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Prime Minister of Jamaica,Bruce Golding, should have asked Al Miller to step down as head of the the National Transformation Programme(NTP) which is operated out of his office. Bruce Golding after all that he has been through he should not have need any prompting. However this is not the only another misstep by Mr. Golding There is still the matter of whether Joseph Hibbert should be sitting in parliament. Mr. Joseph Hibbert was mention in a Mable and Johnson Court case where that company was charged in the UK for bribing officials in Jamaica and other countries in order to 'build bridges'. Investigations by the Contractor General has resulted in the matter being turned over to the DPP to determine if he is to be charged. However, there appears to be insufficient evidence to proceed in a court of law, at least at this time. Mr. Hibbert proclaims his innocence but was asked to resign as Minister of State. On the Opposition side there is still that matter of Kern Spencer. Charg...

The Jamaica Gleaner is reporting that Harold Crooks has been granted bail. I find this very interesting. It must be remembered that initially in March 2010, it was reported that this gentleman had said he had no intention of handing himself over to the Jamaican police. He was later captured by the police after he jumped into the waters of the Caribbean Sea after being seen aboard a cruise ship docked in Ocho Rios Jamaica. Amazingly, he has now been granted bail. I would love to hear the conditions of bail. Pity the story failed to provide the relevant information. Harold Crooks granted bail Update: The conditions of bail are he is to surrender his travel documents, report to the police station three(3) times per week and not to make any contact with the complainant.

Prominent Jamaican preacher Al Miller is now in apparent trouble with the law in Jamaica after he was 'caught' transporting Christopher 'Dudus' Coke. Al Miller claims he was carrying Dudus to the United States Embassy. According to the Gleaner he has now turned himself in to the police. While I will not swear for Al Miller, I believed he blundered but until proven otherwise, I believe his motives where clear; hand over Christopher 'Dudus' Coke to those that wanted him, safe and sound. I might be shown to be wrong and that is no problem. I am not the least troubled that Dudus was disguised , furthermore the disguise was useless as he was easily identified by the police when the car driven by Al Miller was allegedly stopped at Ferry St. Catherine. Interestingly, it is the United States that wants Christopher 'Dudus' Coke and the Jamaica has been asked to arrest him. As apart of the extradition treaty, a warrant has been executed for his a...

A message to be careful of deadly water is what greeted me this morning. I awoke and after my mediations turned to see what was in the news. Turning to the Gleaner, my number one source for Jamaican news, I found the message being sent out to be careful of the trucked water. Now Jamaica was called Xayamaca meaning land of wood and water. However parts of Jamaica has not been the land of water in recent times especially in the Kingston and St. Andrew area. The of lack of water in the piped system caused by a severe drought has seen an increase in 'trucked water'. The questions on my person's lips were where was this water coming from and what was the quality of the water. Not even bathing water standard? The Gleaner provided some answers to those questions by providing locations and testing the water quality. The results seem to point to high bacterial content at many of the sources. The bacteria content of potable water is suppose to be zero and bathable water, 100 MPN (mos...

Former prime minster of Jamaica, Edward Seaga is generally known to be a serious man. However this article in the Jamaica Gleaner today shed a little light on the other humorous side of the man. Here is a snippet It was Seaga, however, who, in theatrical terms, 'brought down both sides of the House' when in response to an announcement of a steep increase in import duties on motor vehicles in the early 1970s, he turned to the chair and asked: "Mr Speaker, is that what this government means when it says it is putting this country back on its feet?" For the younger readers, and those not Jamaican, to get some context as you read the rest of the article, Former Prime Minister of Jamaica Micheal Manley is Mike, and was the Prime Minister before and after Edward Seaga served in that office. Read the rest here... When Seaga Brought Down The House

Twitter has been down for at least 30 minutes. I was following updates on the situation in Haitiincluding an aftershock that struck Haiti at 6.03 a.m EST this morning. Before twitter went down users on Twitter.com were reporting a smaller tremor in Haiti Pingdom reports that twitter has been down for close to 40 minutes at the time of writing. Has a huge rush to see what happening in Haiti caused this or is there a bigger problem? At 7:20 a.m. Twitter remains down, uptime for today is now running at 86%, which is not good.

The tragic earthquake in Haiti has once again highlighted the usefulness of Twitter. In the minutes that followed the earthquake the first voice from Haiti was over the Twitter streams. It its not only Twitter that has stood out the ability to 'tweet', i.e. send messages, using the smartphones such as the IPhone, Blackberry, Nokia and others. What this has done is allowed not only text but images to be tweeted in seconds. The phone has become powerful too. Useful Twitter Users Going back to Haiti, there have have been a some twitter users whose updates have proven useful. These accounts I have found helpful in following events in Haiti http://twitter.com/firesideint http://twitter.com/Fonkoze http://twitter.com/Louisoxfam http://twitter.com/carelpedre http://twitter.com/troylivesay http://twitter.com/fredodupoux http://twitter.com/RAMhaiti A quick search of Haiti turned up users retweeting, i.e. repeating, updates provided by those users and in effect they quickly became the cr...