Nikko_Sam876 🇯🇲

Gunner: North London Forever !!! A thoughtful observer of culture, politics, human behavior and nature. 🇯🇲

[Nikko_Sam876 🇯🇲 @nikko_sam]

The PNP did that all by itself by not being a viable opposition- an opposition is not just there to oppose but to propose, can you tell me one policy the PNP has proposed in the last two years that would make the Jamaican electorate view them favorably?

Ps -Was the country a one party state when the PNP won 4 straight elections?

[Nikko_Sam876 🇯🇲 @nikko_sam]

@chenae876 Comrades or kamreds?

[Nikko_Sam876 🇯🇲 @nikko_sam]

@AkuaWalters @NationwideRadio All they need to do is put their finances in a trust and the IC won’t have access to it - follow the LOO footsteps.

[Nikko_Sam876 🇯🇲 @nikko_sam]

@MyHeartcode Question: if after leaving the broke man, the new rich man loses his wealth and the broke man worked his way up to success and is now rich - does your logic still apply?

[Nikko_Sam876 🇯🇲 @nikko_sam]

@ArsenalN7 Sign the dam player and move on! Like it or not $100m is where the market is right now- if we win back to back trophies that $100m would be like a drop in the bucket.

[cαɳ∂ყαρρℓε @CandyAp78073106]

The Most Honourable Dr Andrew Michael Holness 🙏

[Nikko_Sam876 🇯🇲 @nikko_sam]

Jamaica 🇯🇲 🔥🔥🔥 congrats Orbin well done 👏🏾

[Ambassador Wang Jinfeng @AmbWangJinfeng]

🎓🇯🇲 Congrats to Jamaican student Orbin on graduating as a valaditorian from Jinzhou Medical University!

In recent years, more Jamaicans have pursued degrees in China, contributing to mutual understanding, bilateral friendship, and practical cooperation. Best wishes to them! 👏

[Nikko_Sam876 🇯🇲 @nikko_sam]

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[OB @CFC_OBED]

Africa - 10 slots - 9 advanced

Asia 9 slots - 2 advanced

Europe. 16 slots - 13 advanced

North America- 6 slots- 3 advanced

South America 6 slots- 5 advanced

Oceania- 1 slot - 0 advanced

Yet one guy was saying Africa’s slot should be reduced . That’s how you shut up people . Africa great job

[Nikko_Sam876 🇯🇲 @nikko_sam]

Idk how you get me wanting to get rid of people - what I said was the process by which appointments to the commission are made should be changed - the power that the IC have can damage people if they make a mistake and people like you will not hold them accountable for their mistakes added to that there are no system now to hold them accountable.

Question: once the IC recommends someone for changes that person is guilty , hence corrupt?

-This IC that does not have a good record of convictions with its recommendations.

[Nikko_Sam876 🇯🇲 @nikko_sam]

The debt didn’t come from borrowing to build roads schools, or other major projects - It came because the government of the day made serious mistakes that caused parts of the financial sector to collapse.

When those banks and financial companies failed, the govt took on their debt. That meant the debt became the “people’s debt” Jamaican taxpayers were left to pay the bill for private institutions that went under and the country has been carrying that burden ever since.

[Jamaica Labour Party @jlpjamaica]

National Security Minister Dr. Horace Chang rejects false claims made on television about TCN in St. Mary.

[Fabian Dicosta @fabiandicosta]

Siguen las labores de rescate:

"TRANQUILA, MAMÁ... TE VOY A SACAR." 🇻🇪

"Respira... sí puedes. Eres una guerrera."

Con la voz quebrada, pero sin dejar de darle fuerzas, permaneció a su lado hasta que los equipos de rescate lograron liberarla de entre los escombros.

Tras una angustiosa operación, lograron sacarla con vida.

En medio de la peor tragedia, el amor de un hijo se convirtió en la fuerza que sostuvo a una madre hasta volver a verla libre.

Un abrazo que vale una vida. Una escena que jamás se olvidará. 🇻🇪🖤

[Nikko_Sam876 🇯🇲 @nikko_sam]

Well said! This is especially true coming from an IC that does not have a good track record of any of its recommendations leading to actual convictions.

