ignored the warnings and went along with the ride and got burnt. FULLSTOP.
Now you guys have gone on a tangent that is focused on destroying Jamaica. That is all you are about DESTROYING JAMAICA. NOTHING ELSE.
Just relax yourself and move on. Hundreds maybe thousands of us got burnt and have moved on
Yes Warren you are in charge o.k. Good good.
Olint was not focused on destroying Jamaica. Only ‘us’ apparently. Or some ‘tangent’ or something (but Warren is not losing it).
“You and I invested in a scheme” ….and Warren also pays my bills and orders for me at the restaurant, dresses me and tells me what I should and should not do.
“Just relax yourself and move on” Warren gives advice and one day he will eventually follow his own…one day
But for now…not heeding his own advice he concerns himself with “That is all YOU are about..”
move on Warren…or is it “NOTHING else?”
The best way to lead is by example. If anyone advocates ‘moving on’ as thousands are alleged to have done and you feel you want to encourage that then ‘move on’ off the blogs.
You have accepted your losses…. many claim to have a life…. many claim not to be ‘losing it’ …..move on
So why live on the blogs?
Warren, I suppose the next thing is going to be that ‘WE” should stay on the blogs because ‘WE’ have ‘gotten burnt” and “WE” have ‘moved on’?
Warren there is a Warren on the lists with an interesting last name? A you dat?
On ‘burnt’
Warren I can look on the computer and see my money. I cab also see yours. You have made it clear that you don’t want to seek yours.
This is aside from any Connelly Liquidator ACOM, Secured Unsecured lalala.
When you do not want yours (no problem) then by default you are giving it to those who have it and they will be grateful I’m CERTAIN.
They will surely fulfill their hearts desires with the money. I do not consent for them to have it. They will only use the funds to investigate you and yours anyway. Your own money working against you.
Move on…I challenge you. They can see when you’re on reading by the way so ‘hide and read’ and ‘hide and move on won’t impress…
@ Floridian
LOSER!
LOSER!
LOSER!
U busy mashing up jamaica!
U busy with your 1 or 2 or 3 colleagues spreading lies to everyone under the sun
U guys are all about sensationalism
It is amazing how you make money mess up your head
Get a life!
MOVE ON!
Just out of curiosity Warren…. When you say move on your suggestion is to forget about the money Mr. Smith, Mr Lewis, and the rest fleeced from people and are currently living life off? People who have lost money should simply ‘move on’ and go back to work and try to recoup the millions they lost while the people who are responsible live lavishly?
@Floridian
You guys will fall on your own sword soon soon
U make OLINT losses turn you into vicious Jamaicans bent on mashing up your own country
Busy in media spreading straight up lies
Straight up contrived crap
And sadly some in media give you time
@ Floridian
And you a COWARD
You hide behind a “no name”
TRUE COWARD
Faceless punk!
Computer PUNK
@ Floridian,
PUNK
PUNK
PUNK
You will never get back your money
NEVER
Everybody got burnt!!!
We all did!!!
Dude
Dude
Dude
losing it dude? Your emotion is off the chain like Nonco.
“You will never get back your money” that is itself a lie. The balance came back long time…..BUT THAT IS NOT ALL THAT IS DUE Lol lol lol…Dig?
You call me OLINT ‘fool’ etc then spin me as a powerful government destroyer…then spin again and call me a coward…
You sound like Smithy….no consistent line. He laughed with his peanut followers first…they thought it was cool lol….then him try use badness…..spin it again wid the wife bold as ever….now he spins plea deal to sell out the likes of warren etc. tail between legs….a jus spin spin sugar.
His reps follow the same profile…big talk..spin … spin reduce to babble and emotion…How the lawyers got burnt by collecting fees from Smith…money that was not his….Damocles?
You can believe your own PR all you want but that;s why there are lings like focus groups and blind testing,
If you can’t pass a blind test then that is different can of worms. That deals with being a certified failure and how to deal with failure without becoming emotional.
Media? You have so many of them the blog could not hold the list….
Look there comes a time when believing your own salesmen and women must take a stock and examine the results of the blind test. Then realize that the problem is not your own belief and enthusiasm… but rather your PRODUCT (itself) Perhaps?
“You will never get back your money”
Glad you know who’s money it is.
According to the PTV report, Hanchell went on to say that Governor Tauwhare knew about the deal and signed off on it.
The transfers of large block(s) of land had to be signed by then Governor Tauwhare. Many now question if he knew what he was signing.
http://www.tcinetnews.com/news-2077–2-2—.html
Same Tauwhare that signed Belongerships?
You want to believe a bank is a safe place to put your money. As the years wore away we heard of loans based on political affiliations. Later, as the politics of the country became unhinged, the repro man got busy.
Now I learn that the National Insurance Board decided to invest and buy stock in the bank. Also, I read reports that over $20 million of NIB funds were on deposit. A nice bit of unsecured money in float for the bank to operate with. All of this may now be lost.
The whitewash bucket is waiting to blame the failure on the world economy.
The one monetary entity, NIB, which was flush with dough and which provides the widow’s mite, has been tampered with.
http://www.tcinetnews.com/news-2081–4-4—.html
Come clean now, Prime Minister
Surely he must realise that when the Washington Post, the same news outfit that brought down US President Richard Nixon in the early 1970s, begins to discredit him, the gig is up.
Coming as it did on the heels of multiple denials by the Jamaican Government concerning their involvement with the American firm, the report is damning.
Could this really be true?
Or are we to believe that the oldest and largest newspaper in Washington, DC has gone crazy?
More importantly, how does Mr Golding plan to respond to the Washington Post’s story? Will he continue to stiffen his neck, to the detriment of the country? Or will he come clean, confess before further information is exposed and let the chips fall where they may?
As things stand now, all graceful exits out of this one have been closed off.
There’s no more room for claiming ignorance or sprouting bravado. Whatever other information is out there is going to come out, bit by bit, in the most public and humiliating way.
We are going to find out who paid that US$50,000 to whom and for what.
We are going to find out what Mr Harold Brady, the attorney-at-law who — if Mr Golding is to be believed — took it upon himself to engage Manatt at his own expense, was talking about when he intimated that the Government is hiding damning information.
We are going to find out why Mr Golding is taking such a personal interest in Mr Coke, an interest that he has yet to demonstrate in the countless young girls who are being forced to spread their legs for the sexual entertainment of the dons who rule garrisons.
And when we do, he can rest assured that the response will not go the way of the nine-day wonders to which we are so accustomed.
For this sort of hubris is simply intolerable.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/Editorial-for-April-18–2010
Writing to MPP to protest Brady’s lack of authority months after MPP’s involvement was permitted by the Government’s own SG only makes this government appear more inept than ever and in danger of becoming an international laughing stock.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100418/cleisure/cleisure2.html
http://article.nationalreview.com/383514/unpardonable-holders-marc-rich-shuffle/andrew-c-mccarthy
I’m no lawyer and much of the media commentary on the matter has been straight orange and green propaganda, so I’ve been as confused as the next man as to what really is going on.
Take the utter confusion surrounding the Manatt, Phelps and Phillips matter. So far, we have no evidence of wrongdoing or money being illegally paid but, as with the Trafigura Affair, it seems pretty apparent that somebody is desperately trying to hide something.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100418/focus/focus3.html
Washington Post has been Red, White and Blue for 133 years. I don’t think they plan a color change any time soon.
A lot of “confusion” professed in the media these days Warren. I don’t think the Washington Post plans to subscribe to that either…
Be it “utter” or otherwise Mr. O’Brien Chang.
Or are we to believe that the oldest and largest newspaper in Washington, DC has gone crazy?
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/Editorial-for-April-18–2010
‘Birthday cards not enough, Mr Smith’
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/St-Andrew-North-West
Belated Birthday wishes Deacon…The 15th I believe?
Birthday Trip? They say Disney nice this time of year.
Brooklyn Jamaican
4/18/2010
You have put it succinctly Mr Observer.
“As things stand now, all graceful exits out of this one have been closed off..
In other words, “Story come to bump”
If the Observer says a man is a reckless failure, then he is a reckless failure indeed.
Other Prime Minister’s were hounded by innuendo and anecdotal evidence, however this one has been indicted in the hearts and minds of the people in Jamaican and various “forins”, and maybe soon in a court of law. Not in Jamaica though, where instructions for investigations are from the hand that feeds.
Still, there’s nothing like being in the right place at the right time.
..Let’s hope his and Jamaica’s economic luck hold and that some of it rubs off soon on Senator Nelson and his crime plan.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100418/focus/focus3.html
“Jamaica’s economic luck hold?????” ????? I suppose its integrity resume should hold as well?
“Still, there’s nothing like being in the right place at the right time.” Like at the Provo party?
Not everyone receives contracts to offset their Olint losses in turn for ‘holding it down”
Chang is a budding comedian.
@floridian
Dude difficult as it is for you to get… writing in bold and caps is for emphasis. Nothing emotional about it. It was to explain to copyright violators, of which you have also being one in the past… that posting entire articles is a violation of copyright and theft. As I explained to you before you can see what is acceptable by looking at how Google news refers to articles… You are allowed to post an excerpt along with the link… not entire articles.
I usually do not engage you on the blog because you are often delusional and incoherent and you have a political agenda. I usually only engage you when you are spreading deliberate lies and propaganda… such as recently about the visa issue.
It is interesting how the ponzi investor brain always reverts to the same belief in rumor and propaganda and statements with no proof.
Recall how I kept stating that there was no proof that the US was revoking and denying visas based on the Dudus matter… you among others such as cullKull chose to believe or spread the rumors… then I posted where the embassy itself stated revocations were personal matters.
Like when the FSC and other reputable people stated the facts about about OLint, C+ and others I suppose there are still some that will say they are lying and prefer to believe the rumors instead 🙂
Nonco,up to last Thursday, Ft Lauderdale Airport Noncs….greencard holder.
What happens Noncs is that you say no to it but the fambily dem back home either don’t see the return to Jam Dung at the Airport on the scheduled date …or the call to come pick up is only hours after they have left.
Those ‘families’ read me and then read you…no big deal.
But Noncs I will say this on the visa…when I wrote here Krome Det Center a ‘strange’ new thing then started…them start move move them to a different place…making it hard for loved ones to find them.
Not all are visas..some are greencards.
But I am glad to know that you recomposed yourself Nonco (you were ‘out’ for a while) under what are clearly severe circumstances.
Commisserations.
Noncs, maybe you had insight into this Editorial today and decided to practice your outburst on Garth early.
FRONT-PAGE EDITORIAL: We Must All Get Angry!
Published: Sunday | April 18, 2010\
So, the Government seemingly feigns ignorance.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100418/lead/lead3.html
Did the FSC seemingly feign ignorance too?
Nonco, you sure people who put up entire articles don’t have pemission to do so?
You sound so sure…I just seek a conformation that it’s your stance.
Once BW gets the contract settled off I’m sure he’ll speak about FSC Re:OLINT.
It’s in public interest. I’m sure you agree Nonco.
‘Cost of living get so high…dubbie doop…rich and poor they strat to cry…now the weak…must get stong..I seh ..oh what a tribulation…nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah…
What a love ehh Deacon?….spend the likkle time wid har yes. Mr. Muzzick…
I leave you some space ya now….much to ponder..I know. Girl..that bwoy deh love you.
Deacon, turn up that one yah so loud Jeezibel can hear it over the golf course.
Nonco, can’t get much more coherent tha Reggie Carter here..LOL
What a proud History we have Nonco. We must cherish it.
The Conquering Lion Of The Tribe Of Judah.
The Bible tells us the destination of thieves, homosexuals and liars!
C. Pinnock, Jamaican national taken off the Air Jamaica flight, green card revoked. In custody.
Please stop the mis-communications.
Florida Department of Law Enforcement Special Agents arrested two more individuals Friday who authorities say were involved in a marijuana trafficking and money laundering operation.
Their arrests followed two conducted Wednesday when Carlton Wayne Smith, 43, of Rancho Dominguez, Ca. and Christopher Lee Pinnock, 36, of Avon Park, Fl. were apprehended for their role in the operation.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Jamaican-drug-bust-Florida
Nonco, you have to see this. Look at Jaws flapping with no parachute…private plane and all…At the end Nonco check the part when it is said, “that’s the official version” Then dial the embassy again Monday.
But Jaws flapping…money can’t buy it.
All credit to United Artists.
Bwoy Jaws, never let your self esteem fool you that a teacher or humble cassava planter are not livelihoods to be admired.
The Need for Regular Updates on the TCI Bank situation
The provisional liquidators, having given a status report to the Supreme Court on Thursday, would have been well advised to issue a press release to the public as well, summarizing in as appropriate a way that confidentially may have required, what it reported to the Court.
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=2618&id=8
Déjà vu?
“Et tu, Brute?”
Academics since the 1970s have questioned the existence of “Blitzkrieg” as a coherent military doctrine or strategy. Many academic historians hold “Blitzkrieg” itself to be a myth.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/Editorial—Apri-19_7535038
You are a lost cause Floridian
Mashing up your country because you lose a little money
Don’t give Foridian too much credit. he is not mashing up the country. he is mashing up the blog.. because outside of this blog, I don’t think anybody could tolerate him.. but here, he can post ad nauseam, but we can scroll !!!
And I suppose people who steal money are the builders of the nation?
Are people who steal and those who conspire to steal with them positive for Jamaica?
Yes or No.
@floridian
LOL…
Aint NOBODY stole your money. You were a damn fool and GAVE your money to Olint… despite the numerous warnings and red flags. Aint nobody put a gun to your head or broke into your house and stole any money from you.
DS committed fraudulent misrepresentation to get your money… and you and others were damn fools to give it to him when it was obvious to the deaf, dumb and blind that his claims were ridiculous.
DS stole money from Olint the company but not from you. You were only too happy to voluntarily give it to him to satisfy your greed.
Calm Nonco the above comment was about stealing as general concept not meant to hit a nerve.
I’ll leave all space on the blog….run wid it.
Man free fi greedy… man free fi steal.
One thing we do have in common Nonco is that neither you nor I can change that.
Jay, John Doe, Olint for life….larry garry barry harry L&LL? AML, Nyaming, watching fretting and all the rest etc.
ATB…
Yeah, Yeah Nonco. O.k ATB 2 u 2
JAMAICAN ON FLORIDA GANJA, MONEY LAUNDERING CHARGE
Gainsville Haedlines Examiner
Monday, April 19, 2010
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Jamaican-drug-bust-Florida
No ATB for you Deacon. You knew betta. Make u bed u lay in it.
Duppy story vs Reality?
Check the flight lists Mr. Computer. Greencards entrails growing in the shredder almost DAILY.
You know why I leaving the blog for a time.
Self centered they will still try screechy and test the Airports with their spouse and children. I’ve seen that live years ago traveling flights. The spouse always knows…many time the children but not always. The horrified glares of the kids faces when their heroes and heroines are defrocked in a crowd.
Horrible!
But you see selfishness and cousin self -centeredness? And the overdose of arrogance…
gwan go run blog
Someone said here on this blog that according to Goldman Sachs …pigs get slaughtered. Something like that nuh.
Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street powerhouse, has been accused of defrauding investors by America’s financial regulator.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleges that Goldman failed to disclose conflicts of interest.
The firm said that, rather than make money from the deal, it lost $90m
[where have we heard that kind of defense before?]
“It undermines their brand,” said Simon Johnson, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Goldman critic. “It undermines their political clout.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8625931.stm
I suppose next we’ll hear one day pigs will fly…on this blog at least.
Now that the woes of MGM have forced producers to put the next James Bond movie on hold, what the studio really needs is assistance from the secret agent’s former nemesis Goldfinger.
Like its rivals, MGM produced 50 films a year, including seminal titles such as The Wizard of Oz, Northwest Passage and Gone With the Wind.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8631843.stm
Work on the latest film was still in the early stages, Ms O’Hara added.
“I’m not sure they were very far on,” she said. “The Bond machine is always in motion and it felt like it was just beginning to heat up.
“You were beginning to have the inevitable and endless casting rumours – Rachel Weisz had been mentioned – because the British press goes nuts for it.”
EON productions holds the rights to Ian Fleming’s works – including the Bond series and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8631245.stm
Ultimate Bond girl, Jamaican, “MAY DAY” Grace Jones
Where unno deh? Oh Parliament.
Dialysis Machines (St. Joseph’s?)….even Turks and Caicos get mention.
No Manatt?
6 green cards seized on abandonment doctrine today at Ft Lauderdale. All 6 are in custody at the Broward Transitional Center. 2 have agreed to return home tomorrow.
Paulwell linked to several scandals – Seiveright
Delano Seiveright, G2K President
“But G2K says in light of the recently disclosed forensic audit report, Mr. Paulwell should keep quiet, especially because at the time he was Minister of energy responsible for the PCJ.”
Delano Seiveright is that what your parents taught you? To keep quiet? Do wrong and ‘move on?’
Let us check the reasoning again :- “because at the time he was Minister of energy responsible for the PCJ.”
Is he a UWI scholarship recipient or something?
“Frankly we need to clean up or country (as) corruption is a big problem in the public sector and otherwise and our leaders have to set an example and as such, we believe that the Opposition Leader should call on Phillip Paulwell to resign his position as a spokesperson for the party with immediate effect,” Mr. Seiveright said.”
Mr. Seiveright everything is set for a clean sweep …..you ready? You have your overalls and wata boot?
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/26733/47/
Advocate that for something in the past one must be quiet and not seek investigation into wrongdoing?
That is the message for youth?
Budding Kofi Annan or Ban Ki Moon in our midst….
Hhahahahahaha…farcical
It is not that there is nothing to say. There is nothing ‘adequate’ to say. Promise.
Com[ulsory pass hahaha
no the other analogy is more appropriate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkmate
Go up a stony hill big house (wink) and drink some ‘red stripes’
The Washington Post sideswipes the JAMAICAN PEOPLE on their FRONT PAGE 5 DAYS AGO…..and you get NOTHING from the leader of the Jamaican people.
Live with it farcical.
Would you want the Reggae Boyz to walk out on the pitch at the ‘office’ without a goalkeeper?
Or would you travel to scrape up reasons from Shangri-La to defend the team coach for such a decision?….in less than 90 minutes? …ok take half time as well…
You would support a West Indies opener who out for duck on EVERY BALL!!!!
Look at who we have as MIDDLE ORDER!!!
farcical…Tending to zero? in relation to YOUR Tangent.
Still..I can understand. Some desperately want to here from the PM. For without a reference point how can you craft your spin?
Can’t start the spin without his wind direction indicator. Must be frustrating. Going into day 6 since Jamaica was on the FRONT PAGE of the oldest newspaper in the American Capital.
Troops ready but they can’t even guess a direction so everyone huddled at base camp in limbo. Bad weather predicted at Mt. Everest Peak.
Sherpa will tell us the direction one fine day. In the meantime embedded media always have the trusty ipod to pass the time..and skipping rope to exercise their talents on ONE SPOT.
You ‘hear’ that? Brady must have taken an unexpected break from the wheels of steel.
Noco, several Border Patrol agents from Brooklyn are now following the blog. I introduced them to your theory of the limitations of their power.
TCI Bank Liquidated….
Check this out…..
The Olint liquidator now says he has no access to the 6 million dollars he intended to pay out to the secured creditors of Olint in December. That puts him in the same situation that Olint creditors are in with Olint TCI.
This is the bank where Hallmark kept the Olint funds……This is also the bank that first reported DS for suspicious activity.
The million dollar question is: Why would connolleyyee leave the frozen Olint funds in a failing institution?
What is going on in the TCI?
It is becoming clear that the corruption in the TCI runs far deeper than anything seen in Jamaica or Haiti to date….
Maybe Nonco could explain…he knows all about corruption.
http://www.caribbean360.com/index.php/business/tci_bank_collapse.html
I think manhattan and floridian’s connection is now laid bare for all to see. Unhinged and psychotic does not begin to describe this idiot (split personality disorder maybe?). Border Patrol agents have much more important things to do than to listen to the rantings of a mad man doctor who got scammed.
David Smith just imported a new Range Rover into Turks. He has agreed to plead guilty to Fraud in the Middle District Of Florida in exchange for a 25 year
term and the on-going duty to implicate all of his co-conspirators, 36 in all.
@Larry:
Can you enlighten us as to the exact criminal case that was filed against David Smith in “Middle District Of Florida” that would attract 25-year jail time? My basic research came up empty. Can you post the relevant link?
@manhattan: Noco, several Border Patrol agents from Brooklyn are now following the blog. I introduced them to your theory of the limitations of their power.
LOL… They are following the blog to see just how idiotic you and others were? To see how the ponzi scheme investors cussed out and ignored the few folks like me that tried to warn you guys… hehe… you are funny dude.
You and floridian will soon need long term therapy… actually you already need it 🙂 You guys are like the folks that 30, 40 years later cannot let go of what happened to them in childhood… they blame the mess their lives are in because of what happened 30 years before. At some point you have to let stuff go and deal with it in a positive fashion…
Ten, 15, 20 years from now, are you guys still going to be blaming others for your folly of giving money to a scammer when others warned you?
Nonco, you talk to this lulz person. Tell them is only nonco can detract from the crime itself and spend a lifetime studying floridian and reading floridaian’s post keenly. 🙂
Nonco the manhatten is floridian is Tafari is OFL is etc etc is pathetic. Why such defensiveness is needed by the bloggers is not a mystery.
Paro business…tommorow you hear all donald duck and mickey mouse a tun dem down.
straighten them out for mi Nonco…mi nuh really deh with the blog as before.
THX
Noncs, whether Deacon is police or not nuh matter mi.
Noncs, let’s take a guess at the ‘potential’ 36 through pictorials on the weekend nuh?
Maybe weekday is better Nonco, what you think? Monday 3:47 a,m? 🙂
Golding Blames US For Guns
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100421/lead/lead2.html
jah wood 8 hours ago
What the PM needs to do now, is to send investigators to the U.S to find out who are sending the guns, extradite and prosecute them.
Even the greenest comrade would have to agree that the above comment (taken from The Gleaner) is worthy of a ‘blog of the day’ award.
I mean that comment is simply, “CAUGHT AND BOWLED”
Couple interesting ‘thoughts’ are stirred:
Is it possible that high ranking government officials of the US could be involved?
Can we not name an Ambassador to Washington as a sign of displeasure?
Do we have another golden opportunity to test the reciprocity of the extradition treaty on a World wise basis?
But we have so many like the scammers of the ‘other’ schemes who are in the USA so we surely have been on to it.
The DPP has not hesitated to say that her offices have been vamped up. I think a surprise is coming. The background work has been done quietly over these many months. Soon she will STRIKE.
Take NOTES.
Today’s Grand Jury witness testified that Bruce has a green card which he has not disclosed to the nation. Several Cabinet visas will go in the next few weeks if the money to Manatt issue is not clarified properly.
Would Jamaican diplomatic representatives overseas aid these gun manufacturers in evading service of process?
If so would they face sanctions?
manhattan, some blogger named Lulz (I think) has claimed I am you and vice versa.
By counting the number of words in your post and the time of your post I think that would make me the fastest typer Mavis Beacon has ever seen.
Not that I care but sometimes it’s helpful to other readers to defrock a liar and those who (for some ‘strange’ reason recently) are talking sh….
Anyway, I think if the Prime Minister can follow up and indict these gun manufacturers to face our champion DPP it would be good for Jamaica.
@manhattan
Today’s Grand Jury witness testified that Bruce has a green card which he has not disclosed to the nation. Several Cabinet visas will go in the next few weeks if the money to Manatt issue is not clarified properly.
Green Card? Orrett B. Golding is a common name maybe it is not the same person. Anyway, I will apply ‘think and check’ and be back promptly.
Not disclosed to the nation? Shall I enlighten manhattan here Noncs? Space might not permit the list.
Visas Revoked in weeks? WHO CARES! You going on a trip to Disney with them or something manhattan?
@manhattan
“if the money to Manatt issue is not clarified properly.”
Noncs, you think I should help manhattan on this one? Explain that one to manhattan please Noncs.
THX
Is one seriously expected to believe that Hallmark Bank issued Mastercard Compass cards behind Mastercard’s back?
Everyone acting funny…. ‘pleading 5th’ come in vogue all of a sudden. LOL was last season’s fashion.
Keep the wardrobe simple. I orange overall. Accessorize with 2 silver bangle. And one pair black ‘cute’ ba…man ballet.
No ‘match every day’ polo cap deacon.
@ Manhattan
Could you indicate how you know these things, a grand jury supposed to be in secret and the testimony should be in secret, yet you seem to know every word that happens in there.
In an interview with The Sunday Gleaner on Thursday, Mr. Shaw, the Member of Parliament for North East Manchester, chairman of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament and a leading contender to take over the reins of the JLP after Edward Seaga, said the only thing thaat keeps him awake at nights is the “burning desire” to rid the country of what he called “the most corrupt …
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-19544036_ITM
America, Italy, Ireland Haiti,Liquor company and Japanese Car Manufacturer Implicated!
Superintendent Morgan McNab, says a team intercepted a white Toyota Hiace bus traveling to Kingston.
“Three of the firearms are Smith and Wesson pistols and one is an Italian weapon. Items of clothing, identification for both men and over US$1200 and some liquour from Haiti as well as a cell phone with a Haitian Digicel phone SIM card,” said Superintendent McNab.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/26797/26/
It has not yet been ascertained if the Hiace came from Toyota’s factory in Melbourne Australia.
The clothing is thought to be from Canada but under NAFTA seemingly enters from Mexico.
The Shoes: One pair Reebok U.K out of:
Hwa Cheng Shoes, Co., Ltd.
Shi Fang Industrial, Shatow
Changan Town
Dongguan City, Guangdong
And an imitation Clarkes ‘Bankrobber” from Panama.
Motty, last night Minister Shaw spoke about suspending some ‘RiGHTS’ to deal with the crime. It was on Nationwide. They played the clip this morning.
Sorry it seems you missed it Motty for I know you would have strong opinion there. You must have been listening to another station at the time. 🙂
JLP Standing Committee meetings are supposed to be secret too. Do you want Bruce’s green card number?
Yes please. One has to wonder. If it got out in the public, and could be proven (which should be fairly easy to prove) that the PM were a US Resident or even citizen then the potential problems it could pose for our PM.
Would he renounce the citizenship and apologize? Would he lie and say it was false?
Would the potential lose of his citizenship motivate him to send Mr. Coke packing?
one has to wonder… manhattan.. let us know
The SEC investigation that began in 2005 was hampered by jurisdictional limits, a government official in Antigua and Stanford’s refusal to co-operate, Kotz’s July report said.
Here from the complaint at paragraph 18, are quotes of an email from Goldman’s Tourre to a friend on January 23, 2007:
“More and more leverage in the system, the whole building is about to collapse anytime now … . Only potential survivor, the fabulous Fab[rice Tourre] … standing in the middle of all these complex, highly leveraged, exotic trades he created without necessarily understanding all of the implications of those monstrosities!!!”
Juvenile, morbid joke
Evidently, this is funny – the juvenile, morbid joke of an irresponsible adolescent holed up in Goldman’s fraternity house. Another email, February 11, 2007 to Tourre “from the head of the GS&Co structured product correlation trading desk stated in part, “the cdo biz is dead we don’t have a lot of time left.”
In the face of these, Goldman’s claim of no ‘foundation in fact’ may be difficult to sustain!
Home in Jamaica we, apparently forgetful of their pervasive destructive impact, still hurt from our mid-1990s meltdown, Cash Plus, OLINT and other schemes.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100423/business/business6.html
the Cynic
bruce is a green card holder
the investigation probing his Obstruction of Justice in the Coke extradition matter
is looking at his failure to file income tax returns while holding a green card;
this is a felony also, the Grand Jury can only act in one way, which is to indict.
Bruce did not travel through US on his way to Brazil, smartest thing he has done for along time; Theoretically he could apologize and return the green card and file a treaty return(US-Jamaica tax treaty), that would not absolve him off his prior tax evasion.I suppose the moral of the story is do not commit felonies in the US if you are going to defy the United States.Vaz has a surprise waiting for him here as well! David Smith is co-operating now with U.S
and naming names.US has extended immunity to his wife Tracey.
Cliff,
you think you can run with this story and find out if Mr. Golding really IS a greencard holder? Should be pretty easy for a good investigate agency to confirm or prove incorrect?
Manhattan,
all good info, but you know how it goes. A lot of the info one finds on the blog(s) and internet in general has to be taken with caution. You never know who might be adding a little spin to the truth, who may be out right lying, and who simply be telling it as it is…
But, never the less, keep the info flowing…
Obstruction of Justice
Delaying, or hindering information to a Grand Jury
Tax Evasion
Improper application for A Visa
Conspiracy
Moneylaundering—(Turks and Caicos)
Aristide, Saunders , Noriega and now Golding. Federal Defendants.
Brits taped him in Turks gave tape to Feds. Ask GARLICK.GARLICK leaves a bad tatse in Golding’s mouth.
@theCynic
One problem with JA is that people cannot seem to ever get their politics out of their thinking. The manhattan dude consistently posts outright lies, half truths, propaganda and wishful thinking… he sprinkles this with grains of truth so that some of the unwary seek to give him credibility… and he does frequently under different nicks in an attempt to make it seem it is not just one person making the posts… read some of the posts and you can detect it is the same person flogging the same dead horse.
Interestingly they all seem to have the same attorney with a political agenda… when someone is frequently wrong on multiple topics, it is puzzling why some continue to see him as credible on these issues… how come he has not written another article admitting his newspaper articles in support of the ponzi schemes was a grave error that may have helped to mislead others into investing…
Was not someone all over radio and the newspapers with… I told you so… in regards to the visa issue… the embassy has said revocations are about personal issues… how come he is not now back all over radio and the papers apologizing… given the above why would anyone give him credibility on these issues.
Noco
One could infer from your last post that you believe that the person posting under the Manhattan moniker is none other than “_ _ _ your boat gently down the stream” the law professor/criminal defense attorney(turned civil plaintiff’s attorney)/newspaper columnist.
you seem to be adding propaganda specialist to his impressive CV.
am i reading you correctly? inquiring minds want to know.
@Miak
No, I have already said manhattan and his other aliases is doc or his twin 🙂
However if someone did make accusations all over radio and newspapers with what later turned out to be incorrect one could reasonably assume that this person may have done it for its propaganda effect…
Also note that a frequent blogger on here seems only to be upset that DS gave some of Olint’s money to Labourites 🙂 Also note that one of doc’s primary goals seems to be a crusade against Labourites… And note that such people usually will only spend their money with Comrades… And thus you see a small group form that has as one of its major goals spreading propaganda against the people and party they dislike intensely…
The record in the press and letters display the facts… Got it now 🙂
Not Changing Course … For Now
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100425/focus/focus5.html
In the meantime, Dr. Williams contends that Jamaica’s entanglement with the illegal narcotics and gun trade does not bode well for the country internationally.
“If we do not comply with international standards then they’re going to punish you whether through the economy, through international trade, or there are going to be direct punishment through travel. When you’re punished, you’re locked off form the rest of the world and a small economy like Jamaica cannot produce everything that we want or consume everything we produce, so we have to engage in international trade
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/26880/26/
The prime minister would also know that the said Washington Post article of April 15 reported that US officials had no reason to believe that Manatt was representing anyone other than the Government of Jamaica.
In the absence of hard evidence to the contrary it is impossible for any rational human being to believe that Manatt lawyers could provide written evidence to the US Justice Department that they represented the Government of Jamaica if that was not so.
The prime minister must clear the air because it stands in the way of progress with the United States on law enforcement matters crucial to the survival of Jamaica as a democracy based on the rule of law.
Finally, the prime minister still needs to clear the air because, as this newspaper said in a powerful editorial last Sunday, “As things stand now, all graceful exits out of this one have been closed off.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Claude-Apr-25
‘Here’s a story….’
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/tools/cartoons/ed-cartoon-apr-25
A grand jury investigation must move forward, of both Mr Coke and those involved in the lobbying matter. And as for officials potentially involved, US action would not be without precedent. One must only look to United States v. Saunders, where DEA agents arrested three officials of the government of The Turks and Caicos on charges of conspiracy to import and distribute cocaine.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100425/cleisure/cleisure5.html
Saunders said he had no intention of keeping $50,000 given him by a convicted drug smuggler and government informant in exchange for safe harbor in a cocaine smuggling operation. Instead, Saunders said he was stringing the informant along, hoping he would make a legitimate investment in the country. Missick said he was conducting his own investigation.
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1985-07-27/news/8501310217_1_turks-and-caicos-drug-trade-saunders
“Everybody turn police to R**S”
Click to access Minutes_of_the_PTB_Meeting_held_on_February_25__2010_with_fees_analysis.pdf
Now that the money at the TCI Bank is lost, the only beneficiary of the entire Olint fiasco is the Liquidator and David Smith himself.
I wonder how much of the liquidator fees made it back to the judge and the TCI police in the form of a kickback
Click to access Minutes_of_Unsecured_Creditors_Meeting-dd_02-25-10.pdf
No money for unsecured creditors..No money for secured creditors – nuff money for liquidator expenses.
First 13 million
then 10 million
then 4 to 10 million
then the bank failed and the money gone
These guys make David Smith look like an altar boy…Who is the molesting priest in this arrangement?
@Tafari
In JA there is a saying for what has happened to Olint investors…
You guys must have sh*t in church 🙂 Or maybe since you guys did not use your intelligence (talents) before investing… you are like the guy in the Bible that buried his talents… and when the master returned he took it away and gave it to the one that put it to good use. Even the little that he has shall be taken away…
The decision, the officials pointed out, is made on a case-by-case basis, following an assessment of each applicant and the applying of the Immigration and Nationality Act (1952) to their circumstance.
“No visa is issued or declined for political reasons and there is no daily quota [for visa approvals]. If a thousand people turn up and they qualify, they all will get visas,” said Consul General David L Stone.
‘Dudus’ issue not a factor in granting visas, says US
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Dudus-affair-does-not-affect-visas-process_7548411
Hmmm… Notice how the folks spreading propaganda or who were just plain wrong never apologize for spreading misinformation. Too many Jcans like to ignore logic and believe in rumors.
Each time I present logic to analyze an issue, there are always those that challenge me stridently… how long will it be before before they realize that when I defend an issue vigorously it is because of the logic in my arguments. It is just the brain I was born with, my brain cannot accept illogical arguments.
Yesterdays New York times article reflects US opinion. Why dont you spin that Nocotec?
Last fall, a politically influential Jamaican lawyer, Harold Brady, hired on behalf of the Jamaican government the American law firm of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips to discuss “political and economic matters” with members of the Obama administration, according to documents filed with the Justice Department. Meetings were held with top White House and State Department officials.
But after the controversy over the Coke extradition exploded, the Jamaican government said it had been involved in the hiring of Manatt. The firm quickly canceled the contract. “The firm was never employed by or did work for Christopher Coke,” Monte M. Lemann, Manatt’s general counsel, said in a statement.
@manhattan:Yesterdays New York times article reflects US opinion. Why dont you spin that Nocotec?
LOL… So you are finally admitting that what you and you friends are about is “spin”. You “spin” information to suit the propaganda you are pushing. Sorry to disappoint but I am about logic, not spin.
Nocotec et al….
It would behoove you to perform some amount of due diligence before spreading inaccurate rumors and erroneously attempting to identify contributors to the blog.
Because a large group of people have taken a stance against the Government’s inappropriate behavior, which to date is yet to be formally denied, they per typical Jamaican politics have to be working on behalf of the “other side”.
I urge you since you claim to be so erudite, verify your facts before you make rash impulsive outbursts such as your friend BG in Parliament.
Do not allow your own political loyalty to skew your ability to be impartial.
Believe it or not, if a historical review was done, it will be found that your analysis is DEAD wrong re the political persuasion of a particular family to which I belong, as they played a significant role in Jamaican politics in the 1970’s and 1980’s, both financial and otherwise.
Remember this: Do not kill the messenger! Those parties who by their own action are being questioned should not blame others for their indiscretions. It is now time for their self reflection.
Please attempt to always be open minded and willing to listen.
Allow me to refresh you of this appropriate phrase:-
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people
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It is a 21-inch Small Smart weapon weighing 35 pounds and having roughly the diameter of a coffee cup and was designed to be launched from the Predator.
It causes far less destruction than a Hellfire, and it can be fitted with four different guidance systems that allow it to home in on targets as small as a single person, in complete darkness, according to U.S. officials familiar with the missile.
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U are a nutcase Floridian
And you are ‘Warren’.
Your focus on me might be telling you something then.
Not to mention the jealousy that might be stirred in Nonco, manhattan,Tafari and others.
@manhattan:
Here is the problem; you continually try to muddle the water with issues that has NO bearing on the more issues at hand. If you stick to the facts that are available to the average Jamaican then you will find yourself on solid footing…one that is irrefutable and not subject to debate!
As it relates to the Dudus matter, these are the facts as we know it:
1. We have a Thug, a Drug Overlord and Miscreant (Mr. Christopher Coke) that has been indicted by the US for exporting narcotics (cocaine and marijuana) TO the US and importing guns INTO Jamaica from the US.
2. These indictments were based on both wiretapping and confidential informants in both Jamaica and the US.
3. The Wiretapping was legally authorized by the then Attorney General of the Jamaica and signed off by a Jamaican Judge.
4. Based on these indictments, an extradition request was forwarded to Jamaica for Mr. Christopher Coke.
5. The Prime Minister and his cohorts have ceased on a loophole in the law to block this extradition of a know thug, by hinting at the fact that information obtained from legal wiretapping was illegally turnover to the US authorities without approval from unnamed Jamaican authorities.
6. The central charges of the indictment has been TOTALLY ignored by the Prime Minister, suggesting that these charges are irrelevant to the Jamaican people, obviously oblivious to the high murder rate in Jamaican of which GUNS account for more than 80 % of these deaths. Not to mention the staggering 2009 murder statistics where in excess of 1,600 Jamaicans were killed and only 20 % of those murder cases were ever solved.
7. The PM went even further to insult the intelligence of the Jamaican people by proclaiming that it is his duty to protect the rights of Jamaican Citizens from the “corrupt” practices of the US.
8. It has also come to light that one Harold Brady (of Cash Plus Fame and former JLP MP-designate) signed a contract with a US law firm to help lobby senior US officials to abort the extradition process. Money has changed hands between Mr. Brady and the US lobby firm and it is yet to be revealed who paid for this service. Mr. Brady, realizing that he was about to be made a sacrificial lamb, hinted at Mr. Vaz knows more than he is letting on. We have also come to find out that at least one sitting Minister of the present administration was present in overseas meeting with Manatt and US officials. This has somehow put the brakes on any further utterances from the ruling administration as it pertains to Mr. Brady’s role in the whole “Manatt, Phelps & Phillips” matter…no more attacks launch against Mr. Brady since such declarations …Hmmmmm
9. The Prime Minister has now turn to the Jamaican Courts to rule on a narrowly focused set of issues relating to whether the Attorney General has the “right” to denied the extradition of Mr. Coke. The issue of whether the Jamaican Courts should be the appropriate body to determine the legality of the forwarding of the wiretapping evidence to an external agency/country has been render moot!
Based on the foregoing FACTS, a logical set of questions emerges:
a. Irrespective of the outcome of the US indictments/extradition request against Mr. Coke, why has the previous and/or current administration brought charges against Mr. Coke based on the wiretapping evidence? I would also like to know WHO requested the original Wiretapping of Mr. Coke’s phone(s) and what was the basis for wiretapping in the first place? What were the intended purposes of the wiretapping of the thug’s phone?
b. Who is the source of the ~US$50k paid by Mr. Brady to Manatt and ultimate would have paid the US$100,000 per quarter in fees?
c. It is clear to any person with any reasonable cognitive abilities, that the Prime Minister is protecting someone in this whole matter. Is it himself? Mr. Coke? Other Members of his party? Other well-connected parties (big financial donors…remember the sacking of the minister of Energy due to his decision to fire one of the major fundraiser/financier of the JLP) associated with his administration?
d. Is the Prime Minister prepare to release the wiretapping recordings to the general public so we can understand the WHO, when and where associations?
e. Does the period when these recordings were made have any relevance to the issue of the guilt/innocence of the thug? Should the fact that Mr. Coke has never travelled outside of Jamaica be a factor in deciding his suitability to be extradited?
f. What message is the Prime Minister sending to the Jamaican people and the world, when he seeks to protect a known criminal?
g. Are we sure that it was a low level constable/sergeant who took it up on himself to turnover this information to the US? Could this transfer have been sanctioned by the Commissioner of Police?
The above questions is what I think we need to be debating…not some tangential issues about revocation of visas, which on the surface, appears insignificant in comparison to the major issues of a Prime Minister’s campaign to protect a Drug Lord.
Good post & great summary. Reminds me though that the initial intent of this blog, i.e. to provide information on investments, good or bad, has long since faded.
But still, good post, and I look forward to seeing the answers to the questions posed.
Go to hell Foridian. U are a lunatic. U are a solid PNP supporter withthe sole objectives being to bring down the government on a series of lies and half-truths
@Warren said…”U are a solid PNP supporter withthe sole objectives being to bring down the government on a series of lies and half-truths”…..
Shows how much you know! How long have you been reading this blog? Couldn’t be that long. Floridian is not a PNP supporter, but a guy who is mad as hell that he was conned by DS and that some of his misappropriated funds went to finance the JLP 2007 election. Furthermore, some of the major JLP Ministers/MP/financiers played an integral part of the con. So he and “others” are simply lashing out at the present administration due to close association between the JLP and David Smith (Ask Floridian to show you the “emails”).
I can assure you, if the PNP had received the lion share of election funds, his vitriolic attacks would be aimed squarely at the PNP. Trust me on this one….Floridian is no more a PNP supporter than I am anti-JLP 🙂
As Cullkull as stated before, you are ascribing powers to Floridian that he will ever achieved in this lifetime. Please desist for any further utterances of this nature, as this will only empower Floridian to continue on his quest to “prove” (hopelessly of course) he is smart and powerful. If he was so knowledgeable / influential, why was he hoodwinked by David Smith to invest hundreds of thousands in a Ponzi Scheme with the expectation that the “Great” FX Trader would deliver consistent returns in excess of 10 % per month?
Finally Warren, it would appear that your own hands are not clean. Are you a “SOLID” JLP / Bruce Golding Supporter? You certainly come across that way!!!
MikeD hit it on the head. Enough bitching from the madman floridian. Thems the questions we want answered.
@MikeD Good questions….. No single Constable or Sergeant would take it upon himself to hand over this kinda information to the Americans. The two previous Commissioner resigned suddenly after falling outa favor with the administration………….
Excellent stuff MikeD.
STANFORD ‘AIDE’ ORDERED EXTRADITED
ST JOHN’S, Antigua — Chief Magistrate Ivan Walters has ordered the extradition of the former head of the Financial Services Regulatory Commission (FSCR), Leroy King, to the United States on charges that he helped disgraced Texan financier Allen Stanford conceal a US$7 billion dollar fraud scheme.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Stanford–aide–ordered-extradited
Mike D, I wish to congratulate you for a thorough analysis.I am proud to be from a country which produces individuals with your level of education.From my quiet perspective as a New York based investigative editor I try to expand the information on the blog.The area that I am most interested in is the use of US visa policy in its foreign policy formulation.I have published many pieces in both the New York Times and Foreign Affairs Magazine. I can assure you that not all Jamaican Ministers can travel to the United States directly as a result of the Manatt Brady scandal. Manatt may not survive this scandal.Neither may the Government of Jamaica. Mike D send me a letter with your direct E mail at Manhattan c/o the political editor New York Times.
@Retort: Do not allow your own political loyalty to skew your ability to be impartial.
LOL… I am used to that… every time I post factual info that discredits folks they respond with this nonsense. It is actually hilarious to me now… first I was against CH, DS and the small man… later in the game I was for DS and in league with the co-conspirators blah blah…
Doc, the first thing to do to establish credibility on a blog is to use the same nick consistently.
Note that sensible persons do not debate facts… one can debate or present opinions on what the facts mean…
So for example one may quibble around the edges on what MikeD posted but you cannot debate the facts but may form opinions and debate those.
You have consistently posted nothing but innuendo, outright lies, propaganda and incorrect info and then expect to be taken seriously.
@manhattan: I can assure you that not all Jamaican Ministers can travel to the United States directly as a result of the Manatt Brady scandal. Manatt may not survive this scandal.Neither may the Government of Jamaica.
See… this is outright propaganda. Do you have any evidence that any Jcan minister’s visa, diplomatic or otherwise, has been denied or revoked as a result of the Dudus or Manatt matter?
Is it anything more than wishful thinking or propaganda that Manatt may collapse because of this affair… especially given that prosecutors usually go after individuals rather than firms since going after a firm hurts many innocent individuals…
There are many factors including economic and the Dudus matter that could potentially cause the current regime to lose the next election but to imply the gov may not survive is nothing but propaganda.
A long standing problem with Jcans is that they can only apply negative analysis to the other political party… they turn a blind eye to the sins of the party they support while they are in power… JLP supporters can only see the sins of the JLP and PNP supporters only the sins of the JLP.
Take the current Dudus matter that has PNP supporters giddy… As I have stated before it is quite clear that the treaty should be honored and he should be extradited after due process…
However this will not change the crime situation in JA one bit, in fact to the contrary it is likely to cause a short term spike. The facts are that he is being charged in the US with crimes that were also crimes in JA. His father before him was the Tivoli ‘don’ and also faced extradition… he was simply replaced after he died in prison and nothing changed.
By the way, go back a bit and recall… was not Dudus one of the persons on the list of ‘bad persons in his constituency’ that Seaga had turned over to the police many years ago…
The facts are that the political directorate in the 2 parties, the police and citizens in the communities all know who the ‘dons’ are… when one commits or is responsible for a heinous crime affecting the police or the ‘wrong persons’, the police carry out operations to kill them extra-judicially… such as Bulbie or a local ‘area don’ recently in the Portmore are, after the killing of a policeman… later that same morning the police simply executed him in an ‘operation.
Until the people develop the will to stop supporting the politicians that support, protect and have these alliances with these nefarious characters… nothing will change. Until the police force is reformed of widespread corruption, nothing will change.
Until they stop voting for politicians that at election time come around and give them a few crumbs to buy their votes… nothing will change… Recall the by-election in St Ann… the PNP candidate said it did not make sense contesting because the election had already effectively been bought…
Recall Omar’s, run wid it, comment… effectively admitting that the regime used the resources of the state to run up the deficit and buy the election… PJ did not keep getting re-elected because of competence… but simply because he mastered the art of buying elections. If the JLP master the art, they too will keep getting re-elected. They will only lose if the opposition (like the JLP) can raise enough private funding to overcome the funding gap.
The reality here is that until we can prosecute and bring to justice our criminals, nothing will change… the fact that the US occasionally extradites one will not matter one iota. We will continue to have gov ministers beholden to these really bad guys, trying to prevent them being brought to justice or attending their funerals… some of these guys get the equivalent of state funerals.
JLP Confesses
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100428/lead/lead1.html
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/JLP-confesses-to-Manatt-deal_7559861
I my mind this release made by Mr. Karl Samuda through the G2K President Mr. Delano Seiveright whilst the PM Mr. Golding is away preempting an article by the Wall Street Journal, raises more questions than answers
So called Police the matter is no doubt shameful but the government has been doing a good job so far despite this extradition issue
and the alternative is frankly terrible.
errm….i beg to differ.
well, with half of your statement at least
i agree that the alternative is terrible. but that should not of itself lead to the conclusion that this administration is doing a good job. that is an independent issue requiring independent valuation.
the constant bundling and fumbling of issues of national importance does not inspire confidence in this govt.
For example, is this administration getting a handle on crime? Public sector wage issues(size of the public sector being critical to this)? are they getting a handle on issues of govt secrecy and corruption? economic stability? jobs?
Warren, if you don’t mind, help the blog understand. What is the basis for your assertion that this government has been doing a “good job”?
One would have hoped that when the JLP came to power that we would see a positive change after the 18 years of mismanagement under the PNP. However it just seems to be same s**t, different day.
Little integrity, nuff corruption, no transparency, no accountability. The two parties should just join together and mek one. Very little difference as far as I can see.
Peace
@Warren
“So called Police the matter is no doubt shameful but the government has been doing a good job so far despite this extradition issue and the alternative is frankly terrible”
All I want is the truth, I can Honestly say that one of the main reasons i voted against the PNP in the 2007 Elections(General and Local Government) was due to Trafigura and the money they “contributed” to the PNP.
I thought that was a Scandal……. but this one takes the cake for me.
Denial first then what……..veil attempt at a confession.
For me this is not about “the alternative” this is about Men whom I put a lot of my trust in and thought they were better than the previous bunch, trampling on that trust, whats the real motive behind all of this, i think there will be more revelations and confessions of sorts…. more anon.
By the way Warren….. I am a proud Police Officer not a so called one
Well said police. On this matter we are at one.
I too optimistically casted my septemebr 2007 ballot with the hope that change was around the corner.
I man no fool, i know that driva was not necessarily to steer jamdown to immediate prosperity.
But, i thought driva was going steady the ship.
I thought driva was going to use his political capital to help stop the rot. halt the decline. restore dignity. a sense of civic pride, civic duty and responsibility.
take a real and meaningful stand to reverse the corruption of consciousness in our society.
but kiss mi neck, driva spend 2 and a half year now squandering that capital dodging bouncers of his own making. come out of the nets now driva. this is real sh*t. this is lords, or sabina park. the deliveries all aiming at your middle stump are real!! an early walk back to the pavillion is doom and gloom. is only walshie [sista p??] lef to pad up!
it is truly pitiful what we are witnessing. I am deeply saddened by the performance of the JLP to date.
WHAT IS CORRUPTION?
A simple definition of corruption is the misuse of
public office for private gain for the benefit of the
holder of the office or some third party.
All I can say is THE PLOT THICKENS AND THIS ONE IS GETTING STINKER AND STINKER AS THE DAYS GOES BY..
Read on… If you really want to know why JA is in the shape it is… one needs to do no more than read the blog posts on the hot topic or the newspapers and radio…
Sorry, but most of these comments are nothing but hypocrisy or feigned outrage.
Who are we kidding? Depending on one’s mood it is either hilarious or makes one want to throw up…
Is there a Jcan above the age of reason, who lives in JA, pays attention to JA news or was not asleep longer than Rip Van Winkle… that did not know who ran West Kingston? Or that persons association or affiliation with the ruling party?
So what is the supposed outrage about… that the JLP bungled their efforts to help him so badly? Surely it is not surprise that they like the PNP have deep associations with such characters… Is there for example any Jcan not in the above categories that is not aware which party the 2 extremely violent gangs in Spanish town are affiliated with?
And folks expect that you are to be taken seriously that you are disappointed or outraged… I suppose you are because it has become so public… not because you did not know the reality.
I recall years ago I said I did not believe in attending passa passa because of who were direct beneficiaries and I was looked at strangely… this fact did not stop all the uptowners from making their weekly trek.
What? Do you guys want me to believe you did not know he was deeply connected with the JLP… and in many constituencies the same applies with similar persons? And I suppose you believed that these guys are boys scouts helping old ladies cross the street on their way to church…
You had no idea why you could go to dangerous areas of the inner city to party all night and not be robbed, killed raped, have your car broken into or stolen or otherwise pillaged… or why you can go downtown and not routinely be robbed by gunmen or pickpockets… or why generally the only store owners downtown being robbed or killed are those reputed to refuse payment of extortion…
I suppose you think there is a boys scout down there talking nicely to the thugs… You guys knew all of this so stop pretending…
Remember when a Spanish town MP/caretaker quit because she had no stomach for the associations with violent gangs and individuals that she had to endure… were you outraged that such individuals were the ones being forced from public service? Where were you then?
Recall when a politician stated that his constituents expected to be paid to vote for him and if they expect him to pay them they can vote for his opponent… and they did… where was your outrage then?
Forgive me if I see nothing strange here… Jcans have known about this since before Rip Van Winkle went to sleep. And have dutifully voted for these politicians PNP and JLP while folks were burned out, killed terrorized and driven out of communities because of their party affiliations… We have known who the perpetrators in these communities are… and we have accepted it…
There is a saying… a people get the government they deserve…
So applying your superior logic Sir Noco, the voters of Jamaica “know” of these associations so it it is foolish to expect change?
its foolish to expect that we can be rescued from the abyss?
Because we as a people are so incapable of governing ourselves out of corruption?
Ironically, it is that apathetic view that leads to the destructive cycle.
because we choose to excuse so much in ja as, di next side do it to, or the next side cyaan do better, there is a complete absence of accountability.
We have lost our moral compass as a result. The pnp was able to stay in power for 18 1/2 years in spite of the fact that it was undoubtedly the worst and most corrupt administration in the history of this country. Why? They were able to play on the exact apathetic stance you spout in your last post. No betta herring, no betta barrel nonesense.
Jamaica be damned! How dare we expect someone to rise above the morass? This is jamaica afterall.
Pitiful!
Uncle Sam wants lottery scammers
Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Clearly unhappy with the Jamaican government’s handling of the lottery racket in which scores of Americans have been fleeced, the US government has apparently decided try Jamaican citizens involved in the multi-million dollar racket on their own turf.
In court Wednesday, it was revealed that the US authorities have expressed an interest in Mr. Haughton and Mr. Andrews and will be seeking their extradition to America to stand trial.
As a result, the two men who appeared in court on bail were taken back into custody.
Four other accused reportedly connected to their operation are now on trial in the US.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/26979/26/
Excellent comments!!!
We have a tendency in Jamaica to blame politicians for the untenable position we now find ourselves in as a country. The truth be told is that “Jamaicans” as a people are as equally as corrupt and bankrupt as the politicians we so loaf. The vicious cycle of corruption extends to ALL reaches of the society. I was oblivious of this fact until I went into business for myself and had to deal with Jamaicans as employees and customers. This was an eye opener. You had employees who were running their own mini business within my wider business, who would steal what wasn’t bolted to the floor and Jamaican customers who expect something for nothing, refusing to pay for services delivered. Basically, we as a people have engrained in our culture one of freeness, the unenviable rights to receive items of value in return for nothing. …a culture devoid of hard work and sacrifice and where “short cut” is the order of the day.
The situation as it stand now is one where:
1) Inside and outside of Jamaica, we have legitimate businesses that goes to great lengths to avoid paying custom duty.
2) We have a number of Jamaica self-employed professionals (Doctors, Lawyers, etc.) who pay no income taxes.
3) Large number of very profitable companies that pay no corporate taxes.
4) A few large corporate entities that incorporate their companies in other jurisdictions and using tax loopholes to pay little or no Jamaican corporate taxes.
5) We have airline pilots and flight attendant that bring in goods into the country without paying customs or are used my legitimate businesses as conduits for evading custom duties.
6) We have Jamaican erecting structures without the requisite building permits/government approval.
7) We have Jamaicans (including high ranking police officers) bringing drug proceeds (cash) daily from overseas.
8) Jamaicans bringing (VERY) high end vehicles paying little or no custom duties. Some, using this mechanism to repatriate drug proceeds!
9) Jamaicans using all manner of cons to undermine the legitimate business and the entire system as a whole.
10) The many Jamaicans women who make their annual pilgrimage to the US to have their babies at the expense US tax payers (Medicaid), even though they have the resources to pay for the services. The same is true for other Jamaicans who “stick it to” the Americans for other acute ailments.
11) Jamaicans overseas that extract untold amount of phantom “home Equity loans” to finance lavish lifestyle (both within and outside the US) they can’t afford and is now looking for the US Government to bail them out of the dilemma they now find themselves in (now that the phantom equity has all but evaporated before their own eyes.)
12) A Jamaican society where we basically have a free-for-all-mentality, operating with very little oversight from the people we elect to maintain law and order.
I could go on ad nauseam, but I think you get the picture.
