Sweetoneson

Conscious being. Jamaican by force, African by blood. Trying to find meaning in a capitalist world.

[Sweetoneson @KevoyStevens]

"Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form." - Karl Marx

[Jamaica Observer @JamaicaObserver]

A man accused of bringing more than US$270,000 into Jamaica hidden inside soap boxes has been granted bail in the sum of $2 million and is to return to court on July 1.

Thirty-four-year-old Shawn Walker, originally from Crawford District, St Elizabeth, and now living in the United States, appeared before Judge Natiesha Fairclough-Hylton when he returned to the St James Parish Court on Tuesday.
https://t.co/UF8I0lu53k

[Ash 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇨🇼 @theashrb]

The Jamaican government will readily block Haitians (Caricom citizens, mind you) and Cubans from entering the country to claim asylum, but now want to accept whosoever ICE wants to get rid of in America? Ok.

[N:OW @BraidyDeGreat]

Feel like we just ago wake up one day and hear seh Jamaica sell a we fi find some weh guh

[Nationwide90FM @NationwideRadio]

Opposition Leader Mark Golding is calling for National Security Minister, Dr Horace Chang, to face Parliament’s Privileges Committee, to account for whether he was truthful in his claim that the Third Country Nationals arrangement originated with the United States.

READ MORE HERE: https://t.co/LzY5yTAu6n

[Spondias dulcis 🪄 @JKavJA]

This could have been the Reggae Boyz wid a fan from St. Thomas but nooooooooooo

[Renair Benjamin @RenairB]

Cuba sends us Doctors & Nurses and the Holness administration said the agreement breached labor laws and sent them home and now they are accepting third party countries criminal deportees from the US in breach of international human rights laws and US law. Make it make sense

[Nickoy D. Wilson @nickoydw]

People making the issue about the quantity of deportees rather than the fact that Jamaica is agreeing to take in non nationals for an indefinite periods is wild!

[IBK @ibkontehja]

Third country deportation isn't even legal in America.

How did we VOLUNTEER to doing this while that matter is still being ventilated in US courts???

People are not upset about this enough!

[deus @BigMeeish]

@JamaicaGleaner If you want to know *why* we’re doing this just know that question is irrelevant. We’re doing this purely as a gesture of good faith to the United States.

I’ve never liked the patronizing manner with which Chang routinely addresses the Jamaica people. “Irrelevant.”

[DalveyG @DalveyG]

The minister said if they are granted asylum status they are free to remain in Jamaica.
 “If they don’t, we send them home. At that time, we’ll have to send them home at our cost,” he said.

Nuh clown thing this?
Send them which home?
At foofa expense?

[Rampanpiza @dentona22]

Are we going to just sit by and let them implement this deal with the US?

[Kenyatta FORTIS4EVER Powell @kenyatta_pow]

I'm sure NaRRA will fix this issue.

[Breakthrough 2026 @yaneekpage]

I read the entire article. I note the comments about “framing”. If the contents are correct then a more appropriate headline would refer to a proposed deal.

But the headline is the least! The fact that this is coming to light BEFORE it is signed is the best news, as perhaps it allows the government to consider input from its own citizens before inking any final agreement.

[Little Joan@theHighGate @jagpratar3]

@JamaicaGleaner Mind you this is the same government that deported all of the Haitian asylum seekers, our Caribbean neighbours, fleeing violence and persecution.

[Jamaica Gleaner @JamaicaGleaner]

Kingston and Washington are expected to begin talks on an agreement first pitched by a senior Jamaican government official that could see the island accepting up to 10,000 non-Jamaicans being deported from the United States.

Read more: https://t.co/dobACi8QPt

[dead @_xnes]

i pray for a time when we govt ago can stop suck united states hood…..

[Wayne Chen @wcchen]

49 years ago today, Ted O’Gilvie, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Construction was shot dead at his home on Lydia Drive, Havendale, #Kingston, #Jamaica. He was probing cost overruns on the McGregor Gully project that included payments to political gunmen. A brave and honest man murdered for doing the right thing. Lest we forget.

[Kenyatta FORTIS4EVER Powell @kenyatta_pow]

The UK prison deal was roundly rejected because people could see that it was nothing but a more effective way for the UK to dump people it deemed undesirable in Jamaica. Third nation transfer arrangements are basically the UK prison deal, but much worse! The discussions should not even be happening.

[Joy Bwoy @gavinmyaz]

By the way, what does the fact that the hospital being over 250yo have to do with the failed air conditioning? Ah dem time dey it put een?

[Jamaica Gleaner @JamaicaGleaner]

St Elizabeth North Eastern Member of Parliament Zuleika Jess and her driver, Derrick Facey, were today each fined thousands of dollars in the St Elizabeth Parish Court in Balaclava after pleading guilty to traffic offences.

Read more: https://t.co/EViP38p0BP #GLNRToday