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Comment on Crime in Paradise: Preview of Forthcoming IDB Study on Crime in the Caribbean by Berris Henriques

Berris Henriques — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 15:06:00 +0000

Most of Jamaica’s crimes can be prevented by simply placing the police back in their own communities. Since the creation of IDECOM,the fear of corruption within the police force is no longer valid. Especially when everyone knows everyone, the bad eggs will sooner be cracked and disposed of.

Comment on How can Jamaica lower the costs of energy? (Part I) by JOHN ANTHONY

JOHN ANTHONY — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 14:44:55 +0000

Humans are quite amazing religious beings. As I do worldwide reading I have come across several countries and locales that have seen retail electricity prices skyrocket after aggressive expansion of renewable energies. Ontario has seen prices triple, Germany, Australia, Scotland Denmark, Japan, Hawaii etc have all seen prices jump significantly. Germany as a result has seen millions disconnect from the grid. Many of these countries have subsidies for renewable energies and yet prices have zoomed.

So how does Jamaica expect to decrease prices from rolling out renewables? Is your faith stronger than the laws of Physics? PLease explain.

Comment on How can Jamaica lower the costs of energy? (Part I) by Alfred Loweching

Alfred Loweching — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 00:20:58 +0000

To have a conversation about energy, nuclear must be mention.
The days of thinking about nuclear as bad is as old as the objectors. We are living in an advancing world and we must apply today’s advancement to solve our problems.
Yes, if there is an accident there could be lost of lives. But, come on now, how many Jamaicans were murdered over the past ten years

Comment on How can Jamaica lower the costs of energy? (Part I) by Wayne Johnson

Wayne Johnson — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 12:23:09 +0000

I fully support the brainstorm of reducing the energy bill to five hundred million fro the present one billion by sharing and retrofitting only the source that create opportunities ETC such as solar and wind Hydroelectric Copy walkers wood Mistakes to suggestion and the type of response of been very tardy to Associated observe make changes and return to profit in one year to pay off the death to the South since they missed the BPS deal ETC

Electromagnetic energy and rail service ASAP

Comment on De-Risking and Correspondent Banking – A Caribbean Example by Rafer Johnson

Rafer Johnson — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 13:52:25 +0000

Excellent article Juan, but there is a straight forward answer. The Money Service Operators will have to design their own AML program that will allow them to comply with British and American AML requirements. Yes…it’s easier said than done, but not impossible.

For too long the BOJ hasn’t issued more stringent AML guidelines for the MSB’s, and a result, MSO’s have not been accustomed to implementing the necessary internal controls required to reduce the instance of tainted money being processed through their locations.

Consequently,it was an easy decision for the commercial banks to close the account of the MSO’s, rather than assisting them to get into a position where they could be compliant with more strict AML guidelines.

Comment on Turning Caribbean Islands into “Climate Smart Islands” by john anthony

john anthony — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 04:39:57 +0000

Global warming is the greatest scam since Piltdown man. The science behind it is faulty and has failed every test of science. It shows the new emergence of a fallacious merging of religion with unproven scientific theories. How? Proponents rant about belief and prophetic predictions instead of double blind studies. Find me one double blind study that concluded that carbon dioxide drives temperature variations and then if you do explain how come for the past twenty years how temperatures have flatlined while carbondioxider has continued to increase in the atmosphere.
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Comment on Turning Caribbean Islands into “Climate Smart Islands” by john anthony

john anthony — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 04:37:30 +0000

Ralston Hyman the Jamaica economist loves to say “we need accurate and reliable information in order to build an economy.” So how does this applies to the climate change / global warming environment?? Well why are proonents demanding poor countries engage in mass retrofitting of their lives based on unproven claims? James Moss-Solomon claimed in the Observer years ago that Jamaica would have to swim for their lives. Al Gore and Obama and the IPCC claims we are facing an apocalypse from global warming. While these claims are making the news, most dark skin persons in the world are deficient in Vitamin D, a nutrient so powerful it is now being called a steroid hormone. So because Jamaicans are vitamin D defieient when viral diseases strike as Chick-V did the population has low immune defense. So which is more important? Unproven claims which the europeans are deceiving us to accept with the aid of funding or important scenarios which are devastating our people?

Every weather destruction phenomenon from hurricanes to earthquakes have shown significant reduction in incidence and intensity over the past fifty years. Temperatures as measured by satellites have not increased in 20 years. And while Jeffrey Spooner says sea levels at Alligaor Pond has risen recently, he does not measure the results for the past 1000 years. I mean what madness is this? Is this science of a fallacy. You only measure results for fifty years and call the results definitive? 6000 years ago the world was covered with water, for those of us who believe the bible record. Today several parts of what was once covered with water, both poles and dozens of mountains are covered with ice and snow. So has those areas warmed up or cooled down??

You do not believe the bible record? Well then believe archaeology Milions of sea shells have been documented to be on high land where the sea is thousands of miles away. How did they get there? Jamaicans are so brainwashed when the question was put to Michael Burke a journalist at the Observer, he remarked that someone must have dropped them there. So there you have it. The mental state of islanders have been c ompletely re-enslaved by the European Massas. And this time there will be no emancipation because this slavery now come with monetary benefits.

Comment on What are we doing about climate change? by john anthony

john anthony — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 12:52:22 +0000

David global warming is the greatest scam since Piltdown man. The science behind it is faulty and has failed every test of science. It shows the new emergence of a fallacious merging of religion with unproven scientific theories. How? Proponents rant about belief and prophetic predictions instead of double blind studies. Find me one double blind study that concluded that carbon dioxide drives temperature variations and then if you do explain how come for the past twenty years how temperatures have flatlined while carbondioxider has continued to increase in the atmosphere.

Comment on Turning Caribbean Islands into “Climate Smart Islands” by Emma Lewis

Emma Lewis — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 23:53:07 +0000

This sounds like a great initiative and starting with very small islands as pilot schemes makes sense. However, I do hope that it progresses beyond the pilot stage later on. Also, I totally agree with you – this requires a complete change of mindset, as your Einstein quote perfectly expresses. And this takes a great deal of time! It may be that change will be forced on us in the Caribbean… I look forward to hearing more. I am glad to see the Carbon War Room is also supporting this initiative!

Comment on Jamaica launches new electronic procurement system by Paul A (Tony) McFarlane

Paul A (Tony) McFarlane — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 19:40:17 +0000

Excellent initiative and appears to be similar to the MERX Canadian site which I use for Public Procurements for a Crown Corporation. Should see improved efficiency and great results.