How do we expect Politicians, a very small subset of a wider group, to behave any differently? What we have here is a Jamaican culture that behave in a manner that somehow, someone owes them “something”….. a culture of entitlement. A society where a small group of employed individuals are carry the burden for a large pool of unemployed people, enjoying free education and healthcare without ever contributing a single cent in taxes. Why then should we as a people expect different outcomes given the fore mention dilemma that we find now find ourselves in.
Extortionist (something for nothing) and Drug dealers (short cut artists) are the order of the day and supported by a large segment of our population. Getting a decent education, hard Work and sacrifice has taken a back seat to the need for quick fixes and the quickest way to the top. No wonder that at one of our main tertiary institutions, women account for over 80% of the student population!!
Are we surprise at the level of penetration that the UFO had in our society after taking into account what was said above? A lot of people that participated in the High yield “investment” vehicles were in essence saying I want something for nothing? So why blame “only” the politicians? I am of the firm belief that ALL JAMAICANS share equally in the blame for the state of the country. It is so ironic that these same Jamaicans migrate with this same sense of entitlement and will stop at nothing to extract the pound of flesh at the expense of others. We are equally culpable….enough said!!
Very interesting comments.
MikeD
Sure we are all deserving of blame.
However, is it expecting too much to ask of those who aspire to, and then attain positions of leadership (with the power and authority that goes along with it) to be LEADERS?
Why should i hold the leaders to the same standard as farmer joe who tried overpricing me on some benup squeeze up banana di other day because him hear a ‘town’ accent?
We cant have leaders who are content with blending in with the lowest common denominator. Societies that progress demonstrate the exact opposite of that.
We have to start demanding better. Jamaica has become a society where mediocrity is golden. Some call it “Jamaican Exceptionalism.”
We are good simply because we are Jamaican. nothing else is required.
Look, we heading down a serious walk to ruin if we don’t shape up.
I could go on, but i must head out for lunch. i’m starving.
🙂
@miak: So applying your superior logic Sir Noco, the voters of Jamaica “know” of these associations so it it is foolish to expect change? its foolish to expect that we can be rescued from the abyss? Because we as a people are so incapable of governing ourselves out of corruption? Ironically, it is that apathetic view that leads to the destructive cycle.
My viewpoint is quite the opposite of apathetic. I guess if you are in business as a Jcan you have the same experiences… I have made many of the same points as MikeD before…
You missed my point entirely… You ask if we are capable of governing ourselves out of corruption. The answer is NO… not if we keep electing politicians on both side of the aisles that everyone in the communities and nationwide knows are involved with nefarious characters.
Let me get this straight… you think we can elect such people and then you expect them to be different? On what planet do you expect this?
As MIkeD also points out… we get what we deserve. To add to what he said… consider this… When Jcans get stopped by the police for speeding… how many do the dance and pay off the police? Then that same person will complain how corrupt the police are because they are in league with criminals. And you think it can get better because we wish it or hope it so…
Here is a pertinent article on JA.
Island of music and murder
http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/peopleandpower/2010/04/2010427122334575952.html
noco,
my planet is earth to be sure. 🙂
I do believe that we can elect people who at the time represent the better altenative, the lesser of two evils so to speak, and hold them accountable to their promises. Yes.
otherwise, LOGIC (your favorite word:)) would lead to the conclusion that we are doomed, their is no hope, we are merely passengers on a train called destiny.
As a premise i reject that view.
it is apathetic because an extension of your line of reasoning is that we cannot , nor should not expect leadership from our leaders.
i agree, the whole dam system is corrupt and there are no easy solutions.
that is why when a man like BG comes along an articulates a vision for change, a plausible vision, from someone who seemingly grasps the realities of our predicament we must hold him accountable when he fails to deliver.
its not good enough to say, cho what else you did expect. that is merely a continuation of the very cycle you detest.
we have a very popular line of reasoning in jamaica that i disagree with whole heatedly. and that is what i believe you are articulating. that is, its all our fault (which is partly correct), so why you cussing the politician for (which is nonsense).
paying a policeman at a traffic stop, while wrong and deserving of your castigation, pales in comparison with what our politicians are up to. not just in thse sense of the measure of the wrong, but the impact of the wrong and the message the wrong sends.
we had 19 years of scandal under the pnp regime. and every election the pnp won on the platform that betta no deh. if u tink we bad, look ova desso.
now the jlp is in power fumbling and bumbling and we starting to hear the same nonesense.
and yes, we elect them (by commission and omission…those who stay away from the polls play as important a role as those who cast their votes, whether the accept it or not).
And yes has to be up to the people to hold them accountable. perhaps starting with people like you, i.e. ledership of the intelligentsia, a body whcih is made up of people like u noco!
if you throw your hands in the air, what about the man who hasnt had the benefit of your experience, education and exposure?
Forgive me, but i have voted in every election since 1997. And perhaps foolishly, i expect leadership to lead the followers, not follow the way of the masses.
I believe that holding people accountable to their words and promises is where WE as a people have to start.
no excuses.
Finally some really good dialogue. Keep it up guys. Very interesting.
Does anyone know whether or not the administration has filed for the extradition of the police officer who allegedly handed over the taped conversation to the americans, if they havent i am daring them to do so………
According to this source:
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/26955/26/
GOJ would seek the identity of the Police “Constable” and if in the US, his extradition back to Jamaica for prosecution. Of course that will never happen.
…”Under the Interception of Communications Act the information gathered by this means was to be disclosed only to the Commissioner of Police, a Superintendent of Police and the Head of the Military Intelligence Unit of the Jamaica Defence Force”…
I’m curious though as to what will be the GOJ position if it turns out that the information was legally transferred to the US? Can of of the three persons name above legally disclose to “others” the information from the Wiretapping exercise?
I very timely cartoon…..
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http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/tools/cartoons/Ed-cartoon-apr-30-2010
MikeD, I dont know who some of these ppl are trying to fool, what evidence do they have that a “Constable” handed over this information to the US as u rightly pointed out.
If “Constable John Doe” is to be extradited and prosecuted for a crime where would the evidence come from that he committed a crime? The Americans…. Digicel…. or a co-conspirator? Why is all of this unfolding whilst Mr. Golding is away?
In the history of his call in program Mr. Golding has been absent from this program only once… this was the same day Mr. Karl Samuda “confessed” on behalf of the JLP…..
This is not about politics this is about FACTS
hmmmmmmm
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100425/focus/focus5.html
This article sums it up good…
Odd how this article conveniently sidesteps the dudus/mannat issues. Thats JA politics for you. Back your party to the death and tow the line. Dont dare speak truth, 1/2 truths are allowed though sometimes. Jus like I said, same old same old, no difference tween the two a dem as far as I can see.
It would appear to me that very few enter politics here for honourable reasons. The majority enter to seek after the few spoils that are left and you cant tell me any different cuz its supm Ive seen for myself. The day a ‘tician doesnt tow the line and dares to speak out, well, dawg nyam dem supper, dem same pardy dem stab dem up. As Muta seh- The system is a fraud.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/columnists/article7111108.ece
Noted Red P. But believe your views are just too fatalistic.
For God sakes man nobody is perfect ad frankly Brue Golding is no messiah but i have to give him and his people a chance.
No problem there Warren, and I do believe he has some straight up peeps there with him, just a few snakes in the grass need to be weeded. But I have a question for you. Would you not applaud and respect our Prime Minister more if he shot straight, bit the bullet, dealt wid duddus and just do the right thing? Start wid duddus and clean out the whole rest of them, every orange and green garrison cleaned out of these malefactors. Put yourself in the PM’s shoes and just imagine this.
The PM is now standing before the judgement throne and God seh to him, “My yute, I gave you an opportunity to do the right thing and start something fresh and new that may have changed the political landscape and set a precedence towards ridding your country of dons and tribal politics and yet you did not do it. What do you have to say for yourself?”
And I cant help but wonder, would the PM be so hasty to defend my rights as a Jamaican citizen as he has Duddus?
Come on Warren, admit it, the whole thing stinks. I am not saying that the whole govt stinks and I do agree with SOME of what was in the article. But I guess thats why I am not in politics, I cherish being able to call a spade a spade and being able to sleep soundly.
Peace bro
And another thing and this is one of the few things I agree with floridian on. Certain party stalwarts were intrinsic in keeping the lie of Olint going and damn well knew that it was a sham. But of course has anything ever been done to bring anyone to justice? May God have mercy on them.
@ RedP
A big yes to your questions.
The Dudus matter stinks as hell
However i suspect the PM is tredding very carefully on this one and may very well be putting up appearances….
Don’t want to say too much but i am sure you get my point
This is not a 1-2-3 situation son
This is a very complex and corrupted society in every sense of the word
And to seriously clean it up will lead to some very awful happenings in my mind
PM has his plate and some full
Warren I gave Bruce and his ppl 2 chances in 2007 and what do i get? Lies, Dishonesty, trying to protect a gunrunner and illegal drugs exporter. I’m sorry but i’m not so forgiving.
For Manatt, New Twist in Extradition Controversy
Samuda’s statement is at odds with the official record as reflected by Manatt’s FARA filings. Those documents state clearly under the heading “name of foreign principal” that the firm’s client during the four months the $400,000 agreement was in effect was the “Government of Jamaica through Harold C.W. Brady of Brady and Co.”
Manatt general counsel Monte Lemann II reiterated that position this week in the following statement to The Am Law Daily: “As stated in the FARA filing, Manatt was employed by the Government of Jamaica, through Harold C.W. Brady to assist with existing political and economic matters including existing treaty agreements between Jamaica and the U.S.” Lemann and Manatt declined to elaborate.
WHO IS HAROLD BRADY?
In addition to the conflicting accounts about who exactly hired Manatt, there is another unusual aspect to the firm’s Jamaica pact: it is the only one of 11 Manatt has registered with Justice over the past 20 years in which a private individual is named as the point of contact for the foreign government being represented. So who is Harold Brady?
http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/amlawdaily/2010/04/jamaica-manatt.html
The Dudus tapes
A convicted drug dealer has revealed to US authorities how he allegedly purchased firearms in the United States for Jamaica Labour Party strongman, Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke in 2007. This is in addition to running a drug trafficking operation, in which Coke was allegedly a major player
http://www.sunheraldja.com/2010/05/the-dudus-affair%E2%80%A6-bombshell-disclosure/
inquiring minds want to kno, how many (if any) of those recorded conversations have politicians and other prominent people in Jamaican society talking to ‘Presi”…
@theCynic.. trust me when I say a lot of ppl are in for the shock of their lives, The Observer and Mark Wignal knows more than they are writing …….
By the way where is our chief servant? I’ve seen a lot in this country and trust me after seeing the PNP in power for over 18 years I thought I had seen the worst in terms of corruption and political interferance but this DUDUS affair wipe out all that I have seen before
@Police
… the prime minister was off bird-shooting in Paraguay.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100502/focus/focus4.html
Right to jury trial “likely” to be axed
CONTENTIOUS proposals to axe the automatic right to jury trial – which whipped up a hornet’s nest in the aftermath of the corruption probe – look set to be enacted.
Prosecutor Helen Garlick said it would be “very, very difficult” to empanel an impartial jury given the volume of publicity generated by the Commission of Inquiry.
http://www.tcweeklynews.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=1&twindow=&mad=&sdetail=2014&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=2404&hn=tcweeklynews&he=.com
Bosses are accused of dishing out “secret commissions, illicit rewards and bribes”
http://www.tcweeklynews.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=1&twindow=&mad=&sdetail=2007&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=2404&hn=tcweeklynews&he=.com
We are of course acutely conscious of the extra need for focus and speed with this investigation, because we know that we are only one part of a larger process to restore confidence and good governance to this country which ahs been through a very turbulent and difficult time.”
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=862
A new low for Jamaica on the international scene ?
Skip the bail hearing and them back home.
if Jamaica’s prime minister wants the leader of a gang that is alleged responsible for 1,500 deaths in the U.S., maybe he’ll take back the Toronto’s Shower Posse members too?
Why even ask him? Send these alleged dirt bags packing
http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2010/05/04/13827471.html
French court refuses extradition. Interesting article.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100505/ap_on_re_eu/eu_france_us_iran
THIS BLOG SHOULD BE RENAMED ” THE ANTI JLP BLOG.COM”.
I BELIEVE THE PEOPLE WHO STOLE OUR MONEY MUST BE HAPPY WE ARE NO LONGER TRYING TO GET JUSTICE, BUT INSTEAD TO SCORE POLITICAL POINTS.
BUSINESS
Olint falls victim to TCI Bank collapse
By Al Edwards
Friday, May 07, 2010
The decision by the courts to close down Turks and Caicos Bank (TCI Bank) means that funds from investors in the foreign currency trading outfit Olint are entombed in that bankrupt entity and now subject to the process of liquidation, adding further drama to this protracted affair.
…”A supporter of Smith, speaking from Turks and Caicos this week, added: “It was said that David was trafficking girls from Russia, flying them in on his jet for high-ranking members of the previous administration. That was not the case. Then you have a doctor who had US$750,000 in Olint and got back US$1.05 million, writing to the Obama administration telling it not to give aid to Jamaica because of Olint’s activities and people connected to it. Then you have the retailer who, every opportunity he gets bad mouths David, yet he had money in Olint and flew to Bahamas where David settled with him. The smell of mendacity is pungent and many people have already painted stripes on the guy. If David says the funds are available he should be given the opportunity to make things right with Olint members in a lawful manner.”……….
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/business/Olint-falls-victim-to-TCI-bank_7589126
Well, now that sordid saga has come to an end.
The liquidator has been the only one paid, and a new liquidator will now seek to liquidate the assets of TCI.
Meaning Olint investors will not even get one cent on the dollars.
Sad indeed !!
That statement about the doc getting nearly 50% more than he put in surely cannot be correct.
I’m sure that he will challenge that here and set that straight. for surely, that must be false information.
Hey Floridian, how come you flew to the Bahamas and settle with DS and never update your Blog mates of the finer details of your encounter with the FX God?
What I find interesting is that a “Supporter of Smith” would have at his disposal all these financial details of Olint Investors and in a position to disprove the veracity of claims that DS was engaging in human trafficking. I guess the supporter is DS himself.
Now that there is no more money available, does that mean the Liquidator will close shop (immediately)? Or does he become the liquidator for TCI Bank?
Hey Floridian, how come you flew to the Bahamas and settle with DS and never update your Blog mates of the finer details of your encounter with the FX God?
@MikeD
Don’t carry “mates” blog or otherwise…
@Jay
What about the new thread? I promised a pictorial.
Don’t get distracted by former phone scammers etc Jay. Stay with floridian. Stay with the tried and tested.
New thread…call it the fantastic 36
Having read Horatio Williams emails on the www I think he should recuse himself from ACON. But what would I care. (floridian is read intently but heard? …that’s another matter.)
New thread Jay. I’ll even throw in pictorials of some of these “sources” you read and Al’s emails that are on the World Wide Web.
Fly to bahamas to get paid? Deacon’s special treatment again? Mike D Smithy dis you!
LOL
Why would anyone spend money on assembling a formidable legal team if they were not owed money?
Why would two of the largest law firms in the world take on the case if the claim was not valid?
Again, David Smith and his PR people skillfully try to sway people away from reviewing the facts.
Truth be told:
1)David and Tracey Smith had a wonderful Easter weekend party at their lavish Chalk Sound home in the TCI
2)David recently smashed his Ranger Rover and within 2 weeks acquired a new one.
The $10+ million in the TCI Bank is a drop in the bucket. He has stashed away a nice little sum for the “family”. Are we to believe the $20 million transferred by CR of Sterling was for a Church contribution deacon?
Deacon, time is not on your side as it ticks your days of freedom drift away.
Private Detectives are expensive but worth every penny. Soon we will have them review the spending habits of your family members- all of whom are on the “OLINT Welfare” system and do not work, but live extravagant lifestyles. What is wrong with that picture?
You thought you were so smart. You made one big mistake and f—ked with the wrong family. ANYONE who f—ks with me or my family will feel the ROD OF CORRECTION.
At least you were man enough to admit you owed me money but that darling wife of yours flicked me off.
I hear I will see you soon on my turf. I will be waiting with open arms. Tracey do you plan to stay with Bette Ann or Fort Myers? Let me know before hand so that I can make the necessary arrangements.
WASHINGTON, CMC – Two United States legislators have written President Barack Obama urging him to instruct US representatives at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) not to approve a “substantial loan” to Antigua and Barbuda.
Mississippi Republican senators Roger Wicker and Thad Cochran have also called on the Antigua and Barbuda government to release “several hundred million dollars” that it allegedly seized from indicted Texas billionaire Allen Stanford.
“In light of Antigua’s failure to assist and cooperate in the ongoing investigation of Stanford Financial or to assist defrauded investors in their efforts to recover their losses, we ask that you urge the US representatives to the IMF to vote against this loan,” they wrote to Obama.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/US-legislators-seeking-to-block-IMF-loan-to-Antigua
The doc is going to fix ds’s business.DS is lying to the public about many things and Doc has found him out ! Ds’s days are over.Ds pay Doc the money that you owe him now!
Noco,How would you compare BG with Sir Alexander Bustamante?
DS is hiding from the DOCTOR!
Click to access letter_to_chrisbryant_06may10.pdf
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In fact, it is well established that Smith is a philanthropist and has established a multi-million dollar Olint
Foundation in Jamaica, the country of his birth, and both present and past Governments in addition to
private entities have been significant beneficiaries of his philanthropy.
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Click to access letter_to_chrisbryant_06may10.pdf
The social, economic, medical and
psychological disruption and dislocation of hundreds have been documented and the consequential death
of several has been alleged.
We cannot responsibly demand that the matter be resolved
on May 11, but we do request that the process be expedited, bearing in mind the fact that the true owners of
the frozen funds are being subjected to severe trauma as a direct consequence of their funds is frozen.
However we are highly persuaded that the far-reaching impact that our case has on thousands of lives is not likely to be duplicated by too
many other cases now before the Court. Already 22 months have elapsed, and the Attorney General of the
Turks and Caicos Islands does not seem to be in a hurry to bring closure to this matter, possibly because no
citizens of the TCI are involved.
However, the lives of thousands of citizens outside your jurisdiction have been precariously hanging
in the balance since July 2008. We are demanding closure.
To: ACOM, Godfrey and all who read here.
The gist of the ACOM letter is clear. “Justice delayed is justice denied.” And I first and foremost agree there.
You have mentioned the formidable “Olint Foundation” in your letter to the British Foreign Minister (best wishes to him in these uncertain times). From the musings on the “Foundation” one might be swayed to believe it is the star of all philanthropic efforts emanating from Jamaica. I shall not challenge that.
However in light of the theme, “justice delayed is justice denied” and your warm feelings towards the foundation and your commitment to the courts as the best medium to clear ones name, I ask you thus:
1. Would the foundation not move swiftly to clear themselves in court?
2.. Was the foundation not given the opportunity to have its day in court in a most expeditious manner?
3. Is it true that an unfavorable judgement has already been passed against members of the Smith family and the foundation et al? IN THE COURT?
4. Has the foundation made any public statement to such effect?
5. Has it been explained to members why they (the foundation) have lost?
6. Have you wondered why David and Tracy Smith evade service of process? To delay their day in court?
Their Day In Court Has Gone and they have LOST. Is there something that you don’t understand?
I don’t think it can be made any clearer.
BTW let us hope a coalition govt. in the U.K. makes the addressee relevant.
…If not ACOM can resend a copy to LMA….
Backpedal and wheelie in one,
“Therefore, without prejudice to the
facts to which we do not have access, it would be reasonable to expect that the same Smith who has donated
multiple millions of dollars to both present and former Jamaican Governments or to their respective
Political Parties, and without any identifiable „strings‟ attached,”
A dead stamp a yu…don’t disown the pickeney!
Legal back-pedal
The lawyer knows his number is up. So he is busy back-pedalling. Problem is that it may already be too late. She knows too much and he can’t keep her quiet. Brace for it. This one is going to be bad.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Pepperpot_7589203
‘one wheel wheelie …meck wi wheelie one wheel’ Early B.
Napoleon and Snowball again…
“We need not fool ourselves into believing that we can have our cake and eat it.”
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/Of-pigs-and-politicians_7587541
My how the Observer has come to analogy of Animal farm ..and the use of the term Back-pedal….???…..wow Jay what say you?
Virginia Slims? “You have come a long way baby?”
Jay you think they got the Back-pedal and the Animal Farm stuff from here? Those blogs here are over a year old.
Better late than never?
Come home Deacon?
Exodus: Foreigners exit TCI in their droves
http://www.tcweeklynews.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=1&twindow=&mad=&sdetail=2018&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=2404&hn=tcweeklynews&he=.com
TCI Islanders fought tooth and nail to help the Jamaicans…
North, Middle Caicos elderly hurt by TCI Bank’s closure
One of the elderly residents that this newspaper spoke with had this to say: “It is just one blow after the other. Every time you think what’s next, something worst comes up. The way things going, we are bracing ourselves for something else. And you don’t know how long, you don’t know where to go from here, and how do you pick up the pieces, that’s the problem.”
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=868
Calling all Belongers, PRC Holders… illegitimate Belongership holders…
There is a saying in Jamaica that goes like this:
“Time langa dan rope”
LOL?
Manatt briefs Obama
Article Published: Sunday, May 9th, 2010
http://www.sunheraldja.com/2010/05/manatt-briefs-obama/
The tempo of the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips controversy – in which the United States law firm was asked to help resolve an extradition matter between Jamaica and the US – is set to increase this week, even as the Government maintains it has not received any official statement from the Obama administration.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100510/lead/lead3.html
Harold Brady needs to explain this one, for it is he who retained the law firm, Manatt. As a Jamaican, I am extremely embarrassed to see the extent of deceit and misrepresentation that my country has carried out against a friendly state.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100510/cleisure/cleisure3.html
The Manatt, Phelps and Phillips matter is of grave importance since it provides the clearest picture yet of the intellectual and managerial capabilities of those who lead.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Chase-those-crazy-baldheads-out-of-town_7591421
Published: Monday | May 10, 2010
Golding, baugh to speak
Samuda told The Gleaner yesterday that Golding and Foreign Affairs Minister Dr Ken Baugh are expected to speak on the issue tomorrow in Parliament.
Olint Boss returns to court
2010-05-11 08:52:17
The fraud case against David Smith, the former boss of the failed Olint investment scheme, is to be heard in the Turks and Caicos Court today.
The TCI Supreme Court will determine whether Mr Smith has a criminal case to answer.
When David Smith last appeared in court in the TCI on March 3, 2010, another four fraud-related charges were laid against him, pushing the total to 30.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=19196
Court releases Simpson Miller, Matalon from extradition row
The minister has the option of having her application be heard ex parte — that is, without anybody else being heard but her.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Court-releases-Simpson-Miller–Matalon-from-extradition-row
Attorneys for the government are also taking instructions as to whether they should appeal this morning’s ruling.
No order was made regarding legal costs at the hearing.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=19211
Pay the costs from some private source… beg Brady a ‘change’ don’t pay with taxpayer money!
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Bruce Golding this afternoon revealed that he knew about the deal between the US law firm Manatt Phelps and Phillips and attorney at law Harold Brady.
Mr Golding said he had sanctioned the partnership between Mr Brady and the US law firm.
Prime Minister Bruce Golding said Mr Brady was engaged to lobby the US on behalf of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in the treaty dispute and NOT the Government of Jamaica.
He also said the fee of US$49,000 was paid to the US law firm with funds from the financial contributors of the JLP and NOT Mr Coke.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=19224
Deacon?
Prime Minister Bruce Golding on Tuesday afternoon admitted that he sanctioned the engagement of US Law Firm Manatt Phelps and Phillips.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/27278/26/
Mr. Harold Brady was and is not a consultant to the government and was never authorized to act on behalf of the government or to engage the services of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips to so act;
· Manatt, Phelps & Phillips registered the government of Jamaica as its client without the knowledge or appropriate authorization of the government;
· The Solicitor-General was not aware that Manatt, Phelps & Phillips had already been retained by Mr. Brady when he met with their representatives, only that their services were available should the government wish to retain them. Had he been so aware, he would not have entertained any such meeting;
· The engagement by Mr. Brady of the services of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has been terminated.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=19232
Next week…..Brady, PM, OLINT….
It is a sad day for me and I am sure it probably is for many Jamaicans who may have voted for the Jamaica Labour Party. I guess I can publicly declare here that my days of voting in Jamaica done because you can’t trust what any politician says and it doesn’t matter what side of the fence. I weep for Jamaica as my heart bleeds for the hopelessness that has gripped this country that I call home. The JLP must be made to declare who the donors of the US$49,000 are. Our teachers and nurses are fighting to get what is theirs and they are being spat upon by newly arrived ‘slave masters’. I am disappointed in Mr. Golding because by not coming forward with this latest news weeks earlier, he succeeded in drawing in otherwise respectable members of his party and the society. How can I tell my teenage son that telling a lie doesn’t pay in the long run when our Political leaders deviate from the truth left, right and centre all the time?
FLIP-FLOP: Golding Admits Sanctioning Contract With Manatt
“Yuh too lie, man. Yuh tek sensible people fi idiot,” remarked a seemingly annoyed Dean Peart, member of parliament for North West Manchester.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100512/lead/lead1.html
When Deacon Smith deh pon di tape Deacon seh….or it was Auntie Roachy…let wi check…
Summer Travel Reminders
A common summer activity for some children is travelling overseas. From time to time, however, failure to ensure that all is in place for travel can put a damper on the occasion. It is advisable. therefore, that both parents and their children create a checklist to minimise anxiety and help ensure all is well for their trip.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100512/news/news5.html
EDITORIAL – Shape Up, Mr Prime Minister
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100512/cleisure/cleisure1.html
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=466
“These funds were sourced from financial contributions to the party.”
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=466
‘It was me’ — Golding confesses
Golding confessed that he had “sanctioned” persons in the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) to approach Manatt Phelps and Phillips to lobby the United States administration to drop its extradition request for Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke to face drug and gun-running charges there.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Golding-confesses-manatt_7605025
PNP calls for Golding’s resignation
In the meantime, the National Democratic Movement (NDM), the political party formerly led by Mr. Golding, is calling on the Prime Minister to immediately tender his resignation.
In a statement, the NDM said Mr. Golding’s actions have compromised the integrity of his government and deceived the people of Jamaica.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/27289/26/
farsical and Motty need to practice deep breathing and yoga relaxation techniques. OLINT is the way bigger gorilla (you heard it here first as usual).
By September a place in Hillel and a place in the house of Gordon will be the easiest thing for aspirants to get. Several free spaces.
Kevin O’Brien Chang on Wheelie, U Turn, Yoga, Visa and Indictment …and Olinters construction contracts…
Golding a grave disappointment – O’Brien Chang
Kevin O’Brien Chang.
And one political analyst believes Mr. Golding’s credibility as Prime Minister will take a nose dive following the latest revelation in the Manatt saga.
Kevin O’Brien Chang says the Prime Minister’s handling of crucial information on the dealings with the US law firm also raises serious questions about transparency in the JLP administration.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/27289/26/
Don’t jump ship… you signed on for the full tour…your registration documented on the manifest….yes yu. You can check out any time you want….but you can NEVER leave.
Welcome to the Hotel Olint….plenty of room at the hotel Olint…
There are indications that attorney-at-law Harold Brady could have more trouble coming his way over his role in the Manatt, Phelps and Phillips saga.
When contacted Tuesday night, the attorney would only say that Mr. Golding’s address was “full and comprehensive” and he had nothing further to say on the matter.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/27287/26/
“full and comprehensive?” Second rate dimwit.
Floridian,
Man, I been tryin to follow you and i just cannot see how all this is in any way shape or form related to olint? been waiting to see the connection for a long time now and i just can’t see it…… so beg you, you or somebody else who definitely knows more than I, please show me, tell me how any of this is related to the olint saga?
and, how comes no news on dave’s appearance yesterday in court? another postponement? or the court decide to just not bother?
Olint fraud case for TCI Supreme Court
2010-05-12 10:10:18
The fraud case against David Smith, the former head of the failed Olint investment club, is to head to the Supreme Court in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Yesterday, a preliminary hearing was held in a Magistrate’s Court.
The head of the Financial Crimes Unit in the TCI, Assistant Superintendent Mark Knighton, could not provide details on the hearing.
He says based on the arguments, the magistrate ruled that the evidence presented should go the Supreme Court next month for further examination.
David Smith is on a total of 30 fraud-related charges.
He is alleged to have lost billions of dollars in investments by club members in his unregulated scheme.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=19235
Work it out tortis… take it at your own pace.
http://www.olintja.com
NEWS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Statement by the Leader of the Opposition
Portia Simpson Miller
No Confidence in the Prime Minister
May 12, 2010, Kingston, Jamaica : I have reviewed the Prime Minister’s statement to Parliament on Tuesday May 11, and his subsequent behaviour. The Opposition has lost confidence in the Government and its ability to provide Jamaica with credible, trustworthy and ethical leadership. The Prime Minister’s failure to provide the whole truth to Parliament and his persistent arrogance and abuse are characteristic of his dealings with almost every sector of Jamaica.
The totality of the Prime Minister’s statement in Parliament on March 16, 2010, his news release two days later and utterances by the Ministers of Information, Industry and Justice as well as attorney, Mr. Harold Brady, have put the government in an untenable position. From here on, there can only be a further erosion of Jamaica’s reputation and the government’s ability to advance the good and welfare of the Jamaican people at home and abroad.
By his own explicit admission, the Prime Minister is now at the epicenter of this the ‘Mother of all Scandals’ and cannot therefore be expected to point the way out of this conundrum. The Prime Minister cannot be expected to provide the nation with a resolution to this scandalous situation
The Opposition has not arrived at this position lightly. The Prime Minister’s admission that he sanctioned a scheme to circumvent the role of the Government of Jamaica to resolve a treaty dispute with the government of the United States of America and normal diplomatic channels has brought the government into disrepute. From any perspective , the Prime Minister’s behavior is disgraceful, outrageous, and out of step with the norms of Prime Ministerial behavior and decorum in any democracy in general and the Westminster system in particular.
In this scenario, the Opposition has lost confidence in the government and cannot trust anything that the Prime Minister and his government say. The government has lost all credibility, because its Prime Minister has been caught involved in a scheme to mislead the public and cover up questionable activities. The attempt to stonewall and impugn the character of the Opposition in Parliament on Tuesday has contributed to a breakdown of the parliamentary environment. At a minimum, the Prime Minister must withdraw his statement regarding the Opposition’s “strength of character”.
The Prime Minister has left the Opposition with no alternative but declare to the people of Jamaica that we have no confidence in his ability to lead the country with honesty, integrity and an adherence to the rule of law.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=466
‘I’ve nothing more to say’
PM evades questions re ‘Dudus’ affair
“I have spoken intensively on the issue in Parliament. I have no further comment,” he told members of the Western Jamaica press corps who turned up for his tour of the $7.5 billion Cruise Shipping Pier under construction in Falmouth.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/I-ve-nothing-more-to-say
Journalists. Why Flog them. Is it not obvious that the PM, Brady et al are trying to exercise Miranda Rights?
You don’t see everyone of them “reserving rights to remain silent” you think it’s political power they worry about at this point!
Why you think Deacon goes to Supreme Court? To ask his travel agent where he should vacation this summer???
“There’s an attempt to differentiate between a Minister of Government and that same person who is the acting Treasurer of the People’s National Party. We can’t just jump out of one skin and into another. We have to understand that given the nature of our political. Whenever we act as a minister, whatever extent we carry party responsibilities, that you are not going to be able to simply separate them,” Mr. Golding said on October 17, 2006 when he was Leader of the Opposition.
And Prime Minister Bruce Golding has gone back to his original stance of being mum on the Manatt Phelps and Phillips issue.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/27296/26/
He claimed, however, that he did this, not in his prime ministerial capacity, but as Leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP).
While Mr. Golding was at pains to claim he acted as JLP Leader and not Prime Minister, Chairman of the PNP’s Communications Commission, Dr. Peter Phillips, who spoke on RJR’s Hotline on Wednesday, said the choices open to him should be quite clear.
“He either has to make amends and it depends on the Jamaican people whether he is at some point prepared to just come clean or resign as Prime Minister. He has the power to call an election but he also has the power to say that his honour has been breached I have not been faithful, will another member of my party [NON OLINT] step forward because I have breached the canons of good governance,” Dr. Phillips said.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/27292/26/
“In highly established democracies, no prime minister could act in such a manner and still retain his or her position. In this regard, I believe Bruce Golding should resign,” said Johnson.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100513/lead/lead1.html
With the airwaves bombarded with criticisms of the prime minister over his belated admission of his role in contracting the United States law firm, government ministers ducked and pointed questions to the party.
“The prime minister has been forthright. He has been 100 per cent honest and he has put the matter clearly and squarely out in the open,” Vaz said.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100513/lead/lead2.html
“He decided to tell the truth now because people are finding out the truth, so he had to come out and say it. It is obvious that he was trying to cover up from the start. He tried to fool the nation but it did not work. He needs to step aside now.”
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100513/lead/lead4.html
Attorney-at-law Harold Brady under pressure:
“It was an error through a footnote which was corrected last year.”
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100513/lead/lead5.html
Jamaica’s Nobel Hopeful “Bag a Wind”
“Now is not a time to create smokescreens, to make mountains out of molehills and to try and derail, to detract from the economic success of this Government,”
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100513/lead/lead3.html
But Ernest Smith, the South West St Ann MP, was unimpressed by Bunting’s presentation.
…while arguing that Jamaicans should be focused on propelling themselves out of the clutches of the recession.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100513/lead/lead3.html
PRECISELY WHAT JAMAICANS ARE TRYING TO DO AND IT STARTS WITH IDENTIFYING THOOSE PERSONS ROOT CAUSE OF THE PROBLEMS.
Some make it easy for us to identify themselves ” in Earnest” through their own utterances.
EDITORIAL – Does Mr Golding Have Themoral Authority To Lead?
Prime Minister Bruce Golding, we conclude, knowingly and deliberately, misled Jamaica about his, and his government’s involvement in the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips affair.
Of course, the prime minister has not overtly, or frankly, conceded his lies in his parliamentary statement on Tuesday, preferring, even at this late stage, to hide behind obfuscation and semantics.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100513/cleisure/cleisure1.html
GOVERNMENT’S key spokesman Daryl Vaz insisted yesterday that the administration’s handling of the Manatt, Phelps and Phillips affair was “honest and forthright”, while strongly rejecting calls for the resignation of Prime Minister Bruce Golding.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=485
Jamaica PM admits role against US drug extradition
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/05/12/1626659/jamaica-pm-admits-role-against.html
LETTER OF THE DAY – Golding’s Dubious Distinction
Published: Thursday | May 13, 20100 Comments and 0 Reactions
The Editor, Sir:
On Tuesday, the country listened as our prime minister, Bruce Golding, attempted to make a most duplicitous, disingenuous and dubious distinction between his administration and his party.
According to Mr Golding, “What we have, therefore, is a dispute regarding the application of the Treaty.” The parties to this dispute – to my knowledge – are the United States government, represented by that country’s Department of Justice, and the Jamaican Government, represented by our own Ministry of Justice.
This issue is no clearer and the waters surrounding it no less murky for the prime minister’s statement. What is clear, however, is that when Mr Golding told Parliament that “the Government of Jamaica has not engaged any legal firm, any consultant, any entity whatsoever in relation to any extradition matter other than deploying the resources that are available within the Attorney General’s Department”, his words did not meet the highest standards of truth and accountability that we should expect from our leaders.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100513/letters/letters1.html
The Jamaican people deserve nothing short of a full independent Commission of Inquiry into this “Bradygate.”
No credible answers are forthcoming from the Jamaicans and Manatt has zipped it. This is actually understandable as speaking with John McShane has brought the matter right up to the highest seat of power in the world. Legal issues abound and understandably the cast members are nervous.
The Jamaican people need an independent investigation into this.
Charles Ross need not apply.
From 11:50PM up until 5:24AM you posted 16 comments!
Do you not sleep? Or is your hatred for the JLP or Olint so deep that it does not allow you to sleep. This blogs seems to be your private daily, sorry hourly sermon.
You cut and paste articles that seem to support your argument. How come you did not post this one, that seems to somewhat differ from your agenda – http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100513/letters/letters3.html
The PNP is demanding Golding resignation, but they do not want an election. They have NO MONEY to campaign! That is common knowledge.
I will admit that Bruce is in quite an uncomfortable predicament, but not something that can not be overcome. If you so foolishly believe that the PNP wants Dudus to come to the States, you are wrong. His tentacles go beyond the JLP. Remember he rose to power during the PNP era. So they’re talking a good talk, because they know he will never leave Jamaica.
What is the solution? I really don’t know. Perhaps anyone who has been in power for over 10 years, should ALL resign. Start anew…maybe.
But your continuing bashing of the JLP actually makes your views comical after a while. They are so one-sided.
I noticed “Tortis” asked you to clarify the link between Olint and the JLP, but instead of being forthright, you avoided answering. Why the avoidance? Do you really know anything?
You need to get some sleep dude….
“How come you did not post this one,..”
Because we have you to do it Subie. You might be interested to know that I think the Prime Minister should stay in office. But you don’t comprehend well and are concerned about me rather that the issues.
Tortis asked for clarification about the link between the manatt issue and Olint.
Read it again Subie….Simple. Maybe your mind is running ahead of what is actually written.
Your counting of my comments and their release times is good. Math skills Dude…Pass. English comprehension….Poor.
You want to know something Subie. Suppose you had an election today….you think a newly elected Parliament would stop indictments?
A newly minted Parliament under indictment. Still want o study the sleping habits and comment times of floridian? Go ahead Subie….pick up a quick Phd. then yes.
Your leaders read the body of the comments keenly though….dude…
Vaz says PM honest, forthright
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Vaz-says-PM-honest-forthright_7607990
Just for you Subie Dudie.
Principal had to ‘calm me down’
hahahahhahaaahaha check this one Subie
Anthony II
5/13/2010
Please, somebody, tell me that these people are not serious. Tell me that they have taken temporary leave of their senses. Tell me that he is using words such as “honest” and “forthright” because he lost his dictionary. Tell me they know that the Jamaican people are not fools.
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I never knew that the day could come when I could have an anti-JLP sentiment in my bones, but that day is here. I grew up in two households that “waved nothing but green” and was one of those in high school who was so into the JLP that the principal had to “calm me down”. I was so hopeful when this administration came to power. I was looking forward to returning home to make a contribution to the only place on earth for which I have a strong passion. That is done. I could never live and work in a Jamaica led by these people.
It is a difficult time for many. Some believed the hype. Many are replicas of their parents. Some of you are innocent and it is hard for you to come to terms with the fact that for your entire lifetime you have been living on a seriously flawed perspective.
You cursed those who tried to teach you to think. Stuck you were… in “your” ways? Or the ways you lazily accepted as truth?
It is hard but their is hope. You can be somebody.
Do not fear truth…for it shall set you free.
Subie this earth turns and time is measured from Greenwhich. Time is not measured from Subie (no matter what your parents might have suggested).
Do you know that South America is heading into Winter?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time
Government in crisis, says PNP
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Government-in-crisis-says-PNP
Subie do you know he was forewarned of the ‘crisis’ YEARS ago? Is not a Labourite that did that. What did you do? “Never want plant no corn just wanted to raid the barn?”
He choose Best and Brightest Brady Subie… foolish?
Jack Mandora….
Floridian,
question. above you said
“You want to know something Subie. Suppose you had an election today….you think a newly elected Parliament would stop indictments?”
You saying that soon JAMAICAN politicians going to be indicted by the U.S.? Just want to make sure I’m reading right.
(By soon i mean 6mths, 1 yr, maybe even 2yrs?)
…..on a sidenote, any idea when Mr. Smith and team will be indicted, or even CHARGED in the U.S. Seems nothing has come of all that ‘fbi investigation’ that was mentioned a little over a year or so ago.
Some of them a deal behind the others back.
Horace chang, Michael Williams, Peter Bunting, Cliff Hughes TVJ….
Meanwhile, the imbroglio has apparently created another headache for Manatt. According to two letters obtained by The Am Law Daily, someone named Terry Ann Golding has asked the The District of Columbia Bar to investigate whether two Manatt partners–including founding partner Charles Manatt–violated their obligations under FARA as a result of the firm’s work on behalf of Jamaica.
While information was not immediately available about Terry Ann Golding and what possible stake she might have in the matter, Manatt is clearly taking any potential bar inquiry seriously.
The two letters–dated April 29 and written to assistant bar counsel Gayle Marie Brown Driver by Pamela Bresnahan, head of the litigation practice for the D.C. office of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease–deny that Charles Manatt or international trade partner Susan Schmidt committed any ethical violations in their representation of Jamaica. Bresnahan’s letters state that both lawyers “fully complied with [their] obligations under all applicable Rules of Professional Conduct.”
http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/amlawdaily/2010/05/jamaican.html
Smith’s Trial Date Finally Set for June 28, 2010
For the first time since the freezing of his assets and his arrest in 2008, Olint Boss David Smith will face his accusers in the Turks and Caicos Islands on June 28, 2010. Trial date was set on May 11 when Mr. Smith again appeared in Court for the Preliminary Inquiry. Mr. Smith declined to challenge any of the almost 30 charges brought against him during the preliminary enquiry. He has exercised his right to present the facts at his trial.
http://associationofconcernedolintmembers.biz/index.php/component/content/article/42-rokstories/91-smiths-trial-date-finally-set-for-june-28-2010.html
” A fool and his money are soon parted”
The blog is unusually quiet given that such a critical issue is on the lips of most Jamaicans, home and abroad.
People are still stunned !!
You sure that that is it jay?
“Buffoons at Privy Council”
posted by J WILDISH5/14/2010 7:04:53 PM
Dear sirs
i notice in your photo album area you print a part of the Dextra judgement against me, John Wildish. I would like to point out that the judges of the British Privy council ruled under the following circumstances:
1) i was not allowed a lawyer to defend me
2) I was not allowed to question my accusers
3) I was not allowed to present my evidence to this kangaroo court.
4) if you read the judgement it does not explain the fraud
5) further more i am not sure who i defrauded in this matter, would you be kind enough to tell me.
Further more i wrote the buffoons at the British Privy Council and asked them the above questions and they replied well “unable to comment.” But i guess that this is what Lord Corn Hill of Bingham and British justice is all about, condemning honest men without allowing them council, without allowing them the right to question their accusers, without allowing them the right to present their evidence, and not telling them who exactly they defrauded.
The record shows that on the same day that these silly little english clowns say i stole all this money, my company delievered money to the central bank that the central bank records show to this day was never paid for, but this kangaroo court does not give a damn about this fact!
and nobody wanst to say boo. I have written Jamaica’s DPP, my MP, The past three prime ministers, the chief of police’s and even the minister of finaince, well no answer to date, the Privy council they simply say, unable to comment.
i even wrote al Edwards of the observer with data and facts as well as the editor in chief of the gleaner again dead silence.
but since you want to put this stuff up on your blog please i ask is it Ok to condemn a man under these conditions and would you be kind enough to post on this fine blog exactly who was the party that i defrauded as the court claims.
I await your answers
John D Wildish
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=466
If at first you don’t succeed (no pun intended) try try again. Write a forth PM….you never know.
Washington Post has joined the fray,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/14/AR2010051404591.html
Such a sad indictment.
David Smith to answer 30 charges on June 28
Friday, May 14, 2010
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/business/David-Smith-to-answer-30-charges-on-June-28_7612219
Who in their right mind would put their political career on the line for a don? Bwoy coke mus have some damning info on some high up peeps to rah. What a hattaclapse.
Seminar on Money Laundering
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=2717&id=8
Smith is not really a Don. You know better than to twist the unwavering support for a “donor” in that way Red P.
So too has the Miami Herald:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/05/15/v-fullstory/1630392/jamaican-leader-caught-in-the.html
Coke’s attorney dismisses his client’s reputation as pure lore, and said the flimsy case against him is politically motivated.
“We would like to once again reiterate our position that all evidence collected by the United States in the indictment of Christopher `Dudus’ Coke was acquired in a manner consistent with existing international agreements between our two countries, and that the extradition request was properly prepared and submitted,” State Department spokesman Charles Luoma-Overstreet said in a statement.
“The tail is wagging the dog now,” Rapley said.
Even if the government wanted to get rid of them, Rapley said, many people believe it couldn’t.
“Our intelligence was, and it probably still is, that the gangs in Tivoli Gardens had a huge arsenal of weapons,” said security consultant Mark Shields, a former Scotland Yard investigator who became deputy commissioner of police here.
“Arresting Christopher Coke would require a major police and military operation,” said a U.S. law enforcement official who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly. “It would take hundreds of people.”
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/05/15/1630392/jamaican-leader-caught-in-the.html
BOJ governor ignores questions about contract
Article Published: Sunday, May 16th, 2010
http://www.sunheraldja.com/2010/05/boj-governor-ignores-questions-about-contract/
Social partnership suspended
Article Published: Sunday, May 16th, 2010
Last week, the Prime Minister told the country that he sanctioned the move as leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and not as Prime Minister, while stressing that the US$49,000, which was paid to the US law firm came from phantom members of the party.
http://www.sunheraldja.com/2010/05/social-partnership-suspended/
PM’s Credibility Shattered
Article Published: Sunday, May 16th, 2010
However, while “OOPS” may be accepted locally, it is unlikely to be accepted in a serious world where the registration of foreign agents is an integral part of the lobbying monitoring process.
http://www.sunheraldja.com/2010/05/pm’s-credibility-shattered/
Golding’s revelation changes everything… for the worse
As Mr. Golding said in 2006, “Respectable democracies, Mr Speaker, hold their governments accountable against fraud, deception and lies.” That remains true in 2010.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Golding-s-revelation-changes-everything-for-the-worse_7612804
As soon as the Prime Minister found himself in difficulties, Speaker Chuck, as usual, came to his defence. It never fails.
http://www.sunheraldja.com/2010/05/embarrassment/
Two Gov’t MPs say Golding should resign, describe situation as disgraceful
At least two Government MPs — who spoke with the Sunday Observer on condition of anonymity — are of the view that their leader should resign, as according to them, his actions have brought the party into disrepute. They fear that the JLP could suffer irreparable damage as a result of Golding’s behaviour.
“It is disgusting. It is disgraceful. He really should step down and allow someone else to run the party and the country,” one of the parliamentarians told the Sunday Observer.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Step-down–leader_7617348
The NDM also lost a by-election in the North East St Ann seat in 2001, forcing Golding to quit and start a fledging talk show called Disclosure on Hot 102 FM. When news started swirling about his imminent return to the JLP, Golding, up to his last day on air, kept denying any such move.
The NDM before that had powerful and influential supporters and sympathisers, among them the present principal of the Norman Manley Law School, Professor Stephen Vasciannie, who had a not-to-be-healed falling out with Golding when he returned to the JLP camp weeks before the 2002 general election. Vasciannie and Golding met the day before Golding went back to the JLP, at which point Vasciannie asked him about the rumours circulating about his return. Golding flatly denied that any such move was imminent.
The two, who had not exchanged a word since that time, broke the ice earlier this year when they met at a function at the law school. Before that, Golding moved decisively to block a decision by the Public Service Commission to appoint Vasciannie as solicitor general when the JLP assumed power in September 2007.
Vasciannie had won considerable respect in legal circles while he served as deputy solicitor general in the previous administration. He had left an indelible mark at Oxford University where he studied law and earned the distinction as the Jamaican Rhodes Scholar with the best overall academic performance in the history of the Rhodes Scholarship programme.
Golding won out in the end by firing the members of the commission, appointing a new one and having his preferred choice, Douglas Leys become solicitor general.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/The-rise-and-stall-of-Bruce-Golding_7617711
Sunday Observer, EDITORIAL
The gig is up, Prime Minister
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Contrary to the simplistic view being bandied about by some, Mr Golding was not being honest or forthright with his crafty attempt to cut a distinction between his role as leader of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and Prime Minister in Parliament on Tuesday. And far from laying all his cards on the table, Mr Golding, we believe, is still holding those that are most damaging close to his chest.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=466
David Smith… yes you
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
History
The essential problem was posed by Plato in The Republic, his work on government and morality. The perfect society as described by Socrates, the main character in this Socratic dialogue, relies on laborers, slaves and tradesmen. The guardian class is to protect the city. The question is put to Socrates, “Who will guard the guardians?” or, “Who will protect us against the protectors?” Plato’s answer to this is that they will guard themselves against themselves. We must tell the guardians a “noble lie”.[1] The noble lie will assure them that they are better than those they serve and it is therefore their responsibility to guard and protect those lesser than themselves. We will instill in them a distaste for power or privilege; they will rule because they believe it right, not because they desire it.
Usage
The saying has since been used to explore the question of where ultimate power should reside, or alternately, the problem of ultimate power. Some forms of government attempt to solve this problem through separation of powers (the government of the United States is one example). As long as the “watchers” are a small and potentially corruptible group, the question asked is a sort of paradox, and perhaps an example of infinite regress.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes%3F
Samuda said the prime minister has not lied to the country. He said he, Samuda, knew all along that the prime minister had been the one to sanction the Manatt deal, but had not revealed this in the report he gave to Jamaicans weeks ago. He refused to say why.
He said Government was challenging people….
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/No-resignation-
We all have ulterior agendas. But let’s me totally honest. Bruce does not have the moral fiber to run Jamaica, but then again neither does anyone of any relevance in either party.
MP’s are all dirty…period. If your bucket of water (moral fiber) has a thimble of piss or a cup of piss, it’s still piss water!
Dudus did not come to power in the last 2-3 years. He came into to power during the PNP reign. Do you really think they want him to be extradited? Hell no! He has as much dirt on them and he does the JLP. They just talk a good talk, because they know the JLP will not, cannot have him leave the island. Which is good politics on their part.
It’s funny how the most vocal Jamaicans live abroad. While Jamaicans living home are upset at Bruce, they are more so at his stupidity of being caught. Daily we see policemen taking bribes (from gunmen, druggist and simple traffic offenders), we see daily “officials” taking bribes to lower bills or speed up processes. We live in a Anancy world. Is this right, of course not. But for anyone in government or private practice to put themselves on a moral pedestal is a joke.
I remember when Zeeks was released, the “private sector” of downtown had a celebration for him. My cousin who was with the army said they were given orders that no one (army and police) was to enter the dance. There was a 2 mile blockade. Gun salute went on ALL night, but no one could enter. This was during the PNP government.
Maybe we need a islandwide lockdown, but what purpose will that serve? EVERYONE knows who runs drugs, extortion, etc. So we wipe out the current “crews” of both political parties, then what? They “PNP/JLP will simply replace them with new blood….
Like I said before, anyone in power more than 8-10 years, have them all resign and lets try again.
Jamaica PM admits role against US drug extradition
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/may/15/jamaica-pm-admits-role-against-us-drug-extradition/
No apology, no resignation!
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/27379/47/
No Problem…No Worries
The Jamaica Labour Party hierarchy has revealed that Prime MinisterBruce Golding has offered to resign over the controversial Manatt,Phelps and Phillips issue, but party chairman Dr Ken Baugh says theparty is not accepting Golding’s offer. For more details visithttp://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=19338
According to Dr Baugh, although the Prime Minister does not want to resign, Mr Golding believes it is the appropriate thing to do.
But Dr Baugh says the JLP will not accept Golding’s offer to resign because it does not believe the Prime Minister has done anything wrong in the Manatt matter.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=19338
Mr Golding has now admitted to parliament that he had authorised the hiring of the law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips to lobby senior US State Department officials on Mr Coke’s behalf.
But he claimed the firm had mistakenly believed he was hiring it in his capacity as PM when he had instead been doing it as Labour Party leader.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/jamaica/7730461/Jamaican-PM-accused-of-blocking-drug-lord-trial.html
EDITORIAL
Seeking to cloud the issue by pointing to the misdeeds of the Opposition People’s National Party during 18 years of governance serves no useful purpose. The fact is that as a result of his inexcusable waffling and barefaced deception in relation to the proposed extradition of Mr Christopher Coke and the related Manatt, Phelps & Phillips issue, the prime minister no longer has the moral authority and credibility required to properly govern.
A prime minister and a Government deemed by dint of manifest evidence to be prone to deceit as well as wrongful and delusional behaviour will not be able to achieve the relative unity of community and key stakeholders required to address the many grave problems.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/A-time-for-good-men-and-women-to-stand-up_7620718
Baugh, Samuda Wilt Under Press Pressure
Beads of perspiration lined Samuda’s forehead as he tried to fend off the crescendo of questions from the media firing squad.
“We are satisfied that the allegations are not near the level for resignation,” Samuda argued.
Baugh seemed to contradict Samuda as he claimed: “The prime minister’s resignation was the correct thing to do.”
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner//20100517/lead/lead61.html
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/tools/cartoons/ed-cartoon-may-17-2010
http://www.radiojamaica.com/
Mr. Samuda said the Prime Minister would not step down as he did noting wrong.
However, Dr. Carolyn Gomes, Executive Director of the human rights group Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ), says she is flabbergasted by the arrogance of the JLP.
“I’m gob-smacked, completely lost for words … I am feeling like I’ve been kicked for a second time this week. The arrogance … I don’t understand how that arrogance can stand; I don’t understand what universe people are living in that they do not understand what has happened.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/27376/26/
“Holding onto this technicality as to whether there was a lie in relation to the specific question insults the intelligence of the Jamaican people. The press conference showed that the Labour Party has lost touch with how the people of this country feel.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/27375/26/
Yawn….New thread Jay…OLINT. Let’s see the pictures of the 36.
She also noted that the feeling of mistrust Jamaicans have about politics did not begin with Manatt.
She also noted that the feeling of mistrust Jamaicans have about politics did not begin with Manatt.
She also noted that the feeling of mistrust Jamaicans have about politics did not begin with Manatt.
Right Deacon?
One woman who journeyed from Western St Mary said the calls for Golding to resign as prime minister were baseless. She insisted that he had done nothing wrong, as there were no financial gains from the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips affair.
Pathetic..”no financial gains’ Go a school. Wrong or right based on financial gains….pathetic.
Financial gains? Deacon?
HOUSTON, Texas — One of Allen Stanford’s two new lawyers has asked a judge to let him withdraw from the case, saying the disgraced financier has fired him.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Stanford-fires-yet-another-attorney
The government is now denying that extradition papers have been signed, but how did the leak come about.
Sections of mountain view has been blocked, downtown business have closed there shutters.
August Town – Tension is high
Spanish-town – Tension is high
Traffic pile up as many Jamaicans rush to make their way home.
You tell me now which sensible politician would want Bruce to step down and have Dudus case to deal with.
A politician with some balls?
Listen, Dudus, just like any other common thug is a coward. Without his cronies surrounding him, he is just another punk. Remember Pablo Escobar? You saw what happen to him in Columbia in 1993? The right-wing paramilitary group simply systematically eliminated all his soldiers and he was left standing alone and they move in for the kill. What about Donovan ‘Bulbie’ Bennett, former leader of the Spanish Town-based Clansman gang? Was there any major outbreak of violence when he was killed? You guys want to make these thugs larger than life, but in the grand scheme of things, they can be eliminated by a 14-year old kid with a gun…happens all the time.
Dudus is not even one-tenth as violent as his father and we all saw how he was conveniently silenced. I’m sure it can be arrange again for a small fire to flare-up in his cell or we can easily arrange to have him assassinated by the police or even one of his cronies.
Jammin you are so right !!
—–Original Message—–
From: “KingstonACS”
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 19:07:22
Subject: Security Message From The U.S. Embassy
Embassy of the United States of America
Kingston, Jamaica
May 17, 2010
Important Security Information from the U.S. Embassy
Possible Civil Unrest throughout Jamaica
The U.S. Embassy understands that tonight, May 17, 2010, the Prime
Minister may announce his authorization to proceed in the Coke
extradition case. Although we have not received specific information at
this time, public unrest may result from the decision. We encourage all
American citizens to take the following precautions:
-Stay close to home
-If you must go out, take your cell phone. Know where the nearest safe
haven (police station/secure location) is located.
