Nuff Tings ah Gwaan ah Yard, Sah!
Bwoy, so many things have been happening in Jamaica recently and hardly any of my Yardie blogger bredrins have commented on any of it, they must be really busy…. There is always something going on to distract you from the poor economic performance! Here are just a couple of things I noticed (some quite late!):
I guess the biggest thing to buss in the newspaper was the story that the Scotland Yard investigators have said that Bob Woolmer died of heart failure, not manual strangulation! (actually, Stunner spoke out on this issue)
Wow! That makes the Yard police and the pathologist look especially bad! The Jamaica Constabulary Force has responded. They are sticking to their guns!
Who do I believe? Well, I find it hard to believe that the pathologist can’t tell when someone was strangled. If that is true, well, it is really awful. 
Still, I can’t believe that! Maybe the police could have made an error, but I don’t think the pathologist would make such a big boo boo… Something is rotten in this whole affair.
Next up that I thought was interesting was the story of the public washing of dirty laundry between the Attorney General and the Supreme Court Judge.
Apparently the judge went down to Westmoreland to deal with cases in that area and the Ministry of Justice did not make proper arrangements for her accomodation. My girl (the judge) decided that she had been dissed and was about to make her way back to Kingston when the police in the area made alternative arrangements for her accomodation for the night. Next morning, the judge held forth in court on the issue, and it made the newspapers! The Attorney General responded in the media as well, flinging dust back in her face, and now the lawyers and others are weighing in on one side or the other and is pure cussing going on! Interesting stuff, bwoy! 
Personally, I don’t think it was that big of a deal, and the judge should have taken the matter up with the Ministry privately. All she had to do was leave her credit card with the hotel until in the morning when the issue could then be sorted with the Ministry of Justice. Something like that happend to me once when I was living in Jamaica. I went to work in Negril for a day and overnighted there and there was a mixup between my company and the hotel. I left them my card and by 10:00am next day, it was settled. Ah nuh nutten that! Not a dime was charged to my card! The thing is, a lot of the judges in Jamaica are too damned big for their britches, thats what I think!
Anyways, moving right along…
Next up that I found interesting was the fact that the Cash Plus Group of Companies has bought out the Hilton Kingston Hotel! That hotel is actually home to one of my favourite watering holes, which is their pool bar! I have spent many a happy hour there. Anyway, this is the first time that the Hilton brand has been in Jamaican hands! I hope they do big things with the hotel, apparently they say they have big plans! Congrats to the Cash Plus group, just don’t muck the hotel up now!
I wish that others in the business arena in Jamaica had done something similar with Jamaica Public Service (JPS), instead of selling it out to the Japanese. Imagine, they seem to have more confidence in hotels than in power generation! Or is it just that they are afraid to take on JPS because they think it will be too much work?
And then there was the story of the policewoman who foiled the rapist! Apparently the rapist tried to rape the policewoman when she went for her morning walk! She didn’t have her piece on her, but she started to clap him in his head with her hand weights, then she managed to get her hands on a machete and she gave him some chops! The woman hospitalised the rapist, rasta! “Whatever it is that passed through his mind that morning why he came over and attacked me, I am sure, he will not ever have those kind of feelings or urges for any woman again, unless him fool, fool bad!”, she said. Big up to her for that!
Anyway, I will leave it there for now. There is more to chat about, but work beckons. People, guess what? Its another long weekend here in the Cayman Islands! Monday is Discovery Day. Christopher Columbus first sighted Cayman Brac and Little Cayman on the 10th of May, 1503. If you want to read up on Caymanian history, click here. I am not sure why the public holiday isn’t on the 10th of May, but I am just glad that it exists. I have plenty plans for the weekend, I hope I am able to do even half of them. With that, I am gone! Have a great Friday and a great weekend! Don’t drink too much and drive! Peace…
May 18th, 2007 at 10:51 am Good for the police woman!
May 20th, 2007 at 10:10 am lol the man mess with the wrong woman that day.. maybe he smoked some bad weed.
May 22nd, 2007 at 6:07 am Could well be, Sir Adrian! Or maybe he just saw his opportunity with her being alone and ting, we’ll never know.