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- From: plm@reggae.cam.bellcore.com (Paul L. Mowatt)
- Subject: Re: Jamaica gone to perdition!
- Organization: Bellcore - Bell Communications Research
- Date: 22 Jan 93 15:24:35
- Message-ID: <PLM.93Jan22152435@reggae.cam.bellcore.com>
- In-Reply-To: pac8702@ritvax.isc.rit.edu's message of Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:21:44 GMT
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- >>>>> On Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:21:44 GMT, pac8702@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (PC) said:
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- > Richard, I don't know which utopia you are presently living in but, the
- > problems you described seem pretty universal to me. The trouble in Jamaica
- > is always exaggerated by those of us who hear it second hand or who have
- > recently had to face it. As the saying goes, No Whe' No Betta Dan Yard.
- > Foreign Lands are just as bad but, we delude ourselves into thinking
- > otherwise.
-
- I just came back from 4 weeks in JA. And I enjoyed every minute of it.
- I had to stop and think every now and then, how come things seems to be
- going backward for some people. I watched the the local news and read the
- paper and compared it to what was going on back here on the various news
- casts being beamed in via satellite and concluded that JA is just like any
- other place in the world. I felt safer there than say Brooklyn or Bronx, NY.
-
- The city areas is still plagued with the same crimes
- that I used to hear about when I lived in the country. So for me It was no
- big surprise to see what I saw when I was there.
-
- One of the big problems in JA is that we fail to realize that our main
- source of income is agriculture. So lots of land goes wasted, while
- everyones trying to mek-a-money selling foreign made goods.
-
- ---
- "Jamaica is a little nice great place. Mi really love
- Jamaica, because mi walk plenty stone land inna Jamaica and plenty
- hills. But ah think we really need a direction. Not a big ol'
- signing up this and signing up that, but a direction in your own
- country. Wah happen to the earth. An mean wi have to till the soil.
- An' it noh call fi slavery fi do that. It just call fi understanding."
- Bob Marley - Interviews
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