-Have cell phones charged with emergency numbers available.
-Be prepared to use alternative routes.
-Make sure the fuel in your vehicle is topped off.
-Always avoid large crowds and gatherings.
-If you find yourself in a large crowd, you should depart the area
immediately.
-Do not attempt to drive through any barricades encountered on the
streets.
-Always keep your doors locked and windows up.
-Have a family emergency/communication plan. Decide in advance what
choices will need to be made in case of an emergency (for example, who
will pick up the children, etc.).
-Make sure your family is aware of this information and review your
personal security habits.
Please look for future updates from the U.S. Embassy regarding the
security situation in Jamaica.
(I feel like Floridian..LOL! So many post…)
A deeply apologetic Prime Minister Bruce Golding tonight announced that Justice Minister Dorothy Lightbourne will sign the authority for extradition proceedings to commence against Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke who is wanted by the United States to face gun- and drug-running charges.
In an address to the nation a short while ago, Golding begged the nation to forgive him for dragging out the extradition issue and for his involvement in the matter.
“The Minister of Justice will sign the authorisation for the extradition process to commence,” Golding said.
ADDRESS TO THE NATION BY THE PRIME MINISTER OF JAMAICA, THE HON BRUCE GOLDING
My fellow Jamaicans..I have spent the last several days in deep contemplation about the issues that have caused so much anxiety throughout the society including the reaction to my statement in Parliament last Tuesday and the events and circumstances that led up to it.
I have listened very carefully to the views expressed by members of the public. I have also consulted with my Cabinet and parliamentary members, the party organization and various civil society groups. I thank those who have expressed their support and have urged me to find a way to deal with these matters and to put them behind. I respect the views of those who feel that, in the circumstances, I should step aside.
I have asked God to guide me in my response and the decisions I must make. I regret the entire affair and it has been deeply painful for me, members of my family and you who have been hurt and disappointed.
In hindsight, the party should never have become involved in the way that it did and I should never have allowed it but I must accept responsibility for it and express my remorse to the nation.
The way in which this matter has been handled has raised the question of trust. Several persons and organizations have expressed their disappointment. I should not have been surprised because I had raised the bar as to what they should expect of me and what has transpired has fallen short of their expectations. And here I want to personally thank the wide cross section of persons who took the trouble to write to me, not all complimentary but all expressing the deep anguish that they experienced over what had transpired. Others have offered their prayers and to all I am deeply grateful.
I am aware that trust can only be restored by forgiveness and atonement. That will take time and I am committing myself to do everything that is humanly possible to repair the damage that has been done to that trust. In return I ask for your forgiveness.
This matter of the extradition has consumed too much of our energies and attention and has led to a virtual paralysis that must be broken.
I crave your understanding, the government has never refused… never refused… the request for the extradition of Christopher Coke. It has simply asked the US authorities to provide additional information that would enable the Minister to issue the authorization in compliance with the terms of the treaty. In the controversy that has ensued, we sought the opinion of one of Jamaica’s most eminent lawyers, Dr. Lloyd Barnett, who advised that the issues involved were not sufficiently settled in law, and therefore the Attorney-General should seek a declaration from the Court before exercising her authority.
I wrestled with the potential conflict between the issues of non-compliance with the terms of the treaty and the unavoidable perception that because Coke is associated with my constituency, the government’s position was politically contrived. I felt that the concepts of fairness and justice should not be sacrificed in order to avoid that perception. In the final analysis, however, that must be weighed against the public mistrust that this matter has evoked and the destabilizing effect it is having on the nation’s business. Accordingly, the Minister of Justice, in consideration of all the factors, will sign the authorization for the extradition process to commence.
The engagement of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips by Mr. Harold Brady was an effort to secure assistance in resolving the stalemate because the party was concerned about the negative effect it was having on relations between Jamaica and the United States. I sanctioned this initiative but made it clear that it was to be kept completely separate from the government. As I later discovered, those instructions were not followed. Having sanctioned it, I cannot escape responsibility for it or the developments that have ensued although I was not myself involved in those activities.
When I was asked in Parliament whether the government had engaged the services of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, I answered truthfully and definitively that it had not done so. It is felt that I should, there and then, have acknowledged the party initiative led by Mr. Brady. On reflection, I should have and tonight I express my profound regret and offer to the Parliament and people of Jamaica my deepest apologies.
It took time for me to make my statement last Tuesday because of the efforts I had to make to find out exactly what had transpired in this Manatt, Phelps & Phillips affair. I felt I had a duty to make that statement and I spoke on the basis of the information that has been presented to me.
@Subie(I feel like Floridian..LOL! So many post…)
Sekkle Subie….you must crawl before you walk. I am as amused as I am honored.
Good for you!
On a more serious note:
On behalf of the genuine bloggers/readers I would like at this time to express our most sincere and deepest condolences to Brascoe Lee (Former State Minister Min. of Agriculture) , Cherry Lee and the family and friends Mr. Brian Lee.
Nationwide News has reported the Mr. Lee took his own life today and it is understood that it MAY have been as a result of indebtedness and the loss of millions of dollars in an alternative investment scheme.
This is not the first incident of its kind emanating from the greed and criminality of those responsible for the scams. While todays incident has had media coverage our hearts go out to the others who silently suffer and try to come to terms with the destruction of their lives.
May Brian be granted eternal rest.
At this historic juncture in the history of Jamaica contextualized as: fraught with calamity, uncertainty and fear, let us strengthen out resolve to face our challenges head on.
Our children deserve no less.
“Not only must Justice be done; it must also be seen to be done.”
“A fool and his money are soon parted” is NOT the appropriate anecdote MR. GOLDING.
Wait ! I am sure I read in the Paper this week that a business woman name (Karen) Ms Lee was found with her throat slashed. Is there a connection? to Mr Lee’s sucide???
J’can people are not idiots – JFJ
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/27386/26/
Jamaica to extradite drug suspect wanted by US
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/05/17/1634350/jamaica-to-extradite-drug-suspect.html#ixzz0oH8qud1b
Reply
Tuesday, 18 May 2010
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8689423.stm
http://jatoday.netateer.com/?p=23501
Yesterday, a police source said Lee may have taken his life over the loss of a hefty sum in a failed investment scheme.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Suspected-suicide-in-former-MP-s-son-s-death_7623801
FGB suing rogue trader for US$7.6m
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/business/FGB-suing-rogue-trader_7625781
‘foolish’ cartoons:-
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/tools/cartoons/ed-cartoon-may-19-2010
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/cartoons.html
Perception and reality
Ambiguous images
In the case of visual perception, some people can actually see the percept shift in their mind’s eye[4]. Others, who are not picture thinkers, may not necessarily perceive the ‘shape-shifting’ as their world changes. The ‘esemplastic’ nature has been shown by experiment: an ambiguous image has multiple interpretations on the perceptual level. The question, “Is the glass half empty or half full?” serves to demonstrate the way an object can be perceived in different ways.
Just as one object can give rise to multiple percepts, so an object may fail to give rise to any percept at all: if the percept has no grounding in a person’s experience, the person may literally not perceive it.
The processes of perception routinely alter what humans see. When people view something with a preconceived concept about it, they tend to take those concepts and see them whether or not they are there. This problem stems from the fact that humans are unable to understand new information, without the inherent bias of their previous knowledge. A person’s knowledge creates his or her reality as much as the truth, because the human mind can only contemplate that to which it has been exposed. When objects are viewed without understanding, the mind will try to reach for something that it already recognizes, in order to process what it is viewing. That which most closely relates to the unfamiliar from our past experiences, makes up what we see when we look at things that we don’t comprehend.[5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perception
Out of many one?
“The processes of perception routinely alter what humans see. When people view something with a preconceived concept about it, they tend to take those concepts and see them whether or not they are there. This problem stems from the fact that humans are unable to understand new information, without the inherent bias of their previous knowledge. “
What Next?
1. After the resident magistrate (RM) issues the provisional warrant for the arrest of a fugitive, the director of public prosecutions (DPP) hand-delivers signed and sealed copies of the information and the provisional warrant to the Fugitive Apprehension Team of the Jamaica Constabulary Force.
2. Signed and sealed copies of the information to ground the request, the provisional warrant and the report of the fact of the issue of the provisional warrant of arrest are then sent by the Office of the DPP to the minister of justice.
3. Police officers from the Fugitive Apprehension Team, on receipt of the provisional warrant, embark upon their search for the fugitive. A fugitive who is aware that a warrant has been issued for his arrest can surrender himself to the police.
4. The fugitive must be taken before the RM as soon as practicable after he is arrested. Once the fugitive is arrested, the requesting state has 60 days to submit the full documents referred to as the authenticated documents relating to the case.
5. The minister of justice is notified by the DPP’s office when a fugitive is arrested and the requesting state is also notified.
6. A fugitive, on being taken before the RM Court, may waive his or her right to the formal extradition hearing and consent to be extradited to the requesting state. The fugitive can challenge his extradition and subject himself to the full committal proceedings which are conducted like a preliminary inquiry.
7. If, at the end of the hearing, the RM finds that a prima facie case is not made out against the fugitive, the RM is obliged to discharge the fugitive. If the RM finds that a prima facie case is made out against the fugitive, then he is committed to custody for the purpose of being extradited to the requesting state.
8. The RM, in committing the fugitive, informs him of his right to apply to the Full Court for a writ of habeas corpus, seeking his release from prison.
9. A fugitive who is not successful at the hearing in the Full Court can appeal the ruling but the Court of Appeal’s decision is final.
10. The minister of justice has the authority to sign the surrender warrant to extradite the fugitive if he loses his legal battle or if the fugitive decides to waive his right to an extradition hearing. If the warrant is not signed within 60 days after a fugitive exhausts his legal remedy, the fugitive can apply to the Supreme Court to be discharged.
Tavares-Finson’s dual role as Coke’s attorney and a government senator has frequently been questioned in the public domain.
But the lawyer served notice yesterday that he would be withdrawing as Coke’s attorney.
Tavares-Finson is to be replaced by attorneys Jacqueline Samuels-Brown and Paul Beswick.
Earlier this year, Samuels-Brown successfully defended prominent St James businessman Presley Bingham in his extradition battle.
Coke and Bingham were on a shortlist of Jamaicans wanted in the US.
Can it get worse than this. Time Square bombing Jamaican influence.
The man accused in the failed Times Square bombing attempt has been talking to authorities for more than two weeks. And one of the things he told them, according to people close to the case, is that he was inspired to act by two Internet clerics — one in Yemen and another in Jamaica.
Faisal Shahzad, who made his first court appearance Tuesday and faces five felony charges, waived his right to a speedy trial after he was arrested May 3 in New York while trying to leave the country by plane.
Investigators say that because the 30-year-old Pakistani American has been cooperating, they didn’t want an earlier court appearance to get in the way of what he was telling them.
The first cleric Shahzad cited is a familiar name: Anwar al-Awlaki. He’s the American-born imam who has been linked to an al-Qaida group in Yemen — the same imam who allegedly blessed the Fort Hood shootings and the botched Christmas Day bombing attempt of a U.S. airliner by a young man carrying explosives in his underpants.
The other cleric is a less familiar figure.
the link http://m.npr.org/story/126962091
More calls for Golding to give full disclosure on Manatt issue
Calls are being intensified this afternoon for the Prime Minister of Jamaica,Bruce Golding, to give full disclosure on issues relating to the Manatt affair.
The calls come in the wake of Manatt, Phelps and Philips’ steadfastness that it was hired and paid by the government and NOT the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP).
In an article in the AmLaw Daily the US firm has again insisted that while it was not retained to deal with the extradition of Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke it was hired by the Jamaican government to consult on treaty matters.
The article, which was updated this morning, quotes the firm as saying it also facilitated meetings between representatives of the US and Jamaican governments in their official capacities.
http://www.irishandchin.com/news-and-articles/1164-the-letter-that-started-the-dudus-controversy
Speak about a fight for one’s life.
This is a very touching story !!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/37229661#37229766
Milton Samuda, President of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC) says the country is waiting for a comprehensive report from the Prime Minister on what really happened.
“I think that it is clear from the out pouring across borders, across organisations, across class, that more is expected and in order to deliver on the promises that he had remade, (the Prime Minister) is going to have to (tell us) more on this issue,” Mr. Samuda said on RJR’s current affairs discussion programme Beyond the Headlines Tuesday night.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/27424/26/
block block?
As kong as you read it.
In an affidavit accompanying the motion, Evelyn Saravia, one of Stanford’s friends and a legal assistant helping him on his case, said the financier before his arrest was a “sharp and intelligent” individual who was well-groomed, health conscious and full of energy. Stanford’s worth had been estimated at more than $2 billion.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ik3VBnRC531TrhIWX0mdGXaWBYIAD9FPHD900
Somalia criticises US for putting pirate on trial
Somali pirate suspects have been tried in various countries across the world, as Somalia has no functioning central government.
On Wednesday, Muse’s mother spoke to the Associated Press to appeal to US President Barack Obama to forgive her son, saying he was lured into piracy by older friends.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/africa/10126248.stm
The election result has offered conclusive evidence that voters know that there are more important considerations than where someone went to school, how they speak and whether they like to kill animals at the weekend.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/ben_macintyre/article7129129.ece
http://www.jamaica-star.com/thestar/…ews/news1.html
TIVOLI GETS HELP FROM PNP GUNMEN
Political enemies prepare to fight cops together
Beckford Street in downtown Kingston was almost clear yesterday as the tension continues over the ‘Dudus’ extradition matter. The street is normally known for its usual hustle and bustle of vendors and shoppers. – Norman Grindley
Thugs from several areas aligned to the People’s National Party (PNP) have joined forces with the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) stronghold of Tivoli Gardens to assist in their fight against the security forces.
THE STAR has learnt that some thugs from Matthews Lane, Rema, Hannah Town and Jones Town are now helping the men from Denham Town and Tivoli, areas that previously were their political enemies.
Reports are that not only are the PNP thugs willing to allow the JLP men passage through their communities if necessary, but they have also taken up arms in preparation of an expected fight against the security forces.
special invite
Asked how this was possible, one PNP gangster who was contacted said, “A di president wi a talk bout eno, a dem man dem seh money ova war, so him set certain link weh no normal man couldn’t mek happen.”
He continued, “Mi know yu grow up hear seh Tivoli man and Matthews Lane man a nuh fren but now dem man deh all a come a wi dance and a get special invite … So everybody love di vibes and now dat babylon a pressure bossy dem willing fi help.”
It is also claimed that men from Tivoli Gardens had offered their support and assistance when the now incarcerated Donald ‘Zekes’ Phipps was held by the police so now this is just a way of returning the favour.
$100,000
It is said that some of the men called into the area have also been paid. They are reported to be offered as much as $100,000 before being distributed with a weapon.
“Money all run pon some a di man dem weh come in and sign in fi dem gun,” another thug claimed.
Efforts to get a comment yesterday from PNP officials were unsuccessful. Calls to some persons went unanswered while others declined to comment.
A senior officer from the Kingston Western police said although they have heard of this they are not able to confirm if it is true.
“We know things are not like they once were and men who were once at odds are now linking so it is not surprising. We have heard the talks but can’t say this is how it is right now, it is something we will be looking into,” the senior officer said.
I am a bit confuse from some of the reports that I have been reading about Dudus and constitution right. My question is, some believe that the bible must have errors, even thou it was inspired by The Great I Am. So, if the bible is not as accurate as we think how much more The Jamaica Constitution. Surely the Constitution was not written an a tablet send down from heaven. However are we going to fight to keep one danagerous criminal man Dudus because of the constitution. Should the constitution be wavier to eliminate every element of crime. Is Crime a private matter? Does the constitution take president over an Act of Crime? Someone help me out.
Jamaica pushes plan to be financial centre
Samuda also indicated that an evaluation of Jamaica’s ability to position itself competitively in this industry and to identify Jamaica’s possible product offerings or options for a local International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) is also underway.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/Jamaica-pushes-plan-to-be-financial-centre_7630118
OLINT would have to be resolved and the victims around the World paid in full. Honest. Otherwise…. faget it.
Some re-calibration (for the $$$ consultants too!) back to reality is needed for this to come to fruition. Blind leading the retarded?
Good ideas… Dearth of reality = Hype.
Seeeet deh
Pan-Jam profits slump 23 per cent on forex, interest rates losses.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/business/Pan-Jam-profits-slump-23-per-cent-on-forex–interest-rates-losses_76332
My Jamaica, My vision
A few months ago I started to focus on the belief that if this country is to move forward it is more important to have social and political stability that even a successful Jamaica Debt Exchange (JDX) could not bring. This need to focus on social stability is obvious because social decay in Jamaica has created a greater challenge for us than any immediate fiscal problems.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/business/My-Jamaica–My-vision_7632966
Dennis Chung, This is the nicest article that does not have the word “JUSTICE” in it.
Difficult to do in an article like that but you did it. Congrats.
One more thing Mr. Chung,
This is the only place where I can truly be a first-class citizen..”
Point taken. Unfair forces designed to keep us down abound.
HOWEVER:-
Usain Bolt is a first class citizen anywhere in the World…even Selma Alabama.
Let us move away from the over hashed tales we write when we know our youth are reading. Let us take our own shackles off….or in these days maybe I should say tear our ‘barricades’ down.
Remember the blog said (years ago) “Obama has come to wipe excuses away”
“So for me what stood out the most in the Prime Minister’s address to the nation last Monday night was his commitment to having term limits for Prime Ministers.”
For floridian these were the standouts, “Veritas vos liberabit” & “Ut sementem feceris, ita metes”
Franklin Johnston’s take on the PM’s 14 minutes
Two-faced Golding, vile senators, a corrupt state
THE volcano of corruption has erupted and the odour envelops Jamaica. Our reputation is in tatters. We and our diaspora will suffer and airports will detest our blighted passports.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Two-faced-Golding–vile-senators–a-corrupt-state_7632447
To top it all, the 13 government senators personify the metastasis of corruption in the organs of governance. The Senate appointed by the governor general should be a calm, deliberative body of elders who give “sober second thought” to our affairs, but these 13 are party activists. Bruce’s exit is the key to excising this cancer and their statement is the most egregious, insensitive display of mindless, partisan loyalty perpetrated on citizens by our Upper House. They are obsequious, they have no shame and they should resign!
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Two-faced-Golding–vile-senators–a-corrupt-state_7632447
Mr. Franklin Johnston, we have to keep it accurate here on this blog (until Nonco, and select others come back at least).
THERE ARE NOT THIRTEEN (13) SENATORS…..ONLY TWELVE (12).
Eight (8) on the other side.
I wonder if yet another OLINTER is going to get the vacant Senate Seat?
Brady?
Step up and prevent the fire, Mr Golding
Or is the prime minister keeping his powder dry pending the execution of some grand plan……
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/Step-up-and-prevent-the-fire–Mr-Golding_7634223
hahahahahahahahhaaaha…that’s amusing wording. Observer you think the 12 Govt. Senators are some intellectual army?
Observer, neighbor not home?…fi fetch a pail a wata fi wet yu powda?
Ole’ time musket nuh run nowadays anyway.
Olint at the Octogon June 28th
Up to a few months ago we would have dismissed such talk as mischievous and far-fetched.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/Step-up-and-prevent-the-fire–Mr-Golding_7634223
Oh?
Deacon see your one time Center Forward…
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100521/cleisure/cleisure4.html
OLINTERS all over the papers….as usual.
But it is not only her handling of the Coke affair that has caused concern with Ms Lightbourne. It is widely held that she has been not a particularly effective justice minister. For instance, despite all the talk about the reform of the judicial system, little has happened to lessen the backlog in the courts and to improve their efficiency.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100521/cleisure/cleisure1.html
That might be a lie! I am sure she was just about to bring some court action against Olint after 2 years of investigations!
We, the self-righteous, want the prime minister’s head on a charger, but after listening to Lord Anthony Gifford’s explanation of the extradition process on TVJ’s morning programme and subsequent events which are unfolding, the following is clear.
1. Had the attorney general signed the extradition order last August/September, the Jamaica DebtExchange (JDX) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreements would have been compromised or even derailed.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100521/cleisure/cleisure4.html
That must be an inaccurate of what Lord Gifford said. i doubt a Peer would say ‘it’s all about the Benjamin’s baby”
He used to represent Deacon Smith and surely would not have accepted payment from ill gotten funds.
Oh bottom…
Even the money for the room at Comfort Suites has surely been returned to the six thousand direct victims and the other five thousand indirect victims Worldwide.
Huntley Watson would be able to confirm this.
Word on the street is that if a certain person comes to power Olint victims will finally get all their cash (no backhand contracts) paid in full within a few weeks. Plus damages.
Travel advisory issued by US State department.
Cop who tapped Dudus’ phone broke no law – Lewin
FORMER Commissioner of police, Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin says Prime Minister Bruce Golding’s call for the identity of the cop who acquired evidence against Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke to be revealed is a massive red herring.
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“I am going to change his name to Constable Red Herring,” Lewin said. “Constable Red Herring did his job with the full knowledge and approval of his chain of command. I am satisfied that all actions taken were in conformance with Jamaican law and protocols and I stand by and defend those actions.”
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Cop-who-tapped-Dudus–phone-broke-no-law—Lewin
…with the full knowledge and approval of his chain of command….
In other words, the commissioner gave the ultimate approval and hence, the one that gave the US the tapes….Look legal to me and confirm my initial suggestion that Bruce did not know what he was talking about or knew the facts, but choose to ignore them.
I couldn’t understand how the PM could make such statements without knowing the true identity of the so call Constable. We are now into the final chapter and now the PM and AG appears as obstructionists. Now the Teflon Don has no legal basis to challenge the order. hmmmmmm
Why did Lewin leave?
Maybe we now have the answer.
Travel advisory issued on Jamaica
http://www.travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_jamaica.html
The ongoing dispute over as to exactly whom Manatt was advising during its six months of work–the firm stated in a March FARA filing that it had “ceased activities on behalf of the government of Jamaica”–could be clarified this summer when Manatt is scheduled to make another FARA filing related to its Jamaica work.
According to the Justice Department’s Web site, filings under FARA are public records that must be supplemented at least every six months. Manatt’s first FARA filing for Jamaica was last September.
A Manatt spokesman told The Am Law Daily in a statement through the firm’s general counsel Monte Lemann II that it would “comply with any remaining FARA obligations.”
http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/amlawdaily/2010/05/top-jamaican-official-resigns.html
Always drawing away from Olint……persistent…stubborn ..music then….
revolutionary music
OLINT Ambassador ‘Exhales’ in USA
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/27472/26/
Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin has revealed why he relinquished his position at the helm of the Jamaica Constabulary Force last year.
The former commissioner said he was pushed over the edge by mounting frustration fuelled by a plot hatched by well connected persons including government ministers, Members of Parliament and senior police officers to undermine his leadership of the police force.
“What emerged was a clique or cabal of parliamentarians, including ministers, some business friends and some police officers who conspired and sought to undermine me throughout. The biggest problem however was that there was no banana peel to throw in front of me…but the problem of course that they had was my independence of thought and action,” Rear Admiral Lewin said.
Why did you not seek help for your concerns from Les Green?
Norman Saunders leaves politics after 40 years
Nevertheless, Saunders was elected, and served as opposition leader until 1980 when his party was swept to power and he became Chief Minister. He served two terms as Chief Ministers between 1980 and 1985. His second termed ended abruptly, having run into some trouble with United States Authorities, which resulted in his incarceration and absence from the political scene for a while.
However, due to the deep love that the people of, especially South Caicos has for him, Saunders, on his return, was ushered right back into his old seat.
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=908
MIKE IS BACK
“They can put me in jail. I am not afraid of jail. But they can never take away my burning desire inside of me to live in a free Turks and Caicos Islands.”
Fourteen months after he resigned as the first Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands, Michael Eugene Misick, is back in the political fray and will be contesting the upcoming leadership of the Progressive National party (PNP).
And, true to form, he has returned with a bold and strong message to Special Prosecutor Helen Garlick and Governor Gordon Wetherell, letting them both know that he’s not scared of them.
In relation to the TCCI Bank, Misick expressed solidarity with persons that have lost money in TCI Bank, adding that TCI Bank was a great institution that did not have to fail.
“The same way countries all over the world bailed out their banks, the Government should have bailed out TCI Bank or in fact buy it in order to protect people’s money and the confidence and integrity of the Country.
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=918
Things not looking too good for the Deacon presently. Looming trial in TCI is the least of his problems.
With the disclosure of the Don’s name within the Deacon’s already released list of “investors”, and records of multi-million dollars wire transfers to the US shores, the FBI has to be adding up the charges. Yikes….Mike there and Bruce here under nuff pressure. Deacon’s Get out of Jail Free card won’t have much value in the US.
Note to FEDs….clawback laws have teeth and bite in your jurisdiction.
Mike D:
Read the Interception of Communications Act and you will learn that the Orders to Intercept given by the Court stipulates that the recordings must not be disclosed to a third party. The fine for this is JM$3 and /or 3 years in jail. Lewin broke the law and took it unto himself to send the the tapes to the US.
He should haved issued a warrant for the arrest of Dudus.
Based on his recent utterances he is nothing nothing more then a spiteful coward.
Eileen Thomas:
If he did break the law, then we should see an arrest warrant for Mr. Lewin and the others in the chain of command, very soon, don’t you think? Is that what you are hearing in your limited circle of influence?
Eileen, given your full grasp of the “Communications Act”, are you in a position to say who was THE person/Agency/Entity that requested the original wiretapping of the Don’s phone(s) and would that entity be viewed as a “Third Party”, if indeed the recipient of the recordings turns out to be the original “requisitioner”?
Why are YOU saying the ex-Police Commissioner is a coward? Shouldn’t he be given a medal for his actions? What would you peg the probability of Mr. Coke being found guilty of a crime in Jamaica had Mr. Lewin arrested the him? I would put that number at ZERO!
Eileen, I don’t want to sound as if I’m pointing an accusatory finger your way, but given your choice of words and the tone of your comments, I get the feeling you are VERY close to this whole saga. Are you a diehard JLP member, a member of the JPL administration? What about your family members? Are they of similar persuasions like you? I suppose you are of the opinion that the thug is innocent and all this hoopla is just a concoction by enemies of the JLP, with the sole purpose of bringing done the current administration. Maybe, just maybe, you are aligned with the Don, choosing instead to be on the wrong side of history. In the interest of transparency Eileen, you should make some declaration at the start of you post so that we can put your comments in the proper context. What do you think?
Eileen Thomas:
P.S.: Could you cut and paste the relevant section of the Communication Act that stated that ….” recordings must not be disclosed to a third party”. My limited understanding of the Act suggests who the relevant parties that can received the information. I am also under the impression (I might be wrong here) that the act is silent as to which persons/group the information can be disseminated to, once it is in the possession of the select few. I am further puzzled by your declaration; which brings me to this question: would the director of Public Prosecution and Defense Lawyers be considered third party, during the discovery phase of a criminal trial? Finally, is the third party issue spelt out in the Communication Act itself and/or the Court Order? This was not clear from you post, which seemed to have skillfully combined the two. Furthermore, isn’t the ORDER itself originates from the Police and signoff on by the AG & the Judge and hence, the Commissioner of Police would be in a better position to ascertain what is an illegal act as far as the who can be the final recipients of the recordings?
Maybe we need to hear from our resident Blog Attorney, Nocotec. He might be willing to add some clarity on this subject. I would ask Floridian for help here, but the answers contain too many riddles, it would only confound the issue!
Citing Manatt Contacts, Top Jamaican Official Quits Government Posts
Karl Samuda, a Jamaican government minister and general secretary of the JLP, announced that an internal investigation had determined that Robinson had a “brief social encounter” with a Manatt lawyer while on a visit to Washington, D.C., in November, but that no State Department representatives were present. Samuda said Robinson declined an invitation to attend a meeting at the State Department extended by Kingston solo practitioner Harold Brady, who helped broker the contract with Manatt.
It now appears that Samuda’s announced findings about how involved the junior minister was in the negotiations were incomplete. Robinson’s letter to Golding discloses that he actually had two meetings with Manatt representatives between November 19 and 20–meetings that he acknowledges could be seen as lending official government support to the firm’s purported role lobbying in connection with the extradition row.
“Morally, responsibility comes with actions and I know the just and upright thing to do at this time,”
http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/amlawdaily/2010/05/top-jamaican-official-resigns.html
Mike D:
I know its hard for you to believe but I am far removed from Jamaican politics. I am simply a patriot. I refuse to see Jamaicans as PNP or JLP.
The fact that the Interception of Communications Act
is at the heart of the matter and knowing full well that all Jamaican Laws are available on the Web, I googled “Interception of Communications Act /Jamaica”.
As you will see, this particular law is written in plain English and as a non lawyer, its easy to understand.
I reiterate, the then Commissioner was onlly authorised by the Court to use the wiretaps to gather information to prosecute Dudus in Jamaica.
The country is quite capable of handling such prosecutions. What do you think the Gun Court is there for?
Apparrently the Admiral has sworn allegiance to a country other than he one that paid his salary and is paying his pension.
Maybe for him, Liguanea writes the Jamaican Laws that he obeys.
Eileen,
small note, apparently we (i.e. Jamaicans) weren’t doing much with the evidence gathered on Mr Coke. So who could blame the officer for handing it to ‘someone’ who would.
(on a side note, the same would seem to apply to Mr. Smith and his cohorts….let us see if he shall suffer the same fate)
Having been caught lying, scheming to dishonour a treaty obligation, and covering up the attempt to deceive the Jamaican people, Mr. Golding has completely lost credibility to deal with the potentially tragic state of affairs that we now face. He must go.
http://www.sunheraldja.com/2010/05/on-the-brink-of-revolt/
…apparent link with organised criminality.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/8/Calling-for-Action-to-Restore-Trust-in-The-Government-of-Jamaica
How polite. When OLINT buss many who born big since last week going to faint!
Home and abroad. Our naivete is astonishing.
Patriot Eileen:
Clause 16 Subsection (9), [Page 25]
(9) An authorized officer shall not disclose any
communications data obtained under this Act, except-
(a) as permitted by the notice;
(b) in connection with the performance of his duties;
or
(c) if the Minister responsible for national security
directs such disclosure to a foreign government or agency of such government where there exists between Jamaica and such foreign government an agreement for the mutual exchange of that kind of information and the Minister considers it in the public interest that such disclosure be made
Click to access cyb_jam_intercep_commun_act.pdf
Given your earlier statement , …” As you will see, this particular law is written in plain English and as a non lawyer, it’s easy to understand.”, I’m a little bit taken aback by your convenient exclusion of the appropriate section of the act was duplicated above.
As you can clearly see, the act outlines three (a, b and c) exceptions where disclosures COULD/CAN be made to “third parties”. If we are to take the Commissioner’s words at face value, it would appear that either one or a combination/permutation of the three, were met in this case. After all, Mr. Lewin was fairly emphatic in his (very) public pronouncements of the degree of compliance (of the police officer) with the applicable Jamaican laws (including the ICA).
Are you saying you are privy to other information which would refute the statements of the Ex-Commissioner of Police? I truly hope you so, since your scathing attacks on such a loyal (patriotic?) public servant would make your claims of being a patriotic Jamaican, a rather hollow one. As a patriot, I would hope you wouldn’t mind sharing such data with us so that we can all rally around a TRUE patriot such as Eileen! If such data is not available to you, I must implore you to retract your damaging statements and issue a public apology to Mr. Lewin, a person who have dedicated all his professional life to public service in Jamaica. Are you prepared to do that Eileen? 🙄
dexys midnight runners come on eileen
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And we would have to, as responsible people, stop and reconsider all intentions to forgive and forget what Mr Golding has done, especially since he has, to date, ignored every urging to come clean on this matter.
If what Mr Lewin is saying is true, where does that leave the 13 senators — 12, considering the resignation of Dr Ronald Robinson — who vouched for Mr Golding’s virtue via a joint statement less than 48 hours before he was forced to admit to some of his wrongdoing in the matter?
Unlike Mr Golding, they’ve not seen fit to apologise.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/If-what-Mr-Lewin-is-saying-is-true_7639710
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=466#466
Donald Duncan
5/23/2010
There is no question that Bruce must go now but there is no mention of the Jamaican private sector whose members provide heavy financial support to both parties – they do not do this out of the goodness of their hearts but for the favours they receive in return ( not unlike the Dons) and this too must be eliminated through open disclosure of all contributions to all political parties – I can go on the web now and find out the name of every single contributor to the US Presidential elections.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/More-questions-than-answers_7637641
@Donald Duncan
“I can go on the web now and find out the name of every single contributor to the US Presidential elections.”
That can be done for Jamaica too…been there done that…with pictures…
Start Here: http://www.olintja.com
The rest you must work to figure out yourself… no bottle feeding for “best and brightest”… ‘stand on merit’ time now…
…if you got any
“It had to come to this. For the country to see what we have been toying with all these years. For the big business people – the tourism people, the manufacturers, the big people in commerce – to see what their party contributions have propped up.”
Ian Boyne, contributor
Can you believe this prick?
This issue was a noteworthy example of strategic advocacy by the Opposition, the media and civil society. The role of civil society groups like Jamaicans for Justice, the Jamaica Council of Churches, the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce, the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) was crucial.
Indeed, what the prime minister’s backpedalling on this issue has strengthened, in my mind, is the absolute importance of having a strong civil society; a civil society not tainted by partisan politics; a civil society that represents a genuine third way.
Boyne
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100523/focus/focus1.html
Secondly, the signing of the extradition warrant without specifically indicating what has changed between nine months ago and now as far as national sovereignty and legal principles are concerned, might have more to do with the pressure from the United States of America to indict members of the Cabinet including the PM for obstructing justice than the cacophony of sounds for the PM’s resignation from the media, the opposition and civil society.
Roper
http://www.sunheraldja.com/2010/05/what-has-happend-to-our-democracy/
You decide….
“I don’t believe Bruce Golding is going to squander this opportunity.”
Boyne
viewer123 3 hours ago
Did you hear the lame statement coming out of the OPM on this issue Mr. Boyne. Let us hope you played no role in crafting it.
Golding is a joke.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100523/focus/focus1.html
“and the Minister considers it in the public interest that such disclosures me made”.
Which Minister gave permission? Derrick Smith,
Col.McMillan or Mr. Nelson.
BRUCE GOLDING, prime minister of Jamaica, shares an intriguing relationship with Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, the ‘President’ of Tivoli Gardens.
The power-sharing framework between the man who formally represents the West Kingston constituency in which Tivoli Gardens is located, and the man who really runs the place, is just as fascinating.
The word from well-placed political sources is that Golding and Dudus are not particularly close.
More than a generation separates them.
While Golding revels in the political limelight, Dudus shirks it.
Why then would Golding sacrifice his political career for a man with whom he is not a particularly close friend?
A Sunday Gleaner probe reveals that Coke was instrumental in Golding’s election as member of parliament (MP) for Western Kingston after he was elected leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in 2005.
Golding’s predecessor, Edward Seaga, retired from active politics that year after serving as MP since 1962.
golding needed seat
The JLP in 2005 had found itself mired in a similar predicament to the People’s National Party in 1993, when a seat had to be found for Dr Omar Davies after Hugh Small quit as finance minister.
Similarly, a seat had to be found for Golding to enable him to legitimately assume the position of leader of the JLP.
Golding wanted to go back to the Central St Catherine seat he held between 1983 and 1997.
However, Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange was ensconced there, since she defeated Golding on the JLP ticket in 1997, when he ran for the National Democratic Movement that he had formed a year and a half earlier.
An idea took shape in the leadership rank of the JLP.
Grange would be relocated to West Kingston, a constituency with which she was intimately related.
She was even closer to Seaga, her political mentor, considered to be an integral part of Tivoli Gardens.
In the early years, Grange grew in that constituency.
She was introduced to politics by Seaga and remained close to the ‘West’, as it was commonly called.
But there was one major hurdle: Grange’s planned transfer to West Kingston was vetoed by Dudus.
dudus says no to mckenzie
There was another former Seaga loyalist and Tivoli Gardens resident who harboured hopes of representing West Kingston.
Desmond McKenzie was the long-time counsellor for that powerful division.
But the powerful ‘President’ would have nothing to do with McKenzie, and he too was bypassed.
Furthermore, McKenzie had no strong seat to give to Golding in exchange for West Kingston.
In reward for his dedication to West Kingston and the JLP, McKenzie got the job as mayor of Kingston, as well as that of a government senator.
The new JLP leader wanted to formally take over as opposition leader, but the obstacles would not be moved.
Dudus favoured another JLP stalwart, Tom Tavares-Finson, who had shown an interest in the seat.
But he, too, did not have a seat to exchange for West Kingston.
Many of those who are close to Dudus say he abhors politics and avoids politicians, since his brother, Mark ‘Jah T’ Coke, and then his father, Lloyd ‘Jim Brown’ Coke, died tragically in 1992.
They say the grief-stricken young man had always harboured a strong belief that politics had claimed the life of his father and brother.
So when he took over as leader of Tivoli, Dudus distanced himself from the political leadership in the community.
But Coke quickly learned of the unbreakable connections between politics and Tivoli Gardens, frequently referred to as the pulse of the JLP.
Tivoli Gardens’ fierce altercations with members of the security forces created a wild Wild West imagery that refuses to go away.
The community’s involvement in politics was so entrenched that it was dubbed in recent years, after one of its fierce confrontations with members of the security forces, “the mother of all, garrisons”, by Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin, before he was appointed commissioner of police under the Golding administration.
shifts between jlp, pnp
Western Kingston, a dreadfully deprived community in the past, shifted from the JLP to the PNP in electoral contests between 1944 and 1962.
Although powerful JLP leaders, including Alexander Bustamante and Hugh Shearer, held the seat at different times, they retreated at the end of their first political tenure, leaving the PNP to claim victory.
Seaga went to West Kingston in 1959 and changed electoral unpredictability to predictability.
He contested his first general election in 1962 and, since then, the JLP has not lost the seat.
Operating in a heavily political atmosphere, Dudus maintained his phantom-like imagery in the shadows of his ‘Presidential suite’ in the heart of Tivoli Gardens and wielded influence over the political life of West Kingston.
Fast-forward to 2005. Seaga, who had built an indomitable political force in Western Kingston for the JLP, was bowing out of politics.
He was still revered in the west.
Many JLP supporters in Tivoli Gardens thought it was time for Seaga to step aside, but none wanted him to be disrespected.
It was desirable that Seaga give his blessing to his successor.
But the relationship between Seaga and Golding had soured since 1995 when many felt that Golding betrayed his leader by siding with a group of dissidents who had moved to displace Seaga.
Golding could not represent Western Kingston in Parliament without the blessing of the two men.
no losers
Dudus hammered out an arrangement to ensure that there were no losers.
Golding would be installed as the next JLP candidate for West Kingston (a shoo-in for member of parliament), while the retired Seaga remained a powerful influential figure in Tivoli Gardens.
Golding finally got a strong seat that would secure his position as the opposition leader in the House of Representatives.
He rushed to Gordon House to challenge former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson, who told him in a humorous exchange that he was too eager (to become prime minister).
Word out of the JLP is that Golding has been able to wield more influence over the entire country than he has been able to in the small geographical community that is Tivoli Gardens.
Dudus remains the supreme leader in the area; Seaga comfortably rules the powerful football fraternity there, while Golding is the member of parliament, which ‘gives’ Dudus his place in Parliament.
Additionally, Coke has been able to maintain the ‘order’ in the community.
So, while no losers emerged from the 2005 arrangements, the big winner was Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke.
Golding may not be Coke’s best pal, but he is certainly indebted to him in a big way.
Please desist from posting the entire article taken from the news paper
Instead cut and paste few sentence then the link, we do not want copy right violations.
Mike D
“and the Minister considers it in the public interest that such disclosures me made”.
Which Minister gave permission? Derrick Smith,
Col.McMillan or Mr. Nelson.
The Admiral needs to state which Minister he consulted, since this is a matter of national security.
Eileen:
Could be (a) and/or (b)? Why did you choose (c)? If (c), is it plausible that the go-ahead was done in the latter stages of the PNP administration, before the three named Ministers of Security or even the Commissioner of Police took office? Maybe that is why Samuda kept referring to Dr. Philips as “CIA”!
At any rate, given your uncomplimentary statements about Mr. Lewin, coupled with my perception that you are in possession of vital insider information on the matter, I was hoping you would provide some answers instead of more questions 🙂
danny brown
5/23/2010
Raul Grant, I have been say this from the day after the speech and it seems like it was only a few of us saw this big deception, There was NO STALEMATE at the time and this was the lie Mr Golding put forward as the reason for the hiring of MFF and no one call him out on this accept a few of us. So even in his apology speech he was lying and some people were falling over themselves to “forgive and forget” and move overlooking one of the most fundamental part of the speech.
pat green
5/23/2010
I agree with Raul Grant and I have been saying this, how come no one called out Mr Golding on the lie he told while apologising, about us trying to end a stalemate over the extradition exercise and there was no such stalemate. The media completely overlooked this but thanks to people with sharp ears like you-where were the journalists?
Let us continue to press for the truth and that this lie be retracted.
If he was willing to lie even in his apology speech I concluded that it was just a sham to save himself and his beloved party (according to Vaz)
Andrea Watson
5/23/2010
RAUL you hit the nail on the head. There was no stalemate in September when they hired MFF and the PM said this was the reason they entered into the contract, the man was lying even while asking for forgivennes yuh see how Bruce COLD?
Upon the revealation of this fact by Mr Lewin I am again saying this man has to go and it would be good if he could take the others with him .
Raul Grant
5/23/2010
Two things:
1. In September when they hired MPP, there was no stand off as yet. Yet still they were willing to pay US$400,000 to get Dudus off. (According to Bruce there was a stalemate when they hired MPP).
2. According to Lewin (then commissioner of police) the policeman in question did nothing wrong. (Bruce claimed the policeman should be prosecuted for breaching the law)
How can we keep this guy as PM?
Did anyone notice that murders and major crimes are down significantly in the last two weeks.
Is this pure coincidence?
I think not.
The media seems to have completely missed it as well as many other people.
Oh Heavens
When wiil you people see that BRUCE was even using his Dudus as a scapegoat…..
Does Eileen know when the information was disclosed?
Could it be that that it was a PNP Min. of National Security?
Don’t make assumptions. Lewin knows more than he is telling.
Denham town police station on fire and has been abandoned !!
Indictment. Note the dates.
Click to access Christopher%20Coke%20Indictment.pdf
Hannah Town not Denham
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Hannah-Town-police-station-ablaze
State of Emergency at 6PM Kgn & St. Andrew
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=19519
Jay, what would you attribute the drastic decrease in the crime rate to?
Thanks Lost , my bad
@ Test,
The foot soldiers(shottas) have barricaded themselves in Downtown and its environs.
Now we have most of them in one place like caged rats, we must not let them get out.
I agree!! We need to shoot them all. No joking around this time….
All law abiding people being asked to leave TG & Denham Town !!
Buses are being provided to transport these people to a safe location.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/he-is-seen-as-a-saviour–they-are-prepared-to-die-for-him-1979978.html
Dudus seems set to waive extardition hearing.
Stay tuned, his lawyers are meeting with USA officials as we speak and have been doing so for the last 3 yrs.
If deal is brokered he will be handed over to USA Marshalls and be flown directly to the USA.
Word also is gunmen have stolen 3 police cars.
Police car stolen – #20, 36 and 91
There is a US aircraft cruiser off Portmore, with 3000 soldiers. If anything is going to happen, most ppl think it will happen in the next 48 hours. Dudus does not want to turn himself over to the government. Like said earlier, he wants the US to come get him. He knows if the powers that be (JLP/PNP/Private sector) holds him, him done…
Bruce is going to address the nation at 8:30PM (9:30 EST).
http://www.nationwidenewsnetwork.com/
BBC is all over this news out of Jamaica
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8699834.stm
farsical seh “the limited state of emergency”
farsical seh” I wonder if the overseas news reports were right?”
farsical seh “what happened to the local media?”
farsical? you ever here about OLINT?
Why so “limited” on OLINT?
Over 2 u Hugh Cliff
free screensaver farsical….put it up at mannings hill road
You tube, “assault on precinct 13 trailer”
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/05/23/jamaica/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29
Five cops shot and stranded at school
Motorists asked to avoid Mountain View Avenue
JamaicaObserver.com
Monday, May 24, 2010
POLICE are trying to rescue five colleagues suffering from gunshot wounds who are stranded on the grounds of Excelsior High School along Mountain View Avenue in St Andrew.
However the rescue has been stalled by gunmen with whom police are currently engaged in a shootout.
Police are asking motorists to avoid travelling on Mountain View Avenue.
Mountain View Police Station was threatened with an attack earlier this week.
The Observer has also received unconfirmed reports of an attack on Spanish Town Police Station.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Five-cops-shot-and-stranded-at-school
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10145295.stm
The police have confirmed that four policemen were shot and injured hours ago along Mountain View Avenue in St Andrew.
The Jamaica Public Service Company turned off the electricity in sections of Kingston around 7pm Sunday.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=19527
Never again, Mr Prime Minister, never again
And while some have accepted the prime minister’s apology and for various reasons, substantially more remain indignant with Mr Golding because they find his actions and utterances so despicable that they cannot, in good conscience, accept his atonement for the terrible wrong that has been done to Jamaica.
…fesses up only after being caught. So, to this group of aggrieved Jamaicans, Mr Golding’s Monday night apology was emblematic of convenient earnestness, and came only because he was caught “red-handed”.
Therefore, I cannot buy the prime minister’s apology as a genuine and noble deed, not until he resigns.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Never-again–Mr-Prime-Minister–never-again_7632438
But lawd Bruce man. Yuh a mek mi eat crow. Yuh shame mi bad, bad man!
But Mr. Golding while I can forgive the memory lapse — I struggle with that myself — what is hard to forgive is what appears to be dishonesty… not telling the truth. And what is so frightening is this; it’s not you alone, at least three other prominent ministers have been spinning.
http://www.sunheraldja.com/2010/05/bruceso-help-me-god/
BREAKING NEWS
Observer seems to have lifted the ‘ban’ on the word OLINT in the comments section.
Wa Tch
5/23/2010
What were the sources of the massive funds used to support the win by the JLP in the last election Mr. Wignall?
After the Olint fallout you must have gotten more messages under your door. Who you fooling? We know you know. The question is who benefitted? We know you know.
As you descend to “wonder if some of those contributors were among those who contributed to the JLP in the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips matter.” you really should wonder more about the INS and OUTS of OLINT. We know you know.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/The-secret-behind-the-political-secret_7635353
However, we urge the security forces to use this opportunity to clean up the mess that has stained this country for too many years. And in doing so, they need to ignore the politicians — on both sides — who have more than proven to us that they have no idea, if any desire, to deal effectively with crime.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/A-vile-attack-on-the-Jamaican-State-_7642771
….despite the incredulity of the Golding position — it hardened; — and we had to listen to more of his vapid intransigence on the extradition issue and his halftruths about the patent Manatt connection accompanied by the braying of the uncritical Labour backbenchers.
Manatt
This law firm has placed its own professional repute on the line by insisting that they represented the Government of Jamaica, not Mr. Coke and not the JLP. Mr. Golding contends otherwise. Both positions cannot be true. I fear that if this matter remains unresolved, it is going to come back to haunt Jamaica’s foreign relations in the future.
Certainly, we will never be able to retain a reputable lobbyist in the near future. By the way, what was Ambassador Johnson’s role in this affair? My expectation of him is that he would never have been involved in the subterfuge.
http://www.sunheraldja.com/2010/05/taking-cover/
Floridian – It is clear that you have an agenda when it comes to Olint (understandable) and the JLP (perhaps you are a staunch PNP). I wait readily for your sharp witty response…
You take the law firm utterance that they were hired by the Jamaican Government, but I see you fail to mention (which is just as important), when they say they were hired for “treaty issues only” and not to find a favorable outcome to the Dudus affair.
Reading this blog and numerous other postings; most people seem upset that Bruce would spend tax payers money on lobbying to have the charges against Dudus disappear. To morally lobby for a alleged drug dealer/gun importer is reasons to resign! But according to the law firm; they insist that they were hired to resolve the stalemate over the extradition.
Now if they were hired prior to this “stalemate”, then their word cannot be trusted. So why should we believe them when they say they were hired by the JA Government?
You cannot have it both ways…..
My Prime Minister had said he is willing to put his political career on the line, who the f&%ck care about his political career, at least 11 of my coleagues were shot last yesterday to last night, My Prime Minister the blame i place squarely at your feet…
I agree with you 100%.
Seems like Coke will surrender and go to USA with Us Marshalls.
That’s if he makes it out alive today.
Police – This is not something that has happened just over the last 2 plus years.
Dudus came to power during the PNP command. Both parties are to blame, and please, let’s not forget about the private sector. Bruce has only made this “relationship” more out in the open to the public and the world.
Possible scenario:
A – Dudus surrenders to the US embassy and testifies. Who will be casualties? Of course JLP members, PNP members, prominent businessmen, hoteliers and quite a few police officers.
B – Dudus is captured by the Government and has an unfortunate accident.
Which is the better of the two for Jamaica?
@ Subie “they insist that they were hired to resolve the stalemate over the extradition.”
Where did they insist that they were hired to resolve a stalemate?
You know the JLP is famous for challenging anybody to show any document to prove that the govt. hired Manatt but does the JLP have any document that the party did so?
Subie, I put up some articles. Then you paraphrase me? Manatt Phelps Phillips etc. is not my concern.
Smith bow to politics…. A fe him problem dat. Dem should have no better too.
Above Politics and Politicians friend. Smithy never got the memo on that though. Shame.
Issues with OLINT. Yes they have issues with me. I trust they will work them out. In fact I suggest it strongly. But the decision is theirs to make. Them free.
Deacon’s list of who to pay was compiled not only by fools but by those who lack understanding.
Long time I told Jay to shut the blog down… Why Not?
Jay:
What is the update on the potential surrender of the Drug Lord?
What is the strategy of the Police, as you alluded to elsewhere? I don’t get it.
@ Mike D
Agreement not yet reached.!!
Re: Police strategy ,
I am going leave that one alone for now.
Police::
Do you believe the PM did not forsee this “uprising”?. I believe this precisely why he went to the lenghts to diffuse the situation with State Dept.?
Efforts to extradite Dudus is not worth the life of one Jamaican and sadly members of the security forces have been killed and injuried.
The US does not care if 1000 jamaicans are killed and that city of Kingston burns in an affort to get this one man.
Eileen
You don’t get it do you? We don’t want peace of the type we had before. We want this war to reach it bloody conclusion!
The State must robustly excercise its monopoly on the use of force. We don’t care what the body count is if we can remove the cancer once and for all.
Is it only me, or is Lorna (Eileen) Golding getting high on something or coming off something? Whatever it is, it has to be some power sh*t for her to utter such rubbish. Contrary to your claims, I’m now convinced that your true allegiance lies with Bruce Golding. There cannot be any other explanation. Following your logic, I guess we should all give up on crime fighting in Jamaica whenever there is the slightest possibility that the criminal elements among us might retaliate or put up a fight.
Gee, thanks Lorna for putting things into perspective for us and your invaluable contribution to the debate. 🙄 I’m truly hoping that your Jamaican Citizenship has been revoked and that you are no longer one of us. I hope the PM is still looking in his crystal ball and will be able predict his imminent departure from office. I hope the PM likes the Great White North, since you two make a lovely couple 🙂
I am PNP but if Bruce see this through to the bloody end he has my support.
My part spent 18 years in power and never had the guts.
Security forces move on Tivoli Gardens
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Security-forces-move-on-Tivoli-Gardens
Eileen, If you bright then tell me who run Tivoli…hint is not Dudus nor the PM.
They take orders from elsewhere
Man calling in 93 fm says “missile fired into Tivoli”
Nationwide playing “cheer up music”
farsical….taking requests? How about “The great Pretender”
rjr site facelift
Students urged to show up for external exams
Posted: Mon, May 24, 2010 – 10:59 am 0 comments
The Overseas Examinations Commission has sought assistance from the police to provide security for students in troubled communities who are schedul..
CAN’T BE SERIOUS….
Kingston cool down…then next five minutes running gun battles springing up all around. Journalists and ‘best and brightest’ ‘leaders’ strike again.
YOUTHS….stay in your yard….NO WORRY EXAM….EXAM COME AND GO.
I simply ask. In other nations…would you change the exam center on last minute notice…citing the reason as ” several Police officers were shot there this morning???”
Dem seh lead widespread in the water in Jamaica (not only Kintyre) and I oftentimes think the theory might be true.
Pure happy music a play….Selector…play “Reggae Nights” Jimmy Cliff then.
Robin Irie
You sure you want change? You know we…is “quiet life” and back to status quo we love…..not really change.
Knowing that gun deh a Jamaica more than sand but as long as we don’t see dem and we free fi hustle and con it’s all good…ehh?
Are you sure?
bwoy if people dont see that the status quo is untennable i dont know what to say.
The place is like the wild wild west; now law or order!
Mike D:
I am not a Jamaican and live a fareign. GOT YOU!
Government returns fire on Lewin
JamaicaObserver.com
Monday, May 24, 2010
THE Government has hit back at recent comments by Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin, saying that it what unaware of a plot to undermine his former tenure as commissioner of police.
It also accused Lewin of contempt for the law for supporting the disclosure to the United States of wiretaps of the phone of Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, without approval by the Supreme Court.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Government-returns-fire-on-Lewin
Eileen:
Could you confirm for me that the commissioner is suppose to get the approval from the Supreme Court, before releasing info to third party? I don’t remember reading that in the ICA.
About your location/status, was just checking how …”I am far removed from Jamaican politics”. Thk for the confirmation….
WTH has Eileen been smoking, some of that weed Pastor King was talking about?
Had BG ensured that the order was signed and the warrant executed without irresponsible publicity and unprecedented advance notice, not one drop of blood needed to have been spilled. No extradition matter has ever in the history of Jamaica proceeded like that.
He has a lot to answer for.
Unconfirmed – Dudus’s brother Livity was killed. Mayor McKenzie’s son was also killed. 15 soldiers are dead. 26 civilians are dead. Unknown how many gunmen have been killed.
correction, heard it was the Mayor’s nephew
subie, is that confirmed news or one more stick from the rumor mill? lord knows we have been inundated with rumor after rumor all day.
@Subie,
I am not certain of the accuracy of what you are reporting. However it is with a heavy heart and great distress that I am writing this post. There is much work to do to secure the future of our descendants but I am truly cyring for my country. Lord Help Us!
Rowe said he believes that, more than protecting Coke, JLP officials are concerned with protecting themselves. The grand jury is still investigating Coke, Rowe said, and Golding “believes Coke will cut a deal with prosecutors to testify against senior government members.”
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/05/24/christopher.dudus.coke.profile/index.html?hpt=C1
Eileen and whoever else disagree with me this is my point. We can go back into history and blame, manley, seaga PJ Portia or whoever else we want to blame. I am laying the blame squarely at the feet of My Prime Minister whom i voted for twice in 2007, y do i blame him? Dudus could have been taken in custody without all this hulabaloo(if thats how its spelt) the warrant could have been signed without it being public knowledge that he was wanted. Up to last monday I was hoping to hear my prime minister said they would still proceed with the matter in the courts, secretly have the AG sign the warrant and Dudus could be arrested at PASSA PASSA. But that was not to be, by the way if we think the PM is protecting Dudus we make a sad mistake, their r persons in the cabinet who r having sleepless nights at the thought of Presi being extradited and what kinda deal he might make with the Americans.
By the way it is true that Andrew Coke, otherwise called ‘Liviti’ or ‘Live Up’ a brother of Dudus and the main organizer or the ‘war’ taking place in West kingston was among four men who were shot and killed on roof on one of the High Rise buildings in Tivoli.
