What do you want to hear from Audley Shaw
April 14th, 2009
What do you want to hear from Finance Minister Audley Shaw when he opens the Budget Debate on April 23?
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I would like to know when The Hon. minister is going to include outstanding monies in the budget for the huge welcome party for our athletes at the Trelawny Multi-Purpose last year. To date no one in Trelawny has been paid for goods and services provideded for the event. Over JMD $700,000 is owed can you beleive that? Tired of the run around we need to be paid now.
Maybe Minister Grange or Minister Vaz can shed some light on why The payment is still outstanding months after the event.I am sure Mr Bolt and company would be shocked to know that the government is giving us the finger.
Best blog topic so far….
I want Man a Yawd to tell us how he intends to finance the budget.
Is he still going to pursue Omar Davies policy of borrow and spend?
Are we finally going to see a policy that discourages consumption of imports?
What are we doing to tackle the import deficit?
Is the government going to get out of commercial activities?
Are capital imports going to be taxed at a rate that encourages investment?
How much money has the government been printing?
I know that interest rates are primarily the function of BOJ, but the BOJ is his responsibility. However when can the business community expect to get loans at a lower rate?
What plans does the government have to grow the GDP over the next 10 years?
What is the Industrial Policy of Jamaica?
Finally, is the IMF a viable alternative at this time?
Oh, I do not want to hear about the past 18 years, that is a crutch for the feeble minded amongst us.
In short, I want a solid Macroeconomic budget with sound fiscal programs with an eye on the next 10 years at a minimum.
Over to you Man-a-Yawd!!
Steve:
I said I knew who you were but I think I was off the mark. The statement you made, i.e.,
“I know that interest rates are primarily the function of BOJ, but the BOJ is his responsibility.” did the trick!
Do you use another blog name (Nxxxxxx) or (Rxxxxxxxx)?
The only three questions I have for the Finance Minister are:
1) How is he going to plug the $50 Billion hole in the bucket, sorry, budget?
2) Given the historical trend in the whole budgetary process, what is his best guess as what the “Supplemental Budget” numbers are going to be six months into the Fiscal year?
3) What is he going to do when the “real” Finance Minister leaves in October?
Mark..I said when we meet..
I HAVE NOTHING TO ASK HIM. ALL I CAN ENCOURAGE HIM TO DO IS TO TAKE THE HIGH ROAD AND COME OUT AND TELL THE JAMAICAN PEOPLE WHAT HE IS PREPARED TO TO DO TO FUND THE BUDGET. IN OTHER WORDS TELL THEM IF HE IS GOING TO RAISED TAX OR HE HAVE TO GO BORROW TO FUND THE SHORTFALL. I DON’T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT AIR JAMAICA AND THE SUGAR COMPANY. BECAUSE THAT MONEY ALONE WONT BE ENOUGH TO DO IT. MAY BE IF HE COME OUT AND SAY IT LOUD AND CLEAR . MAY BE SOME OF THE SWIVEL SERVANTS LIKE SOME TEACHERS WILL START TO GET IT .
The perpetual problem is that there is a huge unregulated economy in Ja which is untaxed and until this is sorted out nothing is going to change.This means all of those above the 7% real poor to the very rich who do not pay tax.
There are $$$$$$$$ of uncollected GCT payments let alone other taxes which have been collected but not passed on to the Treasury.There is still too much corruption resulting to lost revenue.
I would like to know if more of the money that has been granted by the EU and others to fix roads and put basic infrastructure in place will finally be used to do so instead of feeding greedy and corrupted local contractors who take that and tax payers money to sand dash our roads among other things.
If the basic infrastructure of a country which are good roads (in every section of the country and not just the high ways to show off and exploit car drivers), water (it’s a shame that there are parts of Jamaica without tap water!) and electricity (power cuts and production don’t really go hand in hand) are not properly in place then there is no chance of that particular country making any meaningful progress in this modern day and age. These are also areas that could generate further employments.
