Thursday, 27 March 2025

The Cost of Medical Expenses Might Take You Home Before The Illness



My father, who attended Lowe River All-Age School and Holmwood Technical High School and died while attending the Farm School, loved to take care of people, especially old people. I was three years old when he died.  My mother told me that my father's best friend, Viv Russell, used his car as an ambulance to take my father to the hospital, and he used his car as a hearse to take the body from the hospital back to Lowe River in Trelawny.  My mother was a shopkeeper who, I am told, gave things to children when they didn't have any money to purchase what they wanted. I seem to have inherited the giving trait from them. 

I have learnt that one has to be very careful not to become sick. One look at you, and you have to find between 10,000 and JAD 14,000 to pay the doctor. After that, you have to pay for medication and pay to be treated. If you are admitted to the hospital, then that is like taking out a mortgage. The cost of medical care could take you earlier to your grave and not the illness itself. Let's give thanks for the benefits under the NHF programme.

You must be wondering where I am going with this post. I had posted on my blog that I was going to do a minor operation today. That is now scheduled for next week Tuesday.  

Before the doctor started the consultation, he proceeded to tell me how I cared for others and was outspoken.  To end that story, the same little funds I had in my pocket when I went into his office, I left with the same amount of funds.  Lesson learned this afternoon: "Do good, and good will follow you." Money is not everything.

Thanks, Doc. 

My people, a beg oonu. Medical professionals are under nuff pressure. Take care of our medical professionals. We need to produce more caring doctors like the one who took care of me today. In the meantime, we give thanks that we can call on Cuban, American, Canadian, and other medical professionals to help us.

Remember now, don't get sick unless you have a fat bank account or you have a limitless credit card. You must not get sick also because you will have to cover the medical cost of injuries and death caused by irresponsible motorists on our roads and di injuries and deaths caused by di dutty criminal dem! The sad thing is that many people have no insurance, especially the elderly. Mi a beg oonu, no get sick.

Thanks to those who called and sent messages to find out how things went at the hospital. I appreciate your concerns and your love. Spread the love and make it infectious.

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Cuba Jamaica Health Assistance smokescreen crisis 2025??

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It was the Cuban Missile Crisis, Soviet presence in the Caribbean, October 1962 the year of Jamaica's Independence.  American spy planes then spotted Soviet nuclear ballistic missile facilities being constructed in Cuba. An American spy plane was subsequently shot down over President Castro's Cuba in that same month.

Cuba was put under a naval blockade, and a quarantine line was drawn so that the Soviets could not cross it.

There was an agreement subsequently that same year, 1962, with the then Soviet president Nikita Kruschev and American President Lyndon  B Johnson to dismantle the Russian missile facilities, averted war.

Will it be in 2025 that the China Belt and Road crisis and/or the Cuban medical assistance crisis, in which Jamaica is told to cut ties and reduce China/Cuba's influence in the Caribbean region?

The deal could end up being out with China's growing influence in the Caribbean region Jamaica being seen as the centre or launching pad via the China  Belt and Road economic initiative.

America's opposition to the Cuban health assistance initiative could be the perfect smokescreen for other motives.

If I were to bet on the Rubio + Holness Jamaica negotiations, it would be China Go Home and the Cuban medical assistance programme capped/monitored  by USA and Jamaica's cooperative efforts.

Will the China Highway Construction/road repair and building construction programs be halted, dismantled, or replaced by American companies?

Be reminded that the American embargo and sanctioned Venezuelan-Jamaican oil agreement is already gone.

Will it now be China Go home, Cuba pack your bags or Jamaica being  put in the same sanction or embargo dump truck or garbage bag to be disposed of by America?

Or, be secured in an American attaché case and placed on a dresser in the Donald Trump's Whitehouse or locked away in a store room cabinet.

Either way, Jamaica may find itself between a rock and a hard place.

Do we as a people have the guts and wherewithal with enlightened, conscious leadership to stand up and fight back?

In Jamaica's best interests given our circumstances in today's world, what do we choose?

mics 🖊  pen

26/03/25

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Wednesday, 26 March 2025

From Ketch Man College To St. James High School

Principal Joseph Williams showed his dexterity on his feet.
The students screamed with delight, and they cheered each move.


Each time you believe that you have seen the lowest, most wutless behavior at an institution set up to train our young people, it gets worse. Once again, I am on the St. James High School issue. Who will stop the tearing apart of an institution that many persons from St. James say is now in the top five of the parish?

The cass cass has been taken to the media, and it has now become a national spectacle. A Staff meeting was turned into a town hall-tracing matches and near-fistfights. One day this week, the students and adults were locked out of the school.

This evening it went to another low level. A personal letter sent to the principal about his retirement was shared with the media. I am sure those who are pushing the nastiness would not do so if their children were attending the school.

Do we have any ministers of religion or any senior respected leaders in the West who can state publicly how the issue can be resolved and help to resolve it?

When persons have served well and are approaching their retirement, let them depart in peace. Those who are pushing out people who have contributed, what have you contributed? I have seen this type of treatment meted out to outstanding contributors such as the Hon. Dr. Alfred Sangster, the former UTech Ja principal; DPP Paula Llewellyn, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, and now we are again dishing dirt on the outgoing principal of St. James High, Joseph Williams. We need to stop it!

There must be a gold mine at St. James High School, and person or persons are anxious to get a hold of it. Years ago, St. James High was not a school that parents would want their children to attend. It was called Ketch Man College. Now it is the prestigious St. James High School.

St. James High is coming from Ketch man College with gangs roaming the school, and fights occurring daily, I have been told. St. James High has now become a school where children and staff have fun. We want to turn that upside down?

Those fighting for power should listen to this student in the video below.


An ex-board member said in a newscast that because Principal Williams has made a success of the school, he now listens to no one. I wonder if those who are trying to get his ear know anything about education. 

Principal Williams knows how to drop two legs. Watch him in the video below.



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Press Conference with PM Andrew Holness and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio

US Secretary of State, Hon. Kamina Johnson-Smith,
and Prime Minister Holness


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