Police, nice update. Thanks for the “confirmation”. The news sources seemed to agree that livity was among the casualties today,but none could confirm whether he was killed by friendly fire or by a sniper’s bullet.
Anyway, couple questions on your theory.
What would the response of the community(really communities) have been to a quick snatch of dudus at say passa passa? Do you believe that there would have been a spate of violence following such a move? concentrated or dispersed and or concentrated?
Second issue. Do you believe that there has been a positive,albeit after the fact unintended and not part of any visible strategy by the “good guys” ) to the way the Tivoli forces “organized” their defense? that is, by concentrating all their fire power in a single centralized location, the security forces now have an opportunity to do a clean sweep once they gain “control” of the area(s) involved?
I look forward to your learned response to my 2 cent considerations.
Yes Miak there would have been a spate of violence but in my humble opinion not of this magnitude. Remember that my prime minister is the head of the Army? His Senator is the Minister of National Security.
The thugs wouldnt have time to strategise their response…. there wouldnt be time to baracade communities.
The Security Forces could descend on Tivoli and have the recources to concentrate on other possible “like minded” areas at the same time.
On another note
It is nopw obvious that the x-ray machines at the ports and the boats donated to the coast guard have been misused or are defective (yeah right).
Wjen will the ‘firings’ (no pun intended) begin?
Accountability?
Do Not Forget The Back Patting and PR when Such Equipment Was Unveiled.
All the same that was more than 9 days ago.
“Aside from the gunfire, the streets were eerily silent with only the homeless and the insane sitting under trees or strolling aimlessly, unmindful of the nearby danger.”
They watch us shooting at each other and ‘we’ call them insane. I wonder what their comments about ‘us’ are?
“The Jamaica Labour Party joined by Generation 2000 and the Women’s Freedom Movement understand that the operations taking place in Western Kingston are inescapable and unavoidable to deal with the criminal elements that have openly threatened the State by their actions.
We know the Government will be doing everything within its powers to protect the innocent and unconnected and ensure that basic amenities are returned and the necessary support provided as soon as possible.
[Like engaging Manatt Phelps Phillips?]
We are hopeful that out of this national crisis will come a rebirth of Jamaica, land we love.”
[We agree and once you are in prison the rest of us shall begin.]
http://news.radiojamaica.com/jlp-groups-say-conflict-unavoidable
The prime minister wants our trust and forgiveness. Some wonder, should they oblige? In his own words, the many mouths of Bruce will answer:
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100525/cleisure/cleisure2.html
It is respectfully requested of Mr Golding to help the Jamaican persons, at home and abroad regain a level of our world renown pride which his resignation could begin to do, after this the most sordid episode of his stewardship.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100525/cleisure/cleisure7.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/05/25/world/americas/AP-CB-Jamaica-SlumStand.html?_r=1&hp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/latin_america/10148973.stm
PM contrite but Opposition moves in for the kill
KEN CHAPLIN
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/PM-contrite-but-Opposition-moves-in-for-the-kill_7634224
And you go with them “Chaplin”
U.S. Report: Jamaican Prime Minister Is ‘Known Criminal Affiliate’ Of Hunted Drug Lord
“According to official U.S. accounts , Golding’s Jamaican Labour Party (JLP) was voted into power through ‘Coke’s murderous and strong-arm tactics.'”
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/jamaica-christopher-dudus-coke-escaped-security-forces-assault/story?id=10737428
huh??
“Recently, Golding and other senior Jamaican officials have been electronically intercepted talking to Coke inside his fortified redoubt, US authorities say.”
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/jamaica-christopher-dudus-coke-escaped-security-forces-assault/story?id=10737428
“During a previous attempt to capture Coke 27 were killed and a JDF helicopter was shot down. ”
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/jamaica-christopher-dudus-coke-escaped-security-forces-assault/story?id=10737428
huh??
can someone refresh my memory and confirm that this in fact took place…when? f not, what does it do for the credibility of the entire article?
Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. (Proverbs 16:18)
A “Fool” and his “Office” are soon to be separated.
Golding, who led resistance to Coke’s extradition before public opinion forced him to reverse himself, is described in a document read to ABC News as a “known criminal affiliate” of Christopher “Dudus” Coke. According to official U.S. accounts, Golding’s Jamaican Labour Party (JLP) was voted into power through “Coke’s murderous and strong-arm tactics.”
Recently, Golding and other senior Jamaican officials have been electronically intercepted talking to Coke inside his fortified redoubt, US authorities say.
Advice for Golding:
1.Stop supporting narcotic drug king pins who are enemies of the USA
2.Stop lying to the Jamaican people and the International community because in spite of your age of 62, you should know this is the electronic age, when everything can be taped or intercepted
3.Do not forget yourself- You are dealing with the most powerful country in the world, not Haiti and so stop the bul—hit
4.Resign and attempt to heal your broken marriage. Instead of having extramarital sex when your country is in a crisis, put your poorly controlled penis in your boxers and beg Lorna to forgive you for ALL your repeated indiscretions. Confess all to her including what happened in Paraguay.
5.Dissociate yourself from the bad company in your party that you have favored. Instead practice introspection and reflect on your historic disgraceful leadership. Miss Enid is a very disappointed soul right now!
6.Look at your watch- your time is drawing nigh! Can you spell the word Indictment?
You better call Noriega in Paris and ask him if we are joking!
Errors
1. No helicopter was shot down during last invasion of Tivoli Gardens- LIE
2. By Monday night, Coke’s gun-toting supporters had taken control of the Kingston Public Hospital, and the hospital’s one surgeon has been treating at least 14 Coke loyalists. -LIE
3. The current effort began in August 2009, when U.S. authorities forwarded a Provisional Arrest Warrant and Extradition Request to the Jamaican government. NO ARREST WARRANT WAS ISSUED !
Are these people credible – you be the judge
Yeah jay, i am afraid that i like many fell for the sensational headline and first two paragraphs. the entire article is fraught with inaccuracies, sufficient for us to dismiss the entire article as propaganda and dam nonsense!!
Also, you missed one jay –
4. “According to official U.S. accounts , Golding’s Jamaican Labour Party (JLP) was voted into power through ‘Coke’s murderous and strong-arm tactics.’” LIE
the wind of change was strong on september 2007.
or even, to be more inclusive of the views of this blog, voted in on the wings of a forex master trader. 🙂
Hmm why haven’t we heard from the govt. on this?
Oh well whatever they say will be viewed with suspicion. Or they will blame the social networks 🙂
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Government-blames-social-networks-over-Tivoli
I wonder if lawsuit will be forthcoming…
According to minister vaz on tvj moments ago, yes.
Lawsuit.
Wow more spotlight on Bruce Golding.
Hmm interesting times are ahead.
What are the bets that ABC will start to dig more on him?
hey people, brace yourselves for a report or reports on massive body counts. we may be talking three digits b tomorrow and mind blowing numbers ifthis thing stretches out much longer.
the international press will have a field day. just think of that aljezeera report on steroids in all main stream outlets.
BG is in a big pile of doo-doo if this thing ends as badly as it has started.
At a minimum they need to 1. capture dudus 2. secure the areas being targeted by the security forces and put many many many guns, ammo and possibly drugs on the table!!
if they fail to accomplish this, the mission will be seen as a failure, a mission at too high a cost. the focus will hone in on the delay and the pre-raid handling of the extradition request.
The administration is not out of the woods and i can see a situation where this could get really sticky for them!
ABC lie dem lie?
4. “According to official U.S. accounts , Golding’s Jamaican Labour Party (JLP) was voted into power through ‘Coke’s murderous and strong-arm tactics.’” LIE
No one on THIS blog should be in any debate about how much the appox. 3000 votes that won the election cost or where the $$$$ came from.
The recently appointed Ambassador Audrey Marks had said Smithy and her shall soon exhale.
Make NO mistake.
Make NO mistake.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=466
I think we should start using Jay’s Blog at:
http://johnww.wordpress.com/
to discuss issues (political in nature?) relating what is going on in Jamaica at this time. I believe it is much more suited for that purpose.
–
Initially (first post), your comments will see “Your comment is awaiting moderation”. But after Jay releases your first post, the comments will be instantaneous.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100526/lead/lead4.html
Look at them trying to look ‘confused”
‘Acting’ Confused OR Naive. Full Stop.
ABC stood by its report last night. Experts in the US and Jamaica, who claim to have seen the document mentioned in the network’s report, said it was an affidavit submitted as part of a grand jury investigation in New York, where Mr Coke will be tried if he can be found and extradited. The affidavit is based on a telephone call between Mr Golding and Mr Coke, said one source who asked to remain anonymous.
Until two weeks ago Mr Golding was refusing to co-operate with US efforts to extradite Mr Coke, claiming that the request was based partly on illegally obtained wiretap evidence from intercepted telephone calls.
According to US officials cited in the ABC report, Mr Golding has recently been monitored talking to Mr Coke by telephone at his Tivoli Gardens base.
Amid calls for his resignation after he admitted to hiring a Californian law firm to lobby the US Government on Mr Coke’s behalf, Mr Golding pledged to co-operate in the hunt for his country’s most notorious drug baron.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7137686.ece
Both the PNP and the JLP have their professional callers to talk shows and in recent days the JLP has unleashed its devotees on the airwaves in the hope that the IRREVERSIBLE damage done to the administration can be reversed. Is there a way out for the prime minister to save his skin in this chaotic time?
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/You-still-there–Prime-Minister_7651557
Motty? You there?
Veranda experts, Diaspora and “travellers in the know who end up booking rooms at Morgan’s Harbour” get enlightened today.
Don’t believe? The blatant paid ones go something like this: “Mawnin Mr. Perkins, I am illiterate and neva get nuh schooling,….just give Bruce a likkle time nuh…im nuh get nuh time!…..{fsarther along the call (a surprisingly long time is ‘given’ to them by the ‘host’)}… …”Well the GDP numbers and the balance of payments data and remember the injunction in the court case and when the law lords at Privy council ruled they said in their judgement the following…..
I THOUGHT YOU SAID YOU WERE ILLITERATE?
hahhahaaa….those in the know (as they ponder their predictive capability inside the Morgan’s Harbour hotel room or during the JUTA ride through Junction on route to Kingston have gotten an education today.
I know you can teach them Wiggy….when you put ypur mind to it.
Would they allow Audley Shaw to succeed Golding who is a member of the old guard who was loyal to Edward Seaga which irks the young Turks? Could it be my cousin James Robertson who enjoys support in the geographical area of his party of which he is deputy leader but not the entire JLP? Could it be Pearnel Charles who might not get the backing of colour-prejudiced party financiers?
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Come-forward–Delroy-Chuck_7648410
PRESIDENT of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) Joseph Matalon yesterday said members of the business community were not without blame in the current violent fracas between criminal elements and members of the security forces in sections of Kingston, which virtually shut down the Corporate Area for two days this week.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=466
Exclusive Beyonce pictures with Jamaican DJ’s
@DaveSin
I have been on one of my from time time hiatus when I am too busy for the blog.
You are wrong about some of the problems and their solutions.
There is no greater example of the problem in JA and how deep it is tan what happened yesterday. Imagine if the FBI released its 12 most wanted list and within hours everyone on the list turned themselves in 🙂
Amazing… Why did they do it? They know if they remain at large they will be killed by the police in an extra-judicial killing… On the other hand the State is unable to protect the citizenry… the police and courts are corrupt… There will be likely no witnesses to come forward and those that do will be intimidated or killed…
In short order they will almost certainly be free persons again… Like Dudus before them when Seaga turned over his name to the police as a trouble maker and he eventually came in with his lawyer and was set free.
There is generally a different perspective from Jcans that live overseas versus the ones that live or actively conduct business in JA. Overseas Jcans think the solution goes something like this… kill all the criminals and return JA to the idyllic island I left 30 years ago.
The reality is even if you did, the social conditions and evolution of the problems over the years has created a virtual factory for bad guys and criminals. Further any solution must recreate trust between the police, law enforcement, the judicial system and the people. Performing extra-judicial killing by police and soldiers only further serves to alienate the citizenry from law enforcement.
The reason a 14 year does not just kill this guy is that he and his family, friends, dogs animals would be killed and his house burned etc…
Surrounding Tivoli and killing even a 1000 people would not solve JA problems with crime. If you listened to Reneto Adams interview and he understands the situations… He explained that the bad guys in Tivoli, Trench Town etc have sources in the police, soldiers, civil service etc… And as happened in Tivoli they know when the raids are coming.
They just move out the bad guys and guns before… A few guns are left behind… Note then that the police killed 60 to 100 people and found like 4 guns… In other words if you extrapolate from Reneto, they simply executed most of these people unarmed. If you do that you are simply perpetuating the problem.
The solutions are much more complex than these simple solutions offered… They cannot be achieved in the sort or medium term but must involve long term planning and implementation.
JA Cynic
5/27/2010
The garrison of Tivoli has not been affected by this latest incursion of the security forces.Every structure remains intact. The support via contracts continue; the political support systems as strong as ever and other key garrison characteristics untouched.
We must not think that those who have nurtured, fostered and protected such a system and have benefitted immensely have suddenly been converted and are now seeking to dismantle it. No such political conversion has taken place in Jamaica.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/Post-Tivoli-Tis-the-worst-and-best-of-times_7651420
A police operation aimed at capturing alleged crime lord Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke went awry this morning, ending with the slaying of Keith Clarke, the brother of former Commerce Minister for Jamaica, Claude Clarke.
The operation reportedly began at about 2:30 a.m. with the security forces cordoning off the Kirkland Heights community.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=19638
The earliest signs that something was afoot began shortly after 9 p.m. last night when helicopters with searchlights attached buzzed in the night sky in Upper St Andrew.
Helicopters, they said, circled in the night sky, dropping flares near or on the premises. There were also reports of gunfire. One source, close to the scene said the situation ‘was not pretty’.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=19637
Interesting conspiracy theory. Dudus and oil?? Hmmm,,,,,,
http://www.negrilstories.ca/index.php?pr=Dudus_and_Oil
Lol
Man seemed to have smoked too much bush weed 🙂
Extremely high grade too!! 🙂
What a load of garbage!
Former Security Advisor Harold Crooks is now in police custody.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=19644
LIVE images from Tivoli Gardens
whats the murder figure for the last few days?
@ RedP
@ Miak
@Jay
The Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ) is offering 19 offshore blocks and four onshore blocks in a 2010 Bid Round, which was launched at a road show in London in early March. The large prospects will be available in the frontier basin bid round, and a follow-up road show will be conducted April 27 in Houston. Deadline for applications is March 1, 2011.
Prospectivity and equitable terms make Jamaica a viable candidate for exploration. While gas demand and price may discourage some from pursuing the area, those companies possessing the grit and financial resources may find Jamaica too tempting an opportunity to pass up.
Boy now I really confused……we have been told that the US watned a man for proseuction that has never even been to the US in all his life BUT ABC claiming that he was deported from there and even have a picture to prove it……just so confused
Commanding officer for St Ann, Superintendent Gary Griffiths, said Crooks was captured by Marine Police after he jumped from the vessel in an effort to elude the cops.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Former-ISCF-commandant-jumps-from-cruise-ship-to-avoid-arrest_7654805
????
Subject: Diaspora Convention 2010 Postponement
Subject: Diaspora Convention 2010 Postponement
Importance: High
Colleagues,
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Foreign Trade has today notified that a decision has been taken to defer the convening of the Jamaican Diaspora Conference 2010 which was scheduled for June 13-17, 2010, at the Sunset Jamaica Grande Hotel & Spa, Ocho Rios, Jamaica.
This decision, regrettably, has been taken on the basis of a number of considerations, among them:
· Concerns that Registrations for the Diaspora Convention to date are below par and there have been cancellations;
· Comments from some Diaspora sources indicating that with the venue changed to a resort area, some persons were challenged by the higher costs and the fact that the option of lodging with family members in the vicinity of the convention, in this instance, did not exist;
· Overseas Missions have reported on the community disquiet about the present situation in Jamaica and some Diaspora representatives have suggested that the Convention be postponed till normalcy has been restored.
All these concerns have been brought to the attention of the Honourable Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade who has had a detailed discussion with the Chairman of the Convention Preparatory Committee, Mr. Earl Jarrett, on the matter. In all the circumstances the HDPM has instructed that the Convention be deferred.
There will shortly be consultations with Overseas Missions and Diaspora communities on new dates.
In the interim, the Ministry will be making the necessary approaches to the Hotel and airlines involved to receive assurance that deposits and ticket costs will not be lost, but rolled over without penalty.
The Consulate General will be kept abreast and will advise further on these developments.
We very much regret the inconvenience this postponement will cause to those registered delegates already holding reservations and those community members who had scheduled leave preparatory to participating in the Convention.
Kindly distil this information and advise our Diaspora communities accordingly.
Regards
“Importance High” hehehe.
You have no vote in Jamaican General Elections Diaspora. Until then you are a social club. Network baby!
“The Jamaican government seeks to uphold the rule of law and the US supports its efforts in this regard,” said US Attorney General, Eric Holder.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=466
Coronation Market gutted by fire
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Coronation-Market-gutted-by-fire
PHOTOS: ‘Bombs’ found in Tivoli Gardens
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/PHOTOS—Bombs–found-in-Tivoli-Gardens
However, when members of the security forces started to advance on Tivoli, ‘Dudus’ and his key lieutenants fled, leaving the men behind.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=19701
Provo, BVI, T&T Deacon? The style and management is spot on…. almost as much as the legal team.
Well, Bruce tried to shield him, dat never wuk, I guess the raid was purposed to shut him up. Look like some ppl corner goin dark up bad if him mek it out alive. Would be mighty interesting to hear what he has to say still.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7139550.ece
What happen to the news reports of the many murders taking place in jamaica. are they not reporting them or is crime already fall.
Kingston under curfew
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Kingston-under-curfew
Can the US indict Golding?
The US attorney has not on several occasions, denied that sealed indictments exist for Jamaican officials, including members of Golding’s cabinet.
http://www.sunheraldja.com/2010/05/can-the-us-indict-golding/
“Dudus could not overcome the combined power of the United States, a global crisis which weakened his party’s Government; powerful and irreverent local and international press; a strong civil society and a vigilant and forceful Opposition”
“Jamaica has no strategic significance or clout with the US. That is why the JLP desperately sought lobbying assistance from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips.”
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100530/focus/focus1.html
To Gleaner: Why don’t you desist from embarrassing Jamaica by claiming that Ian Boyne is a veteran journalist? Let him migrate and continue his farsical career somewhere else?
Could not even get a mop and pail work outside Jamaica….
These women bore all the signs of operant conditioning – either that or being completely intoxicated by fear.
http://www.sunheraldja.com/2010/05/the-tivoli-gardens-character/
Put up or shut up?
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Shut-up-Adams-tells-Seaga_7660263
Jay
To much lay lay with side stories. The center is OLINT. Put up a new thread..the 36
Put up a new thread (36) and I will give a pictorial…one per day in technicolour
Starting wiht the ugliest %$&er first.
FINSAC enquiry set to resume in August
http://news.radiojamaica.com/finsac-enquiry-set-resume-august
EDITORIAL – Add Campaign Finance To The Mix
The Jamaican state, for several days, was under direct threat from a would-be parallel authority.
While we, in the context of these developments, support the anti-crime initiatives and urge their full and mature consideration, we believe that it is important to highlight a glaring omission: party finance legislation.
People correctly felt that Jamaicans had a right to know who financed the parties and their candidates so they could come to a determination of what the funders might expect in return.
By this newspaper’s estimate, it costs the two major political parties, between them, around $1.5 billion to finance the 2007 general election. The public does not know who paid the bill and whether the Jamaican state was the collateral pledged by the parties.
The parties must be made to open their books to the public.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=466
You asking the wrong people to open ‘their’ books Gleaner. Let them dilly dally some more… the waiting feel is fine.
Is not only Deacon ‘book’ can open…. right Red P?
meter runs
Red Pppee!
You would not believe how much money some people have even in the recession.
..and where they put it
TCI Bank Liquidators to hold town hall meeting
The Financial Services Commission (FSC) was forced to take this action after the bank suffered a number of significant withdrawals of funds which left the bank unable to operate normally and meet its obligations on a timely basis. The FSC asked the Court to intervene only once it became clear that the Board of TCI Bank was unable to obtain the additional financial support necessary for the bank to continue to trade.
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=928
“FSC was forced to take action.” hmmm
What is the new Government’s approach to TCI? When can the islanders expect elections and a return to democratic rule? Are any charges to be made against those suspected of corruption? If so, in what timescale?
Who is going to pick up the tab for the catastrophic collapse of the economy?
http://tcweeklynews.com/clients/tcweeklynews/uk-govt-quizzed-over-tci-p2040.htm?twindow=Default&smenu=1&mad=No
The TCI Bankers Association is accusing the Financial Services Commission of introducing laws that would force its members to repay back TCI Bank’s depositors.
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=934
The Justice Minister, who came under fire after the Prime Minister said he would be giving the go ahead for the extradition process to begin, said it was not true that she acted under Mr. Golding’s direction.
Breaking
PM to pursue criminal networks….starting with OLINT…
hahahahahaahaha
SHAHINE Robinson of the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) lost her parliamentary seat of North East St Ann in the Supreme Court today after her lawyers failed to appear.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/By-election-in-North-East-St-Ann
Mexican mayor charged with links to drug cartels
Charges of organised crime and money laundering
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Mexican-mayor-charged-with-links-to-drug-cartels
******Party financiers want new AG to block their extradition******
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — Lawyers for two businessmen, described as financiers of the United National Congress (UNC), have asked newly appointed Attorney General Anand Ramlogan to block their extradition to the United States where they are wanted on criminal charges.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=466
In a release today the Contractor General said that he was forced to act after the Ministry of Energy and Mining failed and/or refused to put the divestment of the shares through a structured, Office of the Contractor General (OCG) monitored competitive process. Christie said that he had also received a letter from the permanent secretary in that ministry which challenged the OCG’s jurisdiction in Government divestments.
Writing to Prime Minister Bruce Golding today, Christie said that the matter was “nothing short of scandalous” and a “retrograde step for the administration”.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Jamalco-sale–nothing-short-of-scandalous—-OCG
Dudus About-Turn
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100601/lead/lead1.html
“The PM had said if she signed the request she should also tender her resignation.”
She sign now and has yet to resign????
Nonco ??
Devon Vapp
6/1/2010
I think these people should have done some crash courses in governance before they took over government. They are so inept.
john blake
6/1/2010
Another one? OMG. They will never learn
Paul Gentles
6/1/2010
The “old school” politicians knows nothing about probity et al this deal bears all the hallmarks of one of the political dinosaurs – Bartlett did it and those who chastised him were made to look the guilty parties by the PM.
This was just a deal to richen the largesse for pork barrel politics nothing to do with the interest of the country.
Noncs…shall the country take more of this? Remember the old Sirach “Vaseline” blogs?
Shahine Robinson, Jamaica Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for North East St Ann, has been unseated.
It also states that as a result, the election of September 3, 2007 for the constituency of North East St Ann is “null and void and of no effect and the seat is declared vacant”.
http://news.radiojamaica.com/shahine-unseated
Spend some money again Deacon… hahahahahahaha
Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.
–Justice Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice, 1933.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=466
The government used its majority to defeat the motion by 30 votes to 28.
http://news.radiojamaica.com/opposition’s-no-confidence-motion-defeated
Not one govt. MP and not one govt. senator see anything wrong with the debacle.
The record is there.
“Show me your friends and I shall tell you who you are.”
Live with it. It is permanent.
According to Mrs. Simpson-Miller, the scheme that was sanctioned by The Prime Minister was unlawful because a US law firm was engaged to act on behalf of a political party rather than an state-to-state negotiation as is the norm.
Shahine’s attorney mad!
“If the court was mislead orally or by way of any documentary evidence such as affidavit, if the court was mislead to give rise to this default judgement then somebody is going to be in serious, serious problems,” Mr. Smith said.
http://news.radiojamaica.com/shahines-attorney-mad
gary lee
6/1/2010
I was supportive of the JLP and thought they would bring us out of the corruption and stagnancy of the PNP reign. But I am totally appalled at recent events. The attempts now to try to regain favor by talking about assault on crime to cover all the lies that preceded and those that follow, sicken my stomach. I believe Gov. must resign and an election called, or the PM and AG must go.
????
Political analyst Lloyd B Smith says the timing of the Supreme Court ruling against Shahine Robinson, disqualified from sitting in Parliament, is particularly unfortunate, in light of the present upheaval in the country.
Mr. Smith says given the firestorm now swirling around the government regarding the extradition matter….
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Anonymously forwarded emails linking the Jamaica Labour Party’s narrow 2007 general election victory to massive funding from embattled investment banker David Smith and his floundering investment scheme, Olint, have been creating a firestorm in cyberspace.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090213/lead/lead2.html
The Independent – Turks and Caicos Islands: an economic free-for-all that veiled a culture of corruptionn
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=2780&id=8
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100602/news/news1.html
No mention of the MASSIVE growth that correlates with ‘the Olint years’
Jamaican cons Florida woman of US$70,000
JamaicaObserver.com
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
POLICE in Florida are investigating an investment scheme allegedly operated by a Jamaican that cost an elderly Boca Raton woman $70,000.
According to a report in the Florida Sun Sentinel, Edith Schneider, 87, gave the money to an unknown man in Jamaica by the name of ‘David McAllister’, according to police records.
Schneider’s niece called police last week to report the incident.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Jamaican-cons-Florida-woman-of-US-70-000
Jamaican Connections $35 – $75 million
Those questioning why Helen Garlick needs the time and resources to do the job she has been tasked, need only consider the scale of the massive theft and crimes that have occurred.
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=2789&id=8
Miller, who last met with Coke — now a fugitive — two days before the security forces took control of his Tivoli Gardens stronghold, said Coke spoke openly about, among other things, the role he played in helping the elderly and providing a start to many youth who would otherwise have turned to a life of crime.
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Cool Corp, through its approximately 20 subsidiaries under the Cool brand, has provided hundreds of jobs and has been supporting education in a meaningful way.
Its Computers 3,000 education programme has already distributed more than 20 computers to schools with a similar amount coming in the near future.
Olinter case back to court August 9
..attorney-at-law Paul Beswick, instructed by the director of state proceedings, is representing commission members Charles Ross and…
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100602/news/news4.html
“…this repetitive plea for forgiveness is becoming monotonous,”
http://news.radiojamaica.com/opposition-says-no-confidence-vote-was-not-failure
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=466
Chastanet said tourists view the Caribbean as a group of countries that are connected and “there are some people that are not able to differentiate one island from another”.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Caribbean-suffering-from-mayhem-in-Jamaica
Yes Chastanet, they are called stupid.
I guess that’s why they say Dudus is in Bermuda.
Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama announced Wednesday he will resign after eight months in power.
“I’m going to step down,” Hatoyama declared.
“I have had many shortcomings, I have been allowed to lead all of you for the past eight months to today. I am extremely grateful for having been given this opportunity,” he said
Bruce Golding why don’t take a leaf from this man’s book? In fact try and emulate the entire book.
You have been warned. When we indict you and a few of your cabinet ministers, your friend BS will be in no position to help you. Maybe he may pay for your legal costs in Federal court?
Just wait and see if we are joking !
“A leader whose word cannot be trusted must still resign. We accept the apology and we accept that it was heart felt and we heard a lot of words that we’ve heard before about what we’re going to do to (dismantle) garrisons etc, but we still haven’t had any full accounting for Manatt, Phelps and Phillips. We also haven’t had any accountability for those two bad decisions – the decision to put the Jamaica Labour Party in a matter that belonged to the government and the decision to misrepresent the facts,” Dr. Gomes said Wednesday at a Lions Club of Kingston meeting.
http://news.radiojamaica.com/jfj-maintains-call-golding-step-aside
Jamaican police increase protection for officials
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=19832
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Ex-Florida GOP Boss Arrested for Grand Theft and Money Laundering
Greer is accused, in part, of setting up a questionable company called Victory Strategies, LLC that would help raise funds for the GOP of Florida but then he would, allegedly, pocket the money. According to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement between February and October of 2009, Victory Strategies raised $199,254 and of that “Greer was paid $125,161 while keeping his ownership interest hidden.” Investigators say much of that money “was for services that were never performed.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20006606-10391695.html
Former Haitian Government Official Sentenced to Prison for His Role in Money Laundering Conspiracy Related to Foreign Bribery Scheme
WASHINGTON, June 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A former official of the Republic of Haiti’s state-owned national telecommunications company was sentenced yesterday to 48 months in prison for his part in a money laundering conspiracy in connection with a foreign bribery scheme…
Judge Martinez ordered Antoine to pay $1,852,209 in restitution and to forfeit $1,580,771. Antoine pleaded guilty on March 12, 2010, to conspiracy to commit money laundering.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/former-haitian-government-official-sentenced-to-prison-for-his-role-in-money-laundering-conspiracy-related-to-foreign-bribery-scheme-95424689.html
Mayor of Cancún Arrested; Charged With Drug-Trafficking, Money Laundering and Connections to Cartels
Sanchez is the first political candidate in the upcoming July 4 elections to be formally tied to the cartels, but fears have risen throughout Mexico that the powerful drug cartels are using bribes and intimidation to influence voting.
http://latindispatch.com/2010/06/02/mayor-of-cancun-arrested-charged-with-drug-trafficking-money-laundering-and-connections-to-cartels/
The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) administration believes that it has improved its credibility following its assault on organised crime in the garrison community of Tivoli Gardens, which lies within the West Kingston constituency of Prime Minister Bruce Golding.
“Our investment partners have recognised that this government is demonstrating it knows how to deal with the crime problem,” Minister of Finance Audley Shaw told Bloomberg in a telephone interview.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=853
“…that this government is demonstrating it knows how to deal with the crime problem,”
“…that this government is demonstrating it knows how to deal with the crime problem,”
Alleged gang associates asked to surrender
Follows similar appeal last week…Follows similar appeal last week….Follows similar appeal last week…..Follows similar appeal last week…Follows similar appeal last week…
JamaicaObserver.com
Thursday, June 03, 2010
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Alleged-gang-associates-asked-to-surrender
Deacon have you sent the ‘material’ on the Australian Model yet?
Ambassador Marks said she will be focusing on investment opportunities in Jamaica above and beyond Foreign Direct Investments and to emphasise joint venture opportunities with Jamaicans.
http://news.radiojamaica.com/usja-relations-unchanged-–-ambassador-marks
Soon exhale Smithy..hehehe
When the US raise that with her Deacon I would really like to hear her response. Olint (and its facilitators) robbed many Americans.
Audrey Marks makes her debut in Washington
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/business/Audrey-Marks-makes-her-debut-in-Washington_7674669
How the recount looking Deacon? Soon exhale? Brian Trowbridge still waiting on you guys to return from electioneering…..
Congratulations JLP! said Jacob…
Politically Connected Loans sound to me like another way to say B-R-I-B-E-R-Y.
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=2798&id=8
Office of the Governor
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=2797&id=8
LOLOLOLOL Absolutely priceless except for the foul language!!
Interesting article, the CIA and there link to the shower posse
http://newsone.com/world/casey-gane-mccalla/how-the-cia-created-the-jamaican-shower-posse/
The association also repeated its call for full disclosure in the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips Affair.
“This in our view is necessary to bring clarity, and hopefully closure, to an issue that erodes not only the trust reposed in the Office of the Prime Minister but also in the present holder and the future holders of that office,” the JBA said.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=19912
naudia campbell mattocks
6/4/2010
omg, i never post comments, but this was too much for me not say anything, wat di ratid a gwaan inna tivoli! wow this is so unreal that i cant even form proper sentence structure. But this comment by barby jones basically summed up my entire brain thought.
barby jones
6/4/2010
Is this article referring to Kingston Jamaica in 2010, or are we talking about Nazi Germany (Auschwitz for example)? Have we gone stark raving mad?
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Shallow-graves–torture-chamber-found-in-Tivoli
The hiring of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips was clearly fuelled by a desire to prevent the extradition of Christopher Michael Coke. It was wrong to have done so. The prime minister was well aware that it was wrong, whether authorised by Government or by the Jamaica Labour Party. The evidence of deceit unfolded drip by drip in confirmation of the fact that the hiring was only a small part of a concoction conceived by a sick mind.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100605/cleisure/cleisure3.html
What is clear, is but for a few factual updates, the thoughts I expressed that day have changed little, and really nothing much has changed in the TCI either. We’re still waiting for prosecutions of those who violated our public’s trust, not once, not twice but repeatedly and continuing to this day.
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=2801&id=8
TCI Bank creditors form a committee
http://tcweeklynews.com/clients/tcweeklynews/tci-bank-creditors-form-a-committee-p2047.htm?twindow=Default&smenu=1&mad=No
Since the bank closed on Friday April 9, 2010, several depositors and shareholders have been desperately seeking information about their money.
http://www.suntci.com/
As expected, there are voices which would seek to minimise the reality of what we are witnessing and to put a political label on what has transpired.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/The-time-for-purging_7674073
Golding, Robertson to testify before Office of Contractor General
PRIME MINISTER Bruce Golding and energy minister James Robertson will be giving sworn testimony to the Office of the Contractor General, (OCG), regarding the Government’s proposed sale of its 45 per cent stake in JAMALCO to the Chinese firm, Zhuhai Hongfan.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Golding–Robertson-to-testify-before-Office-of-Contractor-General
James Robertson, Minister with responsibility for the environment, says the British Petroleum (BP) oil spill now spewing gallons of oil in the Gulf of Mexico is not a threat to Jamaica.
http://news.radiojamaica.com/caricom-concerned-about-oil-spill-robertson-says-no-threat
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Justin-O-Gilvie-in-police-custody_7665407
While all this ‘other stuff’ is going on, it SURE seems like Mr. Smith and his cronies have escaped scotch free ill gotten gains from people all around the world. Some of the ‘cronies’ and their families are even receiving awards and ‘prestigious’ recognition.
With physical evidence mounting, Joran van der Sloot finally confesses to Peruvian police he murdered 21-year-old Stephany Flores, according to investigators. CNN confirms the late-night confession was full of drama as van der Sloot broke down in tears admitting he exploded in anger, attacking Flores, breaking her neck.
http://nancygrace.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/08/confessions-of-a-dutchman/?iref=allsearch
“But it doesn’t look like justice is ever going to prevail in Aruba. That’s most likely now going to happen in Peru…Five long years later!”
The caribbean is taking a beating. They do not rate us. The decades tolerance and leniency and sympathy toward our ‘hype’ are finished. Obama seh, “no excuses”
Confession L O N G after being busted is not a good tactic….like Manatt Phelps Phillips…and also OLINT.
No confidence in Gordon House
HEART TO HEART
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/No-confidence-in-Gordon-House_7685117
The mining and energy minister James Robertson has admitted that the government’s proposed sale of its 45 per cent stake in bauxite company JAMALCO was not advertised.
The Prime Minister Bruce Golding said the Plea Bargaining law would help the prosecution to secure evidence that will assist in convicting greater offenders.
Under the plea bargaining law, offenders exchange information for lighter sentences.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=19982
FACED with the threat of a lawsuit, former prime minster Edward Seaga has apologised to Joseph Matalon, president of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica, (PSOJ).
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Seaga-bows-to-Matalon
Police from the Flying Squad, led by Superintendent Cornwall ‘Bigga’ Ford, raided the modest property at 64 John’s Lane where they found passports hidden in the roof, floor and other areas.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100609/lead/lead2.html
Olinters dominate news as usual.
According to Mr. Robertson, the government was backed into a corner…
http://news.radiojamaica.com/robertson-defends-jamalco-sale
Our money is at risk, and the FCO must accept its full responsibility during this period of the Interim Government.
We are approaching an important inflection point with respect to the future of the TCI Bank depositors and the people’s pension money; time has run out for the Office of the Governor to pretend that it sees no evil, hears no evil or speaks no evil.
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=2809&id=8
The Manatt Phillips, Phelps fiasco was the direct result of a cruel cocktail of hubris, ineptitude and an apparently strong belief that defying the US’ request was actually in the national interest.
But the conduct of officials throughout the process was not just unseemly – it may have been illegal.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100609/cleisure/cleisure4.html
How to Liquidate Ill-Gotten Gains
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=2810&id=8
Caribbean officials have been held to account extraterritorially before – from US v Noriega, where Manuel Noriega was indicted and arrested in Panama, to US v. Saunders, where several officials of the Turks and Caicos were indicted and arrested by US officials for their roles in a transnational drug trade. While the Turks and Caicos officials were arrested on US soil, and Noriega was captured in a state of war in Panama, it cannot be ignored that the US readily extended the hand of justice across the Caribbean Sea, blind to the particular gown of the guilty.
Roper to leave FSC
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/business/Roper-to-leave-FSC_7689935
“Olinters speak out??”
Bad debt now higher than Olint loss
NON-PERFORMING loans (NPLs) across the financial sector jumped 78 per cent over 12 months to $19.4 billion to March 2010 which equals investments in failed FX trading firm Olint, which was partially blamed for the rise.
NPLs were also affected according to some analysts including Dennis Chung by the fallout of the unregulated schemes including Olint as investments were secured via loans. Olint liquidator, John Connolly deemed Olint led by trader David Smith a Ponzi scheme purporting to make high returns from foreign currency trading. He discovered that 6,000 people had invested US$220 million ($19.2 billion) in the operation; which is equal to the NPLs to date.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/business/Bad-debt-now-higher-than-Olint-loss
Figures are ‘off’ yet interesting article. Someone on these blogs warned of this 2.5 years ago. Clairvoyant I suppose. Maybe the other ‘predictions’ might be heeded? Dem nuh pretty….trust mi.
NHT? Heavy blows…
BTW….try your best media…the ‘ponzi’ push is futile. Take it from floridian…you ever lose offa floridian yet?
LOL LOL LOL
Deacon, verily verily…I’m saying to the I…
Parliament was told on Tuesday that the law firm, Livingston, Alexander and Levy was contracted by the government at a cost of $7.1 million to defend Prime Minister Bruce Golding and the Attorney General’s Department in the row with the members of the Public Service Commission in 2008.
http://news.radiojamaica.com/government-pays-over-10m-legal-fees
I wonder how much Lewfam paid Livingston Alexander Levy?
LOL…
Now we know who has been posting on the blog under the numerous synonyms… Note the similarities from posts on the blog.
Note the affiliations with the south Florida based law professor who is often all over anti JLP matters in the press 🙂
Caribbean officials have been held to account extraterritorially before – from US v Noriega, where Manuel Noriega was indicted and arrested in Panama, to US v. Saunders, where several officials of the Turks and Caicos were indicted and arrested by US officials for their roles in a transnational drug trade. While the Turks and Caicos officials were arrested on US soil, and Noriega was captured in a state of war in Panama, it cannot be ignored that the US readily extended the hand of justice across the Caribbean Sea, blind to the particular gown of the guilty….
“Alexander Britell is a student in the Caribbean Law program at the University of Miami School of Law …. “
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100609/cleisure/cleisure4.html
Rothstein Gets 50 Years for $1.2 Billion Fraud
No action against Brady
The ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has signaled its unwillingness to take any action against attorney, Harold Brady, the man at the centre of the Manatt Phelps & Phillips controversy, which has caused the country and the Government grave embarrassment.
Despite receiving this advice weeks ago, neither the JLP nor the political executive is yet to act on this advice and has not shown an interest in bringing Brady to account for his alleged misrepresentation.
http://www.sunheraldja.com/2010/06/no-action-against-brady/
Nonco welcome back to posting. Noncs has Brady ever been engaged to do work in the cover up of OLINT?
If NO…why not?
LOL
I don’t see Brady mentioned on the government’s legal costs sheet (RJR)…..who pays….Santa Claus? I’ll tell you for Christmas Noncs…
Coincidence?
The same ‘mistakes’ of Brady/Manatt carbon copy the same mistakes of Brady/Olint.
Ehh Noncs? Positive results could be attained by different ‘brilliant’ individuals. But the same Mistakes?
You know what they say…
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
Albert Einstein.
Even Deacon and his handlers/facilitators learnt that….and as you know Nonco, he’s as slow as they come.
“That is madness! How then can we expect to have different results?”
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100609/health/health1.html
Speaking in Parliament on May 11 when he confessed to sanctioning Brady’s initiative to engage Manatt Phelps & Phillips, Prime Minister Golding declared that no legal action is being contemplated against Brady, but noted that other actions are being considered. Having obtained the legal advice suggesting that a complaint could be brought before the General Legal Council for misrepresentation, the Prime Minister has been mum whether this course would be taken.
Robinson…remember the game when Autry had the pose with the double six dead in his hand? Ball and chain was vibrating the cell in your pocket too? Autry’s JPS bill was due the next day…. So it go sometimes.
Deacon, a neophyte like you teach Martinez to play domino? Oh dear…
BTW
Interesting book JW.
Can you feel it in the air Nonco?
Alter schützt vor Torheit nicht
Beweise her oder Maul halten!
hehe
Likkle more Noncs.
Da liegt der Hase im Pfeffer
“I can’t remember. I send hundreds of emails and I am not denying that I am aware or have knowledge or know David,”
Du hast einen gehörigen Bock geschossen
Er begab sich in die Höhle des Löwen
Robertson suggested that the person behind the recent spate of emails should come forward.
Er benimmt sich wie ein Elefant im Porzellanladen
Er glaubt, das Gras wachsen zu hören
“I am not denying that there was contact.I am denying nothing but in terms of that specific, I can’t answer that.”
Er kommt vom Hundertsten ins Tausendste
Guten Abend
Only those who refuse to see have not seen that the nation has been misinformed repeatedly on this matter.
http://www.sunheraldja.com/2010/06/bruce-must-go/
Jah Selassi
6/9/2010
Bruce your are being ill advised again. Let this story die. You cannot win this, it will not end good for you. See..ABC will spend tons of money to dig up witnesses, they will find state dept. personnel to confirm their stories.
Do not attract thier attention sir…do not become an ABC project. You could have ever news organization poking into your life. We Jamaicans know you can’t afford that.
https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Bruce-legal-action-over-ABC–Dudus–story
Floridian, why do you love to talk in so much circles? If you have knowledge of something, then spill it….plain and simple. But it;s like you get pleasure out of wheeling these long ass tales and mystery. It is obvious you have an agenda with Olint and JLP, which you probably view as the same entity. I can understand that, but why the different languages, the wait and see lines, the inside jokes, the total mystery???
Subie,
I often wonder the same thing. Truth be told if he is responsible for much of the stuff that was leaked on OlintJA then he’s done a WHOLE lot more than many other to expose the dirt under the rug of the Olint drama.
But on the flip side, many, in fact MOST of his posts on this blog are either links to articles in the news papers, or vague hints at ‘things to come’. In fact, many of the promises of things to come for the ‘deacon’ can be traced back over two years. But still the ‘deacon’ and his ‘congregation’ are enjoying life, not losing a wink of sleep.
Maybe the snippets, riddles, vague posts, etc are just a way to ‘keep people coming back to the blog’
@Subie
You have probably not been around long enough… Floridian is mentally unbalanced and I am being serious. He was probably nudged off the edge by his loss of what appears to be US several hundred thousand to Olint. It is unfortunate that it appears he has not sought medical intervention. There are modern drugs that would likely be of great help to him.
If you read his posts long enough you will discover that the speaking in circles that you mention is typical of ‘mad’ people. They have no info of substance but they like to tell you they do and speak in mysteries. Their brains are malfunctioning and convince them that they have seemingly important and great info and others they speak to do not know it…
They speak in mysteries often spouting nonsense but internally they believe they are uttering pearls of wisdom … all the while you are trying to hold back from giggling uncontrollably because you know this is a ‘madman’.
Whenever info is posted, like my previous post, that hits close to home… it sets him off in a flurry of posts… speaking in circles as you discovered.
He really should seek medical help and I am not been flip… his remaining money, if any, would be better spent on medical advice rather than on legal advice.
And you are the number one reader Nonco. Careful if you can’t ween yourself off reading you might have to assess yourself.
Subie
“I can understand that, but why the different languages…”
Why German Subie? Go figure… you want bottle feeding?
Quick to shout what “you understand” quicker to bawl “what you don’t”
Subie@, “Floridian, why do you love to talk in so much circles?”
Well I’ll be darned! You are getting warm! Far away but warm. Yet you want me to spell out what beats you? Hey sure I will….cause your Subie right? Put on a cup of coffee and get snug…clean your computer screen ……I’ll start in a minute.
Hey why don’t I just write the lead Sunday column to bring the ‘greats’ up to speed?
hahahahahahahahaa
I will give the two of you credit though. You are honest about your ignorance. Others here feign it (for obvious reasons). But you two are honest about it.
World Cup is here so you have plenty of time to impress. Start small at first. The use of German is SIGNIFICANT tell me why…impress…for once….
Never played MASTERMIND tm as a youngster? One person has a hidden code (usually five slots of which any of 5 or six colors can be inserted)
The opponent has a limited number of chances to ‘guess’ the hidden code. He starts blind. Each attempt is graded by the one who set the puzzle/code.
If the right color is ‘guessed’ then a white pin is given. If the right colour in the right place is ‘guessed’ then a black pin is given to represent that. The goal is five black pins = all five colors of the puzzle in the right places.
Take Olint for example:
If you guessed a ‘members’ name correctly then a white pin you would receive. If you guessed the correct name AND the correct balance you would get a black one. Simple enough?
Never did Rubix Cube? Come on you must know the story of Rumpelstiltskin…
Mastermind teaches children how to deduce things through a process of elimination. Trial and error where more is gleaned from the ‘errors’.
All in an environment where the leisure of operating in simple black and white terms is not possible.
I would tell you to go right away and pick up the game at Sangster’s or Times Store…but alas…
Of course with World cup you could stay with football. Very Simple and straightforward. Favorite of the masses. Two teams of eleven players each face each other for ninety minutes (sometimes more depending on the rules of the round)
Object: Put the ball in the opponents net (goal) more times than he puts it in yours. Depending on round and other circumstances a draw may be played for but Noncs….you know we leave it there nice and simple for u…
We could go into Mexico’s sociopolitical disdain for Honduras that enabled a draw for Jamaica at ‘The Office” that subsequently caused us all a holiday the next day that subsequently cost the economy of Jamaica a lot of money….but
For some we just keep it simple.
One who spells floridian with a capital F is indicative of one who pays little attention to detail….agree Nonco?
Stick to the frying pan
8 Some party insiders say it was not because they did not want him to go why he still stays on but it was the fear of his possible successor.
Get The Manatt Monkey Off Our Backs
Bruce Golding needs to do three things to show that it was not the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) that contracted Manatt. He needs to show the letters from the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) that engaged Manatt for US$400,000 and Manatt agreeing to those terms. He needs to name the persons who made Manatt to believe that they were being employed by the GOJ. He needs to show the invoice from Manatt for the approximately US$50,000, verifying that it was addressed to the JLP.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100610/cleisure/cleisure2.html
“This is unusual that a client tries to deceive his lawyer. It is unheard of, not to talk straight to one’s lobbyist.”
Phensic Nonco…2 Phensic
“This is an important issue because the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica, and trade unions have said they will not resume talks with the Government until the prime minister tells the truth. The Jamaica Chamber of Commerce has called for an independent inquiry to determine the truth and Manatt has retained a lawyer for this case. This matter will not just go away. And we will pay dearly if this Manatt monkey continues to be on our backs for another nine months.”
No fancy diagnosis required Nonco….just 2 Phensic…
Sodium thiopental??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_thiopental
Letter – Please Save The TCI From Anthony Kikivarakis
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=2822&id=8
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Caricom states, meeting here with the United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today, are looking to the Barack Obama administration to step up its support of initiatives aimed at combating the region’s growing security challenge.
“It calls for a number of approaches including major social reengineering,” he added.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Caricom-wants-US-help-to-fight-crime
http://wiv4.wordpress.com/2010/06/08/0607-beaches-protest-follow-up/
Him kinda favor McKenzie on steroids.
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http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=466
One idea that comes to mind is oil. Try this one on for size – although Jamaica has never produced a single drop of oil, has no wells, no rigs, no infrastructure, the Minister of Mining and Energy, James Robertson, spent March, 2010 in England, and April, 2010 in the United States, presenting ‘Jamaica’s Second Formal Licensing Round 2010’, billed as ‘New Prospects, New Opportunities’, to the Geological Society of England and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. The agendas for these meetings are on the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica’s website.
Jay put up these in full text nuh? hehe…Conspiracy theory. Author:Nyahbinghi Guard Dog
After the Cup I show you some document all Guard Dog and two foot teefin Puss better have your ‘depends’ on that day.
Deacon? Soon I relieve you of the lingering remnants of your stupid guards…All Brady a talk to police like you now Deacon….hahahahaa
Bad man!
A pure space available at Hillel.
Ein Wink mit dem Zaunpfahl
Er hat wirklich das große Los gezogen
One of those oil conspiracy theory said M Redwood. Remember him Smithy?
I wonder if ‘the best PR man in the World’ has a hand in that? Ehh Deacon
hhaahahahahahahaahaha
JLP’s Don Foote seeks meeting with PM
THE JAMAICA Labour Party (JLP) caretaker for Eastern Westmoreland, Don Foote, has written to Prime Minister PJ Patterson requesting a meeting to discuss the recent search by police of two lawyers offices.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20030212/news/news4.html
Open Letter to Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke: June 2,2010
Dudus do, a beg yuh, give yourself up. Here is what I’d suggest. Under the cover of darkness ask one of your associates to drive you to Liguanea. Go to the back gate and have that associate advise the security that Dudus is here and that you are asking to be let on to the compound.
Frankly speaking, I really don’t care which embassy you go to. Just go to one, anyone: Canadian, Belgian, South African. What I care about is this: that you are not shot dead. Yuh see Dudus, from what I hear, some people want you dead but most Jamaicans want you alive. We want to hear what you have to say.
Because we believe that you hold the key. I know that you know that they know what you know; and that they know that you know what they know. Most Jamaicans know that those who want you dead, although they may be daft or they might need to have their heads examined, one thing we know for sure is they want you…DEAD.
http://www.sunheraldja.com/2010/06/‘dear-dudus’tunnelvision/
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=485
He also urged the passing of legislation to force political parties to disclose the source of their campaign funds, as is done in most democratic countries globally.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Suspend-Kern–Hibbert–says-Munroe_7693734
Stressing the need for disclosure of the source of party campaign funding, Munroe said that the Caribbean was “the only zone in the democratic world where there is absolutely no disclosure of contributions to parties.”
“We need to know who is giving how much to whom, because he who pays the piper calls the tune”, he said.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=466
If you were a developer with some money to spend you could become a Belonger in a heartbeat because you could. You could get (and still keep) a license to rip off the people of your new country because you knew Tin Mickey and you have a deal cut to buy property with him and split the largesse that will be created with him. You could even buy an island and control it if you played your casino cards, so to speak, correctly.
http://tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=2825&id=8
FORMER Premier Galmo Williams was charged with assault following a violent altercation with Sun editor Hayden Boyce in Providenciales last Thursday.
Shocked observers saw the two well known figures scuffle inside Smokey’s Restaurant and Bar in Turtle Cove shortly after 6pm.
http://tcweeklynews.com/clients/tcweeklynews/pnp-leader-charged-with-assault-p2064.htm?twindow=Default&smenu=1&mad=No
Governor signs anti-secrecy agreement with Germany
GOVERNOR Wetherell signed another tax information exchange agreement (TIEA) this week bringing the country’s total to 14
http://tcweeklynews.com/clients/tcweeklynews/governor-signs-antisecrecy-agreement-with-germany-p2060.htm?twindow=Default&smenu=1&mad=No
During the course of the lunch, they were joined by various persons including Carlos Simons, QC, (who left before the attack), Collector of Customs, Terry Selver, former Deputy Premier Floyd Hall, and former Cabinet Minister Samuel Been, among others. A few minutes after Boyce paid for his lunch and was about to leave, professional gambler Rhynie Campbell barged into the restaurant in a rage and asked Williams what he was doing sitting with Boyce who writes all of those negative things about him in The SUN.
Williams, in his trademark stammer, kept repeating “I’m going to f – – k you up”, and without any provocation whatsoever, he stormed over to Boyce’s seat, attacked him from behind, and placed him in what is known as a neck-lock.
Before, and while, physically attacking Boyce, who did not retaliate, Williams stated loudly and repeatedly, that he was going to “f- – k up Boyce” because of the “bull s- – -t” which the editor allowed to be carried about him (Gilley) in The SUN. Both Campbell and Williams kept repeating, “Let’s f- -k him up now! Let’s f- -k him up now!”
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=952
Turks and Caicos Islands on the brink of economic stagnation
THE Turks and Caicos Islands, once the envy of the Caribbean because of their thriving offshore banking, real estate and tourism sectors, are now teetering dangerously on the brink of economic stagnation…
Meanwhile, John Wildish, a Jamaican real estate developer living in Turks and Caicos, said with many persons having left due to the stagnant economy, his business is seriously affected. Rental properties which usually rake in US$2,800 monthly are now available for US$1,400.
“We need to become business-friendly and send out the message that Turks and Caicos is open for business,” he said. A lot of skilled professionals are also leaving the islands for North America in search of a better life. “There are people who, having set up roots here for the last 10 years, have simply packed up and moved on,” he said. According to Wildish, the governor’s primary focus is on righting a series of wrongs while the economy remains secondary. “If the governor was an elected man, in order to make sure he is doing a good job with the economy he would be actively seeking investors… but I don’t see an active drive to attract investments,” he insisted.
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=945
Move On Man! Not to or through the United States though….I advise against it.
Deacon, you ever hear this one, “thou shall not steal” ….if you not prepared to feel…
Mr. Coffey added that public figures open themselves up to tremendous scrutiny when they sue for defamation, and many end up settling out of court to avoid further probe.
http://news.radiojamaica.com/us-attorney-pours-cold-water-pm’s-effort-legal-redress
Frustration is high as hopes wane that the new administration will make things better. “No one was looking for charity or handout but what we are saying is that there has been no promotion of the island,” she insisted.
Meanwhile Carlos Simons, Queen’s Counsel and candidate for leadership of the Progressive National Party (PNP), said while the worldwide recession, specifically the crash of Lehman Brothers, also affected the economy, the current political situation played a major role.
hahahahahaahahaa…Where have we heard that before?
…..the fallout of the unregulated schemes including Olint as investments were secured via loans.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/business/Bad-debt-now-higher-than-Olint-loss
Two an a half years after being mentioned on the blogs an article pops up….hahahahahahahahaaa… must have been a ‘Worldclass Phd Clairvoyant”
TCI Islanders, belongers, ex pats, PRC’s, ill gotten Belongers!
Stop the bickering…for life is worth much more than Gold.
Don’t give in to the green herrings
Saturday, June 12, 2010
For make no mistake about it, the horrors — shallow graves and all — that have been unearthed in Tivoli Gardens did not begin and may not necessarily end with Mr Coke. Whatever Mr Coke is guilty, or not guilty of, is the product of a complex network that goes way beyond Tivoli Gardens.
Whatever the outcome of the drug- and gun-running charges against him, we suspect that he holds the key to information that could eventually bring healing to our crime-scarred society. And he must be allowed to live to give it.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/Dont-give-in-to-the-red-herrings_7698606
Olinters have dominated the news…unending. Saw a piece on the ambassador recently….even the UK one too.
A lot of olinters bankrupt…especially in the states, FL NY etc. endless list. Deacon they need a helicopter with some money…trust mi…them look shabby.
Many are labourites too Smithy…
Already we have seen the number of non-performing loans held by the major banks increasing over the last year.
After years of financial obesity a little slimming down will help.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Encouraging-growth-in-the-Jamaican-economy_7692392
“If you believe Jim Brown just burnt to death by accident … you’ll believe in the tooth fairy,” Tavares-Finson said at the time.