The next thing I would like to know is if some of what Mr Shaw will come up with will go into scientific researches and development, especially in the area of producing renewable energy and utilizing the lots of natural resources that we have wasting on the Island instead of depending on importing everything including sh!t like what happened recently. Keyword: self-sufficiency, teach a man to fish instead of giving him a fish. Jamaicans have the ability and the skill to do just about anything so give them the chance and opportunity to prove themselves at home and on the international scene. Show the world that our scientists, experts and workmen are as good as our athletes.
I hate to hear that Jamaica is poor and a third world country – think poor and you will remain poor.
Maybe Mr. Shaw should have a talk with some ghetto mothers before reading the budget. If they can do it on a daily basis then why can’t he annually?
Teachers Bob.
I know you teachers are the most hate professionals in Jamaica. But listen the teachers like my aunt, godmother and cousin hold everything in their hands and it’s time we realize that.
They cant be treated like that. Listen in the month to receipt they were told with 23 days to go – no money. Where was the period Sept. to January. Oh IT WONT AFFECT US – Audley said that. I was amazed at is pronouncement.
The retro amount can be paid BOB. People has some serious commitment.
Bob remember Seaga in the 1980′s TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT – stance. The education system fell and only started to show some recovery in the late 1990′s. The vibes building out there now among teachers i meet is like that of the Seaga era. SORRY 4 us.
GHAZWAZ.
LISTEN I AM NOT NIEVES. SO YOU ARE TELLING ME THAT JAMAICA IS NOT FACING THE CRISIS THAT THE FINANCE MINISTER AND THE PRIME MINISTER MAKING IT OUT TO BE?
IF TEACHERS ARE THE MOST HATED PROFESSIONAL IN JAMAICA THEN I SUGGEST TO ALL WHO ARE CONTEMPLATING TO STUDY TO BECOME A TEACHER , SHOULD DO BETTER THINGS WITH THEIR TIME.
ONE DON’T GO IN A PROFESSION JUST FOR THE MONEY. HENCE WHAT YOU WILL HAVE IS A CRIPPLING OF THAT PROFESSION. BECAUSE AS SOON AS THERE IS A BUDGET PROBLEM THEY WILL JUMP SHIP. TO FIND MORE MONEY.
ONE GO IN A PROFESSION BECAUSE THEY LIKE IT AND THAT’S WHAT THEY ARE COMFORTABLE DOING. AURDLEY SHAW STATEMENT ABOUT HOW THE ECONOMICAL CRISIS WEREN’T GONNA AFFECT JAMAICA. “I WAS THE FIRST ONE TO PROTEST HIS STATEMENT AND QUESTION HIS QUALIFICATION TO BE THE COUNTRY’S FINANCE MINISTER.
I DID SEND A EMAIL TO MR PERKINS RADIO SHOW ON POWER 106. AND I HERD HIM READ THE EMAIL. THE EMAIL I SENT . STATED “WHAT IS MR SHAW TALKING ABOUT, MAY BE HE IS DRUNK , OR IS IT THAT JAMAICA IS ALREADY AT THE BATTOM SO IT HAVE NO WHERE FURTHER TO FALL TO . THAT’S WHY HE CAN MAKE STATEMENT LIKE THESE, BECAUSE WHAT EVER HAPPEN HIS SALLERY WONT BE AFFECTED IT WILL MORE TO GO UP THAN FALL. THATS THE CONTENT OF THE LETTER I HAD SENT TO PERKINS ONLINE.
MAY BE HE DID USE THE TERM IN A DEROGATORY WAY ,SAYING HIS PERSONAL BUSINESS FAILURE DID NOT STOP HIM FROM GETTING THE POST OF FINANCE MINISTER. SO MAY BE THAT’S WHY HE DID MAKE THE STATEMENT.
BUT STILL FOR ALL NOW WE KNOW THAT SHAW WAS EITHER DRUNK OR SOMETHING. BECAUSE ONLY A FOOLISH FINANCE MINISTER COULD UTTERED STATEMENT LIKE THAT . WHEN HIS COUNTRY DEPEND ON WHAT HAPPEN IN OTHER COUNTRIES ECONOMY. BUT AT THE SAME TIME TEACHERS SHOULD NOT ACT LIKE HIM. BECAUSE THINK OF IT THIS WAY . WHAT IF LENDERS WONT LEND TO JAMAICA TO PATCH UP THE BUDGET . WHAT NEXT? CUTTING OF STAFF. MAY BE SOME TEACHERS TOO. AND THEN THAT’S THE TIME REALITY WILL SET IN , WHEN ITS TOO LATE.