[JLess @winstonorr3]

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I'm not here to defend Dr. Andrew Wheatley. I want to be clear about that upfront.
I am here to defend something more important — due process. And I think Jamaica needs to have that conversation honestly, even when the accused is someone we have little sympathy for.
The Integrity Commission has recommended that Dr. Wheatley be charged with illicit enrichment, two counts of making false declarations, and failure to provide information. The findings allege that his assets were disproportionate to his lawful earnings by approximately $164 million between 2013 and 2022. The private sector, the opposition, civil society — nearly everyone is calling for his immediate removal from Cabinet.
I understand the anger. But I want to push back on the logic.
A recommendation is not a conviction.
No charge has yet been formally preferred in any court. What we have is the recommendation of the Integrity Commission's Director of Corruption Prosecution. Dr. Wheatley has rejected the findings as patently false and grossly misleading, and says he will contest them in court. That is his legal right. It is the same right I would want every Jamaican to have — especially when the allegations are serious.
We have been here before. In 2024, the Integrity Commission raised concerns about the Prime Minister himself, saying the investigation could not be completed because he had not supplied sufficient information. The public called for accountability. The matter was referred to the Financial Investigations Division — which subsequently found nothing that should have prevented the PM's certification. Had Holness resigned under that public pressure, no verdict would have restored what was damaged.
This is the pattern we keep refusing to examine. It is the Me Too parallel that nobody wants to sit with. Accusation became verdict. Careers and reputations were destroyed before courts ever spoke. And in several cases, when the judicial process finally concluded, there was nothing left to repair. We should not build that culture here — not even for politicians we distrust.
Truth is I am a teacher. The very Parliament in which Dr. Wheatley sat passed legislation that exposes a teacher found educating students without the required licence to fines ranging from $500,000 to $1.5 million — or two years imprisonment. Let that land. A teacher. For teaching.
Now consider what the Corruption Prevention Act prescribes for illicit enrichment at the scale Wheatley is accused of. The penalties are in a comparable range. A man alleged to have concealed $164 million in assets faces fines that a man who actually concealed $164 million could pay from the interest alone.
If anyone thinks I have a personal reason to defend legislators, they have misread me entirely. I have every personal reason to be critical of the Parliament that passed those penalties against my profession while writing comparatively lenient consequences for its own members. But that outrage does not lead me to abandon due process. It leads me to demand it more consistently — for teachers, for ministers, for everyone.
That disproportion is a scandal. But the answer to a scandalous law is to fix the law — not to compensate by skipping the process that remains.
I also have a concern about the Integrity Commission itself.
Public institutions that govern by press release are doing something other than seeking justice. Allegations should be communicated as allegations. Recommendations should be communicated as recommendations. When investigative findings are released in ways the public will inevitably read as verdicts, reputational punishment arrives before any judicial determination. That is a structural problem — regardless of whether the accused is innocent or guilty.

[Nikko_Sam876 🇯🇲 @nikko_sam]

@desireidJ @winstonorr3 Sometimes we have to say what is needed to be said even if it causes us to be labeled.

[Michelle @Chefdoo95]

💣🚨BREAKING: Josh Kroenke sends strong message on Arsenal’s summer transfer plans.

Speaking in an interview on sky sports, Josh said…..

🗣️ “We’ve seen the calibre of players other top clubs are bringing in and we won’t be left behind. Money is not an issue. We’re backing the manager and the project fully to make sure we defend the Premier League title successfully and deliver back-to-back titles.”

The owner is clear: Arsenal will compete at the very highest level in this window.

Who is your must sign player gunners?

[Nikko_Sam876 🇯🇲 @nikko_sam]

@t_sadiity Those are some of my favorite days.

[Eli Yoder @Yodertoter40]

The birth pains Jesus talked about are increasing at an alarming rate, so please prepare your hearts while you still have time because Jesus is returning soon

[Nikko_Sam876 🇯🇲 @nikko_sam]

Say it louder for the people in the back 🙏🏾 with the events happening around the world 🌎 it’s truer now than ever before.

[Tevin Macharia Mukabana @TevinMacharia]

Jesus Christ is coming Soon .

[Nikko_Sam876 🇯🇲 @nikko_sam]

@JordizzleJ @AnnMH2020 Him also say Japan will send Brazil packing 👀 - I hope him right I’ll finally see my Dutch 🇳🇱team win a World Cup 🤞🏽

[Nikko_Sam876 🇯🇲 @nikko_sam]

We could have afforded it if we had treated it as an investment instead of just another expense - I know the initial capital outlay would have been enormous, however a modern rail system could have been the backbone of an entire economic ecosystem driving the development of new towns and cities, attracting manufacturing, creating jobs, and opening up new areas for growth, just as we now plan to do with the expanded highway network and other major infrastructure projects “ie Narra” But since we’ve already committed ourselves to the Highway 2000 arrangement, which limits the development of competing transport routes, we now have to make the best of the path we’ve chosen.