Jamaica’s Robin Hood has become the man who knows too much about the relationship between gangsters and government.
The sense that the government is not too concerned about taking Dudus alive was reinforced last week by increasing evidence that security forces were shooting on sight.
On Thursday the violence spread from the slums to the city’s wealthiest suburbs, where police stormed a hilltop mansion, apparently in search of Dudus, and killed Keith Clarke, the brother of Claude Clarke, a former government minister who a few days earlier had called on Golding to resign.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7140149.ece
They all look so young at the funeral….even Bruce…look how young bruce looks leading the procession.
Light bills going up
http://news.radiojamaica.com/light-bills-going
JPS, YOU CAN’T HELP A SITUATION??!
Many believe that the recent period of political abuses in the TCI, resulting eventually in the suspension of the constitution and direct rule from London, accelerated when a physical assault by then Premier Michael Misick on two opposition members a couple of years ago went unpunished due to the faulty reasoning and unprincipled behavior of Attorney General Kurt daFreitas. That decision by daFreitas appeared to give the impression that certain political personalities were above the law and created a chilling effect on any and all dissent within the Country.
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=2828&id=8
Shareholders of TCI Bank are best advised to take their losses and move on, as they will probably not get back a dime from the money that they pumped into the entity.
According to Kikivarakis, since shareholders would be the ones to be at the bottom of the food chain in terms of getting back their money, based on the consideration that depositors would not get back all their monies, it was a foregone conclusion that they would be left holding an empty bag.
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=947
Nocotec’s involvement in the Olint scheme is evident. A careful study of his posts reveal that. Do not dismay Floridian…this guy is showing his as$
No budget to promote Turks and Caicos Islands
TOMORROW: Interim Government clamps down on work permits
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/No-budget-to-promote-Turks-and-Caicos-Islands
Gloom hangs over TCI
Jobs scarce, economy sinking, say residents
For a self-styled independent contractor who declined the use of his name, direct British rule is the fulfilment of prophecy. He called the British a “strange people” who were in the TCI for “their own benefit”.
“I think it is prophecy being fulfilled. If you read Jeremiah and Daniel you will see that the Babylonians are going to come and conquer any nation that does not unify and that is divided,” he said.
The TCI’s divisions, he said, were manifest in its culture and religious practices.
“This exodus (of expatriates), coupled with the limitation to access of work permits and Belongership should have happened along time ago,” said one writer whose name the paper withheld.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Gloom-hangs-over-TCI_7678411
TCI Gov’t slashes work permits
But jobs are few, cost of living is increasing and foreigners leaving in droves
But foreign workers — disillusioned with the inability to get jobs, steep cost of living, political instability and crime — are said to be leaving in droves.
“We have seen an increase in crime since the economy has fallen off,” Swann told the Observer, adding that surprisingly among the offenders being apprehended are a large number of belongers.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/TCI-Gov-t-slashes-work-permits_7677877
More Than 6,000 Jamaicans In Danger Of Being Booted From US
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100614/lead/lead2.html
Gov’t’s Take On Manatt Not Credible
PUBLIC OPINION, reinforced by scientific polls, has indicated that the credibility of the Golding administration has been severely dented in the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips controversy. Sixty-seven per cent of respondents in a recent poll said they did not believe the Government’s version of the story.
“I think the stridency for accountability and transparency has never been as high in Jamaica as it is now and is not likely to fade away in another nine-day wonder,” Henry told The Gleaner.
Feelings of betrayal
Henry said he shared the majority sentiment that the full facts of the Manatt affair have not been revealed. According to him, the country still felt: “We are being sidelined in the information by the way the JLP (Jamaica Labour Party) and the Government are handling the matter and I personally await a fuller revelation of what transpired, the reasons behind the decision taken…
Mounting public pressure and increased calls from the Opposition and civil groups for the prime minister’s resignation forced Golding into survival mode.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100614/lead/lead3.html
A full and complete account of the truth is expected in a few days.
And, amid all the recent finds and disclosures, we are still getting defensive answers, muteness and persistent declarations of ignorance from (supposed) public servants.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100614/cleisure/cleisure2.html
Should the prime minister resign? Absolutely not. Keep up the good work, Sir!
Enjoy the World Cup people!
I am, etc;
Carlin Cook
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100614/cleisure/cleisure3.html
Want to move on with untruthful leaders? See no problem with that ehh? Why? Love lying too much. How does Jamaica improve with lies?
Is it that YOU improve with lies? Gain something?
Dem want teach the picney that lying is someting good. Nasty dem Nasty. All the way to Washington to defend murder and want to spin themself as some righteous crime fighter….Nasty dem Nasty.
Hear dem, “What the hell is going on in Jamaica ? Have these people gone mad? The country we used to love is gone.”
“WE” still love Jamaica..there is no ‘used to for we” You want to say “WE” gone mad…and teach our children to lie and sen batty man to Washington to defend murder?
Nasty you nasty…galong
How can you call from the offices of Manatt Phelps Phillips in Washingston….telling me that you care?
Nasty dem Nasty! Are you referring to just the JLP? If you are, does that mean that murder and corruption has raised its ugly head in just the last 30 months?
Or when you say “dem” you’re referring to ALL the politicians?!
“Dons” facilitating human trafficking – US State Dept report
A United States (US) State Department Human Trafficking Report has implicated so called “Dons” as being part of the human trafficking problem within Jamaica.
Under Jamaican law, human trafficking carries a penalty of up to 10 years imprisonment, but according to the report, “no discernible progress” had been made in prosecuting trafficking offenders.
http://news.radiojamaica.com/dons-facilitating-human-trafficking-–-us-state-dept-report
Am I to be led to believe that based on the premise that corruption has existed in the past the current corruption is justified?
A Motty logic dat!
Vaz Vows Government Committed To Vanquishing Criminals
The illicit practices of extortion and scams will be stamped out.”
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=487
Shaw says Govt resolute in combating crime
Finance Minister Audley Shaw says the Jamaica Labour Party government remains unfazed by the political consequences that it may face due to its RECENT stance on crime.
“We’re making big changes in the way we run the economy, changes as it relates to the (national) debt, changes in terms of lowering interest rates to competitive levels and we have to make a change in how we manage crime. W’re going after the criminals and we’re serious about it,” Mr. Shaw said.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=853
The truth is that the Bruce Golding-led government has lost significant political capital with the dismal economic reality, uncaring handling of negotiations with the teachers, nurses and the police, escalation of crime and violence, filibuster of the Dudus extradition request and the revelation of lies to the nation regarding the Manatt, Phelps and Phillips issue.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Listen-to-Eddie-Seaga_7688921
A Bill of costs for $49 million was submitted last year by Dabdoub’s lawyers Gayle Nelson and Company but Vaz subsequently agreed to pay $25 million.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=487
Vaz’s Pocket Feels It
Published: Friday | June 18, 20100 Comments and 0 Reactions
Barbara Gayle, Staff Reporter
Minister of Information Daryl Vaz, who is the member of parliament for the West Portland constituency, is to pay $25 million in legal costs to the law firm which represented former People’s National Party (PNP) candidate Abe Dabdoub in the dual-citizenship case against him.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=489
While we come here to pretend under the pretext that we are all born again…
http://news.radiojamaica.com/senator-knight-accuses-government-cowardice
hahahahahaahahaaahaa…and the indictments don’t even start yet…hahahahaa
Senator Lightborne insisted that previous consultations were more than enough and the administration intends to press ahead with the bill in the face of public impatience with corruption.
http://news.radiojamaica.com/whistle-blower-laws-run-wall
hahhahahaahahahahaaaa……June to soon?…July stand by? hahhaahaa
Six members of the Upper house including Senators Lightbourne, Dwight Nelson, Kamina Johnson-Smith, Arthur Williams, AJ Nicholson, KD Knight and Navel Clarke have been drafted into the committee.
Olinters in the news…as usual.
Deposit 03/27/2007 Olint TCI Corp Ltd.:Source of Client Funds Required Graeme J. Hill CLIENT FUNDS 1 – US$ FCIB US$ Client 1291316 99,995.00 1,862,369.87
1,862,369.87 1,862,369.87
http://www.olintja.com/blog/defaultacrchive.aspx
To: David Smith
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9/20/2006
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Senator Lightborne insisted that previous consultations were more than enough and the administration intends to press ahead with the bill in the face of public impatience with corruption.
In agreeing with the suggestion for it to go to committee, she warned against any foot-dragging during the deliberations by the Parliamentary Joint Select Committee.
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Sugar Cane Ball, and the polo competition.
…especially when the word recession looms everywhere
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100619/lead/lead5.html
… are accused of painting a rosy picture of their portfolios, even though “the defendants believed that the funds were in grave condition and at risk of collapse,” according to the prosecution.
http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/08/news/economy/bear_stearns_cioffi/index.htm?postversion=2009100805
The new indictment alleges that in order to conceal the payments, some of the payments were made through intermediary law firms…
http://dandodiary.blogspot.com/2007/09/weiss-indictment-and-schulmans-plea.html
Ja like a battered wife who forgives abuser, says Diaspora head.
Chairman of the Jamaica Diaspora US North East Region, Patrick Beckford, also said that Prime Minister Bruce Golding’s eventual confession about his role in the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips affair suggested that the country lacked effective leadership.
“The only thing I can equate it to is that Jamaica is like a battered wife; the man a beat you but every week him come and him carry $5 and we eat and we settle and we smile,”
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Ja-like-a-battered-wife-who-forgives-abuser–says-Diaspora-head_7726319
Beckford, what are you saying? Are you saying Kevin o’Brien Chang is some kind of lackey or “battered wife”
And of Boyne..?
Diaspora Jamaicans rebuff ‘business as usual’ PR approach
Not all the guests who attended the recent media blitz in New York to repair Jamaica’s image in the US tourist market were impressed with the Jamaican tourism officials led by Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett.
At least one radio representative seemed genuinely concerned about the state of affairs on the island and insisted on a tangible plan of action to ensure credibility with his audience.
While some whispered damning comments among themselves: “They take us for granted…they only invite us when hurricane, bad press or national disasters… dem nah go do nutten fi wi…” few registered dissent with the traveling ambassadors.
Lynch said his reason for visiting New York was because “Americans don’t know geography.”
http://www.sunheraldja.com/2010/06/diaspora-jamaicans-rebuff-‘business-as-usual’-pr-approach/
Up to the May 11, 2010, when Prime Minister Bruce Golding revealed in Parliament that Manatt Phelps & Phillips had been engaged by the JLP to lobby the US Government, Jamaicans were in no doubt that he was determined to block the extradition request for Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke. The Prime Minister not only sanctioned the plan to use Manatt , to thwart the request, and involved the Attorney General office,but also deceived the Parliament about the whole scheme. Mr. Golding made it palpably clear and said in as many words that he was ready to pay the political price to achieve this objective.
The claim now being made that Mr. Golding is a transformational leader bent on breaking the links between organized criminal gangs and politics is therefore without foundation.
http://www.sunheraldja.com/2010/06/is-this-transformational-leadership/
Another rich J’can under US probe
A Jamaican businessman who authorities said stashed US$83 million in several financial institutions in the United States is now the subject of intense scrutiny by investigators from at least three investigative arms of US law enforcement.
The investigators have tied the businessman to every known Jamaican ‘don’ — some deceased — going back more than 15 years.
The man appears to have great affection for Florida, as a substantial portion of his money is said to be stashed in that state.
They have honed in on the business operations of some Manchester businessmen, some well-known and some of lesser profile, whose wealth they have described as “unbelievable”.
“Jamaica’s debt of US$1.3 trillion could be reduced substantially by the wealth of your people, believe me,” the investigator said.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Another-rich-J-can-under-US-probe_7726628
Deacon you read this one? hahahahaa…Casino can help ‘hide’ the money….hurry hurry…hahahaaha
For unlike Prime Minister Bruce Golding, who has at least acknowledged that something was horribly wrong about his unwarranted intervention in the matter of the us extradition request for Mr Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, who is accused of drug- and gun-running, Mrs Lightbourne and her colleague senators have shown no signs, fake or real, of remorse.
Indeed, to their ongoing discredit, the slavish endorsement that all 13 of them gave Mr Golding less than 24 hours before he recanted from his folly, has not officially been repudiated.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/Great-expectations–indeed_7726445
Robert Montague — sought to
wriggle out of his oft-repeated
assurance not to postpone Local
Government elections…
James Robertson — refused to
name the Jamaican company
and its principals who are part
of the consortium.
Lisa Hanna enquired what would happen to the vacant seats in Trelawny and St. Andrew. Hear Ernie Smith, “It is common sense that when there is a vacancy, the mayor is in charge.” No Ernie, as Bobby tried to tell you and you know already, when there is a vacancy, there must be a by-election.
http://www.sunheraldja.com/2010/06/joking-out-everything/
“I had about US $3,000 taken out of my account — someone used my Bank of Butterfield account to buy power tools in Oregon,” he said.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/Police-rugby-team-hit-by-bank-card-scam
Alric Sproul
6/20/2010
Part of our problem is that we sometimes judge just the bad and not look at the whole picture. If that was the case pretty much no politician whould have reached to the highest office. Bruce messed up big time however he has since done the unthinkable.
1. He has accepted responsibility
2. He has apologised
3. He has made a serious attempt at righting the wrong that he was being accused of.
On three counts he has moved leaps and bounds ahead of any of our past leaders.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Ja-like-a-battered-wife-who-forgives-abuser–says-Diaspora-head_7726319
4. Truth Alrick? What about truth?
Sometimes the wise understand rhetoric. The truth from ones own lips is the lesser of two evils. From someone else? tick tock
Jay Brown
6/20/2010
Once again another article based on information that we suspect is not credible.
If the info is credible then why not call the names of those involved.
Earlier this year a similar story was published by the observer, but since then nothing has changed.
mango brains
6/20/2010
Am i the only one who read this article with frustration? Why not name the person… they are only being investigated… they’re not guilty. But it is a matter of grave public interest that this is happening, particularly under the current circumstances. I don’t imagine there is a threat of libel, and if so… the law needs to be amended.
David Biles
6/20/2010
@mango brains, maybe the information was given to the Journalist with the express agreement that the name of the individual be kept secret. Also, the people doing the investigation might not want to tip their hands too early to prevent the target of the investigation from changing his mode of operation or start hiding assets.
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But I agree with you, not providing the names can be bit disheartening! Then again, providing the names in reality doesn’t have an impact on the message.
Global Gains (OLINT)
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Paul
Among the topics that were brought to her attention were the role of the Governor, the structure of the House of Assembly, accountability, and the granting of Belongerships and Crown land.
http://tcweeklynews.com/clients/tcweeklynews/sullivan-to-begin-constitution-revision-p2067.htm?twindow=Default&smenu=1&mad=No
There are many examples of the ways in which religion and politics have mixed (for example the increasing number of “palace prophets” around these parts these days) or politics and media have developed a common design to fool the people. However, those who have been careful students of human history and have paid attention to theories of development have formed the view that to be really sustainable and to really serve the long term interest both of business and of the people, the best practice is openness and transparency. In other words we should operate our democracy in a way that telling the people the truth and therefore treating the people with respect is not a luxury, which may be indulged from time to time; it is profoundly the democratic ideal and therefore the duty of political authority. The distortions and manipulation may last for a while but the failure to come clean with the people will lead to missteps in development, and will cost the country dearly.
http://www.sunheraldja.com/2010/06/fast-and-loose-with-the-truth/
All of it was because we fail to insist on the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, as the foundation and fruit of our public discourse.
——-
On another note the following has got to be the most stupid article ever written on Jamaica. “The end justifies the means” argument. That’s what they send their offspring upon us into society…anyway take a read
BTW Olint and Olint family connected…CONFIRMED
BRUCE GOLDING, right now, must feel like a man who fell off a high building, and after plummeting downwards to seemingly certain doom, somehow finds he has landed on his feet unhurt.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100620/focus/focus1.html
Canada’s …Loss?
Pity the writer did not mention where the COUNTRY has landed and is stuck.
Different standards for different folks.
Won’t be stuck for long…sadly it’s farther down…..ask Manatt…
“I suggest to you that the system of political party funding and campaign financing in Jamaica is at the heart of endemic and institutionalised corruption in our system of governance,” Munroe charged at a Gleaner Editors’ Forum last Friday.
However, the governing Jamaica Labour Party, through its treasurer, Christopher Bovell, strongly disagreed, pointing out that there was no evidence of this.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=466
A skilful cast of hypocrites they are indeed
Hence, they deviate from sound principles on a whim; they support slackness and ineptitude when it suits them; they excuse corruption when it’s done by certain elements in society, only to re-emerge with asinine and manipulative explanations for their sour and insensate actions.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/A-skilful-cast-of-hypocrites-they-are-indeed_7723747
A skilful cast of hypocrites they are indeed
While we are imperfect and are not blameless for society’s ills, we are not all hypocrites who sacrifice nobility and trade honesty on the altar of expediency for the sake of maintaining professional, political or financial prominence. For, as is already known, “all it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to remain silent”. Well, in Jamaica’s case, all it takes is for them to practise hypocrisy while evil is perpetrated.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/A-skilful-cast-of-hypocrites-they-are-indeed_7723747
Mr Golding and his handlers have attempted to spin his forced conversion in the Coke-Tivoli affair into a planned and calculated assault by the administration on crime, which it was not.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100621/cleisure/cleisure1.html
Although we are all aware of this administration’s (as yet unexplained) about-turn, the serious political implications and legal acrobatics of this vexing case, the editorial challenged the chief justice’s decision to entertain the application (of Coke’s lawyers for a stay of the execution of the warrant of his arrest) and to reserve judgment on the matter.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100621/cleisure/cleisure2.html
Like it or not elections beckon
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/Like-it-or-not-elections-beckon_7729388
In spite of all that is being said I just wants to know when WE will get our money from whomever is responsible for all this mess. GOD is watching and HE knows that every penny I put in was honestly and legally earned. Now I am in trouble and my life threatened by those whom I referred.
24 Deacon? Make sure you carry all ‘fool’ to where fools hang out.
Enjoying the Cup? Any bets?
Leave no ‘fool’ unturned Deacon..LOL
Remember….each and every ‘fool’ is known….good luck hope you get full marks…
JLP Is More Corrupt – Poll
With the Manatt monkey still fastened to its back, more Jamaicans think the less than three-year-old Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Government is more corrupt than its People’s National Party (PNP) predecessor.
But it seems the JLP, led by Prime Minister Bruce Golding, the self-proclaimed ‘Driver’, is not changing course.
Fifty per cent of those polled believe that the local newspapers and radio and television stations are not doing enough to expose corruption in Jamaica.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner//20100622/lead/lead7.html
The proposed regulations will not force political parties to make public disclosure of their donors – one of the key demands from critics who have argued for years that secret contributions to political parties fuel wide-scale corruption.
Analysts say drug lords and other criminals donate money to political parties in return for protection and other favours while some businesses receive kickbacks for their political contributions.
“We have the advantage in Jamaica of the realities of what the present system of secret donations involves,”
The attorney-at-law said persons sometimes made donations to political parties with amounts that were disproportionate to their income.
“Because they are a medium for other people who cannot come forward to make the donations, by requiring disclosure and full transparency, we would put a brake on that,”
“If any individual or corporate entity makes a donation that they are embarrassed about or they want to hide, there must be something improper,”
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner//20100622/lead/lead4.html
(6) A prominent individual (Tracy and Dave will consider who to ask, but TRACYDID INDICATE THAT SHE PREFERED TO MAKE A REQUEST AFTER ELECTIONS
Post-election, when we have finalized the members of the Board, we can process the paperwork via Lisa Mae Gordon.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=527
By and large, we’ve a set of intellectual weaklings, wimps, lackeys and yes-men masque-rading as ‘journalists’ and harbouring neither investigative capability nor inclination.
But, worse than this entrenched cowardice, there’s a deep-rooted payola problem. ‘Payola’ isn’t only cash for favours; it has other, more strategic, covert tactics.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100622/cleisure/cleisure2.html
We pray that all the UWI “entrenched” get their Olint money back.
Jay, perhaps a new thread dedicated to the UWI ‘victims’ could be put up in their honor?….balances and all…
The Labour leadership contender defended sending her son James to a £10,000-a-year school claiming: ‘West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.’
Miss Abbott also risked fury among her white colleagues in the Labour Party by saying they would ‘never understand’ the Afro-Caribbean culture of parents wanting to do the best for their children.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1288358/Diane-Abbott-plays-race-card-excuse-decision-send-son-private-school.html?ito=feeds-newsxml#ixzz0rZrEo28p
http://www.lbc.co.uk/listen-live-3578
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/features/2010/06/21/diane-abbott-i-sent-my-son-to-private-school-so-he-wouldn-t-end-up-in-a-gang-115875-22347604/
In the end you’re coming from a culture where whatever you can do for your children you do.
Mom says ‘Dudus’ a hero
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Mom-says–Dudus–a-hero
Almost 8 days straight of ramblings from Floridian!
With the exception of a few bloggers that find you humorous, don’t you realize that your constant posting has scared away everyone!
The purpose of a forum of this nature, is to express different views and opinions. Your constant battering of the JLP Party is growing tiresome. I come on to see how you’re gonna spin the daily news from Jamaica. You’re like watching Fox News….
Rebranding PM won’t help
My concern with the media is that of late it seems to be assisting in the JLP campaign to rebrand Golding. Unfortunately, no amount of PR and rebranding can fix a flawed and substandard product.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Rebranding-PM-won-t-help_7723916
Fox news? Pithy Subie..Pithy
I come on to see how you’re gonna spin the daily news from Jamaica.
You’re like watching Fox News…
I have much wider readership than Fox…but thanks for the compliment… Don’t touch that dial Subie 🙂
Subie …crime is down?
Robberies mount in the Corporate Area
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Robberies-mount-in-the-Corporate-Area
Police officials have, however cautioned that it’s too early to make a link between the operations and the drop in murders.
The statistics also show that up to Sunday, 793 murders have been reported since the start of the year, 64 more than for the corresponding period last year.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=20425
THIS ONE DID NOT GET THE MEMO
“For the first time in living memory, ordinary Jamaicans feel the fear factor has been lifted off their backs and thrown on to the criminals. It is no longer the common citizens who are cowering in fear. Rather, it is ‘shottas’ and ‘dons’ who are meekly turning themselves in to the police when ordered to do so.”
“But common sense says that if something seems to be working, keep doing it.”
Kevin O’Brien Chang
A recent poll of MY STAFF and customers showed that only 33 per cent had a positive view of the JFJ, with 67 per cent having a negative one.
hehehee… A budding Stone…the sampling skews ehh?
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100620/focus/focus1.html
A recent poll in the Manatt, Phelps Phillips office had 100% “zipping it tight”
hheheehe
Seasonally adjusted data..hahahahahaahahahahaa
MONTEGO BAY, St James — The Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) today reiterated its resolve not to resume critical social transformation talks with the government until it comes clean on the scandal concerning its efforts to railroad the US extradition request for Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke.
“The position has not changed… as a precursor to resuming talks there will have to be full disclosure.
The PSOJ put the talks on hold in May following the stunning revelation by Prime Minister Bruce Golding that he sanctioned the hiring of US law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips…
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/PSOJ-gives–Dudus–ultimatum
‘Dudus’ in custody ‘Dudus’ in custody ‘Dudus’ in custody
FORMER Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke is now in police custody.
Early reports suggest that he is being held at a police station in St Catherine.
More details to follow.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/Dudus-in-custody
Al Miller gets the 5 million??
“A likkle more oil in my lamp…keep it burning…a likkle more oil in my lamp I pray…”
hehe 5 Mil chi ching
‘Dudus’ in custody
*******Willing to be extradited******
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/Dudus-in-custody
Prefers Liguanea to Gordon House
Olint member in custody
Breaking News
Something tells me all the Manatt details will be forthcoming shortly.
http://www.imodium.com/
Police expecting imminent criminal attack
Police High Command warns personnel
JamaicaObserver.com
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
WITH wanted fugitive Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke now in custody the Police High Command has again raised the threat level from criminal violence against the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) to extremely high, meaning that attacks are expected imminently
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Police-expecting-imminent-criminal-attack
KEIFA O’Gilvie, son of Justin O’Gilvie, the reputed right hand man and business associate of Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, is to be served with a detention order today, which will prolong his detention in police custody.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/More-time-for-detainees
Pepto Bismol
Reverend Al Miller asked to surrender
The Police are asking the Reverend Al Miller to immediately turn himself in at any police station along with his lawyer for questioning.
The police say he is a major person of interest in a matter currently being investigated by the police.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/reverend-al-miller-asked-surrender
The Reverend Al Miller, who is wanted by the police for questioning, has told The Gleaner that,he would not be turning in himself until tomorrow.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=20455
Tapanaris nuh teck nuh instruction fram palice… hhehe
A cop, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the Observer that the vehicle in which Coke was travelling was being escorted by two cars carrying gunmen and that police officers were following the convoy for several hours. The cop said the car in front of that in which Coke was travelling was allowed to get away as Coke’s capture was their main focus.
“He was the object of our attention and we wanted nothing to interfere with our efforts to nab him,” said the cop. “Sometimes we have to weigh our options ($$$$$$$$$$) in matters of this nature,” he told the Observer.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/-Dudus–captured_7736251
Rev Al Miller in rare moment misses church
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Rev-Al-Miller-in-rare-moment-misses-church_7736519
Who ‘balance off’ offering when Pastor not there?….hmm Elders? Deacon?
A Special Audit Team from the Office of the Contractor General made an unannounced visit to the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ) and the Energy Ministry’s office on Tuesday morning.
The team seized records associated with how a preferred bidder was selected for the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project Jamaica is now pursuing.
And so an inquiry has now been launched into the process, and more specifically to find out if there was bid rigging in selecting the Exmar Consortium.
Exmar involves a local company, Caribbean LNG which names the former PCJ Chairman Ian Moore as one of its Directors.
And that raises eyebrows as to whether or not Mr. Moore may have used “connections” developed while at the PCJ as well as knowledge of the process behind the scenes to give the Exmar Consortium an unfair advantage in getting the deal.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/ocg-probe-selection-preferred-bidder-lng-project
EDITORIAL – Explain O’Gilvie’s’fit-And-Proper’ Report
We do not believe that the action by the constabulary against Mr O’Gilvie would have been wanton or arbitrary, but rather the result of credible intelligence, if not indictable evidence.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100623/cleisure/cleisure1.html
PSOJ still seeking full details on Manatt talks
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
NO disclosure, NO talks
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/No-disclosure–no-talks_7734914
“Electronic copies of the computer e-mail files of several former and present senior PCJ and ministry officials have been requested by the OCG’s five-person audit team, headed by the senior director of contracts monitoring and its chief investigator,” Contractor General Greg Christie said in a release to the media yesterday.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/OCG-starts-probe-of-LNG-tender-process_7735404
Following his arrest yesterday, the police asked Miller to turn himself in for questioning as there was no agreement with the police for Coke to be taken to the US Embassy.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Tivoli-residents-happy-Coke-unharmed_7735818
He was detained at a roadblock on Tuesday accompanied by Rev Al Miller, a preacher who said Mr Coke was going to the US embassy to hand himself in.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/latin_america/10386028.stm
“The government wants to extradite him….” so they hired Manatt, helps Phillips to lobby the White House
hahahahahahahahahahahaaaahahaaa
When Mr Coke was first indicted in the US last August, Mr Golding initially fought the extradition, arguing that it was based on flawed evidence.
Rev Miller, who reportedly facilitated the surrender of Mr Coke’s brother Leighton earlier this month, said Mr Coke had been on his way to the US embassy to hand himself in because he did not trust the police not to harm him.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/latin_america/10386028.stm
Concerned about the possibility of bid-rigging and the use of insider information by the former Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ) chairman, Ian Moore, the Office of the Contractor General (OCG) yesterday launched an investigation into the government’s selection of a consortium, led by Belgium firm Exmar, as preferred bidder for development of a regasifcation terminal at Port Esquivel.
Moore was chairman of the PCJ until early 2008, and Caribbean LNG was registered seven months after he demitted office over differences with former Energy Minister Clive Mullings.
Approximately 80 per cent of the company’s 6,541,307 shares is held by a British Virgin Islands-registered company, Caribbean LNG (BVI) Limited, whose shareholders are unknown.
Can someone refresh my memory as to when DS is once again begining his trial this june?
Thanks,
I see you still love bloggin Florida. Best wishes.
-Ter
Smith’s Trial Date Finally Set for June 28, 2010
http://acomaction.com/index.php/news/the-news/141-smiths-trial-date-finally-set-for-june-28-2010.html
Olinters getting ‘slaughtered’ something up?
Three other listed Jamaican directors of CLNG, Andrew Bogle, Paul East and American Al Kerr, are named in Company House documents as having small stakes in the company.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100623/business/business1.html
Breaking News
Al Miller is now driving towards Liguanea ….with Bruce!
hhehe
Al Miller turns himself in
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Al-Miller-turns-himself-in
“It was certainly done for some..personal political gain…. in due course we shall see”
Tony Gifford.
Newstalk93fm Wed 24 June 2010
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=461
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=590
Many of them must now be cowering in fear that their names might be called.
Our suggestion to Mr Coke is that he must not go down alone. He must take as many guilty people as he can.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/We-know-how–Dudus–can-redeem-himself_7739643
Shortly before Memorial Day, the Jamaican capital of Kingston was
transformed into a war zone. Criminal gangs and state security forces
fought running gun battles that resulted in the deaths of more than 70
civilians. Shallow graves and torture chambers were uncovered in the
aftermath.
Not the sort of scene that one would think would involve an Am Law 200
firm. But, surprisingly, Los Angeles–based Manatt, Phelps & Phillips
is in the middle of the conflict.
The spark for the violence was the attempted extradition of
Christopher “Dudus” Coke. The U.S. Department of Justice alleges that
he is the key conduit for Colombian cocaine reaching the Eastern
seaboard. Coke hails from Tivoli Gardens, the same “garrison,” or
barricaded Kingston neighborhood, that serves as a political power
base for Bruce Golding, Jamaica’s prime minister.
Golding initially refused to extradite Coke, questioning wiretap
evidence cited by U.S. prosecutors, but eventually acquiesced. The
rioting started about a week later, in mid-May.
Manatt’s name first cropped up earlier, in March, when Golding’s
Jamaican opponents–who wanted Coke extradited–publicized documents
filed by Manatt under the U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act. The
documents show that Manatt was retained by Harold Brady, a prominent
Kingston lawyer and Golding supporter, to represent the Jamaican
government on unspecified “treaty issues” starting in August 2009, the
same month that the United States began extradition proceedings
against Coke.
FARA filings show that Manatt lawyers met with high-ranking U.S.
government officials–including a member of the U.S. National
Intelligence Council—in the following months. The engagement was
terminated by the Jamaican government this past February. (Neither
Golding nor Brady, who once worked as a consultant for Hogan &
Hartson, could be reached for comment.)
At first Golding denied knowing anything about Manatt’s role, but he
subsequently backtracked. “I sanctioned the initiative knowing that
such interventions have in the past proven to be of considerable value
in dealing with issues involving the governments of both countries,”
Golding said in a statement before Jamaica’s parliament in May. He
went on to say that it was his political party, not the government,
who had hired Manatt.
Critics seized upon the revelation, noting that extradition disputes
are usually handled through diplomatic channels. “If Chris Coke wants
to hire Manatt, then he can do so, but not by using the Jamaican
government to subsidize his legal costs,” says David Rowe, who teaches
law at the University of Miami, and has closely followed the events in
Jamaica.
Hewing tightly to its FARA filings, which make no mention of Coke,
Manatt says that none of its work was related to the extradition
dispute. “We were engaged to represent the government, through Harold
Brady,” says the firm’s general counsel, Monte Lemann II. “The
government was our client, and we reported it that way. If Coke was
our client, we would have said so.”
FARA filings show that Manatt received roughly $49,000 from its
Jamaican lobbying contract before the relationship ended. The initial
contract called for the firm to be paid $400,000 for the coming year.
Manatt has strong ties to the Caribbean region. Founding partner
Charles Manatt served as ambassador to the Dominican Republic during
the Clinton administration. FARA filings show that Manatt has also
represented Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic in lobbying matters
over the years.
According to documents mailed to The American Lawyer, Manatt
international trade partner Susan Schmidt and Charles Manatt have been
reported to the District of Columbia bar by a person who appears to be
using a false name. The complaint accuses the firm of violating its
obligations under FARA as a result of the firm’s work on behalf of
Jamaica. Those documents also say that Manatt has retained Pamela
Bresnahan, head of the litigation practice for the Washington, D.C.,
office of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease, to represent it in the
matter.
Lemann refused to comment on any matter before the D.C. bar. When
asked if the firm has retained outside counsel, he maintains that
Manatt keeps several outside firms on retainer. Calls to the D.C. bar
were not returned.
Lemann says that he sympathizes with the Jamaicans, but says, “You
can’t let a local political tragedy for a foreign government have an
undue influence on how you conduct your business.”
The rioting is over, but many questions are yet to be answered.
Christopher Coke Captured, Manatt Phelps Speaks Out
http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/amlawdaily/2010/06/jamaica-manatt-coke.html
CHRISTOPHER ‘Dudus’ Coke has waived his right to an extradition trial in Jamaica.He will be taken to the United States today.He was also served with a Restraint Order for the seizing of his assets, which means the State has frozen all his assets.
He will be taken to the United States today.
He was also served with a Restraint Order for the seizing of his assets, which means the State has frozen all his assets.
‘Dudus’ waives his right to extradition trial
CHRISTOPHER ‘Dudus’ Coke has waived his right to an extradition trial in Jamaica.
He will be taken to the United States today.
He was also served with a Restraint Order, which means that the State has frozen all his assets.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/Dudus-waives-his-right-to-extradition
Does that include the OLINT account?
Judge rules Stanford will be tried alone
US District Judge David Hittner ruled that Stanford, whose alleged scheme involved his Antigua-based Stanford International Bank, will be tried separately from his alleged co-conspirators.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Judge-rules-Stanford-will-be-tried-alone
“I swear, I expected the helicopter to crash! I don’t believe they will allow him to live and leave the country to testify against them,” he said.
“This time they might not light the cell with him like they did his father, because they know people will know that he was murdered, but I believe they are trying to find some strategic way to get rid of him,” she said, even as she declined to give her name.
“I think maybe they will put something in his food that may be undetected to poison him and then bring in persons to do autopsy to say he died from some unknown illness or something!” she stated, “Them! You can’t trust them. Their skin on the line right now.”
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Fear-for-Dudus–safety
‘Dudus’ extradited to the US
Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke is now on his way to the US to face charges in Manhattan after leaving the Norman Manley International Airport at 2:05 this afternoon..
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=20517
Manatt, Phelps, Phillips should refund the US$49,000.
Update: Rev. Miller slapped with two charges
The Reverend Al Miller has been arrested and charged with perverting the course of justice and harbouring a fugitive
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=20520
New US travel alert for Jamaica
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=20521
The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) had frozen his assets pending a resolution of the case, which gets under way with an arraignment scheduled for Friday morning
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=20525
With ‘Dudus’ off on his long-awaited trip, some still have an unsettled feeling inside. Could it be that when they look through their windows they realise that they don’t know their neighbours as they previously thought? Then there are those who are making frequent trips to the bathroom.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Secret-s-out_7743520
“neighbours” don’t need to use “Windows”….they could use Linux or some other program.
Let’s pray for the backsliders too
If our records serve us correctly, Mr Tavares-Finson told this newspaper on May 18 that he was “…setting up a team and stepping aside as the matter moves to court in order to avoid conflict of interest”.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/Let-s-pray-for-the-backsliders-too_7742779
On the street, people are talking. They want to know: (1) What prompted the government to refuse to respect the extradition request all this time?
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Last-hurrah-of-the-mighty-Dudus-
Hello there Mr. Belcher?
How are the cases going in Broward circuit? Hope that lawyer didn’t charge you too much….Don’t throw good money after bad…..
An opposition senator is calling for the government to establish a commission of enquiry into the process adopted in the extradition request on its conducted in the Manatt, Phelps and Phillips saga.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=20539
Justice Minister faces no confidence vote in the Senate
Government Senators appeared stunned when Senator Falconer informed the House about a no confidence motion that she was moving against the Leader of Government Business Dorothy Lightbourne.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/justice-minister-faces-no-confidence-vote-senate
Why wern’t the Government Senators STUNNED at the US$49,000.00 payment to Manatt Phelps Phillips and the commitment to pay a full US$400,000.00 over the next year?
New thread Jay!!!
Back to OLINT…Where to start? Alphabetical? Start at A or start from Z?
New thread Jay.
FCO Minister putting TCI at “forefront” of agenda
http://tcweeklynews.com/clients/tcweeklynews/fco-minister-putting-tci-at-forefront-of-agenda-p2074.htm?twindow=Default&smenu=1&mad=No
The development was apparently signed off by the former Progressive National Party (PNP) Administration and former Governor Richard Tauwhare and given clearance by certain other Government Departments, but it has since been snatched back under the Interim Government.
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=957
“The conclusion to this unfortunate circumstance should prove to be an interesting one whereby investors may think twice about purchasing and developing land here in the Turks & Caicos Islands if The Governor is able to rescind a perfectly legal and legitimate land transaction and even more importantly, Belongers will not feel very secure knowing that at any given time the Governor has the authority to take back property that took blood, sweat and tears to obtain and develop for their families.”
Go build a Casino…
Hire Manatt…
Find ‘back’ the OLINT money…quick
Tired of criminal dons and the corrosive effect they have had on our society, members of the public, in their utterances on the airwaves and in cyberworld, are hoping that Coke’s prosecution will result in the unmasking of those corrupt individuals who have sheltered criminals for their own financial or vote-related interests.
Coke’s arrest is but the first step. The process has to continue until political parties have been purged of criminals and thugs and the influential people who give them succour. It’s time for our politicians to demonstrate that they place the public interest above party loyalties, for this is the only way they can regain the trust of the Jamaican people.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100626/cleisure/cleisure1.html
THE ISLANDWIDE festivities to celebrate the nation’s Olympic champions nearly two years ago were not carried out in a manner that would ensure accountability, transparency and impartiality, the Office of the Contractor General (OCG) has charged.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner//20100626/lead/lead6.html
Prime Minister Bruce Golding has appealed to countries in the Group of Eight (G8) for greater assistance to countries like Jamaica in the fight against organised crime.
He pointed out however that countries like Jamaica could not do it alone given their lack of resources and the transnational nature of organized crime.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=466
To that end, we cannot support specious reasoning which links the State of Emergency to a drop in the murder rate while stating that “No one is quite sure what has caused the drop in the slaughter”. Nor can we agree that the deaths of citizens of Jamaica, which Mr O’ Brien Chang in his article fails either to acknowledge or lament, is the equivalent of ‘breaking eggs’. Indeed, we find the analogy offensive and backward, consistent with a pattern of thinking that has prevented us, as a nation, from being able to fix the crime problem over these many years.
We urge Mr O’Brien Chang to strive to present his views with balance in the future, even if he persists in what we consider to be illogical thought processes that ignore evidence. Facts are still facts even if they do not suit his ‘agenda of the month’.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100627/focus/focus4.html
By Any Means Necessary, Trevor?
Like the spin doctors and the apologists, Trevor Munroe begins with this: By any means necessary, the present prime minister must remain in that position at this time.
And, the basic and fundamental issue is this: if the head of government is to be excused by a mere apology, how do we deal with lesser infractions in the future? I wonder whether the damage that this has done to Jamaica is fully appreciated by the apologists.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100627/focus/focus6.html
The Observer has eased the pressure on him and The Gleaner is giving him unequivocal support for his anti-crime initiatives, as is the Observer.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100627/focus/focus1.html
“I sanctioned it.” These three words will be indelibly etched in our minds for decades to come – an ounce of truth in the midst of spin and lies. “I sanctioned it,” but not as prime minister only as party chief – compartmentalisation born of convenience.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100627/cleisure/cleisure5.html
The poll finding that a plurality of Jamaicans (36 per cent) view his administration as more corrupt than the former People’s National Party (PNP) government (23 per cent) cannot have escaped Prime Minister Bruce Golding.
And given the Coke affair and the public’s perception of his role in the party, the JLP should be clamouring for transparency.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=466
‘Dudus’ boat rescue plan flopped twice
The script on both occasions was similar. Contact would have been made with Coke directly, or those who were always in touch with him, described by the Sunday Observer source as a combination of light-skinned Jamaicans and others of darker pigmentation.
Coke had been wanted by the US since August of last year, but the ruling Jamaica Labour Party administration of Prime Minister Bruce Golding held up the extradition proceedings, citing the illegal gathering of information by US authorities as the main reason for Attorney General Dorothy Lightbourne not granting the request.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Dudus–boat-rescue-plan-flopped-twice_7747063
Meantime, the prime minister must still answer the many unanswered questions about the Manatt affair.
Absent these things, a new don will rise up to take Coke’s place and thug rule will continue to dominate the lives of those with the fewest choices.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Rethinking-politics–After-Dudus-_7747631
So why did Minister Robertson have to suffer the ignominy of having his department raided by the OCG?
The OCG also said it had a concern about the possibility of ‘bid-rigging’, and that “because the majority shareholder of Caribbean LNG (Jamaica) Limited is an entity which is registered off-shore in the BVI and whose current human shareholders are unknown, there is a concern as to whether there are any Jamaican ‘connected persons’ or public officers who, by virtue of their being beneficial shareholders of Caribbean LNG (Jamaica) Limited, will improperly benefit from the contract which is to be awarded by the PCJ to the Exmar Consortium”.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/business/LNG-drama-raises-more-questions-than-answers_7747353
‘Presi’ In Prison – 23 Hours Of Solitary Confinement
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Who cares! Gleaner it’s apparent that you guys have nothing to write about. Why don’t you guys talk about how to rid your country of high levels of murder. Talk about how the government won’t pay back the people their money that was ceased by Cashplus, and how to prevent such entities from establishing in Jamaica!
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100627/lead/lead1.html
EDITORIAL – JLP Should Want Transparent Party Financing
Published: Sunday | June 27, 2010
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=466
Lack of political will
On whose part was there a lack of political will? Was it on the part of the Government, or on the part of us the people? What is happening now is possibly more a test of our political character as a people than it is a test of the character of the prime minister. How important is truth-telling and transparency to us? How important is it that governments are free of any allegiance to persons with criminal intent?
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100627/cleisure/cleisure5.html
And what credibility is to be ascribed to the Defender of Dudus, the Sanctioner of Manatt and the Warner of the Warrant in his new role of Dispenser and Disposer of freedoms?
http://www.sunheraldja.com/2010/06/distrust/
All the best Deacon.
What them seh…pride goeth before a fall?
Something like that. Truth is Smithy. No one can handle me. None…
One man say petty and another say down you go Son Son
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Floridian…
Question. The lawsuit you filed against Olint/DS… How is it going? Have you found any hidden money? What is the purpose of the suit? Are you achieving those goals?
Just curious since it has been quite a while now. You seem now to be reduced to nothing more than parroting political stuff. Have you figured out yet that the fact that you dislike the JLP will not bring back one cent of your money. Helping to fund a political action committee to fight the JLP will not bring back your money.
It is your money and you have certainly demonstrated you know how to get fleeced of it… You are certainly free to give it away but I am curious about what your goals are regarding your lawsuit and your progress.
Recall I did advise people to sue DS/Olint back when it was operational but started not paying… And recall after it folded I advised people to think carefully about suing as it may be good money going after bad.
Noncs where have you been? Busy ehh?I know….going to read your comment right now…something tells me you want to pick my brain with questioning as usual.
glad your back from other pressing issues though..
o.k Nonco let’s see
“It is your money and you have certainly demonstrated you know how to get fleeced of it…”
Yes and that knowledge has been passed on….like Mercedes said of airbags, “Some things are too important not to share”
“but started not paying” Noncs, with phrases like that you may do well as a politician.
“And recall after it folded I advised people to think carefully about suing as it may be good money going after bad.”
Those with criminal investigations ought to think about that Noncs….I agree. You must consider how. Deep your pockets are vs defending your freedom. It may well be just a waste of money but the lawyers don’t mind.
One more thing Noncs. It is always good to have an adversary who views things in dollars and cents. It gives an advantage. My freedom has NO price…does yours?
Any idiot can study efficiency, cost accounting and economics….in the lockup.
Glad you are back Noncs. Where you been? The timing seems…well…
Smith, who is a Belonger (bestowed for economic contribution) of the Turks and Caicos Islands, is presently on $1million bail in respect of a number of financial crimes.
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=761
Nonco, is Smith a “belonger” of the JLP? If so, Why?
“A further $1.8 million has been restrained by the Attorney-General of the Turks and Caicos Islands. This relates to an individual who received a transfer of approximately $2.5 million just prior to the closure of Olint TCI.
Phillip Phinn II??
According to Miller, a fellow Christian had come some two weeks before with a dream which she said showed that he, Miller, would be instrumental in Coke’s surrender.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Why-Al-went-for-Dudus
http://rjrnewsonline.com/business/tci-supreme-court-hear-olint-fraud-case
Oliver Smith, who is the attorney for the former OLINT boss, told the Financial Report on Sunday night that his client will answer to the charges brought against him.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/business/tci-supreme-court-hear-olint-fraud-case
Alleged crime boss Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke has been given 30 days by a US judge to conclude the details his legal representation and to prove that the money he will use to retain his lawyers is not from the proceeds of any alleged criminal activities.
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In Federal and State Court, the Court can add a condition on the bond known as a Nebbia Hold, Nebia Hold, Nebbia requirement, or Bail Source Hearing. A Nebbia hold requires the defendant and co-signers of the bond (his friend or family member) to produce and disclose the source of bail premium and collateral prior to the defendant’s release on bail. The defendant must show that the source of the bail premium and collateral are from a legitimate source and were not acquired through illegal activities, or from the profits of a crime such as drug trafficking, money laundering, theft or fraud.
http://www.criminaldefenseattorneytampa.com/PracticeAreas/EmergencyBondHearings/NebbiaBailBondHearings.aspx
Deacon, how you pay your lawyers?
How them did check?
Olint boss fraud case postponed until September
The fraud case against David Smith, the former head of the failed Olint investment club, was today adjourned in the Supreme Court in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
When contacted, his lawyer Oliver Smith told our new centre that the case has been rescheduled for September 23.
However, Smith declined to provide any details on today’s hearing.
Efforts to get information from the Royal Turks & Caicos Islands Police were unsuccessful.
When the case against the former Olint boss was heard on May 11, a preliminary hearing was held in a Magistrate’s Court.
At that time, head of the Financial Crimes Unit in the TCI, Detective Assistant Superintendent Mark Knighton told our news centre that the magistrate had ruled that the matter should go the Supreme Court for further examination.
David Smith is on a total of 30 fraud-related charges.
He’s alleged to have lost billions of dollars in investments by club members in his unregulated scheme.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=20604
Oh Uh…ACOM going to be in a tisick….Phensic…
ACOM guarantees you clarity on all the issues.
http://www.associationofconcernedolintmembers.info/index.php/home/42-rokstories/90-where-do-i-go-from-here.html
It is alleged that Rev Miller stopped his vehicle and told the cops, “Everything is Okay.”
However, the cops alleged that he sped away before they could check the vehicle.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/more-details-dudus’-arrest-emerge
????????????
Twice Ms Yola Grey Baker (Finsacked) mentioned that the Minister the association asked for help actually gobbled up the opportunity of their calamity.
On Motty and LRC? Wow…slip? Or real change?
The lady said that the Minister’s wife bought the yard…hear the response:….”Gosh”
Motty ignored it like a hurdler…experience I suppose.
Some jokes today. When Ms Yola Grey Baker said the documents ‘mysteriously’ disappeared from the Supreme court hear Motty, “we have to respect out judiciary”
hahahahahaa….If you always in court I supose Motty…hahahahahaahahahahaaha…
If you always face suits and so many judges then you choose NO Comment quick when the woman said tha the lawyer told her the documents had ‘mysteriously’ disappeared from the Supreme Court…
hahahaahaaaaa….you know a good response? “O?”
The woman say the Minister wife rip off the yard and the man answer was ‘gosh’ hahahahahahahaahahahahahaahahahaaa..hheheehhawhahw ,…hahahaa…
De very own patron saint..hahahaahahahahahaahaha…yackyack …hahahaa
Finsac is a serius thing and deserves an serious inquiry. Many with ‘agenda’ would be shocked to know how it really go.
Deserves a Serious inquiry….the Olint man on it has no integrity…that is a fact. Why was the inquiry set up with so many ‘holes’ and conflict on interest in the first place?
hmmm….maybe there was a reason to make it sloppy?
Illusion?
Think farsical. Take to a level..if your up to it…
Hint: Some big ‘finsac’ asset right near up a Hugh Cliff deh…
EDITORIAL
It is not Mr Coke’s fault that for nine months the Jamaican Government, on seemingly spurious grounds, stonewalled a US request for his extradition, threatening Jamaica’s relations with a close ally. And there is no evidence that Mr Coke was party to Prime Minister Bruce Golding’s authorisation of the hiring of lobbyists to persuade the Americans to go soft on the extradition issue.
We insist on this context, for a whitewash is to manufacture the image of a perceptive and transformational hero at the expense of truth, without which there will be little change.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100629/cleisure/cleisure1.html
Students from Ray Charles Kindergarten can see where responsibility for that calamity, disguised as joint military-police operations, resides.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100629/cleisure/cleisure2.html
hehe…The Idi Amin/Papa Doc Chair of Integrity Studies can see too…
hehe…neat writing.
After that, only retards would’ve expected Presi to remain in Tivoli waiting for the security ‘farces’ to arrest him.
hehehehe
Driva’s reckless handling of the government vehicle is indirectly responsible for these deaths. He should relinquish the car keys. Spin doctors’ subsequent lame attempts to convert reckless endangerment into heroic assaults on crime would be funny if they weren’t so desperately sad.
Problem is,
the spin seems to be working…..
Matassini said he was the lead counsel in the defence of Norris ‘Deedo’ Nembhard, a Jamaican who was extradited and convicted of drug-smuggling and money-laundering charges.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100629/lead/lead1.html
hehe..endorsement
“Di man have fi get a good lawyer. Prepaid lawyer nah go work,”
Contingency?…A nuh suh big lawyer work baby…$$ upfront
Ask deacon..
Editorial-Observer
These middle-class and upper-class criminals are a permanent set of untouchables, while working-class dons come and go.
We must watch out for lawyers who provide legal services to criminals under cover of the dictum of not refusing services to anyone who requests and can pay.
High-class criminals move brazenly among honest people, posing as learned counsels and legitimate “businessmen”, the profession stated by everyone arrested for a criminal offence. They live in the most salubrious neighbourhoods, drive expensive motor vehicles, relax at their vacation apartment/villa in Ocho Rios and pay their US$ credit cards from accounts in Miami.
They pose as bastions of the church, like Don Corleone, patrons of the arts, circulate among the “glitterati” and are prominent in diplomatic circles. Some are involved in political circles and there is nothing to prohibit them from sitting in either chamber of Parliament or holding any office in the country. There is no opprobrium in Jamaican society about how a man makes a living, whom he associates with or whether he aids and abets criminals.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=466
Chuck Emanuel
6/29/2010
Until this government, or “Party” holds people accountable among its ranks, the lack of integrity and moral authority of the leadership will continue unabated.
No amount of re-imaging, or re-packaging will suffice, while criminal aiders and abettors remain unscathed in this government.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/The-real-crime-lords-are-the–untouchables_7755008
US President Barack Obama (second from right), talks with Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding (third from left) during a session with African Outreach Leaders during the 2010 G8 Summit at the Deerhurst Resort in Hunstville, Ontario on Friday. (Photos: AP)
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=466
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Chuck Emanuel
6/29/2010
So, if we continue to give contracts to criminals, aid and abet them, not hold corrupt “Party members” and ministers of government accountable, and lie to the country, what signal does this send in terms of criminality and corruption ?.
Why would other countries provide their “resources” to a corrupt state ?.
Heal thyself !
SENIOR Cabinet minister Karl Samuda yesterday said that he told area leaders in his North Central St Andrew constituency that he will no longer utilise their help in upcoming election campaigns, even if it costs him his seat.
Samuda’s revelation came on the same day that the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP), in a news release, said its integrity commission will be placing emphasis on party financing and financial reporting, candidate selection, a code of ethics and the development of a register of interests over the next three months.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Samuda-rejects-dons_7760114
Alimony Olint?
Christie weighs in
Last week, Contractor General Greg Christie sent a special audit team to the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ) to seize records related to the deal.
Christie raised concerns that a majority shareholder of CLNG was Ian Moore, who was fired as chairman of the PCJ seven months before he established the company.
Christie also questioned the ownership of CLNG, which has as its major shareholder a similar-named company registered in the British Virgin Islands (BVI).
According to Christie, he is probing “the possibility of a potential conflict of interest, taking into consideration Mr Ian Moore’s former position as board chairman of the PCJ and his now documented position as a director of the ‘local’ company, Caribbean LNG (Jamaica) Limited”.
Christie added that his probe would look at the possibility that Moore’s prior involvement in the PCJ gave him insider information and the possibility of bid-rigging.
US Alleges New Ponzi Scheme In Virgin Islands
A Virgin Islands-based financial manager ran a US$105-million Ponzi scheme that defrauded 400 investors by falsely claiming to invest in foreign currencies, the United States regulators charged Monday.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100630/business/business91.html
Samuda rejects dons
Days of engaging gangsters over, declares MP
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Samuda-rejects-dons_7760114
ALERT ALERT ALERT…..There is a FREEZE on jumping off the wagon until AFTER the Dudus Case has been heard.
BACKPEDALLING is on curfew until the ground commander declares otherwise!
All OLINT affiliates, ambassadors etc. STRICTLY NO RETROACTIVE BLYE AT THIS TIME.
ALL APPLICATIONS FOR THE “SANKEY” CHOIR ARE CLOSED AT THIS TIME.
Samuda accuses cops of bias, mishandling Common conflict
The member of parliament claimed that the cops had been feeding the media with false information, by naming Cleveland ‘Cassie’ Downer as a wanted man.
Samuda reserved his most biting criticism for the head of the Major Investigation Task Force, Assistant Commissioner Les Green: “If Les Green hadn’t called out names, why doesn’t he go about his business of doing the work instead of creating excitement in the area and agitating the people?”
“It has to do with an internal situation. The people who are in contention are ultra strong supporters of the JLP, there is no PNP in this. They are warring over conflict within the family,” he said.
http://jam.pf.mediaspanonline.com/news/119914_Samuda-accuses-cops-of-bias–mishandling-Common-conflict
It has to do with an internal situation…..Call Manatt, Phelps, Plillips LLC
Reverend Al Miller meets Prime Minister
In the corridor? The canteen?
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=20682
Government to decide Al Miller’s fate as NTP head
Use Manatt…don’t want rev to plead…
it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
MACBETH
“Confluence of events” hmm
The PM has reversed himself in saying that he did not sign the extradition, not because of illegal wiretaps, but because of the state of the economy.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100701/cleisure/cleisure3.html
A Cynic
6/30/2010
After 30 years as the chief beneficiary of the “system” on Red Hills Road, there is now a political conversion.
Recently there have been a number of cons: conspiracy, confusion, confinement, confession but no conviction.
This is what was meant by “changing course”; but the ends remain the same.
JA Cynic
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/Mr-Samuda-s-confession-good-for-the-soul_7759149
From: Audrey Marks [mailto:apmarks@paymaster-online.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 4:45 PM
To: dsmith@kasnet.com
Subject: Better future
Dear David, just a quick note to say; so far …. so good with the results, just waiting on the next two recounts to exhale. Regards, Audrey.