I UNDERSTAND THAT ITS TOUGH, AND I DO HOPE THAT EVERY BODY UNDERSTAND THAT AS WELL. AND WILLING TO HOLD OFF ON THEIR DEMAND SO OTHERS CAN LIVE TOO.
WELL GHAZWAZ,
IF YOU AND OTHERS BELIEVE THAT THE MONEY IS THERE TO PAY THE TEACHERS THEIR RETROACTIVE PAY THEN DEMAND IT OR GO ON STRIKE. AND THEN WE WILL SEE. BECAUSE SOME ONE WILL LOOSE. I WOULD LOVE FOR EVERY SWIVEL SERVANT’S TO BE PAID . BUT WE HAVE TO LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE.
Take it or leave it thats what i say, teachers needs to understand the crisis that we are in and we all should prepared to do with less, the govt cant afford it and that is understandable we all have to get into the mind frame of a people who is patriotic,
we all have to work together to better our nation.
teachers works the least hours and has the most vacation days they just need to be more patient
Wait, everyone is picking on Teachers and Civil Servants as it relates to the Wage Freeze. I have yet to read anything about the people or companies on the other side of the equations. If we are going support a wage freeze, it would also require that the Landlords, Store Merchants, Government Agencies, Healthcare professionals and freeze their prices accordingly. I think it would be more palatable for those affected to ride out the financial storm.
But again, no sooner has the freeze was announced, we are beginning to hear that a number of Government agencies need to be self-reliant. Well, self reliance appears to mean doubling of fees, as we just read in the paper today that they will be doubling the fees for a Firearm License. Now, no one thought it fit to look at ways to make the agency more productive/efficient, right away they embark on double the fees. Is this a sign of what is yet to come? Now I thoroughly understand what THEY mean by shared sacrifice…..scr*w the middle/lower class with freezes, but yet allow the upper class the ability to fly into Miami to stock up on what they consider essentials.
What the arm-chair economists among us fail to realize is that a wage freeze reverberates throughout the economy, as less available funds in circulation leads to lower spending, lower GCT collected, lower production, lower employment and further stagnation. Nice…..
As someone said earlier, we need to go after the merchant class that stealing collected GCT, under payment of taxes, under-invoicing at Customs. Collect ALL outstanding property taxes (or risk losing the property), privatize all money-losing government entities (Air Jamaica, sugar factories, all minority ownership in entities the likes of JPS) etc., etc. If you do that, there will be no need for a wage freeze.
Bob I understand you well. Would never work as a teacher or for anyone bro.
But you just check the contractor general’s website – What you guys don’t understand is that when public servants get squeeze the many waiting for a little from them are doomed.
Bob something must be wrong with successive leaders of finance. Tell me one country in Latin America or the Caribbean that are messing up the heads of their – ‘main consumers’ – of the farmers and manufacturers products. I get the feel from you and shane that a little bad mind dede. OF THE FUNDS THEY ARE SLATED TO COLLECT YOU ARE SAYING THAT NONE CAN BE FOUND TO PAY THE RETROACTIVE AMOUNT. BUT WORST YOU WAITED UNTIL THE MONTH THE RETROACTIVE WAS DUE TO SAY NO. Well Bob teachers and other govt. workers owe me and i owe others. Watch the collapse of this economy now boy. Because fi reel a boy business this.
When the International meltdown started last year Mr.Shaw was quick to submit that it would not affect Jamaica, I guess he forgot that he was now one of the Ministers of Finanace and not on a political platform. Now that the rubber has hit the road and the dark clouds of economic gloom is bearing down on Jamaica I am listening to hear how much of the pre-election pie-in-the-sky promises he will be man enough to retract….still wondering if he will be able to manage the ministry on his own given his dismal history in business. Will there be more resignations?
