I ran into a group of young men recently, non could have been older than 22. One made the announcement that he was getting off weed. The others laughed at him, one said "*good luck!*". I thought how sad, likely hooked between 10 and 15, they're all addicted and dont recognize it.

Congratulations. Special congrats to Felecia and Dr Bazard.

If your child came home from college would you send them to work on the back of a garbage truck? And I'm not trying to demean the profession. Some people have built empires and raked in millions off of dirty jobs. But if someone says they want a job and they opt not to do that, let them make the choice. Saw too many people demonizing the thousands of persons without work when unemployment was at 10%, then came Dorian and COVID and those same people found themselves jobless and desperate. Allow people the dignity or dignity of choice that you'd want your child to have. If it comes down to eating or working theyll make the tough choice

I recall two men showed up to one of these fairs looking for a job, I cant recall who was the minister at the time, it was either the minister or someone senior in labour, he actually made a joke of it, (not in a bad way, I believe he was just surprised that young men with degrees showed up for waiter positions). he (or another rep) told them they were overqualified for the positions being offered and turned them away.

A politically correct characterization would be "*marketing*", the correct term would be "*buying silence*". I recall seeing an old lady selling fruit in a Ninety Knowles tshirt. I also recall the We love Disney tshirts for the sale of an untouched pristine beach to cruise ship mass tourism

The problem with this marijuana debate is it's all disingenuous. The people advocating for the passage of the law either want the ability to smoke marijuana openly as they move about the city, at times operating a fast moving vehicle, as they likely already do btw, or they want the right to sell marijuana openly to these people and make alot of money.

Literally nobody is *really* interested in easing the pain of cancer patients.

Nothing surprised me more than the rastafarians fighting for a license to sell marijuana, historically their fight was all about the trampling of their religious rights, now they see dollar signs.

Everything is vanity.

"*you need proper intelligence*"

The operative word being "*proper*", because intelligence can misguided i.e., youre collecting good but wrong and useless things, or bad, i.e. your info is faulty. I hope one day we get to the place where all 30+ individuals in parliament are critically assessing every dot and title in these proposed laws and only back laws they deem are in the public good and that they would want applied to themselves as ordinary citizens with no executive power.

Also this foolishness about putting "*young people in the senate so they can learn*" is stopped immediately. The Senate is a human intelligence (HI) structure and fact checking organization. Putting inexperienced people in that body who have no depth of legal knowledge or historical context for legal knowledge is beyond useless. You want people in the senate like Hubert Ingraham, Fred Mitchell, AD Hanna, Sean McWeeney, the brightest of the brightest in law and legal context

If our system is to work, these are the two basics that need to be transformed

"*According to Mr Ferguson, Section 38 of the Police Act outlines how the police may use images and recordings, which the act does not permit taking photographs of individuals who are not in custody or save facial images in a database comparing them with other facial images in the database*"

I hope this remains the case. It would be useless to store photos of individuals without cause. It takes alot of processing time/power just to do name matching, adding useless imagery to a search is counterproductive. I hope the intelligence gathering would be more strategic than this

The final piece of the puzzle is the immediate elimination of anyone without high moral character from the police cadet core. Stop the blight at the source. Make entry into the police force **hard**, and increase the salary to match the stricter requirements. On the backend start to do internal vetting from the senior levels. Senior officers have way more influence on law and order outcomes than junior officers. Investigate unexplained funds and sources of funds and weed out corruption from the top.

Every death is painful it doesnt matter how the person died. The mother establishes that "*she hurt herself*" so she eliminates any third party and "*she's no longer with us*" linking the two states, i.e. because she hurt herself she died. The only thing left out was whether the injury was deliberate or an accident. The pathologist will make the ultimate decision

The church is not a liberal institution. Its standard is a book of rules that doesnt akign with any of these permissive behaviours. It baffles me that Simeon Hall gets on all these committees to legalize these addictive behaviours. Even Franklyn Wilson is talking today about the ravaging effects of gambling addiction. This risk wasnt a secret in the debate, they just ignored it while blinded by all the money we'd make. I wont be surprised if he ends as an advocate for the legalization of prostitution

Lol. I dont believe that. I believe someone who knew the law signed up and alerted the Commission. They need to explain what their oversight entails, if someone always has to notify them.. what's the point? Shouldnt their regular oversight catch something? They may not be able to investigate everybody, but since they "seemingly" didnt investigate FTX .. what do they investigate?

Gated community doesnt equal bad, but historically and generally speaking, we've been one of those exotic locations where criminals appear to flee with their loot to avoid detection, enjoy the ill gotten gains and basically run the island apparently. And they never opt to live in Bain Town or Winton