long overdue Citizens Response Ja Update Thread
1/ CRJA started on March 22nd after I found out we only had 35 ventilators in Ja. So I figured, why not build a ventilator and called up
@yeknology
&
@alimats876
and the rest is detailed below. proud we accomplished so much. pls rt.
Went to support Jasmine Deen's dad today on her birthday. He's having a small event for her. His pain is immense and he hasn't been able to work since and has asked me to help raise some small funding to restock his small shop.
conflicted because all these immunologists, doctors, epidemiologists & researchers etc keep telling us to get the vaccine but all these people who barely passed science in high school keep saying we shouldn't. i just dont know who to trust anymore.
I buried my brother today, he died in his sleep on April 10th. The whole ordeal which culminated today has reinforced some life lessons for me that I needed to be reminded of again. Here they are:
“I was definitely looking forward to racing all the ladies, especially the birthday girl”
Richardson shootouts her competitors after taking today’s 100m in 10.76
(via diamond league)
At supermarket and a lady looked in my trolley and ask me how many kids I have 🙈
Had to tell her 2 because i did feel a way to tell her all those snacks are mine.
#CVMLive
Reporter visited the recently renovated "Overnight Stay Facility on Church Street". Cedric Honor has been homeless for years, he had this to say about the government. More on this story at 8pm, tune into our Livestream then:
#News
#Jamaica
I just paid $46k to clear an item that I paid $62k for. How does that make sense? What's the rationale for these high customs fees?
I got mad out there last week and left it there determined not to pay it. But I need it for work
Id never open a biz in Ja that requires importing
work on construction site been going slow. I bought a bottle of whites, some boom, ice and put a speaker out there for them to play their choppa music and productivity increased 2 fold.
Ma Cherry, a cow rescued after police interrupted a bizarre ritual involving human sacrifice on October 17 of last year, appears to be expecting. The cow was among the animals removed from the yard of Kevin Smith's Pathways International in Montego Bay.
I've been in TT for 2wks now pitching and meeting with several people and businesses and I am yet to see this "anti-Jamaican" sentiment we hear about so often.
I passed a young man taking pics of his date outside of a restaurant the other day. I ordered, ate, hung out a bit and when I was leaving I heard him ask her if they can go eat now.
Not I.
If you're driving through Bull Bay and able to stop by Mr Deen's shop he has everything from food to liquor.
Green and yellow wall on the left
11 miles Bull Bay
Years ago at a dance in Mobay a bredren asked a vendor for a pack of gum and a lollipop.
The vendor looked him up and down for a good 30 seconds and said
"mi nuh sell lollipop to man"
😭😭😭😭
Almost a year since Covid and banks still have people, their customers, standing up in the sun outside without shelter.
We are too passive as customers
When I got the opportunity to pitch ENDS through the PSOJ to the PM this is exactly the impact I hoped it would have. Kgn and Mobay go live today. Pls support the MSME's. If you're in mobay order pan chicken here
#ENDS
#Pantucky
#betterJamaica
#fwd
the smell from my neighbors kitchen kills me every Sunday. she can cook,nah lie. but i parked in her spot the other day and she cuss me out so even if i wanted to, I cant beg none.
I started the year with a promise to myself to "live more" but true to form every weekend since has been work. But I just found this list of waterfalls in Jamaica and my new goal is to visit everyone of them this year. Who's with me? Thanks Elle.
hunting down a JP and BEGGING them to verify documents is annoying, inefficient and time consuming. it's an indignity with the ones who behave like they doing you a favour and not their duty.
1/This vid is V1 of our POC emergency ventilator. Built by a local team of bright engineers and drs. We are following FDA guidelines to refine and add the necessary sensors, valves and metres. This is a similar concept to that put fwd by MIT.
Today makes 2 years since Jasmine Dean disappeared. Reminding everyone to keep her failing in your prayers and if you're passing by her father's shop in 11miles Bull Bay to stop and support it if you can.
1/didn't sleep last night trying to figure out how to help Jasmine Dean. had an idea in the middle of the night, woke up early this morning and started to make some calls. so far I have J$1mil committed to information leading to find Jasmine, here's how
#Thread
I love how the
@JamaicaConstab
have been holding their head down and taking their time to build the case and evidence of late, ignoring the noise, focusing and executing.
Criminal charges are expected to be laid on former Member of Parliament for West St. Mary and chairman of the People’s National Party’s Founders Group, Jolyan Silvera, after ballistics tests reportedly connected his firearm to the brutal murder of his wife, Melissa.
During the
Went to support Jasmine Deen's dad today on her birthday. He's having a small event for her. His pain is immense and he hasn't been able to work since and has asked me to help raise some small funding to restock his small shop.
can wait. My pops is convinced my brother worked himself to death. He worked 7 days a week and almost never took a break. He’s gone and left everything and all his work will now be done by someone else.
is everything! Can’t say this enough
2.Good friend betta than pocket coin. True friends who show up are a blessing
3.Let the people who matter know that you love them. I can’t remember the last time I told him I did and now he’s gone and it burns
people make politics seem like it's about voting for political parties and politicians but it's WAY bigger than that. Politics (and your vote): is about YOUR: water, housing, roads, energy, economics, security, social services, education. How can you NOT be interested in that?
No bro, we're just old. I remember when my pops used to say I was listening to 'booguyagga' and that was 90's dancehall.
The kids think this new stuff is great but its booguyagga to us.
FYI - you don't need to go pack up in a supermarket and wait in long lines. Yesterday I got everything I needed from a wholesale in Rollington Town. In and out in 10 minutes.
and it was way cheaper.
Happy 70th to my pops! For months he's been saying that is 'him and God alone in the house' so we got him a puppy. He's so happy!
I also hope this will stave off the 'when am I getting grandkids from you' question for awhile.
A Christmas Story:
Yrs ago a friends wife invited me to Xmas dinner. I was happy cuz my fam was away. Anyhoo, I get there and it turns out she tricked me and a few others. It was an Organo Gold meeting and we had the sit thru it before dinner was served.
I went to KFC
The End.
the bus drove out on the truck, truck didn't ease up at all. I believe she assumed like I would have, that if the bus was going across the road then nothing would have been coming up instantly on that side of the road. I wouldn't call that a mistake.
So sad.
Unreliable tradesmen has forced me to be become a DIY'er. I spend most weekends fixing things (my house is old) thanks to YouTube.
Next year I'm going to try to do a plumbing / electrical course at HEART.
This weekend' project is painting.
unpopular opinion - I think too many of the debate questions were chosen for shock value vs structured around unearthing the answers to the issues really plaguing Jamaicans right now.
5.Shit you sweep under the rug is still under the rug. I did a very good job at being busy and not dealing with the death. But I didn’t have a choice today and it hit me hard like loaded train.
We been working from home for almost a year now and I have no regrets and don't think we'll ever go back to a full office. We're more productive and I'm saving approximately $600k per month in rent and utilities.
Kudos to the Krispy Kreme Ja marketing team for doing something different than the same old played out launch we are accustomed to here and creating alot of buzz and engagement around the brand
I just spoke with a local Uber driver. He makes $10k per day on average, sometimes $13k and said he was very happy with it.
I hope more people will use apps like Uber & getThere & Quickplate etc to jumpsart the gig economy as its definitely a viable source of income