Mark..come on…let them freeze….Prime Anancy Mr. Golding is said to have studied Economics at the undergraduate level..I am sure he is aware of something called the Multiplier… Let him freeze…Just watch the result of a demoralized teacher..Efficiency is a sacrificial lamb when Budget was be deliberated.
Mr. Golding said the PIOJ has to raise some of their own funds. How pray tell Mr. Golding? Backyard sales? Barbeques? Or should they consider selling Office furniture?
Mark blogged “As someone said earlier, we need to go after the merchant class that stealing collected GCT, under payment of taxes, under-invoicing at Customs. Collect ALL outstanding property taxes (or risk losing the property), privatize all money-losing government entities (Air Jamaica, sugar factories, all minority ownership in entities the likes of JPS) etc., etc. If you do that, there will be no need for a wage freeze.” …
I could not have stated it any better Mark..But if they should do that, what would they have to ‘reward’ their donors, cronies and activists?
I mean look at Ms.Shirley Williams at Air Jamaica, ordering a taxing plane to turn around..how many dollars did that cost?
I hope this budget really light a fire under us Jamaicans..cause we deserve a scalding…
MARK:
NO NEED TO PREACH TO ME ABOUT SHAW. WHEN I HEAR HIM SAY THAT .I ASK MY SELF WHO GIVE HIM JOB AS FINANCE MINISTER. THE GUY IS A JACKASS, TO MAKE STATEMENT LIKE THAT .” WHEN JAMAICA DEPEND OF THE OTHER COUNTRIES FOR ITS BREAD. I EVEN PROTEST HIS STATEMENT THROUGH PERKINS ONLINE SHOW.
SO I DO UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU AND GHAZWAZ IS SAYING. BUT AS YOU KNOW EITHER THEY GO TO THE INTERNATIONAL MAFIA FUND (IMF) OR THEY HOLD THE LINE UNTIL THIS CRISIS IS OVER THEN WHEN THINGS TURN AROUND THEY CAN PAY UP.
GHAZWAZ:
I HAVE NO GRUDGE AGAINST ANY ONE . I AM LOOKING AT THE OPTION AS A BUSINESS MAN. YOU EITHER PAY THEM NOW AND A WEEK OR A MONTH LATER YOU START LAYING OFF SOME OF THEM , THEN YOU WILL START TO HEAR THEY CRYING SAYING ONE IS WICKED.
WHAT THEY JUST HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THIS IS NOT PERMANENT. ITS A TEMPORARY MEASURE IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE THEY WILL STILL BE WORKING COME 2 MONTHS FROM NOW AND BEYOND, WE ALL HAVE TO DO OUR PART.
MARK:
THEY ARE ARE MAKING SURE THEY KILL OFF SOME MORE ORDINARY CITIZENS FIRST SO THEY CAN CONTROL THE COUNTRY BETTER.THIS IS THE MOST STUPIDEST THING I EVER HERD IN A COUNTRY WITH SOME MUCH ILLEGAL GUN AND GUN MEN AND KILLING. WHO PRAY ON DEFENSELESS CITIZENS IN GOOD TIMES, NOW WHAT GONNA HAPPEN THIS GOING TO MAKE THEM A MORE EASIER TARGET. IF AUDLEY SHAW BELIEVE HE WILL MAKE ENOUGH MONEY TO BALANCE HIS BUDGET HE IS DREAMING IN TECHNICOLOR.
UNLESS IF HE GIVE CLEAR INSTRUCTION TO THE (FLA) TO GRANT EVERY ANTS THAT COME IN SEEKING A LICENSE THEN HE COULD MAKE A GOOD CHUNK OF CHANGE.
MARK:
I MUST REMIND YOU THAT NOTHING IS WRONG WITH AIR JAMAICA, THE SUGAR FACTORY’S, NOT JPS. NOR ANY OTHER GOVERNMENT ENTITIES. ALL THEY NEED IS STRICT MANAGEMENT. TO SELL THEM IS SHOOTING OURSELVES IN THE FOOT. WE DON’T HAVE DISCIPLINE LEADERS TO STICK TO A PROJECT AND BE ABLE TO MAKE TOUGH BUSINESS LIKE DECISION WHEN IT COME TO MANAGING THE PUBLIC PURSE. THE BUYERS MOSTLY WILL LIKELY BE FOREIGNERS . WHEN THEY MAKE PROFITS AND THEY DECIDE TO TAKE THAT FOREIGN EXCHANGE OUT . WHAT U THINK GONNA HAPPEN TO US?
