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#Environmentalist. Goal: a zero waste society in #Jamaica. Rebuild economies in support of community, health, #education, sustainability and justice.

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@Greg0706 The energy policy in #Jamaica is #corrupt. If #BLM we would have #renewables not #LNG. I submitted my findings to the IC & for transparency they can be read here: https://t.co/yLF6LzkyiP. Poverty is not natural & this policy perpetuates it. Will you investigate?
#JustRecovery

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@AndrewHolnessJM Yes, folk sent US$9m, and US$8.82m wasn't distributed. Worse still, there is US$1m from Beryl unspent. For you, the diaspora is a cash cow.

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@IamDanaDixon How much money will NaRRA have this fiscal year?

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@JamaicaObserver Thanks for the receipt. I downloaded this garbage. Examples of what goes unreported. We get nothing from bauxite. The contribution from tourism is around 2% of tax revenues collected. The debt is increasing. There is next to nothing in this or the following 2 budgets for NaRRA.

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@AndrewHolnessJM What policies have you put in place to boost productivity? More all-inclusives and call centres? I do not believe that the blame lies primarily on the shoulders of the people.

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

🇧🇷🇨🇺🚨 BREAKING: Lula just said what the world has been thinking. "Stop this damned blockade on Cuba and let the Cuban people live their lives." Cuba has problems. But they are Cuba's problems. Not Lula's. Not Trump's. Not the empire's.

The US has punished Cuba for decades. Sanctions. Blockades. Regime change attempts. None of it worked. Cubans are still standing. Still surviving. Still waiting for the world to let them breathe.

Lula is not begging. He's demanding. The blockade is not policy. It's cruelty. And the world is tired of watching.

Spread the truth. Free Cuba. Not from its leaders. From the blockade. Let the Cuban people live.

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@AndrewHolnessJM There is only $30b (US$190m) funding for NaRRA this fiscal year, and there is no reference to funding in the Fiscal Policy Paper for the following years. Funding should be included in capital expenditures, but there is no money for rebuilding in them. Pls explain.

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@JamaicaObserver Prior to covid, the route was Downtown MoBay to Ochi Jerk Centre. Now it is the airport to Drax Hall. Big difference. Lost customers.

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@Zemi66 @JamaicaObserver @edmundbartlett6 Why don't you do it? The fact is tourism is the biggest industry, and with all its linkages, it has delivered a GDP per capita of US$7k.

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@Zemi66 @JamaicaObserver @edmundbartlett6 The indirect contribution is reflected in the GDP per capita, which is just US$7k, the lowest in the English speaking Caribbean. Tourism has helped deliver the JA we see today: a country devoid of basic infrastructure with crap education & health care systems. Where is your data?

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@Zemi66 @JamaicaObserver @edmundbartlett6 An industry that is allegedly a third of GDP should not contribute paltry tax revenues. The budget of the ministry is over $16b, so it consumes around 50% of revenues! The vast majority of workers earn minimum wage, so don't pay income tax.

[RT @RT_com]

God 'raised Trump' to kill 'Islamic Iranians' for ‘Jewish people’ — top pastors at White House Easter

How Christian of them

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@RT_com This must be AI. TACO just said he didn't want regime change, but I'm sure he told the Iranians that his attack had weaked the regime, so the people should act to take out the incumbents. Must be AI.

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@edmundbartlett6 the Old Hospital Park in Montego Bay is always covered in litter. The neighbouring beach is the same. Something needs to be done.

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@fwelloh @KenyanSays https://t.co/yEK8g7wnvz
It isn't much better in Jamaica. Our beaches are captured for foreign hoteliers. Tourism is allegedly 30% of GDP, but the diabolical contribution of around 2% in direct taxes goes unreported by the colluding local news media. Sellout governments everywhere

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@AndrewHolnessJM In Aug, the NIR held US$6.2b, so the increase is unconscionable considering that Melissa was possibly the greatest economic shock in history. I'd prefer investment in infrastructure and US$3b in the NIR. Voodoo economics.

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@mcewan_janiel These aren't 'options', they are necessities. In the West, they borrow at low interest rates. They go deeper into debt that they can never repay to finance stimulus packages. But this isn't available to our countries. However, we don't need loans bc we can access the NIR

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@mcewan_janiel Aren't reserves primarily for emergencies such as hurricanes?
Many schools are partially destroyed, we don't have roads or basic infrastructure but the increase is to be celebrated? I'd prefer to have US$3b in the NIR and investment in infrastructure. Investing is not spending.

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@KyleAnthonie Yes, and we get little to nothing for it.

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@mcewan_janiel How can raiding the NHT be justified when there is US$6.8b in the NIR? According to Byles, the amount deemed adequate for the reserves is US$4.2b. The govt position is that accessing the NIR would be spending our rent money, but that doesn't make much sense to me. Pls explain.