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EDITORIAL – Good Signs For US-Jamaica Relations
Part of Ms Marks strength as Jamaica’s top diplomat in Washington, as we noted at her appointment, was her wide range of contacts in the United States. She has not been afraid to use them to Jamaica’s benefit.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100701/cleisure/cleisure1.html
The Government decided to sign the extradition request after mounting pressure for the Prime Minister to step down for sanctioning the hiring of a US-based firm to lobby against the extradition request.http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=20698
Roads! Roads! Roads! hehe (that’s all that is left to try)…Roads! Roads! Roads!
The Government has decided to press ahead with the divestment of its stake in Jamalco in Clarendon despite the probe being carried out by the Office of the Contractor-General into the sale.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/business/gov’t-proceed-jamalco-sale-despite-ocg-probe
The Jamaican Bar Association is taking issue with the position taken by personnel from the Solicitor-General’s Office that private lawyers who are not involved in the cases should not be permitted to attend hearings.
The Association has written to Solicitor-General Douglas Leys expressing shock and disagreement.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/private-lawyers-kicked-out-tribunal-hearings
Douglas Leys still have a job there? haha..these people have absolutely no shame.
Observer 1,2,3 Confluence of PR?
n a short written statement which was obtained by The SUN from sources in London, Mitchell, said: “Following the last Government’s statement about the situation in TCI in October 2009, I would like to update the House. The financial situation in TCI has worsened to the point where it was not possible for its government to meet its June financial commitments, including payment of public sector salaries. Without immediate UK support, TCI would fall further into economic crisis.”
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=991
Nonco, where you deh? What say you?
Look like we can expect the ‘victim’ PR at this late stage…from the more astute politicians at least…
“Developmental Crime”…”mi get robbed” ….even though we appointed Lewin him bad mine and never solved crime…(buty we never fired him at the time etc.)
“I am misquoted…the media a get mi…parro etc.”
Reggae Day …but One selection for those who pathetically seek the victim PR as last resort…
You tube: victim candi station
Reggae Day Nonco! Reaching out to all flip flopper…powa seeka…bandooloist …liad…wutliss…mash up Jamaica..
All flip flopper Nonco….don’t touch that dial hahaha
You tube Alton Ellis “Can I change my mind”
Big up all the many who ‘coincidentally’ find Jesus in May-June 2010….all of a sudden.
You too Corporate flip floppers don’t worry your intention…yes a you same way in the mirror..hahahaha
Gwan knit your brow and look perturbed..hehehehe
Opportune “time for change” while we all hold the same position….hahahahahahahahahaahaaaahaha
Big up Jamaican Ambassador to the United States…
From: Audrey Marks [mailto:apmarks@paymaster-online.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 4:45 PM
To: dsmith@kasnet.com
Subject: Better future
Dear David, just a quick note to say; so far …. so good with the results, just waiting on the next two recounts to exhale. Regards, Audrey.
Deacon what a Rolodex you have? All Allen Hutchinson in TCI…not no patty shop Rolodex at all.
Nonco, Today on the radio a CEO said he could not believe that he had to have armed escort from NMIA to his home on labour day.
You know what I said to myself? “How are ‘the blind” are so successful in Jamaica?
Maybe they are just pulling my leg… ehh?
hahahahahahhahaahahaa…happy reggae day….
Richard Edwards
7/1/2010
I have absolutely n respect for this Audrey Marks lady, she came to a townhall meeting in Brooklyn New York a few weeks ago, I was in attendance at the meeting, and you know this lady sat there with a straight face and had the audacity to try to tell us that the PM did not lie to the Jamaican people about Manatt. She went on to say it is the Jamaican people who don’t understand the PM. I wouldn’t lie, it is on tape anyway, what did we really expect ?
Brain Allen
7/1/2010
George Watson, I agree with you 100%. Richard Edwards, I was there at the town-hall meeting in Brooklyn New York when Audrey Marks say that Bruce Golding did not lie. When she said that my eyes widen and my jaws drop in surprise and disbelieved that she just did that. I immediately left the meeting. Obama won’t be getting my vote again in the next Presidential election unless he recall Audrey Marks. Golding is so weak and compromise that the USA is now going to use him as its puppet doll.
george watson
7/1/2010
The US system is set up differently than ours. The president will be there praising you to high heavens at the front door while the US marshalls are waiting to take you out at the back door.
And while he has the authority to initiate proceedings against you, he often hasn’t the power to stop it
Sometimes he isn’t even aware of what the DEA is doing so is powerless to help, even if he has a mind to.
The only time he has any say so is when he is leaving office and grants a pardon or two.
From: Audrey Marks [mailto:apmarks@paymaster-online.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 4:45 PM
To: dsmith@kasnet.com
Subject: Better future
Dear David, just a quick note to say; so far …. so good with the results, just waiting on the next two recounts to exhale. Regards, Audrey.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Obama-hails-Jamaicas-efforts-in-narco-fight_7762631
Rev. Miller taking a break from National Transformation Programme
…also known as the “Fresh Start Jamaica”
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=20722
BTW Nationwide never broke no story a day after the extradition request was made… check it hugh cliff
The blind can’t lead the blind…
The implications of a potential conviction are clear. A criminal — at least an outright one — can’t lead the national transformation process no matter how charismatic he/she is.
That it was necessary to point these things out to a man of the cloth whom we expect to know and do better than the secular leaders, is sad.
Those who lead must be prepared to do the right thing, even if it costs them their position. They must be prepared, as a certain leader once said — albeit under drastically different circumstances — to pay the price.
We submit that those who are unable, for whatever reason, to see this are not fit to lead.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/The-blind-can-t-lead-the-blind_7765014
Gunmen invade Samuda’s home
The next thing you can expect to hear is that the perpetrators themselves shall lead and investigation into the matter…
And now is the ‘limited window’ for the perpetrators to lead the country in such matters…
LOL..They keep returning ‘true bills’ on themselves…bending the rules of right and wrong daily as they are busted…
When did Mr. Samuda know the details of the Manatt, Phelps,Phillips conspiracy? After the PM instructed him to investigate or before?
Why would the ‘sanctioner/perpetrator’ instruct someone to investigate that which you know you are responsible for?
Does the PM take Samuda for poppy show?
What ever came of Samuda’s investigation into the Manatt, Phelps Phillips issue? Did he ever have any success? Did he identify the perpetrator? No the man who sent him on a wild goose cover up did.
Lawsuit Threat On Lewin
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100702/lead/lead1.html
Lawsuits fly like A, B C…. do not start and run back like Brady Mr. Nelson.
“As far as I’m concerned, my birthday is the day of my big summer fundraiser,” he told ITK. “I just can’t remember the exact date of it this year.”
http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2010/06/maybe-we-should-ask-to-see-his-birth.html
Rangel, who was awarded the Order of Jamaica last year, has been embroiled in controversy since the launch of an ethics investigation regarding alleged gift violations and belated disclosure of assets.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner//20100702/lead/lead5.html
“Plus, he raked in as much as $15,000 in rent from his beach villa at Punta Cana, in the Dominican Republic.”
No villa in Jamaica?
AMID A corruption probe and deafening calls for him to quit, politician Joseph Hibbert was the face of Parliament’s Ethics Committee Tuesday, tabling its report to the House of Representatives.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100702/news/news3.html
From the “Wagonsist homecoming Chronicle”
“After over three decades of retreating in fear, it is time for us as Jamaicans to do what is necessary to secure our country and the future of our children.”
Orane Douglas
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100702/news/news1.html
If the allegation was from a lesser individual, it might have been overlooked as a rash piece of mischief, which the national security minister, Mr Dwight Nelson, deems it to be.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100702/cleisure/cleisure1.html
A ‘lesser individual’?? Gleaner what kind of Colonial Geriatrics is that? Slip Showing…
“Lesser Individual”?? Shocking but expected. The last time I checked no Gleaner associate is to be found in the Book of Landed Gentry…but perhaps I am wrong….I shall check again.
The book is right on the shelf. I can see it from here.
Motty, what is a ‘lesser individual’?? Dutty trowsas bwoy? ‘ole nayga’?
Perception Motty…Perception HAW HAW HAW…
However, Government senators have vowed to use their majority to crush the motion.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/justice-minister-face-no-confidence-motion-senate
BEFORE the debate? What a set of slaves.
Robinson also believes a full enquiry is necessary to determine the role the country’s leaders played in the whole extradition affair.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=20738
Dem a hustle hard for you again Deacon…collaboration again…one day bucket go a well…black dung deh
Lion..deh wid dem again…oh ye of little faith…take your stand anyway………
Dust off the Lioness file deh fi mi….
alex Ford
7/2/2010
If the prime minister could survive such motion, then any other person involve in the matter will get away just the same.
Even the little kids these days know our politics is partisan.
jimmy jones
7/2/2010
How could she have ‘acted appropriately in her handling of the matter’ when she delayed the process for nine months then all of a sudden she is willing to sign the papers. Only after she and her prime minister was pressured by the public they realized that their back was against the wall. Partisan politics and hypocrites.
Al Vanawic
7/2/2010
Survive what no confidence vote? This person only survives because her party backers who are in the majority supported her biasly. How about testing the Jamaica public in a real vote? If these people have any shame they would all resign. They are very fortunatte that Jamaica is among the most corrupt country on earth, or they would all be in jail instead of gloating that they survive no confidence vote. No shame whatsoever!
Jacqueline Samms
7/2/2010
It’s partisan politics in full force.
“And I said to the Prime Minister I have the Chief of Defence Staff and the Commissioner of Police here with me and they have relayed information to me that I think you should be made aware of because it affects your constituency. Constituency, not constituent,”
“The Prime Minister said to me ‘I am at Vale Royal ask them to come up and see me now’ and I turned to them and I said ‘Gentlemen, the Prime Minister is at Vale Royal and would like you to come and see him now’. Nothing else transpired, absolutely nothing. He is a pathological liar,” Senator Nelson said.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/security-minister-launches-stinging-attack-former-police-commissioner
QUESTION marks hung over the future of Johnston International this week after British Caribbean Bank apparently pulled the plug on the firm.
http://tcweeklynews.com/clients/tcweeklynews/doubt-over-johnstons-future-p2091.htm?twindow=Default&smenu=1&mad=No
TCI under scrutiny by anti-corruption group
THE TCI is being probed by a major worldwide anti-corruption group in the aftermath of the international headline-grabbing Commission of Inquiry.
In an exclusive interview with the Weekly News, Mr Munroe said he had received a “very broad range of views” – and that he would not be afraid to be “forthright” in his findings.
For now he is keeping his findings firmly under wraps.
But Islanders won’t have to wait too long to read the no-holds-barred report with a draft form set to be released to key stakeholders in September. That will precede the final report in December.
“The TCI was selected largely because of the issues that arose last year regarding the integrity system here,” he said.
TI defines corruption as “the abuse of entrusted power for private gain.”
http://tcweeklynews.com/clients/tcweeklynews/tci-under-scrutiny-by-anticorruption-group-p2079.htm?twindow=Default&smenu=1&mad=No
Lionfish hits menus across the country
http://tcweeklynews.com/clients/tcweeklynews/lionfish-hits-menus-across-the-country-p2082.htm?twindow=Default&smenu=1&mad=No
He has also been pleased with the response he has received from officials in Jamaica, a reaction he has not had from the local government. “I am finding it difficult to do business with the new government,” he said.
http://www.tcfreepress.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1616:atc-expands-in-jamaica-big-changes-for-small-airline&catid=18:local&Itemid=26
john blake
7/2/2010
Who tipped Hartley Lewin about Dudus being tip-off in 15 mins? Do notice he is not sure if the tipping was done by the Prime Minister or the security Minister. Who tipped Hartley and in the event breached the protocol? Who tipped the media? Who else that tipper might have tipped and is it possible that that tipper tipped someone else that might have tipped Dudus? Right now the whole issue is messy and those who are coming forward must come with clean hands and hearts.
Andrea Watson
7/2/2010
Mr Nelson is questioning Mr Lewin’s motives for coming out now?
Well what was the JLP motive for taking 9 months to approve the extradiction of Coke? What was the motive of the PM for taking months to tell us he sanctioned the employment of Manatt and what was the motive to employ them just weeks after the extradiction request? Stalemate you say? And I am to believe you over Mr Lewin? behave yourself Dwight.
devon brown
7/2/2010
Is Mr Nelson saying hin tenure as Security Minister has been great and not an abject failure? He is sounding petty and tracing like a girl is not doing him no credit. Some one is lying and its usually the one who is making the most noise as a defence- Mr Nelson calm yourself everyone who has a disagreement with your party is not bitter, just stop nyamming up yuhself.
Joycelin Clarke
7/2/2010
Nelson is adamant at fihtin back but he also mist be blamed for the escalation of crime sudin the period. He was the head of security. As I read in the papers, a copy of the extradition notice was found in Dudus’ office; how did it reach there? Certainly not by Lewin but someone who was adamant in protecting the Don. People in high places lied to shield Dudus and some still seem to be lying. Despite what Nelson thinks about Lewin people will question what really happened in Dudus’ ” tip off”.
Sean H.
7/2/2010
Can anyone explain how/why Lewin
a) knew that an extradition request was being prepared
b) was informed of same instead of or before the PM, Min of Foreign Affairs or Min of Security
c) knew where Coke was before and after delivering the ‘info’ to the minister
d) said nothing when the extradition request was actually sent
e) did nothing to subsequently find Coke
If he was truly convinced of this chicanery and sat on the info, he has failed his country MISERABLY. Hiding truth is just like lying.
andy cap
7/2/2010
The nation is painfully aware of disgraceful nexus between politicians and crime NONE THE LESS Sadly Mr. Lewins late in the day utterances do come across as bitter & vindictive.
The fact of the matter is that Commissioner Ellington has demonstrated (contrary to popular opinion) that there are intelligent, articulate competent and level headed individuals within in the police force capable of doing the job .and there was really no need to import this gentlemen as commissioner as his arrogance & incompetence alienated not only members of the police force but members of the public as well
miss nanny
7/2/2010
Dwight Nelson says that Mr Lewin was not successful bcuz there were 800 murders under his watch. WHO was the national security minister during this time? This also simple means Mr Ellington is not successful nor any of his predessors as the murders are the same. No police commisioner can succeed under a corrupt govt.
The Sidekick
7/2/2010
Mr. Nelson… Your corns, or that of someone in your team got ‘stepped’ on? This card about Mr. Lewin’s ‘failure’ is nothing but trash talking! Compare Mr. Lewin’s character, his integrity, his track record, his career, his work ethics to yours, Mr. Nelson— You are no match! I just wish you, and some present members of your admin, would cease to run your mouths, on such issues! Something went wrong, and once again you guys are trying to be bullies to hide it! We’re tired of this!
pat green
7/2/2010
So Mr Nelson is saying Mr Lewin has the greater responsibility for the control of crime than the government elected? Why is Mr Lewin so bitter may I asked? Listen to Mr Nelson speak he comes over as a more bitter person than Mr Lewin. He is ranting like someone who is guilty and has to make a loud noise to cover it. Why so defensive and personally abusive Mr Nelson? Yuh sounding quite bitter. Dwight I would believe you anyday over Mr Lewin why? politicians, more so our PM always speak the truth
Wa Tch
7/2/2010
Dwight Nelson makes Peter Phillips look like a genius. He is clearly someone who commands respect on the international stage.
Mr. Nelson answer Anthony Clarke’s question and here is another one for you. Why didn’t you accompany Commish Lewin to the PM at Vale Royal after he informed you of the American’s request? Like Mr. Lewin I find that strange. The behaviour of the JLP and the govt in this Dudus affair gives Lewin’s account more credibility that Nelson’s response.
cindy wilson
7/2/2010
The Government has told too many lies and misled the nation countless times. Sorry Mr Nelson, we don;t beleive you.
Cindy Wilson
Petros Haile
7/2/2010
George Watson I have to disagree with parts of your statement. For heavens sake the indictment was all over the internet before the incursion. And the security forces found no warrant in the click office as they were the ones in possession of the said warrant. It is apparent that you are confused differentiating between an indictment and a warrant of arrest.
Anyway Still One Love
Selah
Dale Morris
7/2/2010
JAY BROWN and Dwight Nelson:-
“It is better to keep your mouth shet and appears stupid/guilty etc. Than to open it and remove all doubt”
I am sure Bruce thought the US was incompetent too then he realized he was the miss fit, I dont mean this literally but Dwight Nelson though “educated” Dark Bad.
@ JAY BROWN wait until we release more in the US courts. If Audley devulge it all you just prove would not be able to digest it all so we put it on time release just for you ADD folks.
Richard Edwards
7/2/2010
I wish Mr Collateral Damage would just shut is trap sometimes, evertime this man open his mouth it gives me agita. You tyalk about the crime rate while Lewin was the Commissioner of Police, what about the crime rate since you have been Minister of National Insecurity, it seem like the medicine that them give you in Florida still have not worn off yet. you have a voice, you know nothing about which you speak of, sometimes you just need fi chill out
R. Edwards
betterlifeforjamaicans@yahoo.com
cindy wilson
7/2/2010
The Minister describe the ex-commissioner as a “failure”, but the ex-comm had said the layman term that he could raid certain areas and could not arrest certain individuals. Basically his hands were tied and that he was “limited” to do do his job effectively. The Minister is the same Minister, so he call describe himself as a failure himself.
Dale Morris
7/2/2010
@JAY BROWN, I have been on this from inception and i never see a more convincing response, you are the only one defending the gov. This man is not a coward you are hiding behing the blog. Learn what time release is. he could not have and should not have devulge this detail until now when it have material impact.
Norman Haley
7/2/2010
Does Mr. Nelson really expect the Jamaican people to believe him over Admiral Lewin? The record of the government is one which we cannot thrust. the PM give Dudus 9 months plus 36 hours before the security forces entered Tivoli . What is the result 73 persons dead untold millions lost, the country’s image in a tailspin. The evidence shows that official of the state gave Coke the extradition documents it was found at Dudus office. How did Dudus get these documents?
The spin doctors are now rebranding Mr. Golding as Mr. Crime Fighter give me a break he was force to enter Tivoli.
cindy wilson
7/2/2010
Who gave Mr Coke copy of the Extradation Order found in his office after Mr Coke fled TG? I don’t think it is Mr Lewin.
Alvin L.
7/2/2010
Nelson forgot that he was Admiral Lewin’s boss at the time ! He was the top man in the Security sector therefore making him culpable when crime exploded. Admiral Lewin was always forthright in his assessment of crime and what it would take to lessen the impact.
Nelson seems to be the only one at the top who wants to cry foul now that his feet are in the fire! It will eventually come out how it all happened.
Lolita Scott
7/2/2010
Who you think is going to believe the PM, Nelson and anyone in the JLP when they secretly employed a law firm in the US for US$50,000 to try to drop the extradition order against Dudus? Who you think the people will believe, the govt or Mr. Lewin? Bare face Bruce lied to the people of Jamaica and all of you in the JLP supported him. You Nelson said to the media when you became Minister of National Security “Check me back”. The crime rate is still high. Go sit down or all resign. Lie, liars.
Dwayne Willis
7/2/2010
Jay Brown take off your green blinkers and stop talking garbage.
Does the Government that you are defending have a history of telling the truth?
It is clear that the Government was treating a fugitive as if he is a man above the law…so please cut the crap
John Smith
7/2/2010
One more ting (providing my previous comment is posted): the Observer did warn Bruce et al. in an editorial that they should tell the whole truth from way back when, because bit by bit the information will trickle out… Yep, he said he’s willing to pay a political price. Him tink him did pay it off but clearly the lives of over 70+ people are worth more than a label of liar, a simple apology and an unsustainable state of emergency. Yeah man – they deserve several rewards for their stupidity.
Gabre Selassie
7/2/2010
We love and respect you Mr Lewin for being forthright without fear. I pray that more people like you will do the same. They may have ‘railroaded’ your career as Commish but they cant kill the truth even if they kill you. The police we must remember were not allowed to do their jobs (as in go into certain neighborhoods etc.) before the TG invasion. The writing is on the wall Mr Nelson. Yuh cant fool us no more. I am willing to wait on election day but we need new fresh leaders in both parties.
John Smith
7/2/2010
Talk about shooting yourself in the foot! Nelson speaks of Lewin’s tenure as if he wasn’t Security Minister at the time. He is equally responsible for crime ‘exploding’ at the time. Lewin’s statement rang very true that it would get worse before it got better. Has Nelson forgotten the last month? LOL. We’ve witnessed the gov’t’s adeptness at hiding crucial national security information (remember MP&P?) so Nelson’s arguments ring very hollow. Back against the wall… LOL. Ayh sah…
Gabre Selassie
7/2/2010
Mr. Lewin’s statements are far more credible than anything we have heard from you or your government Mr Nelson. We the people pressured the government to make the changes that have occured since the PM confessed and signed the extradition. Your party was against it until your hands were forced to make the change. I forgive the PM for his sins but you all need to be held accountable. What would have happened if Dudus simply apologised and continued being the President of TG? God Bless Mr Lewin
oface oface
7/2/2010
It is so sad to see a man that was taught so much off is just falling a part at the seam a bitter man indeed , from the moment he said the black black man turned white i knew he had a clear agenda , how could he possible knew that Dudus learned of the request in the minutes he left mr nelson’s office to get to his car to go to vale royal, did dudus call him ? so how could he implicate the PM as in his words the conversation Mr NeLson had with the PM did not involved any detail.
David Armstrong
7/2/2010
This is why a commission of inquiry is needed to help put a stop to this useless bickering and finger pointing. A commission of inquiry that will require all involved parties (including the PM) to testify. Considering the impact Dudusgate had on the nation and the fact that both political parties are still under the corrupting influences of the garrison “area leaders” it is amazing that a commission of inquiry has not been called for.
mike daley
7/2/2010
Lewin may certainly have a personal axe to grin and the manner of his revelations may even be petty. However, that speaks very little if at all to the truth of his accusations. Nelson on the other hand, is throwing up the old straw man’s argument in response to distract from the real and relevant issue: Did Dudus get tipped off? Lewin & Nelson are both motivated by the changed social & political climate to make their charge & counter charge, but the specter will remain that Dudus got tipped.
miss nanny
7/2/2010
Dwight Nelson you and the JLP have no CREDIBILITY! Do you really think any one will take your word over Mr Lewin?? RESIGN, and take your Prime Minister with you.
Vashti Watson
7/2/2010
Mr. Nelson, there is a saying, “keep your mouth shut and no one will know how stupid you are”. It is better for all of you to shut up, the only person who do not know that Dudus knows more about this case than the average criminal is the ones who have their head in the sand.
Mr. Lewin is right and you all know it, you talk about law-suit, I wonder who you are going to sue, did he say you tip Dudus off? Your conscience is bothering you, you better jump ship before it sink further. Liars!!!
Dennis ( The Bench )
7/2/2010
I believe Hardley Lewin and i double dear you Minister Nelson to go ahead with your lawsuit. Lewin is no fool and i know he has his evidence. Go ahead with your lawsuit let him present in in court.
Dwayne Willis
7/2/2010
I beleive EVERY word the former commissioner said during that interview, and why wouldnt I when this Government has proven to be a set of LIARS?
All I know is they did their best to keep Dudus here to keep him importing guns to kill Jamaicans.
Mr.Minister why didnt you see it fit to go to Vale Royal as well when you heard the news?
Maude Cooper
7/2/2010
WO! WO! WO! Take it easy! Talk about “maliciousness of a bitter and revengeful man.” Phew!……Ok, now that everyone has calmed down, could the good MINISTER of National Security explain how documents relating to Dudus extradition, papers that he was not suppose to have, but was found into his abandoned home when he fled?
Stephen F
7/2/2010
Does security minister Nelson understand that his arguments amount to an ad hominem attack of the person rather than the accusation? I saw the news report and listened to Hardley Lewin’s statements. While I am not fully clear what evidence shows that Mr Coke was tipped off, it is clear that the Admiral is certain of his allegation. With evidence of corruption wafting through the environment, the rear admiral is brave to be so outspoken. Can the good actually prevail?
Anthony Clarke
7/2/2010
Answer the question. Did Dudus learn of the extradition request within 15 minutes of the commish telling politicians? We already know whether Harley Lewin was an effective crime fighter and the level of support he got from the government, which, ironically, appointed him.
kay kay wits
7/2/2010
Who do i believe?hmmmm..let me see, the politicians that have been lying to us and trying to pervert the course of justice for 9 months, or the former commish- i will gladly take the lesser of the 2 evils, commissioner i say
george watson
7/2/2010
I see the minister is threatening to sue Mr. Lewin, but this is just a threat to keep him quiet. Mr. Lewin did not say that the minister or Mr.Golding did anything. He said he told the minister and within 15 minutes Dudus knew of the extradition request.
Any reasonable judge or jury will rule that under the circumstances it is fair to infere that the matter must have been passed on either by the minister or his boss, the p.m.
Mr. Lewin said he “believed.” You can’t take one’s belief away
Joe Robinson
7/2/2010
There is no doubt that Lewin will do anything to undermine the excellent work of the Police and the Govt. Lewin was just an high profile incompetent selfish man. He did nothing to stem the rise of crime during his tenure. Was given the Order of the Boot, now he is so bitter & revengeful. The PNP will soon become redundant, jumping on every negitves to score political points. How can a serious opposition without verifying the source is so quick to denounce the Govt. in times like this.
Bhingi dread
7/2/2010
I wonder who was the minister of securirty when this record number of crimes were commited..
I wonder who sanctioned manatt phelps and phillips to try and drop the case against dudus..
I wonder who stand up and stage and say ‘dudus have rights”..
We jamaicans know that dudus was being protected by the highest members of the jlp..Even the prime minister admit that when he said he would pay the political price and when he sanctioned manatt to try and get the usa to drop the case.
damn criminals
Chuck Emanuel
7/2/2010
The National Security Minister’s response to the former Commissioner of Police, reminds me of the response the Prime Minister gave to Dr Peter Phillips on the question and issue about MPP.
The fact is the Security Minister needs to explain to the Citizens of this country, what the hell was going on in the 9, or 10 monthts of dithering ?.
Who were the criminal aiders and abettors among you ?
Who paid the money to MPP ?
Who has been held accountable for this debacle ?.
Rudy Simons
7/2/2010
To Minister Nelson
I listened to Mr Lewin and I am willing to believe his statement, Why, the Pm and his cohorts spent nearly ten months fighting the extradition, including paying a lobby firm and also finding endless arguments to block the extradition.
So that Mr Nelson that sort of behaviour would be consistent with the action of leaking the information to Coke.
Secondly, it is hard tobelieve someone when they have a history of lies and deception
Devon Vapp
7/2/2010
Mr. Nelson, the fact that you or the Prime Minister did not tell Mr. Coke about the warrant doesnt mean he was tipped off. I bet you or the PM told some other person or persons. As a matter of fact, the PM was already trying the case in the media.
Jacqueline Samms
7/2/2010
The gov.is corrupt,plain and simple
Jay Brown
7/2/2010
Hardley Lewin cannot be taken seriously, he is a coward and at this stage his pronouncement are coming way too late.
When he resigned he maintained that nothing was amiss and that he and Bruce had a good relationship.
If Hardley Lewin was honest and trust worthy, he would have bawled out immediately to the Jamaican people that he believed national security matter were being compromised by both the PM and the Minister of NS.
We are now hearing this from as politician and NOT the former
TopCop
george watson
7/2/2010
The minister must know by now that the majority of people believe Mr. Lewin over him. Most of us understand the MO of this party, especially in government; destroy the reputation of those with whom you disagree. You can do the research.
Mr. Lewin came across in very measured tones. Nowhere did he sound as the minister described him. There is no reason to doubt his credibility.
The fact that there were 800 murders means that the minister didn’t have enough tools to work with and we know why this happens as well. If the minister wants to know who we believe, I challenge him to commission a poll. This government has spent its credibility.
Remember the warrant that was prepared for Dudus was found in the Click offices when the security forces got there. Doesn’t this tend to bear out Mr. Lewin’s claims?
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Lewins-claim-a-vengeful-attack-of-a-bitter-man-says-Nelson_7765011
did mr lewin resign and was asked to stay on? so how did we ask an incompetent man to stay in a post he resigned from?
Orane Takes Fight To Crime
But it seems to me that we all have to look to ourselves to make sure that through our own behaviour we do not set bad examples.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/searcharchive.aspx
principium contradictionis
For every Opposition member pouring scorn on the Attorney General and accusing her of delaying and botching the extradition proceedings, there was a government member declaring that the minister had simply been trying to get the Americans to uphold the law.
According to her, public sentiment played a role in her decision to eventually sign him over.
“Due to the growing level of public mistrust, the expressed intensions of key institutions and organisations not to interact with the government if the extradition matter remained unresolved, I decided that the looming public interest concern compelled the exercise of my executive discretion to resolve the matter and consequently advised the Cabinet that I would be signing the authority to proceed and did so on May 18, 2010,” she said.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/parliament/lightbourne-survives-censure-motion
In classical logic, a contradiction consists of a logical incompatibility between two or more propositions. It occurs when the propositions, taken together, yield two conclusions which form the logical, usually opposite inversions of each other. Illustrating a general tendency in applied logic, Aristotle’s law of noncontradiction states that “One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect and at the same time.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contradiction
Sandrea Falconer
Most Jamaicans have concluded that the minister was defending one man, a single party supporter, while the national interest was being undermined.
The Westminster tradition has taught us that when you are found wanting in dispensing your obligation to the people, you must either be fired, resign, or be forced out in a vote of no confidence. Our former colleague, Senator Ronald Robinson, has set the proper example.
Norman Grant
Where there is a clear demonstration that a (leader) has been unable to deliver his/her responsibilities, questions must be asked and we must find a way for them to be duly removed from the position of service.
K.D. Knight
Madame Minister, what you have done was to have embarked upon an elaborate scheme to frustrate the request (for Coke’s extradition). Your intent as well as others’ was to protect Coke, not his constitutional rights … . You sacrificed the interest of the Jamaican state for your partisan political consideration.
Noel Sloley
A nightmare of bad publicity over an extended period of time, in the interest, we are told, of the constitutional rights of one man. May I paraphrase: Never have so many suffered so much for the cause of one don.
Navel Clarke
Matters less serious than this have caused ministers to demit office.
If we are operating under this Westminster model, then I submit that the minister should do the right thing and demit office.
A.J. Nicholson
We know, as has been said, that the birds will flock together. In the vote, at least let us hear some word of apology, as the prime minister himself has done.
Dorothy Lightbourne
I do not question the motives of my critics; but I do question the naivety with which they accepted the skewed interpretations, pronouncements upon the laws and facts offered by self-proclaimed ‘pundits’, and the haste with which they adopted and repeated epithets, such as delay and dithering, in describing my dealing with the matter.
Arthur Williams
It became absolutely clear that the motion brought by the Oppo-sition was not born out of legitimate interest of governance, but was born out of malice, spite and ill-will.
Hyacinth Bennett
The Opposition in a most ungracious, viscerally driven scramble to recapture political ascendancy stated essentially that the minister of justice unjustifiably delayed the signing of the authority to proceed for nine months.
The unvarnished truth is that this clutching-at-straws ostrich-in- the-sand motion aimed at rehabilitating the image of the Oppo-sition is going to exit this House in a mere whimper in no time at all.
Marlene Malahoo Forte
No right-thinking Jamaican has been spared hurt, disappointment in any corner, but to say that the minister is to be condemned because the way she has used her power has caused unprecedented scorn and embarrassment to be heaped upon Jamaica within the community of nations, is not so.
Warren Newby
I find that they (Opposition) are interested in their own truth, they are interested in the vilification of the Government and of the wasting of the Parliament’s time … . This motion is about unadulterated partisanship.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100703/lead/lead5.html
“It was clear that the public- interest concerns had become paramount and compelling and that this required exercising my discretion so as to at least diminish and/or allay those concerns,” Lightbourne contended.
The justice minister also stoutly defended her earlier position not to sign the request due to an insistence that the rule of law must be followed.
The opposition senators called for a commission of enquiry into the extradition affair as well as the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips saga.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100703/lead/lead2.html
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=2898&id=8
lways truthful says:
June 29, 2010 at 10:27 pm
Al Miller lied for Theodore Whitmore, who was driving the car that crashed & killed Reggae Boy Shorty Malcolm in 2001.
Al Miller swayed a lot of his church memebers to give him money to invest in Olint, an illegally operated entity.
Now Al Miller wants us to believe he had good intentions to take Dudus into the US Embassy.
Al Miller has ALways being of shady character but time has now caught up with him. I never ever trust this man & he could never preach to me.
http://www.sunheraldja.com/2010/06/miller-slapped-with-criminal-charges/comment-page-2/#comments
????????
I believe Lewin was a Peter Phillips (PNP) “plant”.
O.K. Eileen, we take your word for it!
I’m curious though? Is this the same belief system you relied on when you made the decision to join Floridian and company and invest in Olint, with the expectation that you would earn in excess of 10 % return on your investment? If it is, my level of confidence in what you believe has just precipitously collapsed. 🙂
http://johnww.wordpress.com/2010/07/02/hardley-can-be-take-seriously/
Frustration in Panama
“I say with much humility and respect that this is an imaginary banking scheme,”
The former leader denies laundering 15m francs (2.3m euros, $2.8m, £1.9m) from Colombia’s Medellin cocaine cartel in the late 1980s through the now-defunct Bank of Credit and Commerce International.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/latin_america/10449768.stm
Accountability Demands the PM’s Resignation
In the mean time there are some unfinished businesses that must be properly settled.
• Was Manatt Phelps & Phillips hired by the Government or the JLP?
• If it was not the Government then, who was responsible for the payment made for the services rendered? • Who will be paying the unpaid balance?
• Has any further payment been made? If so when and by whom? Was it Coke himself who paid, if not then who?
• Who had such interest to prevent Coke’s extradition that they were prepared to fund that US$400,000 fee for the services of MP&P?
• Why did the Prime Minister not have the Attorney General hire MP&P to assist in resolving the differences in interpretation of the extradition treaty that had occurred?
• Why did the Prime Minister try to make the JLP the negotiator of matters relating to a treaty between the USA and Jamaica and to go as far as to have funds collected to meet that expense?
• MP&P have stoutly maintained that they were hired by the Government of Jamaica. Were they deceived or are we being deceived by statements to the contrary?
• On this matter, does the Prime Minister have a chance of a succeeding in a defamation suit against ABC Network? I think not. Can he sue ABC Network locally? I think not.
• The Prime Minister has Hobson’s choice in this matter. If he does not sue, he stands diminished and if he sues unsuccessfully, he is even more diminished. But while he is undergoing this period of personal torment Jamaica’s reputation is wallowing in the mud.
http://www.sunheraldja.com/2010/07/accountability-demands-the-pm’s-resignation/
Shut Up!
Published: Sunday | July 4, 2010
The Government is combing through the Official Secrets Act to see if it can find provisions to silence Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin, whose devastating allegations have rocked the administration.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=466
No Dirty Money
Government member of parliament (MP) Dr St Aubyn Bartlett is calling for legislation to require persons accused of some crimes to prove the source of the money they use to pay their lawyers.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=841
Sunday Observer – EDITORIAL
Don’t take this so personal, Minister Robertson
Sunday, July 04, 2010
It is very clear to us that Energy Minister James Robertson doesn’t quite get it.
Huff and puff as he may about questions being asked by the Press regarding the approval of a bid by a consortium of local and foreign investors to establish a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Regasification Terminal and Natural Gas Transportation System in Jamaica, he cannot escape this one fact: that the procurement process and the involvement of Mr Ian Moore in the consortium are issues that must be examined.
Minister Robertson is misguided in his belief that the media’s scrutiny could jeopardise the project and that there are journalists intent on doing just that.
According to the Office of the Contractor General (OCG), its checks of the records of the Registrar of Companies of Jamaica show Mr Moore as a director of Caribbean LNG (Jamaica) which was incorporated in Jamaica on June 19, 2009, approximately seven months after he demitted office as chairman of the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ).
Where the major problem arises is in the OCG’s claim that the LNG procurement process was initiated in April 2007. At that time, Mr Moore was still chairman of the PCJ.
The contractor general and the Press cannot therefore be faulted for wanting to determine whether Mr Moore’s firm benefited from any insider information he would have acquired while he chaired the PCJ board.
We submit though, that while the OCG’s investigation may determine that there was no impropriety on Mr Moore’s part, all this could have been avoided had there been regulation that delays, say for two years, holders of sensitive positions in public office from investing in projects in the sectors in which they served. Especially if the project was initiated during the life of their tenure.
That, we suspect, would protect people with a wish to invest their own money from the pain of unnecessary accusations and suspicion.
Diplomacy in the age of unaccountability
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Diplomacy-in-the-age-of-unaccountability_7766799
From: Audrey Marks [mailto:apmarks@paymaster-online.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 4:45 PM
To: dsmith@kasnet.com
Subject: Better future
Dear David, just a quick note to say; so far …. so good with the results, just waiting on the next two recounts to exhale. Regards, Audrey.
JA Cynic
7/4/2010
When I grow up, I would like to be a local consultant to a foreign firm which has obtained a multi-million U$ contract with the GOJ.In the meanwhile, I will just have to assist in funding the election campaign of the party likely to win the next election.That should put me in good stead
JA Cynic
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/Don-t-take-this-so-personal–Minister-Robertson_7771282
hahahahaaahahahahahaaaaaaa…
So vacuous and absurd were the prime minister’s arguments about protecting Mr Coke’s rights and the nation’s sovereignty that the scam was easily exposed. The public overwhelmingly demanded the prime minister’s resignation. He retreated to the bunker of his party’s Central Executive which, through the charade of rejecting an offer to resign and accepting an apology, gave him a political lifeline. And how politically adroitly, if callously, he has used it!
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100704/cleisure/cleisure2.html
Seagaites 6 hours ago
Well written and articulated,Mr. Clarke:Violence begt violence:
Golding,`flip-flap` and apparent,oh, obvious phoniness, is blaringly,glaringly,appalling, it sick stomach.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100704/cleisure/cleisure2.html
David Biles
7/4/2010
We all know that Mr. Nelson will NOT file a lawsuit against the Former Commissioner of Police now or anytime in the future. Like the implied lawsuit that Mr. Vaz said would be initiated against Mr. Brady, Mr. Nelson’s impending lawsuit will be stuck in perpetuity. He knows that Mr. Lewin has ream of data at his disposal and if released, would further damaged and embarrass the Bruce Golding Administration. It’s just a bunch of hot air……Just watch!
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Diplomacy-in-the-age-of-unaccountability_7766799
UDC Admits Dudus-Linked Company Still On Its Payroll
“We wish to state for the record that the UDC, in expediting what was deemed to be an urgent request from a Gleaner reporter to meet a cut-off deadline for publication, stated: “The UDC has not awarded any contract to Bulls Eye Security Services Limited.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100705/lead/lead2.html
Does Reverend Miller have any choice other than to resign? Is he still at work?
http://rjrnewsonline.com/editorials/does-reverend-miller-have-any-choice-other-resign-he-still-work
Rev Miller should have understood immediately that his position as head of the Government’s values and attitudes programme was untenable…
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100705/cleisure/cleisure2.html
What a major disappointment G2K’s public relations puppetry has become. Sadly, G2K seems helpless in keeping itself from falling prostrate on the same poisoned sword that has contaminated its parent organisation.
This is an example of a group to whom we cannot entrust power because they represent neither transformational change nor intellectual honesty. By its own deeds, G2K has confirmed that it is cut from the same cloth, stitched with the same yarn and stamped with the same label as its parent group. But once we extricate ourselves from this kind of politics where groups like G2K cannot bring themselves to promote country above party, or espouse earnestness above hypocrisy, then transformation would be within grasp. It can certainly happen, if we vote in sufficient numbers against loafers, yes-men and lackeys and let them know that parliamentary timidity and double standards will not cut it.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Moving-beyond-PM-Golding-s-leadership-style_7767576
AFTER….
The Government is combing through the Official Secrets Act to see if it can find provisions to silence Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin, whose devastating allegations have rocked the administration.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100704/lead/lead1.html
BEFORE….
Abolish Official Secrets Act – JLP
Observer Reporter
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
THE Jamaica Labour Party yesterday called for the immediate repeal of the Official Secrets Act, as the nation marks National Journalism Week.
The JLP, in a statement yesterday, said that the Official Secrets Act was conceived in a colonial era when the business of government was considered to be the business of the governors and not the ordinary people who were expected to take whatever they got and ask no questions.
“It has no place in a modern, democratic society committed to openness, transparency and accountability,” said the party’s information spokesman Dwight Nelson.
http://m.jamaicaobserver.com/news/116252_Abolish-Official-Secrets-Act—JLP
Quack Quack…Flap Flip…Quack Quack…
The party, meanwhile, restated its intention to introduce whistle blower legislation in order to promote clean and corruption-free government, in which the resources of the country would not be plundered and abused by a reckless, insensitive and corrupt government.
Opposition Senator K.D. Knight and his government colleague from the Lower House, Clive Mullings, expressed concern that the media may not enjoy qualified privilege in helping to blow the whistle on corrupt persons. They argued strongly for amendments to the proposed law.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100703/lead/lead8.html
UDC Admits Dudus-Linked Company Still On Its Payroll
But, last week, in a letter to The Gleaner, the UDC said it erred in its denial.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100705/lead/lead2.html
The Urban Development Corporation (UDC) leased the Ferry Quarry to Incomparable Enterprise on February 1, 2009 for $2.9 million annually, payable monthly in advance in equal instalments of $241,667. Under the agreement there is a rental increase of 10 per cent per annum, for five years with option to renew.
http://www.sunheraldja.com/2010/05/dudus-grows-richer/
Learning how media is ‘set’
THE JAMAICA House-produced radio call-in programme ‘Jamaica House Live’, with Prime Minister Bruce Golding’, has seemingly lost its way, or has veered away from its intended purpose.
I was in total support of the programme as conceptualised as an avenue for the PM to interact directly with ordinary Jamaicans to discuss important national issues. However, but for the PM’s opening remarks of each show, it has become mostly a beggars’ or social-welfare request programme to satisfy the supplications of individuals.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100706/letters/letters4.html
Just when the Golding government felt that the heat was off from the “Dudus” affair, and the administration’s spin doctors seemingly satisfied with the made-over, “reincarnated” image of the prime minister, another bolt of lightning hit with the revelations made last week by former police commissioner, Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin.
It was the kind of television interview that Jamaicans are unaccustomed to seeing in a country where cover-up and complicity are the name of the game. Determined not to mince words, the man who had also been army chief shared information not heard before about the early days of the extradition process. As he spoke, a much clearer picture emerged of the beginnings of what would become one of the worst scandals in Jamaica’s history. Then Admiral Lewin dropped the bomb. Speaking firmly and forthrightly, he told the nation that within minutes of his disclosure of the extradition request to the country’s security minister, the information was leaked to Christopher “Dudus” Coke.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Let-the-truth-come-out-_7774865
Motty say “I don’t know what to say about it”
hahahahaa….buy some tissue Motty!
Come on Motty…some Spin is still in you….Spin Spin Spin…you can do it!
Island_Yute 8 hours ago
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I believe you, Rear Admiral Lewin. And many other Jamaicans believe you, too. For it doesn’t take much to see what went down here. That Mr. Golding and him crew mess up di country like dis is terrible, but that they are still in office is an even worse predicament for JA.
Sir, you will be vindicated even though there might not be a need for such. Stay strong. For Jamaica sure needs good men like you around.
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Gabre Selassie 10 hours ago
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You along with the constable accused of the illegal wiretapping are our heros. In the eyes of the civil society of Jamaica you do not need to be vindicated. We believe every word you have said. A lie used to travel faster than the truth in the past but due to technology they cant trick us anymore.
We are also confident in the victory of good over evil. We are with you sir. God bless you…
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vhpy 9 hours ago
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Rear Admiral Lewin, there are many of us who know you will be vindicated. You were not the one responsible for giving Dudus a copy of the extradition order from the U.S. government found in his office at Tivoli. You certainly did not sanction, nor did pay $50,000 to any law to act on your as prime minister or on behalf as leader of JLPregarding the Dudus extradition matter. The chips will soon be falling and threats of law suits will not even matter then. Be strong.
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Gabre Selassie 5 hours ago
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From another perspective, based on the comments from readers in both of our major newspapers, it is actually the government that needs to vindicate itself. The word vindicete according to the US edition of the Oxford dictionary means to clear of blame or suspicion, or establish your merits of justice. Mr Lewin statements and character are more credible and he does not need to vindicate himself from people who have been proven to lack integrity. I accept the PM and the governments apology and confession but we do not desire their services due to lack of trust. Even if Mr Lewins timing is a bit off I respect his stance and would encourage anyone who has any similar information to boldly step forward. We have whitewashed things in Jamaica for far too long now. Dont wait until the next Dudus is created by corrupt politicians to defend their turf. Let us seize this opportunity now. I am calling on every politician from both parties who has any kind of integrity to follow the Admirals example.
Right now I feel like I would literally stand on the battllefield and fight for Jamaica with Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin as my leader.
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Mace Windu 5 hours ago
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Mr. Lewin, the JLP administration behavior and action within the past 9 months have already vindicated you. Their action are consistent with your statement. Mr. Nelson time would better serve Jamaican to go and investigate who in his party paid the $50,000 to Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, how Dudus received the extradition papers and why is Coke’s businesses are still on the government payroll.
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Joy 10 hours ago
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Commander Lewin you are so RIGHT. You let the puss out the bag, the whiskers are spreading far and wide and is tickling some very cruel outbursts. Vindicated you must , you will be, because you speak the truth. Go for it Commander, we are with you .
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Island_Yute 5 hours ago in reply to Joy
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….And yuh know wen puss get out of di bag it’s bangarang….
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Guest 10 hours ago
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I am sure you will be vindicated. The reaction to discredit you and politicize your revelation show sign of guilt. We the people of Jamaica know the truth despite all the denial and outbursts.
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Leonie Rainford 5 hours ago
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Rear Admiral Lewin what is done in the dark will come out in the light.
We believe you are telling the truth – to those who seek to muzzle you it is only matter of time for them to be exposed for what they truly are.
God bless you for having the courage to speak up!
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Mr. P 6 hours ago
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Mr. Lewin, in 2009 when you resigned all of Jamaica were behind you as they saw that you were a man of integrity. You are still the same person you are not a mad or vengeful man like many would like us to believe, I believe you know what u are doing so keep on keeping on…….
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ission 5 hours ago
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I do belive if some of us was not so dam scared what happen would not have to happen.we have people hide behinde the jacket and tie.and behinde the MP.thing that they forget about what is true or false.they should have a comission of inqurie and see who goes to jail and what secrets they are hiding.the TURKS and CACIOS have one,the BAHAMAS did have one against the Prime Minister PINDLING,so why we cant have none against Bruce Golding.& portia. I belive you SIR and no matter what they say.stand up with your head High.because.you will be vindicate.dont mind the noise in the market if you start talking.some will take a BOW.
ACOM…you pap dung?
ACOM how are you so Objective? Thought you were tackling governments? Have you tackled the Jamaican one?
Posted July 2, 2010: The TCI court in the first sitting of the frequently-postponed trial of David Smith, was true-to-form on June 28 when it again postponed the trial until September 23, 2010.
As usual, it was the prosecution that confessed to being unprepared and lacking in credible grounds on which to attempt to convict Mr. Smith. However, this lack of evidence and a credible case has not prevented the Special Prosecutor, imported from the United Kingdom, from trying and convicting Mr. Smith in the public domain.
It is clear to many of us that both the TCI local Government and the Court are to varying degrees, involved in a conspiracy of corruption in the handling of the charges brought against David Smith. And whereas we maintain, that we can neither confirm nor deny his innocence or guilt of the charges laid, it is clear to a blind man that the TCI administration first chose to attack Mr. Smith, and then began to try to build a case against him. We have no choice but to conclude that they will never finish building a prosecutable case, if one did not exist at the beginning.
The aggravation of the situation is that it takes only a few short breaths and no sweat for the judge to continually put off the case again and again and again, and by so doing, prolong our agony and anguish.
http://www.associationofconcernedolintmembers.info/index.php/news/the-news/143-tci-court-deliberately-stalls-again.html
It took only a few short breaths and no sweat for the criminals to run off with the money…
The Spin doctors and PR needed to TRY “cover tracks” now was never bargained for…ehh ACOM??
“As usual, it was the prosecution that confessed…”
Utter rubbish..Deacon confessed and retracted and has confessed again.
Stop mislead sheep ACOM…you slip a show. Find some money to pay back…your feeder entities owe it.
What ever happened to Connely’s Jamaica groups…unsecured and secured lalala…Silence means…
Tip of the day:
YOU ARE BEING RAILROADED….
July 6, 2010 – The Anatomy of the current Healthcare Scam
On June 28th 2010, around 10:00p.m., Mr. Haywood McIntosh a 25 year old Belonger is shot while walking with his friend.
Rushed to the hospital in Providenciales, it is discovered that he has a bullet lodged near his spine. By 02:30 a.m. in the early morning the doctors determine that in order to prevent possible paralysis he must be flown out for treatment since they cannot handle the situation in Provo.
NHIP is contacted for permission. Their response: “Mr. McIntosh is not enrolled with the NHIP and therefore we are not willing to assume financial responsibility for him.”
A frantic day of heart wrenching agony for the staff of the hospital and after many pleas from multiple quarters, 24 hours after the fact, the NHIP says they will make an exception, and decide to fly him out for treatment………………to Jamaica.
The best hospital in Jamaica?……..NO! To Kingston Public Hospital. Closest hospital to Tivoli Gardens (a low income area where recent rioting and carnage has left at least 80 people dead) and one in an area not safe to be in at night. The hospital only resumed limited service on June 2nd following violence in the neighborhood, and services mainly low income residents of Kingston.
Why did this occur?
As always, follow the money.
We once asked Colin Roberts of the FCO who Attorney General Kurt daFreitas was sleeping with at the FCO, for surely there could be no other conceivable explanation why he had maintained his job for so long after being so obviously incompetent.
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=2912&id=8
New Thread
The debate that Mr Lewin’s claim has sparked is, in our view, further evidence that Jamaica will not get past this difficult period until there is an opportunity to get out the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about the handling of the extradition request and the Manatt Phelps & Phillips episode. All of which subsequently led to the implosion and massive loss of life in Tivoli Gardens, West Kingston.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/Mr-Lewin-or-Mr-Nelson–of-whom-should-we-be-afraid-_7778059
Norman Lee
7/7/2010
The Commission of Enquiry will only come after the 2012 general elections when Bruce, Dor and most of the lot of yes MP’s are thrown out of power. That will be the first act of the new government.
Bruce waited a long time to be PM and he dont give a damn what the people thinks of his stewardship and links with fugitives.
In the meantime the people must be constantly reminded of the egregious actions of Bruce, Dor and the JLP and the tarnishing of Jamaica’s image on the international scene.
EYEBROWS WERE raised in Gordon House yesterday after it was reported that $21 million was allegedly fleeced from the Ministry of Finance by a senior executive who has since resigned and is said to have migrated.
Visibly upset members of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) grilled senior technocrats on the issue, demanding answers on how this could have happened at a ministry where checks and balances should have been supreme.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100707/lead/lead6.html
Extradition from the USA? Bahamas? Brazil? Panama?
The Jamaican political economy is in shambles. The events over the last nine months have sullied ‘Brand Jamaica’ in the international marketplace. It has also weakened local confidence in the brand.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100707/cleisure/cleisure4.html
Finance ministry robbed
AG uncovers $21-m fraud at finance ministry
THE finance ministry was hit by further embarrassment yesterday, following news that the Auditor General’s Department has uncovered fraud totalling $21 million.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Finance-ministry-robbed_7778350
Maroon Descendant
7/7/2010
We are returning to the days of them and us, but it is not the white man who are enslaving us now, but those who were elected to lead.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/The-British-Caribbean-and-its-history_7773228
“…it’s an ethical issue…”
“…he must go back and look at his Character..”
“..In any other country…”
Lloyd B Smith.
LRC July 6th 2010.
“…If we allow what is unfolding to cloud what is a basic ethical issue….issue of trust…”
“…very presence continues to make people uncomfortable…”
“what is the legacy we are leaving for our children and grandchildren in the long run…”
” I don’t think history will absolve him…”
“….should take a page out of that book…”
Without full disclosure of political contributions, our political parties could run the risk of being dictated to by crime bosses.
The PNP should stop talking out of both sides of its mouth and boldly insist on full public disclosure of political party contributors. Along with this, it must also campaign for reform of our libel laws that would allow the press greater freedom to expose and track corruption, especially that involving kickbacks from campaign funding.
http://www.sunheraldja.com/2010/07/shame-on-the-pnp/
Nonco, Subie…Can your unequivocal support for the above be counted on? Or are you one sided. I support the sentiment and a retroactive review of the funding of the 2007 election campaigns is the only thing that can engender credibility.
Noncs….waiting patiently for your comment on this one!
Commission for the Prevention of Corruption
(e) To conduct an investigation into an act of corruption on its own initiative, if it is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for such investigation.
http://www.moj.gov.jm/node/view/8
“What’s for lunch today?” Curry Goat and white rice as usual.
hahahaha…don’t forget the tin pan or plastic fi carry home….hehehehe
“Even if Mr. Lewin is called to substantiate it through a commission of inquiry or a lawsuit and he can’t, the damage has already been done.”
Farsical.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=466
And once something is well substantiated? Want more proof? Take your stand first.
Deacon? How you do?
Oh yes…you did take your stand first….
Commission of enquiry into Manatt, Phelps Phillips.
The debate that Mr Lewin’s claim has sparked is, in our view, further evidence that Jamaica will not get past this difficult period until there is an opportunity to get out the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about the handling of the extradition request and the Manatt Phelps & Phillips episode.
Paul Gentles
7/7/2010
I suspect the Editor is playing devil’s advocate here.Borrowing from the Editor..It is difficult for any right thinking person not to conlude…that Mr Lewin would be in serious hot water if his words had no merit!
The minister of insecurity would not attempt to muzzle Mr Lewin if he did not know he can “bite”.
The present govt. troubles are their own,why try to share it? Lets not dilute their wrongs.
JA Cynic
7/7/2010
In today’s world, Official Secrets Act cannot be used any longer as a cover for governmental corruption, the abuse of state power, or official deception.
Failure to disclose the wrong means that you are part of the official conspiracy and are to some extent guity as the conspirators.
It will all come out some day. All governments are intent on delaying exposure until it is of minimal political consequence. Invariably, some will fail.
JA Cynic
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/Mr-Lewin-or-Mr-Nelson–of-whom-should-we-be-afraid-_7778059
Nationwide July 7th 2010
Kevin O’Brien Chang, ” The opposition is trying to make a mountain out of a molehill…”
On Patterson and the shell waiver, “Nobody questioned his credibility as a leader”
Utter lie and farce …maybe you didn’t…and even if you did two wrongs don’t make a right. (Both argument when your desperate).
In the last week he has met with the 5 most powerful men in the world? Noreiga has met many more powerful than that.
This youth loose his mind. The issues go way way way beyond political capital…political capital at this point is the least.
Spin Spin though..proceed. Can you live with such values?
Cool boss..good good good..hahahahahahaa
Floridian, you remind me off those madmen who walk around talking to themselves…LOL!
What is your purpose in posting all these “copy and paste”? Seriously! The point of a blog, is to exchange ideas and argue points. This is not your soapbox to spew your personal agendas.
Since June 25th, when I lasted made a post. There have been ONLY three post by someone other than yourself. You have submitted over 75 post from June 25th!! Don’t you find that weird? Where is the dialogue?
When I first started reading this blog, I was intrigued but quickly realized that you spoke in circles, never really enlightening anyone on your “inside” knowledge. Always wanting us to read in between the lines or look deep within ourselves. I don’t think you have ever given us any revelation on Olint or the whole JLP/Dudus issue.