WHEN I LOOK AT WHAT THEY DID WITH THE TOLL ROAD I AM VERY LEERY OF THEM SELLING ANY THING MORE OF THE PUBLIC PROPERTIES. THEY DON’T HAVE THE WHERE WITH ALL TO DO A GOOD NEGOTIATION OR THEY SIMPLY DON’T CARE.
WE MUST NOT BE SHORT SITED . OR WE DOME TO CONTINUE DOWN THE SAME ROAD. YOU TALKING LIKE HOW SOME JAMAICAN MAN OPERATE. THEY HAVE A CAR AND ARE MAKING MONEY . THEY SPORT IT OUT WITH WOMEN NOT THINKING TO SAVE OR INVEST SOME OF IT . THEN THE CAR BROKE DOWN AND THEY HAVE TO WALK BECAUSE THEY ALSO LOST THE SOURCE OF MAKING MONEY TOO, NOW WHAT? I SAID THIS MANY TIMES . MONEY IS TOO EASY TO GET TO BORROW , AND WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO ARE RECKLESS WHEN IT COME TO THE TAXPAYERS MONEY. AND ALSO ON TOP OF THAT THEY THINK THEY DON’T HAVE TO ANSWER TO NO ONE.
MIKEYD:
ANY BODY WHO RESIGN BECAUSE OF THE ECONOMICAL PROBLEM IN THE COUNTRY , SHOULD NEVER AND I REPEAT NEVER AS LONG AS THEY LIVE IN JAMAICA SHOULD NEVER BE ELECTED TO POLITICAL OFFICES AGAIN. BECAUSE YOU WILL BE ABLE TO TELL WHO HAVE THE BEST INTEREST OF THE COUNTRY AT HEART, AND NOT JUST THEIR POCKETS.
TEACHERS MUST BE PAID THEIR RETROACTIVE SALARIES NOW!!!!
First thing first, this is not money teachers are begging. We have already worked the hours, weeks, and months for it. The govt owes us this money. We are not begging it. A fi wi!!!!!
Shane, you have no idea how many hours a teacher works. When a policeman leaves the station, him work done! When a nurse walks out of the health centre or hospital, her work done! When a teacher leaves school after 7 hours of work, a dat time the work start. We struggle home with all the papers to mark, prepare notes and charts and all aids for our lessons, marking SBAs actually takes more out of the teacher than the student. I have worked all night straight back til daylight doing school work.
Teachers purchase a substantial amount of stationery for themselves, printer ink, etc. All out of pocket. We do every time to ensure the success of our students, especially examination groups. My colleagues and I spend thousands of dollars every month printing and copying material for our students. My fifth and sixth form students call me for help at nights and weekend when they are studying. Teachers must be respected.
Let me repeat: Teachers must be paid their retroactive salaries.
The police have been compensated in full. They received all their retro money ONE TIME. Brap!!! Our retro payments were split into THREE (3) portions. We got one payment in Dec and then one week before the second payment is due, pure lyrics from Andrew Holness.
Like normal human beings we had gone ahead and made arrangements for OUR money. We had an agreement with the govt and that is supposed to be as good as money in the bank. I know teachers who have tuition payments to make for themselves or their children, teachers who need to fund surgery because the waiting list in the govt hospital is 11 months, teachers who have homes to rescue from the bank.
There is a simple economic theory called the “PARADOX OF THRIFT”. Go and look it up. Reduced spending and increased saving will FREEZE the economy in the worst possible way.
Teachers cannot be unreasonable to demand the payment of money they have already laboured for. Nobody is doing us a favour. It is our money, we want it and we want it NOW. OR ELSE. Strike is the least of your worries. What you should worry about is the demotivation of dedicated teachers like myself.
