Sean Murray

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[Daceᥫ᭡ @xodee876]

This is CRAZY enuh.

[Sean Murray @magicalrum]

@Bradzz_M Rich

[Yenkunkun Pikibo @moniquepowell]

I'm still not closer to getting clear answers from @jamaicacustoms as to what the set and established process is around retrieving bank/spend cards that are being held under their newly implemented policy, and what persons can expect once they engage with this process.

I sent an email to the Commissioner of Customs yesterday that included the following, hoping to get a response soon:
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Good day Mr. Benjamin,

I’m Monique Powell, Founder & CEO of Sendana. Sendana is a US-based fintech platform geared towards freelancers, remote workers and content creators globally, who need a seamless way to receive payments from overseas clients and platforms.

Recently, the experience users based in Jamaica have been having with Jamaica Customs has become incredibly frustrating. Several users have ordered cards from us which are delivered via DHL. Once the card gets to Jamaica and Customs gets involved, the process becomes very difficult to navigate and people are exasperated. I understand that this is due to a change in policy as it relates to how bank cards coming into the island are treated.

Once the cards are held, DHL provides customers with only a slip saying the card has been detained by Customs for investigation, with zero instructions on the slip from Customs that say what the next steps should be. When the card recipients call Customs and ask for the investigations department, they are transferred to an extension that seems to be rarely answered. I have personally experienced this on multiple occasions as well.

For the few that do get through to someone, they are promised call backs that sometimes don’t happen. Some who are fortunate enough to get further in the process are asked for additional information. Sometimes this is an ID, sometimes it’s an ID plus a letter, sometimes it’s an ID plus a letter plus account statements. It seems there might not be a clear and standardized process around this.

I have no problem with additional checks being done on cards coming into the country and fully understand the stated reasons for doing so. What is problematic is the seeming lack of a clear process that people can refer to and follow.

I am humbly requesting that clear guidelines be shared that will allow persons to understand:

- Who their named contact at Customs is
- The set list of documents they are to provide
- Where they are to send this information
- What turnaround time they are looking at

I believe these guidelines should be readily accessible to the public.

Also, if there is anyway we can support this process, please let me know as well.

Thank you.

[mary @luckysstrikes]

the f1 film could never

[Will Buxton @wbuxtonofficial]

Game recognises game. Greatness recognises greatness. What an image and what a mark of respect. The youngest world champion in history and a driver whose talent we have only begun to see the surface scratched. Maturity beyond his years. This is just the start. Grande Kimi.

[martina @spazioinutile]

questa foto passerà alla storia

[Matt Gallagher @MattP1Gallagher]

Max Verstappen now being P2 in the championship is genuinely insane after the start of the season

[siddharth @buildwithsid]

October in a nutshell:

- PHP got hacked
- Railway got hacked
- OpenCode got hacked
- Binance got hacked
- Polymarket got hacked
- GitHub Actions got hacked
- SoftBank got hacked
- Cursor marketplace got hacked
- Coinbase vendor got hacked
- Fireworks AI got hacked
- LiteLLM got hacked
- Capcom got hacked
- npm packages got hacked
- TiDB Cloud got hacked
- Warp's vendor got hacked

happy cybersecurity awareness month

[Sandor Panton @top5jamaica]

Why don't I have an option to stop or block the Bpay texts you keep sending me @BaritaLimited

[Jeremy Clarkson @JeremyClarkson]

Patrick Stewart. Turned up so early and so unobtrusively to be a star in the reasonably priced car, we mistook him for a delivery driver and asked him to go round the back. Took his hat off and said, “But I’m the captain of the Enterprise”. Fucking nice guy.

[Yenkunkun Pikibo @moniquepowell]

I went to the local bank one of my businesses has used for years. Our only local account is with them. Told them we needed a second account. Thought it would be an easy 1, 2. They said I need to bring in every single piece of document I’d brought in to open to first account, again. If you’ve ever opened a company (not sole trader) account locally you know the list is long.

Meanwhile I can log into Mercury and spin up a second, third, fourth account on the fly. Compliance requirements is not the reason some of these banks make things that could be easy so difficult. This particular bank makes a massive profit every year too so it’s not a resource problem either. It’s a lack of commitment to innovation because many of them knew it wasn’t necessary to do more than the absolute minimum for customers (innovation-wise) because of the realties of the local landscape.

The world is changing though. IYKYK.

[Nigel Clarke @NigelClarkeJa]

AI raises questions that neither technologists nor policymakers can answer alone. We need both in the room together. It was a pleasure to welcome Anthropic co-founder @jackclarkSF for this year's Per Jacobsson lecture. Please see here: https://t.co/RBKFohO8wE

[Kyle @KyleAnthonie]

Per USPTO filings, Jamaica’s agricultural regulator (JACRA) is seeking to protect 🇯🇲’s Blue Mountain Coffee trademark in the US against American company Blue Mountain Coffee House LLC, which is seeking to register a similar name for its coffee business

[darylvazmp @darylvazmp]

Mark Twain, is a capitalist so I am not surprised you think yourself very well-read and quoting him.

What is however, very stupid, is quoting someone with something they never said.

Twain never made that quote. What he did say however is that principles like communism and socialism are stupid.

Perhaps his most famous real quote about stupidity.

[Adley Duncan @DuncanAdley]

I can assure you this is terrible advice

[Zj Sparks 🇯🇲 🕉 Whatever We Imagine @Sparkiebaby]

Den dis legal? People can jus fling tings outta apartment pan sidewalk?

[Gilly J 🇯🇲 @MsGillyJ]

1st month of solar ... let's see what the bill is now. It was 88k two months in a row prior.

Stay tuned

[Lucius @faeloria24]

Hi everyone. a beg unnu a repost. Our friend is currently missing. Her name is Malyka and she went to work last night and hasn't been home yet. No one has heard from her. please share so we can find her. Thanks.

[Essentially Krys ✨ @shanksrxx_]

LOOOL

[Randy T. Rowe @RTRowe]

The notification every TJH shareholder using @MyMoneyJA loves to get… 🤑