Anyway, there are good men and women out there. All rships will have challenges.
Go in with good and positive intent.
Too many wear masks and have underlying motives and this relates to both genders
The micromanaging of people is draining any energy to progress.
Weed and drinking on construction sites should be STRICTLY prohibited with extreme fines.
Why is it even considered to be okay?
The brain dead are building our homes, roads and buildings.
It’s insane.
One of the things no one is talking about is the number of companies doing restructuring, lay offs and redundancies. Even if the government doesn't want to declare a recession, the job market sure is telling us that we are in one
Yup, Sales to the elderly, made me bank like I never had before at the time, but I had to mislead alot of these people into buying-upselling them etc and some even spending their last on the product. Gave me literal migraines after a while because I hated the feeling. Had to stop
Except for CIBC (big up CIBC), which other bank in the region allows you to purchase crypto in peace using their debit cards? (In peace = without them blocking the transactions.)
JAMAICA’S LAND CRABS ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME
Every June, Jamaica’s land crabs emerge in their ancient procession, crossing roads, filling buckets, ending up in cooking pots from Portland to St Elizabeth. It is a tradition as old as our memory, but it may not survive another generation.
The blue land crab (Cardisoma guanhumi) is classified Near Threatened by the IUCN, with declining populations across the Caribbean. It matures slowly, breeds once a year, and takes years to reach harvestable size; not the characteristics of a species that recovers easily from pressure.
The red land crab (Gecarcinus ruricola) faces similar challenges: over-harvesting for food, habitat loss, and slow reproductive rates that make recovery from population crashes difficult and prolonged.
The warning signs are there: We’re seeing fewer crabs on local roadsides with each passing year.
Puerto Rico saw populations crash over four decades under the combined weight of over-harvesting, pesticide contamination, and coastal development. Regulations finally came in 1999; closed seasons, size limits, protected zones; but only after the damage was done. Recovery remains slow and incomplete. The Bahamas, with even fewer controls, offers a still grimmer picture.
Jamaica has no closed season, no size limits, no monitoring programme. Harvesting is effectively open-access. As more land is cleared for buildings and roads, pressure on crab habitats intensifies each season.
The ecological stakes are high. Land crabs aerate coastal soils, cycle nutrients, and sustain the mangrove ecosystems that underpin Jamaica’s tourism economy.
Jamaica hasn’t lost what Puerto Rico spent a generation mourning. Not yet.
#Jamaica #Caribbean #PuertoRico #TheBahamas
For the “Jamaica doesn’t have enough garbage bins, that’s why Jamaicans litter so much” crowd: let’s use Devon House as an example. On any given day, on either of the two lawns, there’s garbage all over, especially plastic bottles, as you’ll see in the photos.
I’ve personally seen people eat or drink and just casually leave their garbage in the same spot.
As I’ve mentioned before, the people who litter don’t do so because of a lack of garbage bins. It’s a bigger problem. Adding more garbage bins wouldn’t stop the people who litter. They’d litter anyway.
My older brother missed my graduation.
No call. No message. Nothing.
Everyone kept asking, “Where is he?” and I just kept smiling, as if it didn’t matter, but it did.
That night, I muted his contact.
Three days later, there was a knock on our door.
He stood there tired, unshaven, holding a small wrapped box.
“I’m sorry,” he said. “I couldn’t leave the site. If I didn’t finish that job, they wouldn’t pay me and I needed the money for this.”
Inside the box was a simple wristwatch.
“I wanted you to have something that reminds you. Your time is just starting.”
I didn’t know whether to cry or feel guilty.
Sometimes, people don’t show up the way we expect them to.
But it doesn’t mean they didn’t care.
Justice delayed is justice denied. Jamaica’s Justice System is in crisis. Let me use a Covid related case to illustrate.
Claim filed in 2021. Claim amended January 2022. Matter argued June 10th, 2024. Judgment handed down 16 April 2026.
Near two years passed between oral arguments and judgment. And over 2 years between the amendment of the claim and the actual hearing. This is not an exception. This is normative.
Another example from a Covid related case. Claim filed May 2022. The AG on the other side. Through no fault of the Claimants who were prompt in their conduct, the matter came on for hearing April 2025. Parties still awaiting judgment.
There is a systemic crisis. Among the things I have never understood is why are only the litigants required to follow strict timelines? Failure to comply could mean prejudice to clients. Why are there no timelines for judges to hand down their decisions?
There is a crisis in our Justice System. Lengthy delays are normative. Sometimes it may be the fault of individuals but a big part of the problem is how the system is configured and the absence of timelines for judges to deliver judgments.