STEVE. AND MARK HERE IS A LITTLE NUMBER FOR YOU . IF IT MEANS ANY THING TO YOU AT THIS TIME. JAMAICA DEBT NOW STAND AT $1.16BILLION. NOW EVERY MAN WOMAN AND CHILD IN JAMAICA OWED SOME $429,000.00 EACH NOW THAT’S WITH OUT INTEREST. SO YOU GURUS CAN WORK ON THESE NUMBERS AND THEN TELL ME HOW YOU PROPOSED TO GET THIS SORT OF MONEY FROM A NEW BORN CHILD?. MAY BE I AM JUST ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE STUPID .LOL BUT I WANT YOUR TAKES ON THIS.
Bob,
Public debt is not a bad thing if (1) It is not a significant portion of GDP (2) If it is used to fuel economic growth. There are few examples of part 2 in Jamaica.
In the USA for example, public debt has grown every year since World War II, but accompanying that debt has been real GDP growth (that is growth less Inflation).
I cannot support the government continued borrowing when we have nothing to show for it but more debt. If we have to suffer let us suffer without the debt.
YES STEVE,
THAT’S WHAT I AM DRIVING AT.TO ME AS I ALWAYS SAID MONEY IS TOO EASY FOR OUR POLITICIAN TO GET TO BORROW AND THEY HAVE NO ACCOUNTABILITY TO NO ONE AND THAT’S WHY WE KEEP REPEATING THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER AGAIN. NOT EVEN TO PAUSE AND TAKE STOCKS. AND SEE WHERE WE ARE GOING.
THAT’S WHY I WANT YOU AS MY FINANCE (FINE ANTS) MINISTER.AND MARK AS THE COULD THE VOICE PRESIDENT , MAY BE I HAVE TO SHIFT HIM LATER BUT HE WILL DO FOR NOW.
TO ME WHEN I LOOK AT THIS NUMBER AND WE HAVE NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT BUT MORE DEBT AND SOME OF WHO HAD NEVER SEEN A PENNY OF IT WILL HAVE TO HELP TO PAY IT BACK. TO BE HONEST I BELIEVE WE REALLY NEED A REVOLUTION IN JAMAICA WHERE THE CURRENT AND PASS LEADERS GO TO PRISON IF THEY CANNOT ACCOUNT FOR THE MONEY THEY BORROW IN OUR AND OUR CHILDREN NAMES.
YES STEVE LETS SUFFER WITH OUT DEBT AND EAT MORE CASSAVA AND BREADFRUIT AND SWEET POTATOES AND PA-PAWS. AND EVEN MAKE DOG HOOD(WOOD) LIQUOR.
So having squandered off the moneys at a time when a financial crisis was looming on our economy, the Prime Minister of Jamaica at a national press conference last week (which can be aired internationally) says forthrightly “we just don’t have the money” to pay our Teachers. This after having signed an agreement to the effect – the result of extensive work and negotiations.
When do you think the budget was put together? That budget is so voluminous.
Is this government lying?
Is it being disingenuous?
JETTY:
I DON’T THINK THIS GOVERNMENT IS LYING ” BUT RATHER GET CAUGHT WITH THEIR PANTS DOWN. AT LEASE THEY WERE IN OPPOSITION FOR SO LONG . THEY SHOULD BE WORKING ON THE FUTURE OF THE COUNTRY SO IN CASE THEY DID GET THEIR CHANCES TO FORM THE GOVERNMENT.
THEY COULD GO TO WORK RIGHT AWAY LIKE OBAMA. WHILE IN OPPOSITION THEY SHOULD HAVE LOOKED AT THE WRONGS WHAT THE PREVIOUS GOVERNMENT DID AND HAVE A LIST OF WHAT TO BE FIX WHEN THEY TAKE POWER.
BUT INSTEAD THEY WERE THERE WARMING BENCH AND WASHING THE BACKS OF THE PNP GOVERNMENTS/ADMINISTRATION. THEY ARE PEAS IN A POD.
AND ON THE OTHER HAND NO BODY WAS EXPECTING THIS ICEBERG. EVERY BODY KNOW THAT AT SOME POINT ALONG THE ROAD THERE ARE BUMP . BUT NO ONE WAS PREPARED FOR THIS.