You seem a very bitter man who blames the JLP for you Olint disaster. Which is funny within itself, because you keep pointing out the campaign money DS contributed to the JLP. While totally ignoring the same amount of money he contributed to the PNP. First rule of being a businessman in Jamaica, you contribute to both parties.
I know my “complaining” will not deter you in your journey. but at least add some substance to your ramblings. Give us some facts.
Have a wonderful night sir and I look forward to your elegant, scathing, sarcastic, witty response…..
Olinter Pictorial again
“The US visa process is well scrutinised. If it serves the US, then it serves us. What I do believe needs to be done now is to consider allowing entry to persons with US- issued visas.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100708/lead/lead6.html
PM not in this photo…hmmm…that’s strange….everyone else got snapped.
Media…not asking the Cayman leader about the Olint emails he is the subject of while he visits your backyard?? Slacking World Class journalists…slacking….time waits on no journalist.
In addition, how did Harold Brady and the financiers of US$400,000 know about the extradition from at least September?
But there are another 100 reasons. The PM has admitted that he sanctioned the hiring of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. The Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) hijacking the role of the Government is novel as the Golding government sought to undermine itself. However, this rare, corrupt act has not been investigated by the Anti-Corruption Commission.
Furthermore, Manatt claims that it was not hired to deal with Dudus’ extradition case. If Manatt is being truthful, then the real reason for entering into a contract valued at US$400,000 was not to fight the extradition. It means the JLP financiers were hoodwinked, Dudus was deceived and the JLP destabilised for this corrupt scheme. What then was the scheme?
The PM has not explained how Manatt was “made to believe” that they were employed by the Government, neither has he provided documentary evidence that Manatt was not paid with tainted money.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100708/cleisure/cleisure2.html
“He must say the basis on which I made that statement is as follows, so that we have something to respond to,” added Golding.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=466
Golding told journalists that he was unable to say if legal action will be taken against Lewin. (Flap-Flop)
“I understand that Minister Nelson has raised that issue and it is something that I will have to discuss with him,” Golding said. (Reprimand)
But he was under no illusion that even a court victory would remove the stain caused by the allegations. (Escape Attempt)
You can never remove it. (I can’t be vindicated)
Local media will keep us abreast of the ABC news suit.
Sue ABC. Threaten Olinters with suits…then no suit for Lewin. What flip flopping is that?
Deacon, the Polo cap and the Polo shirt not matching..:-)
MANDEVILLE, Manchester – General Secretary of the People’s National Party (PNP) Peter Bunting has said that the “still unexplained” payment of $US49,000 to US law firm, Manatt, Phelps and Phillips to facilitate a controversial lobbying effort by the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is further evidence of the need for “full disclosure” on financial contributions to political parties.
Bunting noted that while the bungled effort purportedly by the JLP to lobby the US government “against the extradition of Christopher Coke” had caused great problems for the Government, the country had not been told “who that secret donor was (that was) willing to give US$49,000 as a down payment on a contract of US$400,000”.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Bunting-wants-full-disclosure_7778150
Motty I disagree. The Prime Minister of Jamaica be it Shearer, Manley, PJ, Portia, Seaga or Golding or any other is NOT chosen to be Prime Minister by the people of Jamaica.
They are chosen by their constituents.
Motty…go out graceful nuh? You guiding your listeners “WRONG”
And that does NOT help Jamaica.
Tivoli residents want int’l enquiry
The suit was filed on behalf of the Portland-based group Jamaican Forum for Human Rights, of which Harris-Barrington is president, and names Prime Minister Bruce Golding, Attorney General Dorothy Lightbourne, Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn, Governor General Sir Patrick Allen and former Police Commissioner Rear Admiral Hardly Lewin as defendants.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Tivoli-residents-want-int-l-enquiry
If the false claim that attendance by Ban Ki Moon and Strauss is an endorsement then why the fuss of the PNP not being there? If the first (rubbish) premise is to hold true then Non Attendance just means no endorsement.
Ban and Strauss attend to endorse (hogwash)…so if you are the PNP and don’t endorse you should attend too?
Amateur….
Prime Minister Bruce Golding has challenged Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin, the former police commissioner, to provide facts…
Same strategy again!!!! I thought Brady was out of the picture? Very Brady…very…yes YOU
MEMBERS of the Joint Select Committee of Parliament considering the protected disclosures (whistle-blower) legislation are at odds with a provision in the bill making it mandatory for employees to report wrongdoings to their bosses first.
hahahahahaahaaaahhaaa…Tom drunk but him nuh fool..
Report it to the boss first..hahahahaahahahaahaaa
“You know boss…I think Olint in collusion with this organisation you know…”
hahahaahahaaaa
Johnston International placed in Receivership
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=2925&id=8
Ruthiehinesx 16 hours ago
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Hang in there Lewin and stick to your guns. We all know that Golding is a one man horse and pony show (smoke and mirrors). How long has it been since he lied to the good people of JA and covered it up? Not that long ago, he is just trying to save face and not get booted out of office. Blessings Mr Lewin. Resign Mr. Golding.
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Jacaran 17 hours ago
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Earlier on Mr Golding was willing to pay $US400,000 to protect Mr Coke from US justice. He proved through his actions and lies that he was ok with the recurring slaughter Jamaicans and the illegal trade of guns and drugs. His sole interest in the matter was to protect a hoodlum associate.
Today, his response to a most serious issue of the day is frivolous drivel. According to him, the subject thug was in TG everyday. Has he never left? Was he there during Mr Lewin’s meetings? He needs to tell why the idea that Coke bolted to TG upon being tipped is joke.
Further, the allegations made by Mr Lewin is a stain on no one. They are exactly the actions we expect of the PM and other politicians with shared sentiments towards criminals and crime. In his case there is no possibilty for further stain.
Finally, as far as I am aware, the purpose of the Official Secrets Act is to protect government information. Surely our society is at its lowest when we put in office politicians who think that allegations (or actual facts) of malfeasance are protected government information.
Mikalis 18 hours ago
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Well Jamaica cannot believe what Mr Golding says. Next week he will admit that Mr Lewin spoke the truth….maybe.
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John Smith 17 hours ago
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Bruce and his security minister need to come out on the same wavelength. On the one hand, Mr Nelson is trying to keep Mr. Lewin quiet, while on the other hand Mr Golding is trying to get him to speak up? Or is Mr Golding just taunting Mr. Lewin because they raised the spectre of lawsuits and official secrets acts. Either way, the best time to come out with it Rear Admiral, is when Bruce calls elections. Then we’ll see how much time they have to devote to official secrets acts and lawsuits.
Guest 13 hours ago
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Does the PM really want to go that “prove it” route again, did he not learn anything from the Mannatt affair? people usually just tell you some of what they know, and when you push them they give you the rest.
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The present administrition is incompetent in providing the kind of leadership both in Jamaica and the caribbean, enough of the lies, Jamaica needs leadership that will put Jamaica and it peoples first, not the party or individual. The Bruce Golding administration through the Dudus saga has proven through their action that they are not truthful and honest, enough of the drama, do us good Jamaican a favor resign so we can have competent leaders that will put Jamaica first and help us regain our sense of pride…
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US embassy increasing visa fees
JamaicaObserver.com
Friday, July 09, 2010
THE United States Department of State this morning announced an impending increase of fees associated with applying immigrant visas and citizenship services.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/US-embassy-increasing-visas-fees
How Come!!! Bruce had a photo with Obama and that was an endorsement! How come the people of Jamaica must pay for endorsement through their empty pockets!
Something fishy…
FLORIDA, CMC – A United States federal judge has sentenced a Jamaican-born former City Commissioner to more than four years in prison on bribery and extortion charges.
US District Judge James Cohn imposed the sentence on Fitzroy Salesman, 53, who begged for compassion.
“The shame that has been brought on me and my family, if I could give my life to reverse it, your honour, I would,” Salesman told the judge before sentencing on Thursday.
He told the judge that if making contributions to charities and campaigns were a crime, “I guess all the way down from the White House to city halls, crimes have been committed.”
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=20855
That one seems to be over Jay..he’s moving on.
Cull….that one was more than 2 years but it seems to be resolved now.
“Salesman said he was working as a legitimate political consultant while he was suspended from public office.”
It is not a long sentence he can go back into politics when he gets out.
Agricultural Ministry encouraging Jamaican public to eat lionfish.
The species are considered voracious eaters, consuming as much as 20 small fish in less than 30 minutes.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=20856
Ironic…
…not a person that could be trusted to run the country again.
They must think the people are stupid.
http://tcweeklynews.com/clients/tcweeklynews/let-me-take-us-out-this-mess-misick-to-run-for-pnp-leadership-p2098.htm?twindow=Default&smenu=1&mad=No
“Also appearing at the June 22 hearing was Wendal Swann, chairman of the All Party Commission.
Swann Trowbridge..
http://tcweeklynews.com/clients/tcweeklynews/usbased-belongers-petition-un-over-britains-failures-p2093.htm?twindow=Default&smenu=1&mad=No
Garlick Probing Civil Servants
…the nature of the investigation is complex and wide-ranging and will require many more interviews of persons in the TCI and elsewhere.”
…and if former Governor Richard Tauwhare and AG Kurt deFreitas will also be questioned.
Blackman said she was concerned as to the effect it could have on the health and longevity of her parents,…
Once the investigations get going and certain things are revealed much worst would be said,” Blackman noted.
Don’t be concerned for me; be concerned for those who are in hot water.
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=1003
*** Humour *** – The following was doing the rounds of TCI email boxes yesterday
The Turks & Caicos Islands, a British Overseas Territory that is currently under direct rule from the United Kingdom, has been placed into receivership.
In a paid newspaper advertisement signed by Andrew Ashcroft, Managing Director of British Caribbean Bank (BCB), formerly Belize Bank, on July 7, 2010, it was stated that the appointed receivers of the Turks & Caicos Islands would be David Smith, former head of the Jamaican investment club OLINT, and Anthony Kikivarakis & Mark Munnings of Deloitte & Touche Bahamas.
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=2931&id=8
http://wiv4.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/0707-jamaican-conciliate/
1) Appoint a British or CCJ judge to inquire into events from August 2009 to July 2010.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/The-Bruce-and-Dudus-debacle
Wikileaks founder who torments the Pentagon comes out of shadows.
Speaking at the Centre for Investigative Journalism at City University last night, Mr Assange declared that the aggressive stance governments and corporations had taken against Wikileaks was proof that many are running scared of what the website can do.
“This is the smell of the fear that these organisations have of information coming out to the public.”
Over the past three years, the website has carved itself a niche as one of the most extensive and safest platforms for whistleblowers to leak to, bypassing mainstream media by getting previously hidden information straight into the public domain.
Wikileaks’ breaking stories…
*August 2007 – WikiLeaks unveils its first major scoop by exposing breath-taking levels of corruption by the family of the former Kenyan leader Daniel arap Moi. Julian Assange and activists in Kenya had got hold of a confidential report looking into the finances of Mr Moi’s family. The scoop made headlines around the world.
…and the next big leak?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/online/wikileaks-founder-who-torments-the-pentagon-comes-out-of-shadows-2022895.html
“bypassing mainstream media”
Now why would that be necessary….
And if ever there was a reason to doubt that the policy decision that gave rise to the mandatory provisions of the act might not necessarily have been arrived at in good faith, it would have to be the insistence, to this day, on the part of Ms Johnson Smith and her colleagues that the prime minister did nothing wrong.
Everything that these senators say and do must be viewed against the background of this very telling failure on their part to concede, as did Mr Bruce Golding, that his role in ‘Dudusgate’ was unwholesome and downright wrong.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/Are-these-senators-really-serious_7789559
Olinters always on the front pages…
It is ironic that at the precise moment the Senate is debating the Protected Disclosure Act (Whistle-blower Law) 2010, which fulfils a 2007 election promise of the Jamaica Labour Party, the minister is seeking to invoke the Official Secrets Act as a way of silencing the former commissioner as suggested by one media house.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Of-Whistle-blowing_7787906
Certainly we have seen how the prime minister went out on a limb to bat for Dudus and to slow down his extradition. We saw the pressures put on the PM to act, and we also saw the spineless members of his Senate endorsing his refusal to resign at a time when, by the prime minister’s own admission, he had been carrying the nation wide and playing dangerous games with the truth.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Hardley-Lewin-is-the-more-believable-one_7788269
Don’t Hold Your Breath
On Friday, July 2, during the urgings of the opposition senators that the Government should establish an independent commission of enquiry to receive evidence and make determinations and recommendations concerning the non-receding, still in-your-face extradition matter, the minister of national security, Senator Dwight Nelson, muttered: “Don’t hold your breath.”
And the national security minister and the Government are adamant that the full story relating to the pregnant issues surrounding the contract with the lobby firm will not be told, including the source of the funds that were paid, given all the linkages.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100711/focus/focus7.html
Sadly, the misconception and misjudgement of the Government as to the reality and the conventional sentiment as to what all this has caused was recently expressed in the Senate, which had just lost a junior foreign affairs minister to the machinations of the Government. That awkward expression came from the remaining junior minister in that ministry that in her travels, there has been no revelation of Jamaica’s image or Brand Jamaica having been tarnished. Later, on the same day, the evening news had the man at the heart of tourism in Jamaica lamenting that, as a result of how the extradition process was handled, our tourism product was on the market as “damaged goods”.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100711/focus/focus7.html
State capture occurs when special interests, including criminal interests, exert unethical and unlawful influence over governments through campaign finance, lobbying, bribing, intimidating, or any means, to get special advantages and benefits claimed to be in the national interest.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100711/focus/focus4.html
The questions that arose from Manatt Phelps & Phillips contract remain unresolved.
http://www.sunheraldja.com/2010/07/importance-of-lewin’s-disclosure/
G2K claim PNP intent on derailing crime fight
G2K acknowledged that while there is some disappointment with the Government’s handling of the “Dudus” extradition matter, Jamaica cannot waste the opportunity presented to cement a game-change..
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=20907
“game-change” ???? Obama can’t sleep now…hahahahaa “game-change”
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=466
“It is reflected by the circus-like side shows of no confidence motions and boycotting the recent CARICOM summit, it is reflected in the absence of solid alternatives to the current crime fighting strategies now being carried out by the government, so one can reasonably argue then that the PNP is nothing but a bunch of confused power hungry fanatics,” Mr. Seiveright said.
Frankly I believe we are now at the point where they are prepared to sacrifice the national interest in the pursuit of narrow partisan interest,” Mr. Seiveright said.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=485
CAFFE watching political campaigns too
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20070711/lead/lead2.html
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100622/lead/lead6.html
University professor Trevor Munroe is urging parliamentarians to fast-track legislation to cover the registration and financing of political parties.
And he is getting the full backing of election watchdog Citizen Action for Free and Fair Elections (CAFFE).
According to CAFFE, the recent events emanating from the Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke extradition matter, including the fallout over the engagement of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips by the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), provide a critical opportunity for accelerating reform.
This would force a tell-all on just how much they spend on annual meetings and the source of the millions.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=486
Stolen money.
They discussed it among themselves and said, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask, ‘Why didn’t you believe him?’ But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, because they are persuaded that John was a prophet.” So they answered, “We don’t know where it was from.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Render_unto_Caesar…
“We are war tax resisters because we have discovered some doubt as to what belongs to Caesar and what belongs to God, and have decided to give the benefit of the doubt to God.”
“I told him Caesar was getting too much around here and some one had to stand up for God.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Render_unto_Caesar…
Stolen money. Full Stop.
The [Continuing] Saga of Haywood McIntosh
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=2938&id=8
They hustle for you hard Deacon…football team….can’t manage yourself? Don’t worry…neither shall they…
Observer, Editorial July 14 2010
Indeed, if the festival was a purely private venture, as opposed to one that is endorsed by the government-owned Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) and the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) — which just happens to be chaired by one of Sumfest’s directors, Mr
Robert Russell — we’d have very little to say about it.
However, we cannot, in the face of all that has been happening over the past year, refrain from commenting on the out-of-orderness inherent in Mr Russell’s expressed expectation that Mr Palmer will be released in time to perform on the festival.
But he must not be allowed to forget that as a director of the TPDCo he is also representing a government which has yet to rinse itself of the stench from the mother of all scandals, ‘Dudusgate’.
At a time when crime is the biggest hurdle between the society and prosperity, we cannot sit by and allow the Government to talk out of one side of its mouth about fighting crime while appearing to endorse it on the other.
If it is really serious about leading this country, the Government must make all its representatives, from the Senate down, aware that whatever used to obtain in the past as far as cavorting with dubious characters was concerned, is over.
No matter how financially inconvenient it may turn out to be.
Telling your boss about your Olint membership
I suggested that the exception to mandatory internal disclosure as a first step be expanded to include circumstances now provided for under section 8 where the employee believes that if he or she disclosed the matter to his or her employer (a) he or she might suffer prejudicial treatment or (b) the employer would not investigate the matter properly or (c) evidence might be destroyed or concealed.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Clarifying-misconceptions-on-the-Whistle-blower-Bill_7794219
In the meantime, the refunds continue to accumulate interest, which means the Government will ultimately incur more expenses.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=20973
Was the Olint money for electioneering a “borrows?” Did the members consent to their money being sent there?
How it go Deacon? The money was not yours…that is certain.
Curry Goat can be returned?
hehe..
Mr Robert ‘Sumfest’ Russell is very out of order on Vybz Kartel
mike daley
7/14/2010
Well, the expectation of wholesale and overnight righteousness and integrity from all corners and all characters in public life & the private sector is a little unrealistic, but the message that “wi shouldn’t harbor slackness” is well stated. Still I am less ruffled by Sumfest Dir, Mr Robert Russell than I am by Kartel’s lawyer & 2 faced Sen. Tavares Finson who also openly express that Kartel will get to go to the event. As a sitting Sen. he should have opt out of representing Kartel & Dudus.
Jacqueline Samms
7/14/2010
Jamaican politics must be a source of comedy in the wider world, for it is hilarious to note that a sitting senator is a criminal representative, simultaneously . These senators have to vote on bills that affect the law governing criminality ,so how can they be serving tow masters at the same time? Isn’t it clear that there MUST be conflict of interest inherent in all this? Where are the voices of the bright and influential among us?
“…we’re going to go right back to square one when this thing is over…”
Kevin O’Brien Chang.
“…campaign financing, there is a serious link there…”
Lloyd B Smith.
The US law firm reveals that it got US$15,000 more to lobby on behalf of the Jamaican government than it had previously disclosed.
In its latest FARA filing, Manatt states that it received US$15,000 from attorney Harold Brady on March 19, more than a month after the Jamaican government terminated its agreement with the firm.
Just like past Justice Department filings, Manatt says it represented the Government of Jamaica in the U.S. regarding existing political and economic matters, including existing treaty agreements between Jamaica and the U.S., until its engagement was terminated on February 8.
Manatt has maintained that it had nothing to do with the Coke matter, a position which seemingly contradicts Prime Minister Bruce Golding’s statements that the firm was indeed hired, by the Jamaica Labour Party, not the government, to help resolve the extradition dispute.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/manatt-saga-back-spotlight
Extra US$15,000? Wha dat? Bex money? Take a taxi home then baby….
US$15,000..to have head examined?
“I made it clear, however, that this was an initiative to be undertaken by the [JLP], not by or on behalf of the government.”
he Party is fully aware of the source of these funds,” Golding stated. He said the funds came from unnamed “financial contributors to the Party,” and maintained that there was “absolutely nothing illegal or surreptitious” about his actions or those of the JLP.
sur·rep·ti·tious/ˌsərəpˈtiSHəs/
Adjective: Kept secret, esp. because it would not be approved of.
There are many persons who have indicated that they would be prepared to talk but only under the circumstances of some judicial or quasi-judicial authority,” Dr. Phillips.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/manatt-saga-back-spotlight
As with previous comments on the matter made by Brady, Golding, and other government officials, the prime minister’s statement on Tuesday directly contradicts Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) filings made with the U.S. Department of Justice by Manatt.
Asked if it was possible for a lawyer to honestly be confused about who his or her client was or what their lobbying interest was, Howard says: “Not with a filing like that.”
http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/amlawdaily/2010/05/jamaican.html
The US law firm reveals that it got US$15,000 more to lobby on behalf of the Jamaican government than it had previously disclosed.
A..A…A me did ….was…a go… just going to tell the nation bout the extra (how much dem seh again?)…I mean….I can’t remember…I mean I not saying …I neva know Manatt….but that specific…I mean…ah…ah.ah….
Manatt a demonstrate the “Whistleblower”…sorry I mean the “Clarifying misconceptions” …..cho…the “Protected Disclosures Act”…
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Clarifying-misconceptions-on-the-Whistle-blower-Bill_7794219
Ready Folks…..everybody feeling the ‘game-change”
The US law firm reveals that it got US$15,000 more to lobby on behalf of the Jamaican government than it had previously disclosed.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/manatt-saga-back-spotlight
Slow boat..
“I can’t help you at all, I am on my way to China, I am not in a position to comment. I don’t know anything about what you’re talking about. Call somebody in the JLP, call Mr Brady,” Samuda said.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Manatt-again_7800305
“Hold on…wait a minute….what a coincidence!….Brady is two rows down on the plane…hold on…..fancy meeting you here!”
“He’s in economy and well….I’m in…anyway… I not sending my cell down in economy…call him yourself…nuff man have phone!”
I can’t help you at all, I am on my way to China”
What an ad for China as a vacation getaway…it’s like a do not distub sign for the weary..hahhaaa
The irony is that the exuberant “Richie” called Motty from China yesterday and spoke for about an hour…
Motty..hawhawhawhawhawhaw ,,,heeehheh,,,ahhh…hahahahahahaaa…
Observer, Editiorial
The last thing we need is another parliamentarian who thinks that it is okay to vascillate between private and public roles when it is politically expedient to do so.
The last thing we need is another parliamentarian who cannot or will not provide the answers to questions concerning issues which relate to the integrity of the democracy which our forefathers fought so hard for.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/The-right-replacement-for-Kern-Spencer_7800445
hahahaha
Seivright on Warlow, “I think he’s…”
Munroe, “She’s a woman…”
Lawd Motty turn of the coach nuh? We can hear the wife through the speakers all the time.
Anyway the wife said “I don’t remember that” and you repeated like a parrot check the fact…and then remember
hawhawhaw..
As reported by local news sources and The Associated Press, Prime Minister Bruce Golding (pictured here) told his country’s parliament on Tuesday that he had approved retaining Manatt to help resolve the extradition standoff over Kingston businessman Christopher Coke,….
http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/amlawdaily/2010/05/jamaican.html
Remember coach? What about you Motty? See the fact is above.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/cartoon/
Head of the JHTA Negril Chapter Evlyn Smith says after seeing the effects of the situation in Tivoli and its environs on the children, they felt compelled to assist.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/children-tivoli-gardens-feted-negril
From: Joseph Smith (ja.smith@cwjamica.com)
To: David Smith
Contributions to “WORTHY CAUSES”
Dave,
I had detailed discussions with the four persons mentioned in my previous email and representatives of their management teams. They are all well organized but they have not budgetted adequetley in my opinion based on my experience. Being out in rural Jamaica they are so woefully uderfunded. Our two St. elizabeth persons have smaller populations than out Westmoreland and Manchester people. The two in St. elizabeth have budgets of J$6,000,000.00 each with 4 mil for the special big day alone. Each of the others are at just over $8 mil. they do not get money support from their head office. Each team has recieved some amount of contributions but they are no where close to where they should be. Knowing what we know, we would be particularly interested in the Mandeville person’s cause. The westmoreland person is in a similar position (see spread sheet that i emailed some time ago).
From what I know, the persons from the other side, are working with bigger budgets. Congtributions of: Westmoreland and Manchester US75,000.00 each and the two from St. elizabeth US$50,000.00 each would take them a far way. But Dave I would leave it up to your good judgement to decide what is affordable. If you can do more it would be great towards achieving the goal. the greater overall goal cannot be achieved if these four fail. But I know that you want to contribute to other similar cases as well. Bottom line is whatever you can do will e greatly appreciated by them and of course by us.
Joe
The US$15,000 paid to Manatt, Phelps & Phillips on March 19 was from the account of Harold Brady & Company, The Gleaner has confirmed.
The money was wire-transferred from a local commercial bank to the Comerica Bank-California and credited to the account of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips.
In instructions to the local bank, Brady said the payment covered attorney fees.
Brady has since claimed that the money was “a final payment under the commercial arrangements between the two law firms to terminate the contract in February 2010”.
floridian, on July 14, 2010 at 10:59 pm Said:
Ready Folks…..everybody feeling the ‘game-change”
The US law firm reveals that it got US$15,000 more to lobby on behalf of the Jamaican government than it had previously disclosed.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/manatt-saga-back-spotlight
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Obviously someone is stretching the truth in order to justify their personal agendas…..The above posting assumption has been shot down by Brady’s comments.
hahahahahahaha
If we like Dr Tufton, it’s for a good reason
Observer EDITIRIAL Friday, July 16, 2010
Gleaner EDITORIAL – Where Lasco’s IPO And Dr Tufton’s Vision Can Meet
Published: Friday | July 16, 20100
John Smith
7/16/2010
Well, if the two major newspapers can agree on Dr. Tufton’s competence, there must be something to it. Good works and vision backed by good credentials. Nice. Even more shocking is the editorial’s brief reference to PJ Patterson in what appears to be a positive tone? I guess he wasn’t all for mashing up the country then? Eh ‘Clovis’?
Cartoons, Dudus and politics in the media
Friday, July 16, 2010
Dr Franklin Johnston
Come on, commercial banks!
Finance minister urges local commercial banks to take up government papers
“I say to the commercial banks, come on board…when the interest rates are going in the wrong direction within days we get a response now interest rates are going in the right direction and months are passing and we are not seeing the response,”
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Come-on–commercial-banks-
Johnston staff owed “$2.5m” told “pack up and go home”
http://tcweeklynews.com/clients/tcweeklynews/johnston-staff-owed-m-told-pack-up-and-go-home-p2106-1.htm?twindow=Default&smenu=1&mad=No
TCI Bank liquidators are poised to surge ahead with winding up the collapsed firm – dashing account holders’ hopes of recovering their savings any time soon.
Ariel Misick QC, representing the National Insurance Board, one of the bank’s major shareholders, had previously presented an injunction to prevent advertising of the petition for winding up. He abandoned that application on Thursday and a date was fixed for a hearing.
http://tcweeklynews.com/clients/tcweeklynews/tci-bank-a-step-closer-to-liquidation-p2110-1.htm?twindow=Default&smenu=1&mad=No
ISLANDERS at the centre of the Chalk Sound land debacle are to be publicly named – along with full details of prices paid and plot sizes allotted.
And they are said to include a startling mix of eminent lawyers, planning bosses and environmental chiefs.
http://tcweeklynews.com/clients/tcweeklynews/chalk-sound-land-owners-to-be-named-p2102-1.htm?twindow=Default&smenu=1&mad=No
The chairman said releasing the names of those in receipt of the land would put ongoing debate over the matter “in context”.
“This is critical if we are to prevent instability and uncertainty in our society. Neither the Governor, Cabinet, nor planning officials can override the legislation. It will be a dereliction of our duty if we sanction any leaning of the law.”
Ja should impose visa restrictions on TCI islanders, says honorary consul
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=867
JAMAICA’S Honorary Consul to the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) Allan Hutchinson believes his country has been too slow in reciprocating the visa requirement for Turks and Caicos islanders given that Jamaicans are required to have a visa to enter the British overseas territory.
“When the visa restriction was imposed on Jamaicans, Jamaica should have reciprocated but that has not been done,” Allan told the Observer.
He explained further that this is usually the general rule for a country to impose similar visa requirements when one is imposed on its nationals.
http://csmenetwork.com/2/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6578:jamaica-justice-minister-explains-the-presley-bingham-extradition-refusal-&catid=122:csme-network-latest&Itemid=211
devon brown
7/16/2010
I believe what the Prime Minister said that Mr Brady used his own money to pay this bill – I also believe the dish ran away with the spoon and the cow jumped over the moon. OH, I believe too that a stork , like the one that took my children to us took me to my mother.
Andrea Watson
7/16/2010
In a country where quite a number of lawyers have been in trouble for misappropriating their clients’ money, its refreshing to see one who is the complete opposite.Mr Brady must be commended for doing what no lawyer has ever done, paid his client’s bill out of pocket . This effort shouldnt be scoffed at and the JLP must be lauded because it saved the party / government some much needed money. To get a lawyer to do this is comparable to the JDX I hope the IMF took note.
Al Vanawic
7/16/2010
So Harold Brady paid the $15,000 to hire a US law firm? What is Mr. Brady charged for? Why does he need a US attorney? ‘and the cow jump over the moon, humpty dumpty had a great fall, fairy tales, fairy tales. When is this comical madness going to stop. Jamaica looks ridiculous with this Jamaica Liar Party (JLP)
Mario Pottinger
7/16/2010
So who is going to reimburse the lawyers for their $15,000?
Jaye Stone
7/16/2010
Vaz is a poor choice for Information Minister as he does not appear to inspire the trust of the population. People seem to snicker at everything he says and just automatically assume that the opposite of whatever he states as the truth.
“Justice, truth be ours forever, Jamaica, land we love.” What a parody of the noble anthem!
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=485
Anthony Samuda
7/16/2010
The fact that the JLP/Govt. of Jamaica continues to offer such assinine explanations shows just how little respect they have for the intelligence of the Jamaican people. This is a seriously pathetic bunch – Jamaica deserves better.
Sonny Black
7/16/2010
Here we go again the usual lying, cheating and retreating when will it end. Well my fellow Jamaicans this answer is definately “Blowing in the wind Blowing in the Wind”.
Shaw Wants His Money
Shaw has promised that the State “will not stop until we find the masterminds.”
Shaw has also promised that “more information will be revealed in the days ahead as we unearth additional cases of fraud against the State.”
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=853
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/sustained-fight-against-crime-pm
Sustained fight against crime – PM
For the first time criminals across the country have met their match!
This declaration came from Prime Minister Bruce Golding as he addressed young affiliates of the Jamaica Labour Party in Montego Bay, St. James Saturday afternoon.
Campaign finance
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Campaign finance refers to the fundraising and spending that political campaigns do in their election campaigns. As campaigns have many expenditures, ranging from the cost of travel for the candidate and others might include the purchasing of air time for TV advertisements, however in some countries, such as Britain TV advertising is free. Candidates often devote substantial time and effort raising money to finance campaigns.
Although the political science literature indicates that most contributors give to support candidates with whom they are already in agreement,[1] there is wide public perception that donors expect illegitimate government favors in return.[2] (such as specific legislation being enacted or defeated) so some have come to equate campaign finance with political corruption and bribery [citation needed]. These views have led some governments to reform fundraising sources and techniques in the hope of eliminating perceived undue influence being given to monied interests.
Most countries that rely on private donations to fund campaigns require extensive disclosure of donations, frequently including information such as the name, employer and address of donors. This is intended to allow for policing of undue donor influence by other campaigns…
However critics of this system claim that it leads to votes being “brought” and to large gaps between different parties in the money they have to campaign with.
In many countries, such as Germany and the United States, campaigns can be funded by a combination of private and public money. In the U.S.A., some regions have tried to exclude private financing altogether, in what proponents call clean elections.
The concept of political finance can affect various different parts of a society’s institutions which support governmental and social success.[6] Correct handling of political finance impacts a country’s ability to effectively maintain free and fair elections, effective governance, democratic government and regulation of corruption.[6] The United Nations convention against Corruption, recognizing this, encouraged its members to “enhance transparency in the funding of candidatures for elected public office and, when applicable, the funding of political parties.”[7] Throughout the world countries have identified the problems which improper use of political finance could entail.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/top-republican-indicted-over-bloomberg-campaign-funds/
Slush Funds
http://www.globalpolitician.com/21414-business
EDITORIAL – More Cause For Manatt/Coke Investigation
Finally, Mr Golding admitted to having sanctioned the engagement of Manatt, but as leader of the JLP, not as prime minister.
In between, it was disclosed that the attorney general had exchanged emails with Manatt, which could have suggested the Government’s imprimatur.
The affair remains unsatisfactorily murky.
The investigation/inquiry must get to the bottom of who paid Manatt, since, as Mr Golding claims, the JLP did not “advance any funds” for Harold Brady to pay the firm. Also, assuming that Mr Golding has latterly been telling the truth, the public should know by what process the Jamaican State abandoned its sovereign responsibility to pursue relations with foreign states and ceded them to a political party, whose members just happened to form the administration.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100718/cleisure/cleisure1.html
Prime Minister Golding ought to know by now that this is not an affair between himself and a few persons or officers in the Jamaica Labour Party, (JLP) or his Government. This matter is of national import.
If we are to have full and complete disclosure and closure on this matter our Prime Minister still has a lot to share with this nation.
As it stands anything you tell us we will have to take it with a grain of salt.
http://www.sunheraldja.com/2010/07/post-dudus-and-manatt/
‘It’s bad, and getting more bad…”
EDITORIAL
We wonder what it is going to take for our Government to come clean on the matter of its inappropriate affair with American law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips.
Not surprisingly, the Government has again distanced itself from this latest payment with claims that it was made by Harold Brady & Company — “as a final payment for the commercial obligations that existed as a result of the termination of the contract for services and which fell to the account of Harold Brady & Company”.
This smacks of the same type of duplicity and semantics that have marked this scandal from the get-go. Where did the money to pay Manatt come from? On whose behalf was it paid?
We have asked repeatedly in this space — but in vain, so far — for our Prime Minister Mr Bruce Golding to come clean on this matter once and for all.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/It-s-bad–and-getting-more-bad_7803655
RE-EMERGENCE OF LANDED GENTRY
Their continued demand for the truth from our prime minister is gratifying, and no one or nothing should discourage them from consistently demanding of him the whole truth on our behalf. The whole matter of the prime minister’s unhelpful response in Parliament to the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips [MPP] issue, the paying of MPP’s fees in Washington DC and locally, the ‘Dudusgate’ affair, are too close to the very core of governance that it cannot remain an unknown.
In fact, worse than all that is the fact that our prime minister has confessed to an error but adamantly refuses to confide in us, his employers, for whom he has stated that he is the “servant”. It would seem that to the prime minister we are but children and, therefore, not able to handle the truth in what is an adult matter. So much for democracy and the concept of our political representatives serving us!
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100718/cleisure/cleisure2.html
In a newspaper article on June 6, Yvonne McCalla-Sobers takes on Golding over his flip-flopping, in general, and citing his treatment of separation of powers as one example. She said, “He was a firm believer that the judiciary should act independently of the executive. Yet, he is proposing anti-crime bills in which the executive dictates to the judiciary on matters of bail and sentencing.”
She points Golding’s flip-flopping on Coke’s human rights, saying, “He stood up for the right to liberty of an individual charged with committing transnational crimes. Yet, he proposed anti-crime laws that would deprive individuals of the right to liberty, even when they are not charged with any crime.”
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100718/focus/focus5.html
To date, there is still no follow-up to the statement to Parliament on May 11 when the prime minister said he would consider releasing the exchange of emails among Brady, Manatt and Solicitor General Douglas Leys.
That information is still necessary because it could shed light on several matters, such as: How and when did the prime minister’s sanctioning of a JLP initiative to engage a US lobbyist morph into a government engagement? Who were present at which meetings, and what was discussed?
These questions, as well as the Lewin allegations, can only be fully examined in an independent Commission of Enquiry. Without such a process, the allegations will continue and some of them will stick.
So far, there are no indications the Government will respond to civil society with full disclosure.
Yes, prime minister, you are right to highlight the issues you raised. The resolution requires two inter-related steps: Commitment to truth-telling, transparency and accountability by those who direct public affairs, and commitment to truthful and responsible journalism by practitioners and media owners.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Political-communication-in-the-digital-age_7806139
We agree that payola is not limited to music as there are suspicions about unethical influencing of talk shows and even the news. In our circles, I have heard of lesser beings boasting that they can get their publicity on the front page and get other people’s PR blocked. My experience is that we have editors of integrity and once such matters are brought to their attention, they are addressed.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Good-news-for-Jamaica_7805817
Really Ms Lowrie Chin? No…I don’t believe hahahahaa
Alfred Poyser is there a problem with the nationwide news network website
the site seems to have been shut down
can someone please check it out and post a response
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=50364772924&v=wall
Listen to power 106 fm
http://www.go-jamaica.com/power/index.html
Unfortunate, without the additional listenership on the internet radio stations would have to reduce advertising rates ever further.
Those who are already advertising would be losing market penetration. i don’t know if a refund would be given.
Newstalk 93 fm should gain from any stations not performing on the net…good news for ragga, trevor, stephen, empress, lambert and lloyd?
‘Butch’ Stewart slaps ‘Motty’ Perkins with second libel suit
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Butch–Stewart-slaps–Motty–Perkins-with-second-libel-suit_7806317
Broadcasting Commission wants criminal charges in payola cases
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Broadcasting-Commission-moves-to-stop-payola
Winston G
7/19/2010
What is wrong with this writer. Why has she moved away from Manatt to speak about “good news” to disturb persons like JA Cynic and Meat Head. Come on Ms. Lowrie Chin, get off the positive and let us keep focusing on what is wrong with Jamaica so that those who comment here can remain happy.
Payola refers to the practice of bribing influential persons in exchange for the promotion of a product or service.
Chris Gray
7/19/2010
JFJ exercised poor judgement in reading that email at the funeral. It was in poor taste and only served to promote demagoguery.
That correspondence needed to be addressed in another forum.
Winston Jones
7/19/2010
People who know and have encounters with Jamaican police don’t need any validation from a ex cop that comes forward to tell about extra-judicial killings in the police force. If people were not aware of this they must have been living under a rock. And a lot of people want to put more power in the hands of the police. VERY SCARY
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/I-killed-too–former-cop-says-in-e-mail_7809942
Prime Minister Bruce Golding has called on those criticising him on the Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke affair to put the matter aside and deal with matters of national importance.
He also warned that he will not be distracted from his mandate by their criticisms or calls for his resignation.
He insisted that there are many other positive things happening in the country and the vexed issues surrounding the Coke extradition should no longer take precedence.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/pm-urges-detractors-focus-national-issues
I will not be distracted, says PM
Dwayne Willis
7/20/2010
What planet does this man live on? Does he actually beleive that its only “special interest groups” calling for him to resign?
Ordinary well thinking Jamaicans dont trust a damn thing that he says and also beleives he should resign. I voted for him in the last election and beleive he does not have the moral authority to run this country.
Bruce you have no pride and honour in you, you are just drunk for power.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/I-will-not-be-distracted–says-PM_7810083
Joe Grants Cay to be taken back
According to the writ, the corrupt transactions and/or fraud, and/or misrepresentations are:
* The payment on 9 January 2007 by Turks Development LP of a bribe to Michael Misick of US$500,000. That payment was made with the knowledge of and on behalf of the Defendants,..
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=1004
‘For sale’ signs up in numbers
As the pall of economic uncertainty continues to hover above the Turks and Caicos Islands, the country continues to see more and more ‘for sale’ signs being erected on the front of properties and taped to motor vehicles’ windscreens.
While the country is accustomed to seeing such signs being posted, the rate that they are being erected nowadays is raising many eyebrows. From South Dock Road and the beginning of Airport Road all along to the Leeward Highway into Grace Bay on Providenciales, ‘for sale’ signs decked the side of the road. And it is not just empty properties that are being sold, but also ones with architectures. Some of those buildings are plazas with businesses on them, while others are apartment complexes and dwellings.
In the same breath, almost everywhere one turns there is a motor vehicle displaying a ‘for sale’ sign as if they are the latest trend, status symbol or fashion statement. The majority of those vehicles seem to be on the high-end side of things. A number of small boats, parked at strategic spots on Providenciales, have often been seen sporting ‘fore sale’ signs as well.
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=1009
Lawrence Rowe
7/20/2010
i can’t believe this is the same man who apologized to the country for his misdeeds. now saying dat ppl should shut up. Shame on u bruised golden. the golden calf. shame on u
Raul Grant
7/20/2010
This is exactly why this man should have resigned. We are now being told after the ‘apology’ in the typical arrogant way that he and the JLP do not need to answer to any persons demanding full disclosure.
Winston G
7/20/2010
@ Dwayne Ellis
You and I have something in common. We both voted in his favour and we are both disappointed in him. However, where I am different is that I have forgiven him and I am willing to give the opportunity to redeem himself. But he is not doing a good job with his arrogance. I still believe he is still a good PM and his successes outweigh his foul up, in my humble opinion. That’s why I am giving him a chance.
Stephen Gunter
7/20/2010
Simply, unbelievable.
Rovert Sirrah
7/20/2010
What presumptuousness !! Who do this man think he is ?In case he has forgotten , he is our chief servant. He is talking as if he is the master and we are the servants. He has single handedy tarnished the name of Jamaica and he has the gall to regard our call for him to be fortright and honest a distraction . What temerity. He needs to wake up and realize what he has done and do the right thing as he once said.
paul pinnock
7/20/2010
please leave the man alone let him enjoy his fifteen minutes of fame. don’t you think he knows that the only way he his going back to gordon hous eis if he is going to be a gardener?
JA Cynic
7/20/2010
Nothing is new and different. We have seen it all before. Despotic rulers often claim that they have a “special” relationship with the Almighty and that their mission has some divine purpose.
Haiti had its Pappa Doc & Babby Doc. Uganda had its Idi Amin.
Brain Allen
7/20/2010
Golding is a trip, a slippery tongue salesman trying to sale snake oil.JA Cynic
Carlos Bryson
7/20/2010
What gall of the PM. Contrite is not in his vocabulary. It is obvious he sees no relationship between his and his government’s action/non-action and the death of more than 73 people including Mr. Clark, Pathetic!!
These people have no regard or respect for the Jamaican people and obviously he thinks the country cannot survive without him being the driver.
Sir, I was one of those indifferent to your resignation, but i am now convinced you and what you represent should be retired
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/I-will-not-be-distracted–says-PM_7810083
“Power hungry fanatics and traitors to the national interest”
Olint??????????
Psychological Effect?
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=466
Element of Compromise?
Carol Narcisse argument is very powerful and hard to dismiss without using partisan bias.
If the State of Emergency has “been working” as postulated…then there is little if any at all change in the tools the police have….particularly with the new crime bills and the new bail act.
Of course what HAS changed is the cover for the politicians.
And we know who loves “cover” right Deacon Smith?
Slips scrapping the ground. Sad. Pathetic.
It will be interesting to hear Commissioner Ellington’s views on what has changed…other than the political(psychological??) “cover” of course.
“We would be playing Russian roulette with the country’s security. We would be risking a regression from the significant advances that have been made if, in the face of the recommendations of the security forces, we are to say, ‘Enough is enough, this is as far as we are prepared to go’,” Golding said.
…Hold on Manatt Phelps Phillips a call…He..eellooooo
EDITORIAL – Caricom Must Not Seat Bouterse
Prime Minister Bruce Golding, as Caricom’s current chairman, will hopefully agree and will lead the charge to suspend Suriname from the community until another leader is in place. Leaders must know that the passage of time doesn’t of itself free them of responsibility for acts of impunity.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100721/cleisure/cleisure1.html
Why would the opposition ask for a crime plan to be laid out?
It was laid out. The strategy has never been in doubt. The plan was Manatt, Phelps, Phillips and similar strategy continues.
Looks like Motty going to Ask Sally about the stolen Olint money.
Key ‘Talk show host” number one?
BREAKING NEWS – 08:00hrs – July 21, 2010 – Questionable contract to be signed by NIB
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=2993&id=8
Golding administration running out of options
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/golding-administration-running-out-options
The SOE may not have resulted in the reduction in crime numbers. It was the ‘well coordinated’ engagement with Manatt, Phelps, Phillips.
A full review of every detail of the Manatt deal would solidify the key points concerning crime reduction.
Visa still a get teck whey? Why?
WHY is LNG such a trigger topic? Never in my many years of writing for the newspapers has an article triggered so many responses and from so far afield, including Trinidad, Barbados, France and the USA. Responses to the July 3 article, “Talk is cheap! Is LNG?” came from several total strangers. Equally strange to me was that many described the article as “brave”, “fearless” and “nationalistic”. Why? What was so brave and fearless about questioning the marketing approach of LNG to the nation and charging Jamaicans to hold our leaders accountable for delivering on promises to us? Is it because anyone who does this is painted as “fighting LNG” and therefore subjected to attempts at public ridicule? Why do so many politicians seem to think they are above tough questions/comments from the public they serve?
Warnings
Interestingly, several of the writers, in particular the local ones, urged me to be careful. Careful of what? What do these people know that I don’t? And what does the person writing under the pseudonym, Mango Brains, in the Observer’s on-line comments in response to my article know when he talks about “the debacle that the OCG will find from his investigations.”? What does Jean Lowrie Chin know when in her July 5 article, “We’re not going to take it anymore”, she notes that “I maintain that in this land of sunshine we are not seriously looking at solar energy because there is no kick-back in it for anyone – the sun is just too free – not like petroleum or LNG”?
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/LNG–the-valley-of-the-shadow—_7812116
You have relied on Obstruction of Justice, Brady and Olint.
“those who are culpable are being brought to account”
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=466
Former army man and head of the security committee of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica, Peter John Thwaites, alleged that political considerations shaped the Opposition’s stance in Parliament on Tuesday.
Against security forces
According to Thwaites, it is wrong for politicians to go against the wishes of the persons in charge of the island’s security forces.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100722/lead/lead3.html
…except in the case of Manatt, Phelps, Phillips Thwaites?
US requests the extradition of more high profile Jamaicans
Our sources reported that the US government prepared the indictments on statements given to them by a powerful Jamaican fugitive who was given a reduced sentence last year, after he decided to cut a deal with US prosecutors.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/us-requests-extradition-more-high-profile-jamaicans
Campaign finance registration for parties awaits Samuda’s signature.
All who make donations of a value of over $100,000 must make a declaration.
hahahaha..scrambling breakfast club! hahaha…13 million US.
run errol…run…haha Olint money in to political campaigns is STOLEN money…not special interest…STOLEN
Our sources say they do not expect any resistance from the Golding administration.
Will that have to be qualified every time?
A View on the SOE:
If after 60 days no real criminal from the political representative ranks or from the elite of society ranks have been apprehended then what do you think was going to happen in the next 15…, 30…60..or 6000 days?
Think on these things…
Nicolas Henry
7/22/2010
Aspects of the plan will be made public today by the commissioner of police and the chief of defence staff, the prime minister said.
Mr Prime Minister & Mr Ellington,no information on your crime plan should be made public. You are giving the criminals too much Info. Pls pls pls. be he careful. Let us see good results, we don’t need to know the plans.
hahahaahaa..Nicholas Henry you are missing one simply glaring point…
Success in crime fighting is for measurements from the DPP’s office. Heard of any convictions lately?
Cordon, curfew, detention, extradition, SOE, crime plan…
Convictions is the measure. Check the DPP’s office.
Crime “under control” A mus oxymoron dat!
Libel Blow For Golding
PRIME MINISTER Bruce Golding’s attempt to sue United States network ABC for having referred to him as “a known criminal affiliate” of Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke hit a major snag on Monday, when the US Senate voted to protect its journalists from judgments that undermine that country’s guarantee of free speech.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100723/lead/lead6.html
No excuse go so! The PM must keep pedaling forward on the matter. Why are you trying to discourage the PM Gleaner?
I know you agree Nonco.:-)
Even Brady have more balls…At least he tries before he is schooled…I’ll give him that…
U.S. District Court
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Foley Square)
CRIMINAL DOCKET FOR CASE #: 1:07-cr-00971-RPP-14
07/16/2010 264 TRANSCRIPT of Proceedings as to Christopher Michael Coke held on 6/25/10 before Judge Robert P. Patterson. (pl) (Entered: 07/19/2010)
07/20/2010 265 SEALED DOCUMENT placed in vault. (nm) (Entered: 07/20/2010)
265 Sealed Document placed in vault 07/20.2010 ????
Wha dat? Nonco come in please. Your expertise is needed. Transparency??
Designation: CJA Appointment
Deacon, give the members their money back so they can pay defense counsel… You how many feeders under pressure to find the defense money?
In vault? i wonder what’s in that vault?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_seals
265 SEALED DOCUMENT placed in vault. (nm) (Entered: 07/20/2010)
265 Popes From the Vatican’s Official List
265 million playing football FIFA
TENSIONS ran high as TCI Bank customers gathered in their hundreds to listen to proposals for rescuing the collapsed institution – and with it, many of their life savings.
“I felt it best to share my views with you, along with the other parties invited to come tonight who failed to do so.”
http://tcweeklynews.com/clients/tcweeklynews/tci-bank-offers-discussed-as-time-runs-out-p2111-1.htm
The Constitution did not fail us. Some of our leaders failed and did not adhere to the spirit of the Constitution. The answer is simple; bring back
the Constitution that did not fail us and deal with those politicians on both sides as well as those persons in the public service and in the
private sector who may not have conducted themselves in an ethical manner.
Any intelligent person must have concluded that there are strong moral grounds for those who have been accused to step aside until, if and when they can clear their names.
I find it offensive, bold and brassy for some to act as if they did nothing wrong and to suggest that they are best able to lift us from the
current situation for which they were the chief architect.
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=1021
U.S. District Court
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Foley Square)
CRIMINAL DOCKET FOR CASE #: 1:07-cr-00971-RPP-14
Pending Counts
Disposition
CONSPIRACY TO DISTRIBUTE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE – CONSPIRACY TO DISTRIBUTE MARIJUANA AND COCAINE
(1)
IMPORTING/MANUFACTURING FIREARMS
(2)
07/20/2010 265 SEALED DOCUMENT placed in vault. (nm) (Entered: 07/20/2010)
http://www.pacer.gov/
???? Nonco…Explain for us…
“The surveillance camera clearly showing her calmly walking away from the scene after letting her self out, and void of the hysteria showed by her while inside the store.”
Like some Olint members?
Whatever view might be taken as to the wisdom of his donation
for the Premier’s early election campaign at the beginning of 2007, it
has nothing to do with Joe Grant Cay business. Dr Kinay’s donation was
made by Dellis Cay’s parent company, Turks Development LP, on behalf of
Dellis Cay, an unrelated company to Joe Grant Cay companies, almost 1.5
years before any single transaction took place between the Turks and
Caicos Islands Government and Joe Grant Cay companies.
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=1020
I have never bribed anyone in Turks and Caicos or elsewhere. There is no question that a donation was made by Turks Development LP, Dellis Cay’s parent company for early election campaign at the beginning of 2007. Political donations are, of course, not illegal in TCI and were made by many individuals and companies at the early election time. We have made both political and charitable donations in the past both in TCI and elsewhere and am accustomed to making donations at election time. The payments are made with a view to ensuring good relations with those who may ultimately win power – as is common business practice.
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=1019
“Don’t you see our thing is a worldwide thing? Nobody will mess with us.”
A Cynic says:
July 25, 2010 at 12:39 pm
How will the next general elections be financed?
JA Cynic
Based on reports from the United States Department of Justice Office of International Affairs, the number of extradition requests for Jamaicans wanted for drug and gunrunning charges, is expected to increase dramatically by yearend.
Highly placed sources told the Sunday Herald that as many as 24 sealed indictments are in the possession of US authorities following Grand Jury hearings into alleged drug and gunrunning charges against Jamaicans including several high ranking businessmen and leading members of the local drug cartel, some of whom are said to be major financiers of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party and the Opposition People’s National Party.
http://www.sunheraldja.com/2010/07/us-target-narco-dealers/#comments
What is inside sealed document 265 which was placed in Judge P Patterson’s vault…
http://www.sunheraldja.com/2010/07/breaking-news/#comments
P Patterson? haha..Nonco..whey yu deh?
No Compromise, No Half-Loaf
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100725/focus/focus6.html
Powerful article. A challenge to the arguments point by point would be impressive. Can it be done?
JA Cynic 7 hours ago
Herein lies the fundamental distinction between a self-professed “student of the law” and a qualified Attorney-at- law.
The reliance on even recently qualified lawyers would not have led to a most basic mis-interpretation of the Constitution of Jamaica–ie the simple majority of all members and the extension not being in designated time blocks.
It is of fundamental importance that the Cabinet, and the PM in particular, always seek and obtain proper legal advice before and not after the decision has been announced.
JA Cynic
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100725/focus/focus6.html
According to the constitution, such a proclamation shall remain in force for one month or for such longer period, not exceeding 12 months, as the House of Representatives may determine by a vote of 31 of its members. The proclamation may be extended by the House for a period not exceeding 12 months, that is to say, for one day and up to 365 days, also by means of a vote of 31 of its members, as provided for by section 26 (6) (b).
Despite the silence on these matters which were, and remain, issues of paramount public interest, including the fundamental question of whether the request for the extension satisfied the test laid down in the constitution, the Opposition stated its willingness to approve of an extension for a period of 15 days, after which the matter would be re-examined. This was rejected, even in the circumstance of the Government side not having the required numbers present in the Chamber to have the resolution carried by its own votes. No compromise; one month or nothing; no question of half-a-loaf being better than none. And, the later attempt by the commissioner of police to justify the one-month-or-nothing extension does not hold water, for, the security forces are now obliged to conduct their operations without the cover of the state of emergency.
The overwhelming majority of Jamaicans unquestionably wanted the SOE extended for at least another month.
Kevin O’Brien Chang, Contributor
Alex. 8 hours ago
2 people liked this.
Very balanced presentation. I wished, however, that you would have commented on the fact that the PNP would have supported 15 days in the first instant followed by additional 15 days after a review. That in my view is better than the position taken by the Government – 30 days or none at all.
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“…the Opposition stated its willingness to approve of an extension for a period of 15 days, after which the matter would be re-examined.”
“This is not a matter that has troubled the critics of the stance taken by the Opposition. But the basic and fundamental question is: Why did the Government reject the 15-day proposal? For, there has to be a reason. ”
A.J. Nicholson, Contributor
Bwoy..Ja
A beggar comes to your gates and says “I want a money to buy a food and a soap to bathe”
You bring to him some food and a soap and the beggar cuss and fling down what he asked for…
While walks away cussing and you smell the scent of the “whites”…then it all becomes clear…
Bruce, mi son, tek mi foolish advice. Yu ha fi mek up yu mind fi tell di truth, di whole a di truth an ongle di truth bout dis Manatt, Phelps, Phillips an Dudus business. An yu ha fi tell di truth one time. Yu see when di story a come out piece-a piece-a, it no smell good.
Yu kyaan bawl pon people a beg dem forgiveness an dem don’t know di whole a wa dem suppose fi a forgive yu fa.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100725/cleisure/cleisure3.html
Those are the foot soldiers, so what of the people who control the criminal networks, who are the brainpower that direct the drug and gunrunning? No banker, financial adviser, custom broker, real estate agent, lawyer or transaction-facilitator has been inconvenienced or interrogated. Contacts in the security forces without which no criminal network can evade detection remain in place. Thus the state of emergency while temporarily disruptive has not been used to expose and neutralise those who control Jamaica’s crime machine.
http://www.sunheraldja.com/2010/07/trampling-on-the-rights-of-the-lower-class/
COMPROMISE ON STATE OF EMERGENCY REQUIRES TRUST
We know that there is no further explanation except that the PM lied even in his confession and has no intention to declaring the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
http://www.sunheraldja.com/2010/07/compromise-on-state-of-emergency-requires-trust/
“Everywhere we go, the people are saying that the country is going in the wrong direction. Everywhere we go, we’re called upon to rescue the country from this uncaring, arrogant, incompetent and deceitful government.
“The people have lost trust in the Government … they cannot be trusted to provide accurate information, they cannot trusted to keep their word. We cannot trust their utterances, we cannot trust the contracts that they sign,” Mrs. Simpson-Miller said.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/govt-didn’t-really-want-extension-–-pnp-president-tells-nec
In eight days the TCI Supreme Court and Judge Richard Williams will decide how to proceed with the TCI Bank which is currently in provisional liquidation.
