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Monday, 12 October 2026
Scamming Taking A New Form?
You will understand my concern regarding this matter because people have been fantastic in giving me support during this time of my medical challenges. I would hate to know that someone is abusing the generosity of the Jamaican people.
I checked with a doctor connected with the Mandeville Hospital, and he says that Mandeville is a public hospital and it does not charge that amount for a hysterectomy.
The police officer who spoke to me is convinced that this lady is engaging in scamming.
If you have any information on this matter, then WhatsApp me at 876 816-5261.
The scammers are very active, so be alert. They love to target the elderly.
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Digicel What Is Happening?
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I got a notice by text message that my Digicel bill should be paid today, or else I would be charged a penalty of JAD500.
Most of the channels have not been working since Sunday, October 11. Can I charge Digicel a penalty for not delivering the contracted service that I paid for? I wonder if OUR monitors and studies Digicel the way they do JPS?
The reverse feature sometimes doesn't work. You have to turn off the TV once or twice to get it to work.
Are you having challenges with your Digicel TV? Are they punishing us because the government has reduced their rental for NaRRA?
Something is not right.
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Sunday, 11 October 2026
Taking Funds From NHT!
People have been spreading misleading information about the withdrawal of NHT funds to support the national budget.
There has been no report of NHT funds being stolen. It is being used to support the national budget. Why is this so? For many years, the financial affairs of Jamaica have not been effectively managed. The crime rate has been one of the highest in the world, and that has had a negative impact on the economic life of the country.
Remember that FINSAC has devastated the business sector. We have just been increasing taxation over the years to cover the expenses of government. You should notice that we are unable to maintain our hospitals, our schools, and our roads, for example. We are also unable to pay our teachers and members of the medical profession properly.
The kitty is very low. Exports are low, and imports are high. All of this spells major economic challenges for our country.
The only choice we have now is to raid the NHT cupboard. This reminds me of a man who was saving for his house. He started to waste his resources until he had no money to buy food and pay his medical expenses. His only hope was to use his savings for a house. The only other option was to borrow money from the bank. For the country, it would mean going back to the IMF and other lending agencies. When you start to borrow money for your recurrent expenditures, then you know that is the end of the end.
How do we get out of this? We need to create an environment where people will feel confident to start businesses. That means reducing the business of crime and corruption significantly. Improving consumer confidence will improve purchases.
Producing and exporting more and improving consumer spending will mean more taxes will be flowing in the government coffers. At that time, there will be no need to raid the NHT funds. Those educated people spreading false information on the internet need to educate the people so that we can work together to build our country. Deliberate misinformation will make you a traitor, helping to destroy your country and its people. The challenge is that it is the poorest who will suffer most.
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Jamaican Laws Are A Joke!
Can you imagine that a man who stole pineapples from Trade Winds spent two months in jail for the crime? That is an encouragement to do it again.
He was employed as a security guard to protect the pineapple field.
Jamaica is indeed a criminal's paradise, and some lawyers are working hard to improve this paradise for criminals.
If a murderer gets a mandatory sentence of 15 years for murder, then what do you expect?
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Holness Nominated By JLP Area Council To Continue As JLP Leader
JLP Press Release -- October 11, 2026
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| Andrew Holness, JLP Leader |
Manchester, Jamaica — The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Area Council Three has nominated Andrew Holness unopposed to remain the Party’s leader for another political year.
The nomination was moved by Area Council 3 Chairman, Zavia Mayne, the Member of Parliament for St. Ann South Western and seconded by Pearnel Charles Jr., Member of Parliament for Clarendon South Eastern.
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| Michael Stern, Deputy Party Leader |
The Area Council also nominated Michael Stern unopposed to return as its Deputy Leader.
The two were nominated at an Area Council Three meeting at the Porus Community Centre in the Manchester Southern constituency on Sunday, October 10.
The Party’s annual conference is slated to be held in November where the positions of Leader and Deputy Leader will be formally up for ratification.
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Where Is Jamaica Heading
By Michael Spence
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| Michael Spence |
The most I will say about this Digicel building occupancy is that it is a callous and horrific disgrace. People in Westmoreland and St. Elizabeth are still eking out survival under tents after Hurricane Melissa's devastation. OMG, Prime Minister, do better than that.
NaRRA, what is it, a Capital Fund, a reconstruction Bond for 4th-term loading, or what?
Calling Edward Seaga and Michael Manley spirits to the rescue. Then PJ Patterson and Bruce Golding can become volunteer consultants to help save/rebuild Jamaica.
Now the second poorest in the Caribbean according to IMF projections for 2026, with a per capita GDP of US$8356 and Haiti the poorest at US$3079.
Is Jamaica being recolonized by the slave drivers of a brutish/murderous police state/dictatorship being loaded?
It will be necessary to suppress the rebellion, or is it just another Dancehall duncehall reconfiguration session of governance in motion?
Will it be Donald Trump to the rescue of Jamaica, or will it be Netanyahu, Putin, Kim Jong Un, or Xi Jinping, or even the IRGC of Iran? Oh, could it be Andrew Holness or Mark Golding? Both paid Ja$27 to Ja$28.6 million in salaries per annum as of February 2026, retroactively to 2025.
Isn’t it now time to triple all pensioners' salaries tied to their historically substantive posts and land/homes to the landless, homeless and internal migrants.
Remember all former prime ministers today are eligible for and receiving the said PM salaries, which means PJ Patterson and Portia Simpson-Miller are getting the same salaries also.
It should be noted that only Bruce Golding refused the full amount, which is taking 2/3rds, i.e., $19 million.
Those former deceased PMs' living spouses receive 2/3rd, so Hugh Shearer and Edward Seaga's spouses still do.
Thanks to PJ Patterson's creative humanitarian actions.
How come the NaRRA head is being paid almost twice the PM's salary? Which country will he be running while Westmoreland and St. Elizabeth people suffer in Jamaica?
Melissa's hurricane devastation was 1 year ago. Jamaica, we can and must do better.
Michael Spence
Michael Spence is a graduate of Cornwall College and the University of the West Indies. He is a trained teacher, a sociologist, and a writer for Bark Di Trute.
Micspen2@hotmail.com
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