The comment from Shane about teachers worked the least amount of hours is completely rubbish and he knows nothing about teaching. |As a teacher i have to be up till 2 or 3 oclock at night preparing lessons, marking hundreds of books each week, researching, evaluaying students and my own teaching styles and strategies.A teacher’s job does not finish in the classroom and sometimes i wish i could leave work at the work place at the end of the day, but it is not possible. So please \Shane get the facts correct before making your opinion
The comment from Shane about teachers worked the least amount of hours is completely rubbish and he knows nothing about teaching. As a teacher i have to be up till 2 or 3 oclock at night preparing lessons, marking hundreds of books each week, researching, evaluating students and my own teaching styles and strategies.A teacher’s job does not finish in the classroom and sometimes i wish i could leave work at the work place at the end of the day, but it is not possible. So please Shane get the facts correct before giving your opinion
Mr Shaw,
Must announce the reallocation of the 2.4 BILLION!!!! dollar “Bollo Slush” Constituency Development Fund (CDF).
All persons pay taxes and my tax dollars should not contribute to the distribution of partisan benefits.
If we indeed have a financial crisis new ways of creating savings in expenditures that wont have major social fall out will have to be found. The reallocation of the CDF funds is one such
We must take the MPs out of personally deciding who gets benefits and who does not.
Mr. Shaw must reallocate the CDF across Social Security,PATH, the maligned Social
Development Commission and the various social intervention programmes. Indeed the contractual undertakings in regards to teachers salaries could be resolved somewhat by the abolishing of the CDF.
Carlton
I am scared this is getting bigger than the government is able to handle and on closer observance it seems it is all on Bruce Golding’s shoulder which isn’t that strong if you take his exploits in the NDM into account. Where is the rest of the cabinet? are they in hibernation or still at the election alter praying for a miracle to propel them into performance…..what has changed since Sept.3rd,2007. A collapse seems ominous.
In just 18 months our country is plunged in at least a $7 billion dollar loss from the hurried E10 venture. Yes, in just 18 months.
As a result, I can imagine, the pricing of the fuels at the pumps are being doctored over a period of time because the prices on the international markets have dipped too low, below the cost of production of the E10 in real terms. That is, the price of the E10 have to look good with the other fuel prices.
In just 18 months our country is plunged in at least a $7 billion dollar loss from the hurried E10 venture. Yes, in just 18 months.
As a result, I can imagine, the prices of the fuels at the pumps are being doctored over a period of time because the prices on the international markets have dipped too low, below the cost of production of the E10 in real terms. That is, the price of the E10 have to look good with the other fuel prices.
What I want to hear from Audley Shaw – “I resign”
This Government is proving to be a GREAT dissapointment. It seems as if the entire cast from Madagascar is running the country. Golding, Shaw and Holness/Spencer(?)are the Penguins. I have not likened the others to the other animals as yet but I am getting there.
I wrote an essay once likening the Seaga lead JLP Gvernment of the 80s to the characters in Animal Farm. Of course I got an A. Pearnel Charles was of course “Squealer” – remember his constant calling in to the radio programme (ad nauseum) – classic propogandist.
Now the idea of imposing GCT on light bill and gas. Let me hear them out first – maybe they are going to dispense with PAYE/Income Tax before doing that. Mi a go wait and see – cause if dem nuh do that and add tax deh so – mi personally a go protest and incite people to riot. IT CAN’T WORK. NO SNAKEY CAAN SING SOH!
On another note – pay the Teachers dem!!! To “Pauperized Teacher” above – Police get their money yes – IS POLICE WIN ELECTION!! Nuff said. As for Government workers – is true say some a we nuh pull we weight – but good God Almighty – ishow we Government expect we fi live -mi personally a feel frustrated. People a go go Postal when de stress reach them. See we get hijacker!! I know for me and my fellow co-workers we WUK!! All when 2 and 3 a.m we deh a work fi mek sure say everyting alright – fi we Executive dem come in the next morning WELL RESTED – get the praise at the functions we put on and not a likkle thank you.
Anyways mi gone do Government work.
I would like to hear the truth from Audley…then again, he’s a politician – hmm