As we stated last week, a full liquidation would result in a terrible mess but would serve the interests of some insiders for it would bury, along with the bank, evidence of much previous wrong doings at the bank.
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=3026&id=8
How much did Johnston International provide to Barbados politicians in “campaign donations”?
Engineering and construction firm Johnston International went into receivership ten days ago, leaving a trail of unpaid wages and heartache throughout the Caribbean.
Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson clearly stated that the previous administration “bizarrely spent millions and millions of dollars” that is now stashed away in foreign bank accounts. Unfortunately the Thompson Government has no intent to perform in-depth investigations to recover the monies because that would start a real war between the BLP and the DLP and, as we all know, the two parties are really just members of the same family who spar a little bit but don’t want to land any real punches. If the Thompson government was to charge some BLP official with corruption, someone might get hurt and we can’t have that in the family!
Is it not true that the sworn affidavits of the FSC which put TCI bank into liquidation are not accurate and 100% truthful?
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=3024&id=8
Extradition being sought for more Jamaicans
2010-07-27 15:32:01 | (7 Comments)
A senior member of the Barack Obama administration revealed today that a “series” of extradition requests has been made by the United States Government for Jamaicans to be sent abroad for trial, but US officials are tight-lipped as to whether Jamaican elected officials are on the list.
Dr Arturo A. Valenzuela, US Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs said the US Government was anticipating the processing of the requests.
“There is a series of extraditions that the United States still has requested and we look forward to those being processed,” he said earlier today at a press briefing at the US embassy in St Andrew.
More details to follow in The Gleaner/Power106FM news report at 5 p.m.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=21318
I wonder if this is an old list or if Dudus has been talking. It will be interesting to see who is on the list and I hope we will not have a similar drawn out fiasco but true legal analysis and an expeditious transfer of the criminals.
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yes sar!!!!
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Oh please tell me Barack Obama put Bruce Golding on the list.
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Portia fi go pon the list.
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@guest mind portia ,peter and peter nuh deh pon it to !!!!!!!!!!!!
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joe
iT WOULD BE NICE IF THE PRIME MINISTER IS ON THE LIST THAT WOULD BRING SOME SANITY TO jAMAICA .
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joie
You are praying that Bruce is on the list, you find just find out that you and a punch of your familys are on the list.
Becareful what you wished for, you jamaicans make me sick to my stomach.
hahahahaahahaaaa
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=21318
A senior member of the Barack Obama administration revealed today that a “series” of extradition requests has been made by the United States Government for Jamaicans to be sent abroad for trial, but US officials are tight-lipped as to whether Jamaican elected officials are on the list.
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JLP Area Council 4 calls for another state of emergency
He says the Opposition should put aside narrow partisan political interest for the greater good of the country.
hurry hurry ..herhehe
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=21318
Help them Deacon…hehe
Transport minister promises 8,000 jobs
Jamaica’s transport minister Mike Henry has announced that over the next six months, more than 8,000 jobs will be provided through numerous road and infrastructure projects.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=21332
Valenzuela wants Government to cripple organised crime
Dr. Valenzuela has urged the Bruce Golding administration to move against crime lords with the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA).
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=21333
Questioned whether the new requests involved elected Jamaican officials Parnell said the US embassy is discreet and circumspect in how it handles extradition requests.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=21335
Bruce lied — poll
The poll also found that about two-thirds of those interviewed felt that Prime Minister Bruce Golding had lied about his party’s role in the extradition request.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Bruce-lied—poll
RJR-TVJ poll confirm PM’s credibility crisis
The RJR-TVJ commissioned poll has found that most Jamaicans believe Prime Minister, Bruce Golding, lied to the nation about the Coke extradition matter and no longer has credibility with the Jamaican people.
The Prime Minister is apparently battling a credibility problem as a clear majority, 54%, believe Mr. Golding cannot maintain credibility with the Jamaican people.
In fact, 52% said the Prime Minister did not have the moral authority to lead.
Just over two thirds of the respondents believe the Prime Minister has not been truthful with the nation…
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/rjr-tvj-poll-confirm-pm’s-credibility-crisis
We don’t need another closet, Professor Miller
THE Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ), according to our Monday edition, is planning to recommend that the upcoming law on party and campaign finance reform not require the naming of campaign donors, except — as some sort of punishment, we suppose —in cases where false declarations are made.
Let us not forget that as things stand now, the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) is still waiting on full disclosure on the part of Prime Minister Bruce Golding in relation to his role in the Manatt, Phelps and Phillips affair, before resuming those critical social transformation talks with his administration.
Indeed in Monday’s edition, Mr Joseph Matalon reiterated the importance of full disclosure in respect of the governance of our country.
Yet, according to Mr Golding’s last statement on the matter, he has no intention of being distracted by the issue anymore.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=466
Our unsolicited advice to Profesor Miller and the ECJ members — which comprise representatives from the JLP and the PNP, is that they regard these proposals as a working draft that needs to go back to the drawing board.
That said, we endorse their historic effort at dealing with the long-standing problem of managing campaign financing, which has been at the core of much of the corruption bedevilling us as a nation.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/We-don-t-need-another-closet–Professor-Miller
Funny how newspapers report what they want…well, at least try and assume (or make us assume). It’s not only the author of this blog (the great and eloquent Floridian) that has a hidden agenda…
Jamaica Gleaner Headline: US eyes extradition of high-profile Jamaicans.
The Gleaner understands that the list includes law-enforcement officers, politicians and other high-profile individuals.
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Jamaica Observer: US official confirms ‘series’ of new extradition requests.
Valenzuela said even during the controversy surrounding Coke — whose extradition followed nine months of delay by the Government — there were other requests which were acted on.
“I would not say there is an (increasing number). The range has been between 10 and 20 a year and some of them happen quickly,” he said, adding that he did not believe the new requests could be considered ‘high-profile’ but rather ‘routine’ requests.
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The Gleaner seems to want to throw additional fuel on the fire, by insinuating that there are definitely politicians, police, etc. on the list. Even though the US Official said that they do not divulge that sort of info. They even went further, by saying that they did not think there were ANY “high profile” persons on the list….hehehehe
Motty vet your sponsors?….think and check?…
Barry Brown
7/28/2010
the way the ja gov leaks likeabucket shot full of holes, most of them start pack dem bags and gone into hiding or will leave the island. There is not such thing as a secret among thieves. I wonder if most of them can barricade up like dudus did dwl?
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/US-official-confirms–series–of-new-extradition-requests_7832780
“ousbah”
Exclusive interview on nationwide or not Valenzuela flip flop. I wonder if him seeking a post in JA????
Moral: Nuh study the diplomacy…let those who NEED to spin it go bout dem “journalistic work.”
Deacon I hear you a flip flop again too…I will confirm before I comment.
I will say though Deacon you are generally expected to do that with increasing frequency as it is time…
Hugh Cliff, you see the term “firewall” is just an American term for Bangarang, 🙂
Use a clip of Ralston Hyman’s question to prove the backpedal? On Nationwide? Take time with us.
Valenzuela know who to shut down and be vague with Perhaps?
Friend or foe perhaps?
He knows who is who…and behind and front a who?
hheheheheeehehee
EDITORIAL – Fair Warning From America
Published: Thursday | July 29, 20100 Comments and 0 Reactions
If nothing else, the Christopher Coke affair should have taught Prime Minister Bruce Golding and his administration that the Jamaican people are in no mood to tolerate the protection, perceived or actual, of alleged criminals by politicians.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100729/cleisure/cleisure1.html
Update: Privy Council removes Jamaican judge
Priaya Levers practised law in Jamaica up to 2003 before leaving for the Cayman Islands.
Today the UK Privy Council upheld the ruling of a Tribunal which found that Judge Levers’ actions breached the principles of judicial conduct.
Judge Levers was also found guilty of serious misconduct in seeking to procure the acquittal of a defendant by improper means.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=21411
US authorities probe former OLINT head
Former OLINT boss, David Smith, and a young wealthy businessman, are among 15 Jamaicans under investigation by the United States government, for alleged money-laundering, following the collapse of the multi-billion dollar foreign exchange trading scheme.
Just days after a high ranking US official made it clear that they would be coming after locals involved in money laundering, there is word that the US is going after David Smith and persons who were closely connected to his collapsed OLINT empire.
Among those also under investigation are Mr. Smith’s wife, Tracy Ann Simone Smith; his brother Gilbert; OLINT; OLINT Foundation and OLINT Corporation.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/us-authorities-probe-former-olint-head
Noncs, wha dem a gwan wid now?
Aside: Noncs you see what Charles Rangel a face?
The ambassador said she began the congressional meetings with Rangel, one of Jamaica’s longest-standing United States supporters, because “it is important to show appreciation and friendship at this time in his career”.
Rangel, who was awarded the Order of Jamaica last year, has been embroiled in controversy since the launch of an ethics investigation regarding alleged gift violations and belated disclosure of assets.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100702/lead/lead5.html
Exhale?
It appears as if the letter writing campaign of a select few was instrumental in bringing about this level of scrutiny of Olint/Oil Company/connected parties, etc.
I’m sure the Doctor and Floridian must be smiling. But will this action result in any money being refunded to the aggrieved parties?
BTW Nonco, did M.A.Y not say to the british bandoloo “we nuh have no money to investigate that!”
hmmm….
Australian Flap Flip model….
Noncs, two Olinter on the front page of Observer. hmm… best and brightest neck and neck….
cullKull, on July 8, 2010 at 8:01 am Said:
2 years. if you have not moved on, it would be very unhealthy
For who cullKull?
Watch who uptight. Telling…
However, in an unexpected response, Mr. Smith said he welcomed the probe as it will give his client a chance to clear his name.
“We’re not surprised by the filing given the fact that my client was trading in US dollars, so we’re not surprised that there is some interest by US authorities.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/not-surprised-us-probe-says-smith’s-lawyer
Him could a “trade” pesos or dinars…. the fact that he stole money from Americans is where its at.
hahahahahahahaaaasahhaaaaa
“we see it as a step towards finally resolving the matter,” Oliver Smith said.”
The only resolution is money…trust mi. Don’t use the term ‘resolve” lightly
hahahaaha
BTW Mr oliver Smith..wi nuh partial who want pay it.
Prisoners
Then there is the knight in shining armour, in this case handcuffs. Take the case of Sir Allen Stanford, in jail in Texas, manacled and miserable. One Antiguan friend complained, “They treating the man worse than a dog!” Again, if according to the Poet Lovelace, “stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage”, are dogs prisoners or do they behave as if they own the earth if only as leash-hold property?
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100731/cleisure/cleisure2.html
At the moment the TCI remains a difficult and expensive place for British tourists to get to. Could the Con-Lib Dem Government do anything to help and thus boost tourism in the Islands?
Well, Lord Nigel Jones and those who have visited tell me that the TCI is a wonderful place with fantastic beaches, coasts and marine life – so it ought to be high on people’s ‘must-visit’ list already! I suspect the ‘expensive’ tag is due to the TCI’s proximity to the United States and the pricing structure of TCI’s tourism offerings for European tourists.
Thousands of ex-pats used their proxy votes in the recent British general election. Do ex-pats matter to you and are they considered when policies are discussed?
Ex-pats certainly do matter – and I’m always keen to hear from people in all walks of life!
http://www.tcweeklynews.com/clients/tcweeklynews/exclusive-britain-pledges-to-support-tci-p2123-1.htm
Tourism industry “demoralised”
The Minister’s right to appoint Tourist Board members gave him the opportunity to shun those with a “discordant voice”, it says.
“Indeed, the general view was that the board was used…as a means by which the party in government rewarded its own loyal supporters. This practice was not just a phenomenon of the last three to four years …but one which had characterised governments for many years.”
The report goes on to take a swipe at Tourist Board chiefs, accusing them of failing to “exercise any significant degree of independence”.
“It is a pity that no effective stand was made against the abuse of the Tourist Board, particularly in the last few years.”
http://tcweeklynews.com/clients/tcweeklynews/tourism-industry-demoralised-p2120-1.htm
Deacon, what a preach now? The stone that the builder refused shall be the head? Oh yea of little faith?
interesting…
Jay new thread. So they ask so shall the receive. New thread Jay. Let us all overstand it “down” a notch.
http://www.ruderfinn.com/offices/new-york.html
Public callousness
And Families Against State Terrorism (FAST) says it is shocked that civilians were heard on the videotape encouraging the cop to shoot an unarmed man.
Convenor, Yvonne McCalla Sobers, says it shows the level of callousness in the society.
w w w . y o utube.com /watch?v=vGEgMN-mWKU
Concernedjamaican 9 hours ago
14 people liked this.
The truth is slowly being revealed. We have as much to fear from the policemen as we do the criminals.
Now we see why more clarification was needed on the state of emergency before it could be continued. Whilst I support giving up some of my ights for the greater good of society, I am mindful of deferring my rights to individuals who will not do everything in their powers to preserve them but instead will use it to pose a greater threat to me than i have previously ever faced.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100801/lead/lead2.html
Scott Rothstein was sentenced this morning to five decades in prison by U.S. District Court Judge James Cohn.
The judge was vocal not only about the $1.4 billion Ponzi scheme in which investors lost an estimated $429 million but also about Rothstein’s forgery of federal officers and bogus court papers, saying those actions were “the most egregious wrongs a licensed attorney can commit.” His 50-year sentence was more even than the 40 years prosecutors had sought.
Rothstein got up at one point to address his victims in the courtroom, those he stole money from, his former law firm partners, “members of the community,” his family, and the judiciary itself. “I am truly and deeply sorry for what I have done. I don’t expect your forgiveness,” he said, his voice cracking at times with emotion. “I’m ashamed and embarrassed. Thank you.”
http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2010/06/rothstein_sentenced.php
Then, finally, Cohn spoke. And man, did he speak. He waxed poetic about Rothstein’s case, saying that it was “all about image, wealth, power, and influence” and that Rothstein rivaled “Madison Avenue” in the way he marketed himself.
“[Rothstein’s] political connections stretch from the sheriff’s office on one end of Broward Boulevard all the way to the Fort Lauderdale Police Department on the other end of Broward Boulevard to the governor’s mansion in Tallahassee… and down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House,” Cohn said.
Cohn mentioned the society pages, the political contributions “funneled through Rothstein’s attorneys and their wives,” his attending sporting events “with BSO brass,” all designed to create an “appearance of legitimacy but we now know was all a facade, a fraud
http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2010/06/rothstein_sentenced.php
🙂
“They are coming after her dresses and shoes,” said Saidel. “Can someone tell me what public good is going to come from taking some used size 5 shoes?”
— I’ll finish with a question: “Is Scott Rothstein secretly assisting lawyer Bill Scherer in his lawsuit against alleged co-conspirators in the Ponzi scheme?”
Answer: Yes.
More on that later.
Untidy Gov’t, Walking PNP Injures Taxpayers
The people abandoned
Now, Government is attempting to exit the derivative arrangements which allowed for the swap. If Jamaica is to successfully exit this arrangement, it would have to pay Citibank, the institution which dealt with the swap, US$57 million. Citibank has been guaranteed US$79 million to under-take the swap for the Government.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100802/news/news1.html
ACOM has approached a leading UK Journalist who could be very instrumental in putting pressure on the “powers that be”, to bring a speedy resolution to the questionable legal processes, that have been going on in the TCI. ACOM maintains that whereas it is not in a position to determine or even predict the innocence or guilt of David Smith as charged, it is clear that the TCI Government and Courts have been on a calculated mission to frustrate Mr. Smith and his clients by repeatedly postponing the trial of the case. To date, more than two years since the TCI administration swooped down on David Smith and froze our assets, Mr. Smith has yet to have his “day in court”.
ACOM is therefore requesting that all Olint Members, who are UK nationals, whether or not resident in the UK, should identify yourselves to us. We will then communicate with you directly via email and/or land-line telephone and indicate ways in which we feel you could be of help to the Journalist. We are making it clear from inception, that you reserve the right to speak with the Journalist on condition of anonymity, if you so desire.
Please provide us with contact details, via our email at ACOMAction@gmail.com or click here.
http://www.associationofconcernedolintmembers.info/
Are these people joking?? Hahahah Who is a journalist?? Kissteet
http://www.sunheraldja.com/2010/08/us-pressures-olint%E2%80%99s-players/
Cash plus 3 return to court in Sept
They are charged with obtaining money by false pretence and conspiracy to defraud.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Cash-plus-3-return-to-court-in-Sept
Shaw, in his affidavit, said that as the designated minister under the Customs Act he has made no order reducing or altering the imposition of duty on MTBE-free gasoline.
Deacon, remember there was a falling out between…the two persons …some time ago…
hehe
From: Joseph Smith (ja.smith@cwjamica.com)
To: David Smith
Contributions to “WORTHY CAUSES”
Dave,
I had detailed discussions with the four persons mentioned in my previous email and representatives of their management teams. They are all well organized but they have not budgeted adequetley in my opinion based on my experience. Being out in rural Jamaica they are so woefully uderfunded. Our two St. elizabeth persons have smaller populations than out Westmoreland and Manchester people. The two in St. elizabeth have budgets of J$6,000,000.00 each with 4 mil for the special big day alone. Each of the others are at just over $8 mil. they do not get money support from their head office. Each team has recieved some amount of contributions but they are no where close to where they should be. Knowing what we know, we would be particularly interested in the Mandeville person’s cause. The westmoreland person is in a similar position (see spread sheet that i emailed some time ago).
From what I know, the persons from the other side, are working with bigger budgets. Congtributions of: Westmoreland and Manchester US75,000.00 each and the two from St. elizabeth US$50,000.00 each would take them a far way. But Dave I would leave it up to your good judgement to decide what is affordable. If you can do more it would be great towards achieving the goal. the greater overall goal cannot be achieved if these four fail. But I know that you want to contribute to other similar cases as well. Bottom line is whatever you can do will e greatly appreciated by them and of course by us.
Cash Plus case moved to High Court
There’s been a major development in the case against former head of the collapsed entity, Cash Plus.
This, after government prosecutors announced Tuesday that the case is to be transferred to the High Court.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/business/cash-plus-case-moved-high-court
After two + years stationary in the blocks… now moving at lightening speed down the straightaway?
Motivated? I’m not sure… what say you Nonco?
The charge comes under Section 28 of the Larceny Act and attracts a maximum sentence of seven years.
Your monthly “consideration?”
6 Responses to “US pressures Olint’s players”
Dan Kailburn says:
August 5, 2010 at 5:03 pm
Is the Sun Herald a Jamaican paper. I just learned of it through an ACOM member.I’ve lost my life savings through one of OLINT’s larger feeder clubs, Lewfam (Neil Lewis). I learned of Lewfam through Neil’s cousin, Andrew McNamee, here in Canada. Andrew has returned to Jamaica. After 50 years of saving for my retirement ($80,000), it has all been lost to the alleged Lewfam investment scheme($44,000)and the many personal loans to Andrew($36,000). Andrew has also scammed other Canadians out of their funds. I have noticed that the name, Lewfam, has not been as prominant in the media as it had been in previous years. Do you know if Lewfam is part of the TCI Special Investigation (Helen Garlick)and/or the US FBI? Should I be offering my tangible information(documents)to these authorities? I wired my $44,000 to Prosperity Bank, Jacksonville, FL but haven’t seen that bank name in the news. I’m ready!!! Can you provide contact information? Thanks
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Paris says:
August 3, 2010 at 11:09 pm
Criminals are criminals and they are to be treated as criminals, argument done! No question?
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Devon Samuels says:
August 3, 2010 at 7:43 pm
We must always be mindful that it was not only the J.L.P. that benefitted from Olint. Mr. Robert Pickersgill indicated that the P.N.P. also received funds from Olint though smaller in value than the J.L.P. So let us not speak as if only one party benefitted.
By the way, what about a past minister who held a Portland seat in the parliament? Do you remember his comments regarding “gestapo like tactics”. I think his name was Errol Ennis.
We must shun our blinkeredness. We must stop seeing things only through P.N.P. or J.L.P. lenses
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Grenada says:
August 3, 2010 at 1:26 pm
I’m extremely proud of the USA and its action towards David Smith (Olint)
To date our governments has done nothing about SGL Holdings (Olint fedder club) operated by Silvene, Lester Cline and Glen Clement and also the local Cap Bank.
God Bless America
With Tears,
Grenada
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Justin says:
August 2, 2010 at 9:23 am
Isn’t this period a propitious time for us as Jamaicans to take a serious introspection of our morale and the things that we romanticize in our citizenry?
It doesn’t not matter how an individual seems to have earn his monies, others of us notwithstanding are prepared to worship him including His Worship with that big green house…………..
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tom says:
August 2, 2010 at 7:12 am
Is Mark Wignall one?
http://www.sunheraldja.com/2010/08/us-pressures-olint’s-players/#comments
Embattled Hands Across Jamaica founder Yvonne Coke has offered her support to the BettyAnn Blaine-led New Nation Coalition (NNC), but says she may not get deeply involved in the movement if she feels like her baggage will weigh down the political party.
Coke, who has been listed by the Financial Services Commis-sion (FSC) as having operated unregulated financial schemes in a failed foreign-exchange investment club worth more than US$30 million (J$2.7 billion), was among the scores of persons who turned up for the launch of the NNC.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=466
Good luck to you Ms Blaine. But if is pastor and Deacon “Christianity” keep it. Jamaican children need truth and honesty…not “remake” and PR.
Leave that for whom the bell tolls…
Golding has been under pressure since last Tuesday when he admitted in Parliament that he, as party leader,…
Coke has denied that any of her companies – Hands Across Jamaica, Write Vision, E. Private Partners Members Club, Outstretched Hands Limited and Vision Increase SA Corp – were dealing in securities, taking deposits or carrying out any kind of monetary exchange.
It wasn’t me?
Life’s Lie: You can be anything you want to be.
Read more: http://blogcritics.org/culture/article/lifes-lie-you-can-be-anything/#ixzz0vtJICtnI
Honorary Jamaican consul Allan Eden-Hutchinson offered his congratulations to the organisers of the group at the Jamaican consulate on Leeward Highway on Thursday.
He said the foundation came from a recommendation by Jamaica’s Prime Minister during a visit to the TCI last year, and has been formed at a “critical” time.
http://www.tcweeklynews.com/clients/tcweeklynews/support-for-the-jamaican-community-p2134-85.htm
I read Ms. Sullivan’s recommendations and some of the response to them. Frankly, I too think it is time to stop with the term “Belonger” instead of using a common term of “citizen”. It is divisive and does not really describe the likes of say, Cem Kinay, who never “belonged” here, he bought his way here. How is that “belonging”?
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=3073&id=8
Case against Buckfield cops could fall
An attorney-at-law says the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) may be forced to drop the case against the seven policemen implicated in the controversial shooting death of Ian Lloyd in Buckfield, St. Ann, if the “maker” of the video does not come forward.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/case-against-buckfield-cops-could-fall-apart
DPP “forced”??? hehe
“Charade” on “Parade”??
Always crying “Evidence”…well half the WORLD….let’s watch this one..
Visa lines going to get long again?
Ignorance
A part of the reason for that is simply our ignorance of what takes place in other countries and the fact that too many of us read too little.
When people talk about Jamaica’s being a failed state and “one of the worst in the world”, they shamelessly parade their ignorance of world affairs.
Our press is one of the freest in the entire world – and has been so acknowledged by international organisations. The day any political leader threatens press freedom in Jamaica is the day he effectively begins his preparation to leave office. This is something we can be proud of as an independent nation.
Ian Boyne
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100808/focus/focus1.html
“Emancipendenced!” hehe…he’s just full of “it”
One day Mr. Boyne we will be able to do a simple conviction for a killing shown “live and direct”
Until then we shall just pat ourselves on the back and hold our heads high…in perpetuity…
Anyway the tape is not relevant for the PD said to Motty that circumstances leading up to the killing could be telling and pertinent.
There was some evasive action taken when the pebble was thrown.
One can’t help but wonder the outcome if Ching had a grenade instead.
Hardly think we would have heard the refrain “Light im up…light im up” or “ONE MORE!…ONE MORE”
One day my people will learn…learn what? I don’t know…that a pebble and a grenade pin are not the same..perhaps….
We have never had any prime minister or political leader of the dubious moral stature of Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan; Than Shwe of Myanmar (Burma); Isaias Afwerki of Eriteria; Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia; Idriss Deby of Chad; Hosni Mubarak of Egypt; Blaise Compare of Burkina Faso; Paul Kagame of Rwanda; Paul Biya of Cameroon; kim Jong Il of North Korea; Yoweri Museveni of Uganda; or Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea; Sani Abacha of Nigeria or Mobutu Sese Seko of what was Zaire. I have not even mentioned Pol Pot of Cambodia, Idi Amin of Uganda or Bokassa of what was the Central African Empire.
Ian Boyne
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100808/focus/focus1.html
Ian “We’re saved!” THX
Ever wondered why those mentioned above hold their noses when the walk past us Ian Boyne?
Just wondering…
Bottom Line: If the DPP can’t secure a conviction “beyond a shadow of a doubt” (hehe) on this one then we can be sure we are really living in pre 1838 times.
She did sound like an excellent defense lawyer recently when stridently commenting on the Olint 15.
No comment on why the earlier MLAT requests were stonewalled and stridently “lobbied” against.
What caused the change in policy? Any answers Ian Boyne…I don’t know..maybe it was just…
Augus Mawnin’?
For the first time I really understand the saying “between a rock and a hard place”. We might not be like Afghanistan, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, but we rank with them in violent death rates.
These are not Anancy stories but horror stories that continue to haunt friends, relatives and communities.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place_7839580
There are so many stories some of us can recall of murders that are etched in our minds. I recall some time ago in Kingston when a mother returning from market was held up at her gate by robbers. She was shot and killed. There was also Mr Jackson, a jeweller at a shop opposite the KSAC, who was shot and killed by alleged extortionists because he refused to pay extortion money. I am so familiar with the gang-raping and killing of Claudine “Cluedine” Robinson in Grant’s Pen on August 13, 2002, a 15-year-old student. There was also the cold-blooded murder of Godfrey Beaumont and Yvonne Beaumont-Walters on August 23, 2002. Equally brutal was the slaying of Denny “Tukku” Davidson on September 27, 2002, who was kneading flour to make festival for his daily sale from his corner cookshop. It was a long, hot summer of 2002 when it appeared that the madness would not cease.
The story continues. A young man with great promise from east Kingston who was on his way to a vocational training centre in South St Andrew, was shot and killed as he alighted from a bus. Another student, a young woman attending UTech, was shot and killed in the wee hours of the morning as she was returning home. There was also the peanut porridge vendor in South West St Andrew who was shot and killed because he refused on that particular day to give a “bad man” free porridge. As I drove by a certain site in Clarendon, just after you leave Toll Gate on the left-hand side of the road on the way to Clarendon Park, once a most active goat farm, now a site of mourning – a farmer and his wife were killed because they dared to defend their rights to locate their goats and the thieves. There is also the case of popular May Pen businessmen, Lloyd Phang and Maurice Azan, who were shot and killed at their business places. Another business person, a real estate developer in West Rural St Andrew, was shot and killed by robbers. These are not Anancy stories. They are horror stories, and many of those killed are linked to development in education and business in Jamaica. It seems never-ending, but after May 23 there was a pause.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place_7839580
you should read now and again yourself Ian Boyne….without your “tinted glasses”
While writing this article, I received word that one of my former students, Keaven Dixon, was killed by a gunman at a school in Hopewell, Hanover. My sincere condolences to his family, church, friends and community.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place_7839580
IN JANUARY of 2007, Bruce Golding, then leader of the Opposition, declared that if his Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) won the general election the Constitution would have been amended to create a fixed election date. He said a JLP government would do so within its first 100 days in office.
“It is not good for the country to be sitting on tenterhooks absorbing so much time on speculation … there are a host of reasons why it is not good for the country to be iffing and butting,” Golding said then.
It has been 1,027 days since Golding’s party won the general election and to this day no such legislation has reached Parliament.
But it is not just the issue of the fixed election date that has not reached the Parliament.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100809/news/news3.html
Very little accomplished
But very little has been accomplished otherwise, as only a few pieces of game-changing legislation have been brought to the Parliament. Aside from the proposed whistleblower and the special prosecutor legislations which have been introduced, parliamentarians have been starved of real work.
In fact, had it not been for the work of some committees, namely the Public Accounts Committee and the Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) – which many members don’t even bother to attend, Parliament would be sleeping. Despite the lacklustre performance, members have found it possible to take a long recess from their legislative duties.
While they are away, Rome continues to burn. The Charter of Rights has been allowed to fall off the Order Paper and there seems to be no desire on the part of Government to re-introduce it post-haste.
There is still no sign of promised legislation to impose criminal sanctions for breaches of the rules governing the award of government contracts; no sign that Golding is committed to a review of the libel and slander law to ensure that it cannot be used as a firewall to protect wrongdoers and absolutely no sign that Government is in any hurry to enact legislation for the impeachment and removal from office of public officials guilty of misconduct, corruption, abuse of authority or betrayal of public trust.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100809/news/news3.html
Blog has now fully turned from a blog discussing Olint and related matter, to discussing purely Jamaican news as reposted from various news sources?
No info / updates on
1. Mr Smith and Crew?
2. Major Lewis and Crew
3. F1 investments?
4. Progress of law suits already filed?
New Attorney General Appointed: To start in September
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=3086&id=8
Application rejected
BY PAUL HENRY Observer staff reporter henryp@jamaicaobserver.com
Monday, August 09, 2010
A panel of three judges today rejected an application to have parts of an affidavit by the Jamaica Redevelopment Foundation CEO Janette Farrows struck out.
The application was filed by attorney representing retired Justice Boyd Carey, Lloyd Barnett, who also asked for certain documents attached to the affidavit to be struck out.
Barnett argued that the Jamaica Redevelopment Foundation has not proven in its affidavit given by Farrow that Carey was a debtor of FINSAC.
Following the rejection of the application a Judicial Review, seeking to remove Carey and quash the inquiry, has started in the Supreme Court.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/lifestyles/Application-rejected
Quash the inquiry? It is not to be quashed…just needs a new set of commissioners.
floridian, I might be late on this, but please check your multiple sources. I recently heard (like I said I might be late) that Michael Strachan (formerly of the infamous Worldwise) has purchase the franchising rights for Miss Jamaica Universe (or is it World). Is this true?
don’t know Subie.
(“currently” of the infamous Worldwise)
Move on time for some is just start for others…current
You had some out of the west who used to collect for Worldwise “victims”….but not from DS/Olint….hehe…telling?
It’s all good.
In outlining the grounds for the actions against the respondents — Carey, commission members Charles Ross and Worrick Bogle and commission attorney RNA Henriques — Foster-Pusey cited the importance of preserving the integrity of the commission and the obligation to a fair hearing.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Carey-s-decision–unreasonable-and-irrational-lawyer-tells-court_7867
Charles Ross still there? He’s under investigation about Olint.
Get three foreigners to do Finsac.
Sorry…get at least seven…from seven different countries.
” The minister of tourism yaps and yaps and yaps about his arrivals… which is a good thing…and I’m on his side….and its fantastic…the first thing though on the arrival side of things I know that he has done almost nothing to help my Sandals arrivals… so I have my marketing team…and we go out there…. so don’t take credit more than so…
..he does not understand and refuses to understand…
…he believes he knows but he’s so busy talking about the amount of people coming breaking records which are not explained properly and not broken down properly Minister Ed Bartlett can tell a smart hotelier how to run his business and the things that are good for him than the cow that jumped over the moon..
With all the yapping..the hotels are in trouble..
…we are right down the end of a tunnel …but a friend of mine once said to me….you know what a politician does when they see some light at the end of a tunnel?…I say no…..dem jus build a little more tunnel…
…they knew better than you but they didn’t know anything about running a country…they knew how to pull a crowd
“He took the hammer and the nails…and he drove them everywhere he saw flesh”
“He took no prisoners at all”
“Well, you get what you pay for”
Betty Ann Blaine steps down from Hear the Children’s Cry
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Blaine-steps-down-from-Hear-the-Children-s-Cry
Speaking with Caribbean Business Report last night, the Duke of Earl said “Smith told me in the Turks & Caicos that if he were to return to Jamaica that he would fear for the safety of both himself and his family.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/error/url-not-found
One of the implications could be an attempt by the administration to muzzle people who the Government believes might have spoken out of turn in making their professional opinion.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/govt-expediently-sanitising-slb-–-waite
BTW Cynic, one nose can’t run. Everyone wanty wanty..I understand..the Jamaican way “Nobody want to plant the corn…everybody want to raid the barn”
Patience…
It’s about planting corn….not Yapping 🙂
Will they say it is “youthful exuberance????”
World equities slide as markets shun risk
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/08/11/world.markets.slump.ft/index.html?hpt=T2#fbid=tgeLrrl76ZZ&wom=false
The gathering storm: Britain’s faltering economy
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/the-gathering-storm-britains-faltering-economy-2050188.html
IMF says JA rebounding from recession
INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) representative Gene Leon says Jamaica is rebounding from the global recession.
He pointed to the inflation rate trending down, which he attributed to, among other things, an appreciation of the foreign exchange rate, adding that falling inflation in the global marketplace has also contributed to the reduction.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/business/IMF-says-Jamaica-rebounding-from-recession
IMF rep defends Gov’t freeze
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/business/IMF-rep-defends-Gov-t-freeze
Broker argues US economy shifting from slow growth to double dip contraction
He observed that in his 28 years as a broker, he had never seen such a divergence of views between the optimistic “stock jocks”, and the major institutional fixed income players (many of whom also see an increasing likelihood of a double dip) on the state of the economy.
Moreover, he argues that for the key housing market, the “double dip” has already started, despite
misleading media references,
such as on financial channel CNBC, to a 23 per cent “bounce” in new home sales in June.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/business/Broker-argues-US-economy-shifting-from-slow-growth-to-double-dip-contraction
Protection by the State from the State
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
WE would really like to throw our wholehearted support behind the police’s request for the individual who captured the video footage of the policeman who fatally shot Mr Ian ‘Ching Sing’ Lloyd to come forward with a statement for court purposes.
After all, it is the responsible thing to do, with a view to assisting the due process of the court.
However, we can’t, in all good conscience, ignore the very many factors that would tempt one to shy away from making the tremendous sacrifices that would attend such co-operation.
For in our view, the footage, which was made available to the media represents a vivid example of the whistle blowing process at its most effective. And whistle blowers require protection. Now, if the videographer decides to come forward, the State will be obliged to protect him, ironically from its own agents as well as the myriad potentially explosive characters who have unabashedly endorsed what, at face value, appears to be a murder most foul.
This is likely to be a far and more difficult cry from the process that would be required for the protection from known criminal elements.
For there are few things more dangerous than the unknown.
That is why a corrupt State which does not demonstrate respect for the transparency that is critical to good governance must be condemned and resisted.
A State that cannot be trusted is unsustainable and inimical to the public interest.
A State whose elected servants cannot come straight with the people they purport to serve will not engender the type of loyalty or patriotism that is being requested of our mystery videographer.
Remember, it wasn’t all that long ago that calls were being made by the State for the revelation of the identity of a certain policeman who helped the US authorities to acquire wiretap evidence against former Tivoli Gardens strongman Mr Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke who, having waived his right to an extradition hearing here, is now awaiting trial on drug and gun-running charges in New York.
Lest we forget, that policeman is in protective custody in the United States.
Protection from what and whom? we might ask.
If the answer is what we suspect it is, we submit that our energies would be better spent urging the State to take an introspective look at its own capacity and moral authority to govern, as well as the impact it has had on the ability of the police force to command the society’s respect and co-operation.
Maybe then, when the clouds of distrust and suspicion have lifted, we will all be more disposed to come forward.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/Protection-by-the-State-from-the-State_7870905
I don’t respond…..
meaning what?
meaning to say that …ahhhm …you know.. you do your job and maybe on Mr. Stewart’s score card I don’t score too well now …[ so you disagreeing with Mr. Stewart’s discourse?] ….maybe in the future it will change…
So are you disagreeing with what Mr. Stewart said?
I….Let me be frank with you…I’ve taken a position..based on what the rest of the industry and everyone else who has observed my operation has given me….
Say nothing on the matter.
hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo….So Mr. Bartlett responded… by not responding…ahhh…Well I think it’s a wise move….
no need to get into a … a verbal tussle with Butch Stewart…
and the fact of the matter again is that ..you… we did hear Mr. Stewart say yesterday after all of that…after saying all of that…and saying it in front of John Lynch…
Mr. Stewart did say that he’d be meeting…in his capacity as Jampro Chairman …with the Minister next week …he said that he advised the Minister to wait until all the major players were here …because everybody is traveling now….
And he’d have a sit down to discuss issues pertinent to the promotion and marketing of Jamaica as a destination … so..
There’s…I don’t think there’s much…
..if any…..
…residual bad blood there…it’s just that he really took him to the cleaners yesterday…and Mr. Bartlett is not following up…
Yap Yap…
Gov’t to recover money from sacked SLB head?
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=21668
Olint head?
Motty “…hotels that are like friendly prison systems…”
Millions owed
The Finance Minister further disclosed that steps will be taken to collect outstanding sums owed by the former Executive Director.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/former-slb-head-could-face-prosecution
Opposition accuses tourism minister of bungling
The Opposition is accusing the tourism minister Ed Bartlett of bungling in the announcement of the Tourism Industry Refurbishing Programme.
The Opposition spokesman on tourism Dr Wykeham McNeill says the entire development appears untidy and demands a full explanation.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=21674
“I don’t respond” heheheheeeeeheheheee
“In democracies, gallows are not constructed before the case is heard – even when the case may appear overwhelmingly against the accused.”
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“But let me make one thing clear,” Prime Minister Bruce Golding recently said, “they could issue statements until … and the columnists write their columns and editors write their editorials. I am not allowing anything to distract me anymore from the work that I will have to do.” This comment by the head of Government represents an unacceptably contemp-tuous attitude toward the press in a democracy, and an equally unaccep-table suggestion that the press is trying to distract him from his crime-fighting initiatives.
Eschewing the accepted principles that are at the core of the Westminster model, the JLP members of the Senate acted with indecent haste in expressing their support for the prime minister after he mislead Parliament and the country about his role in the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips affair. The party’s hierarchy compounded the problem by rejecting his offer to resign.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100811/cleisure/cleisure3.html
fatherforesight 4 hours ago
I hear members of the opposition crying foul about the dismisal of this, another individual that has no regard for JAMAICA. I hope her travel documents have been seized, as the next thing you will hear is that she is in ATLANTA. The whole group should be investigated for complacency and whatever has transpired because of such. They would do well in establishments created by the likes on Carlod Hill and David Smith. She (they) should be used to set an example for others who are in the process and also those who are dreaming up schemes as such. You have been askig for transparency; so what’s wrong with the public knowing what the wrong doer is/was about as they are being arreasted, fired or whatever?
Musicman978 1 hour ago in reply to jayjayja
I agree Sheryl some of us in JA are living in a dream world. If all of this is true then many more need to go to jail or somewhere like that. What a scandal, $264+ million with the Chairman’s bank. Another board member runs a financial security company and is a Finsac enquiry commission member. Minister of Finance you better clean up this you have been given a golden opportunity and if you do not it might clean you up.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100812/lead/lead1.html
Christine Crooks
8/12/2010
I would support a new party if Mr. Butch Stewart would lead. I donot believe anyone else in this country has enough clout to do a good job.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/New-people-needed–not-new-political-party_7873357
Christine…Mr. Bartlett said, “say nothing on the matter”
You think you might be missing a salient point Christine?
Bartlett rejects tourism bungling claims
Jamaica’s tourism minister Ed Bartlett has dismissed a claim by the Opposition that there was bungling in the announcement of the Tourism Industry Refurbishing programme.
Bartlett says Dr McNeill is being troublesome because the Government remains committed to implementing the programme
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=21690
Hehe..Christine…”I don’t respond” …to what? hehehe
hahaaaaaaha
“I don’t repond….on…Wednesday’s!”
heheheee
“Dismissed” a claim…dismissed!
hehheehehee ahahahahaaaaahha
Bartlett says Dr McNeill is being troublesome because the Government remains committed to implementing the programme…
Christine, IF.. McNeill has clout as Bartlett’s boss..you think he might ….might fire him?
hheheeheheee
“He took the hammer and the nails…and he drove them everywhere he saw flesh”
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However, he has since announced that the initiative is being reviewed and will instead be implemented in another two to three months.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=21690
Dr. Gene Leon, the senior representative of the International Monetary Fund, IMF, in Jamaica is supporting the government’s decision to freeze the granting of waivers and incentives.
That exercise is expected is to be completed in December.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=21667
“The minister of tourism yaps and yaps and yaps about his arrivals..”
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Bartlett rejects tourism bungling claims
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=21690
“The problem I have is that the Minister announced the programme and having announced the programme we then find out that they did not have the necessary consultations with the Ministry of Finance and the international funding agencies,”
http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&q=IMF+no+waivers+Jamaica&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=a53e9ae07f1cc2a8
Local exporters are moving to take advantage of provisions under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), signed by some Caribbean countries, including Jamaica, and the European Union (EU).
In the search for new export markets, the Jamaica Exporters’ Association (JEA) has submitted a proposal to the European Union to administer a project to create a framework for sustainable development and expansion of exports to Europe.
In an interview with JIS News, President of the JEA, Mr. Vitus Evans, said the project is aimed at stimulating support for the processed food, agriculture, aquaculture and entertainment industries.
http://www.jis.gov.jm/MinAgriFish/html/20100322T090000-0500_23328_JIS_EXPORTERS_MOVING_TO_TAKE_ADVANTAGE_OF_EPA.asp
“What we are seeking is some funding which will actually allow our firms to have the capacity to be able to compete within the EU market. So, we have actually applied for some funding of about 11 million Euros and we have actually gone a far way in our discussions with the local EU office, and the EU Ambassador has given it his support and the Government of Jamaica is fully behind it,” he disclosed.
The funding is being sought to facilitate improvement of beneficiary companies’ capacity to access adequate and consistent supply of raw material; for institutional strengthening of public agencies responsible for key facilitation services to comply with EU market access requirements; and the building of relationship with technical support agencies to bring exporters up to date on new technologies and best practices in the export market.
http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&q=IMF+no+waivers+Jamaica&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=a53e9ae07f1cc2a8
Dr. Lloyd Barnett, the attorney for embattled retired jurist Boyd Carey is insisting that his client’s debt with the Financial Sector Adjustment Company, FINSAC was cleared from as far back as 1998.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=21699
Look just get three people who have never had any links to any of the entities and never bought sold borrowed or cheered govt. paper.
..or deal with DS/Olint either…
They are not so difficult to find.
According to commanding officer for St. James, Superintendent Merrick Watson, a diary containing volumes of information regarding the recent incursion of the Security Forces into Tivoli Gardens in West Kingston, was taken from him.
The Superintendent read excerpts from it, some of which professed his loyalty to Christopher “Dudus” Coke’s family and his involvement in the shooting during that event.
It details events before, during and after the incursion into Tivoli Gardens and speaks about, “…the invasion of Tivoli Gardens by Babylon, enemy. Gunshot rang out for hours from every corner of Kingston…” The diary read.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/jamaica’-most-wanted-gangster-killed
“a diary containing volumes of information”
Manatt Phelps Phillips?
The Citrus Growers Association is in serious financial trouble and has been forced to seek a bailout from the government.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=21725
Court reserves judgement on FINSAC enquiry
The court has reserved judgement on whether Justice Carey and the other FINSAC commissioners will be allowed to remain on the panel.
The ruling is to be handed down at a later date
The claimants want Commissioners Ross and Worrick Bogle and Chairman Boyd Carey to step down.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=21724
Bartlett Fires Back At Critics
While not responding directly to Stewart, Bartlett pointed to the record 1.157 million stopover visitors since the start of the year.
The tourism minister further noted that stop over arrivals in July was 3.5 per cent over the corresponding month in 2009, which was also a record.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100813/news/news5.html
“…he believes he knows but he’s so busy talking about the amount of people coming breaking records which are not explained properly and not broken down properly…”
Also tied up in TCI Bank was $6m owed to investors in Olint, currently the focus of one of the region’s largest ever fraud investigations. The cash had been placed there by Hallmark, one of Olint’s trustees.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court rejected a proposal from the Attorney General to treat Hallmark as preferential depositors. While that will dismay Olint investors who may have been able to recover some of their money, it means the sale of the collapsed bank is now more likely to go ahead.
http://www.tcweeklynews.com/clients/tcweeklynews/tci-bank-sale-talks-progress-p2146-1.htm
Huw Shepheard LLB MBA – previously acting deputy Solicitor General in Bermuda – will take over the reins from Kurt de Freitas in September.
AG Chambers lost battle to secure OLINT’s TCI Bank assets
Following the arrest of the OLINT boss, David Smith and his wife Tracy, the High Court ordered that their assets frozen. The court also ordered that OLINT TCI be wound up so that depositors could get their money back. Among Hallmark Trust and OLINT’s assets are deposits in the TCI Bank.
Ariel Misick QC, who also represented the other interested parties, argued that the debt owed to Hallmark is to rank the same as all other unsecured debt of TCI Bank.
Misick argued that the relationship between TCI Bank and Hallmark Trust is a traditional one – that of debtor and creditor. He said TCI Bank was free to use the deposit as they wished and Hallmark had no interest in the assets of the bank. Misick argued that, given that none of the assets of the bank are beneficially owned by Hallmark, OLINT or the defendants – the Smiths – the assets of the bank are not capable of being restrained by the restraint order. He further argued that the assets of the bank are not realizable property of the defendants or that of any recipient of a tainted gift.
He further argued that the bank’s obligation under the order is not to assist Hallmark, OLINT or the Smiths to breach the restraint order.
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=1061
When some people say, “don’t worry”, be very afraid! CLNG is an offshore firm registered in a tax haven – it is not transparent. It does not trust us with its brand, nor is it in our reach for tax, money laundering or OCG checks. As a new firm doing its first venture in a murder capital, it has cojones, or powerful mentors! Time will tell! I found no D&B reports on its principals. They can control our energy but we must not be “nosy”! This may be the only chance the OCG has to do checks as it has no jurisdiction in the British Virgin Islands. What if all our investors set up in a tax haven?
Why did we choose CLNG and not the cheap, flexible, integrated, proved gas firms of our friend and major trading partner who rescues us in a crisis?
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/LNG–FDI–corruption–energy-strategy_7875254
WikiLeaks will soon publish its remaining 15,000 Afghan war documents, despite warnings from the US government, the organization’s founder said Saturday.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/wikileaks-will-not-be-threatened-by-pentagon-2052667.html
She told the court the large majority of stolen funds had been lost in unauthorised trading, but a significant amount had been used by Girvan for his personal gain.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100814/business/business3.html
The Jamaica Gleaner understands that a US visa has been reissued to Wayne Chen.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=21729
Robert Christopher Tom Girvan, a Jamaican businessman, pleaded guilty in The Cayman Islands’ Grand Court on Wednesday to 18 charges of theft and three charges of money laundering
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100814/business/business3.html
According to Blaine, third parties often do not have access to how party financing apparatus is set up. They often do not know who are on the boards of companies, who are the contributors, who support who.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=466
No place for wealth seekers in NNC gov’t
Noting that the NNC is using the Obama model to seek funding, Blaine said the party will continue asking for small donations so as not to run into the complexities associated with money laundering.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=466
Unfortunately, with a new Attorney General coming on board, he will lose part of his legal team to assist in his criminal defenses and run the necessary legal interference.
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=3106&id=8
I had a long conversation recently with our dynamic new Ambassador to Washington, Audrey Marks. She has been explaining to some pretty big names on Capitol Hill that PM Golding had taken one of the greatest risks of his political life in the extradition proceedings against Christopher Coke.
This is in no way to defend Golding,….
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/The-right-to-life—and-a-living
So defending Manatt, Phelps Phillips then? Get real.
GIVEN THE censure he received from the contractor general for concluding those airline-seat guarantee deals with the approval of the Cabinet, we believe Tourism Minister Ed Bartlett’s recent announcement of a 10 per cent duty waiver on material for the refurbishment of hotels would have been formally and appropriately endorsed by his colleagues.
Unfortunately for Mr Bartlett, the administration has to pull back from the undertaking and it is for this he is taking the flak from disappointed sector interests and being cast as something of a flip-flopper.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100816/cleisure/cleisure2.html
Thwaites, pointing to evidence of criminal enterprise in Tivoli Gardens, which Golding represents in Parliament, said, “There is nowhere in the PNP that has something like what was uncovered in Tivoli Gardens and which we knew all along.
“There is no leader of the PNP who is going to stake his or her political capital on Dudus in the way that the prime minister of Jamaica and the leader of the Jamaica Labour Party did,” Thwaites said.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100816/lead/lead1.html
“We do not have any leader in the party who is prepared to go to the limits to protect anyone like the prime minister did to protect Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke.”
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Thwaites-I-will-be-an-informer
Everald Warmington at the centre of scandal
The probe is being conducted by into allegations of impropriety and irregularity in the award of multi-million dollars contracts to Strathairn Construction Company.
The construction firm is allegedly owned by Warmington.
The Contractor General says a preliminary probe has unearthed information suggesting that the bulk of Government contracts issued by the St Catherine Parish Council were awarded to Strathairn Construction Company.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=21766
Does it end?
Quick Review on the One Year Anniversary of the Interim Government
A case can be made that action should have been taken much sooner and that the British were negligent in not acting quickly. However as per the need to show the international community cause, the Commission of Inquiry was required, and then the recommendations for action made by the Inquiry were delayed by the legal actions initiated by the former Premier, Michael Misick.
(He used legal Manatt, Phelps, Phillips type action too??)
The Olint and Dellis Cay ponzi schemes only added to the inflated sense of economic activity.
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=3113&id=8
The Ugly
The National Insurance Board, NIB, is a total disgrace and the fact that an entity that oversees over $130 million dollars of our pension money is STILL in such disarray is of great concern.
The NIB’s legal representative, Ariel Misick QC, who also represented the other interested parties, argued that the debt owed to Hallmark is to rank the same as all other unsecured debt of TCI Bank.
Misick argued that the relationship between TCI Bank and Hallmark Trust is a traditional one – that of debtor and creditor. He said TCI Bank was free to use the deposit as they wished and Hallmark had no interest in the assets of the bank.
Ariel Misick..nuh you a one of the facilitators of David Smith escape to TCI…gwan…we watch…simple.
“He (Christie) is always coming up with some nonsense,” Warmington added. “I am not surprised at him. That is a characteristic of the person.”
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100817/lead/lead1.html
JLP mum on allegations against Warmington
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/jlp-mum-allegations-against-warmington
Banks’ bad debt jumps another $1b in Jun Q
Non-performing loans at commercial banks jumped by another billion dollars during June 2010 quarter, while loans to the private sector continued to decline.
Personal loan growth was driven largely by credit card receivables, which grew by 0.8 per cent, while the stock of loans for the purchase of motor cars declined by 0.5 per cent.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/business/Banks–bad-debt-jumps-another–1b-in-Jun-Q_7884094
The Foreign and Commonwealth office, FCO, must reconsider seriously the ongoing presence of Sandy Lightbourne as Chairman of the Financial Services Commission, FSC, in the TCI while he remains a key director of one of the companies he is supposed to be regulating, British Caribbean Bank. Allegedly the largest lender in the Islands.
The members of the FSC serve at the pleasure of the FCO. We cannot see how the damage done to the reputation of the FSC by the events surrounding the provisional liquation of the TCI Bank will ever begin to be repaired while this significant and serious conflict of interest remains unaddressed.
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=3121&id=8
Mr Bartlett, beware John Junor’s kiss of death!
In what was clearly a moment of political drunkenness — that happens when politicians are driven by the need to ‘hot up’ the crowd when their speech is limp — Mr Junor came out firing at ‘Butch’ Stewart for criticising Mr Bartlett’s seeming preference for soft talk over hard achievements in the tourism industry.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Mr-Bartlett–beware-John-Junor-s-kiss-of-death-
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Harold Brady leaves Railway Corporation
HAROLD Brady has stepped down Chairman of the Board of the Jamaica Railway Corporation (JRC).
Minister of Transport Mike Henry, confirmed in a statement today that Brady had resigned.
Brady is also an attorney who represents the ruling Jamaica Labour Party. He recently grabbed headlines for his role in the Manatt, Phelps Phillips saga involving Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Harold-Brady-leaves-Railway-Corporation
David Smith was indicted today by the United States Attorney’s Office in the Middle District of Florida for money laundering.
Case 6:10-cr-00232-MSS-DAB
7. On March 5, 2006, JIJ Investments (“JIJ”) was incorporated in the State of Florida. Unindicted co-conspirators are listed Directors of the firm. On or about May 15, 2007, an unidentified co-conspirator represented to the NFA that JIJ Investments was a real estate investment endeavor, with a potential secondary focus of spot Forex investments and trading.
w. w w/. youtube.com/watch?v=FpkbeI9IZkE
2. From his engagement in the violations alleged in Counts One through Four of this information, punishable by imprisonment for more than one year, the defendant shall forfeit to the United States of America, pursuant to Title 18, United States Code, Section 981(a)(1)(C) and Title 28, United States Code, Section 2461 (c), all of his interest in any property constituting or derived from proceeds obtained directly or indirectly as a result of the said violations.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=466
Harold Brady leaves Jamaica Railway Corporation
Harold Brady is no longer the chairman of the board of the Jamaica Railway Corporation.
The short release did not give a reason for Brady’s departure, but a source at the ministry told The Gleaner that Brady resigned.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=21833
5. The specific property to be forfeited includes, but is not limited to:
a. A forfeiture money judgment in the amount of $128,000,000.00, which constitutes proceeds obtained directly or indirectly as a result of the wire fraud charged in Counts One through Four.
JLP General Secretary, Karl Samuda says the party will refrain from commenting on the matter until it has all the details concerning the case.
Mr Samuda, who is also the Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, told The Gleaner/Power 106 News that the matter has several implications and this was another reason the party is not commenting at this time.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=21830
Olint head David Smith indicted in the US
2 minutes ago
The former Olint head, is in custody in the Turks and Caicos Islands where he is facing 30 charges, and is now expected to be the subject of a extradition request from the US.
It continues to charge that Smith broke the law: By soliciting and obtaining over US$200-million of funds under false pretences, failing to invest investors funds as promised and misappropriating and converting investors funds to (his) benefit and the benefit of others without the knowledge or authorisation of the investors…”
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=21834
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Why is it that another country has to be cleaning up the mess in Jamaica.Didn’t law enforcement know that the Smiths were corrupt?As long as they benefitted from the fraud it was overlooked.Well the chickens have come home to roost.Want all loose all.Greed is NEVER good.
Today, 6:22:19 PM EDT – Flag – Like
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=21834
Where can i access a copy of the indictment? I’ve been scouring the web all afternoon since you broke the story.
It really sad that it is taking the USA to clean up the mess created in our own backyard once again.
Sit back and watch a real justice system in action.
b. 1739 Glenwick Drive, Windmere, Florida, which was purchased with a $159,881.10 down payment traceable to the wire fraud proceeds.
c. All precious gemstones, precious metals, and jewelry recovered on or about January 14, 2010, from the residence of Tanya Masone.
d. $40,103.90 transferred from David A. Smith to Bette Gordon and her husband Paul Gordon, as part of a $199,985.00 wire transfer conducted on or about July 24, 2006.
2:49 a.m Eastern Miak. 2:49 a.m.
Sunday Herald reported that the US government would increase extradition requests for up to 20 Jamaicans. US assistant secretary of state Arturo Valenzuela confirmed the increased extradition requests during the visit to the island last week.
http://www.sunheraldja.com/2010/08/us-pressures-olint’s-players/
New Thread,
This old one is slowing down badly. Too many post
!!!!!
http://www.tcijournal.com/index.php?idsub=3128&id=8
Any word on Ingrid Loiten Maydaisy?