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AP News Radio
UK's diverse communities ambivalent about king's coronation
"Towns and cities will be awash with union flags and patriotic decorations to celebrate King Charles the third's coronation this weekend, but the events viewed with a large dose of ambivalence by some in Britain's diverse communities. Darren white, a descendant of migrants from Jamaica and Adriana Forbes darned a musicians with the Brixton chamber orchestra. Here rehearsing ahead of the coronation carnival, while white's excited about the gig, he tells The Associated Press that some might find it hard to connect to the whole occasion, with the economy on the precipice of recession, while forms Durant says it's strange that the event would happen at a time when people don't really have the money to get by. I have mixed opinions on general kind of the royal family and the coronation just because I think that there are bigger things happening in Britain right now. Across the capital, Japan, Basra, the head of Southwest community alliance, says people are going through a cost of living crisis. Is it fair that there is so much attention and resource, being put into a massive correlation celebration where people are in record numbers having to rely on food banks, facing poverty or unbelievable scale. Elsewhere in south proprietor gulu Anand recalls the royals demeanor, when he ate at his restaurant, Charles, he says, actually listens to you wants to know where you've come from. Charles De Ledesma, London
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Thank You for Continuing to Support Our 'Food for the Poor' Campaign
"Missions here at the Mike Gallagher show is to welcome the generosity of our listeners to help people all over the world. We have a partnership with the Christian ministry food for the poor. I've been highlighting the great work of this great nonprofit relief organization for years. And right now, worldwide the perfect storm of economic decline loss of work, skyrocketing food prices, children are starving and food for the poor has people on the ground in Haiti, Honduras, the Caribbean, all over the world, and I told you Friday we were behind in our spring campaign. Our goal pretty modest goal of $40,000 and we were less than half that, well, you got us over the hump on Friday. Do you know that a $144 will feed two children for two meals a day for a year? That's an amazing way that you can start your work week. I hope you'll take a moment if you're listening to my voice. Please go to Mike online dot com and give whatever you can afford to give on the give food, give life bright red banner at the top of the page. And let's make a difference in the world. God calls us to be good stewards and to look out for one another. And I can think of a better way to do it than with food for the poor, a beautiful Christian ministry. I've traveled all over the world with these folks. And they mean a lot to me. They build a house in honor of my late wife. There's a Denise Gallagher house in Jamaica that a family proudly lives in and they had previously been living on the side of a hill under a tarp. That's the kind of work food for the poor does. Please go to Mike online dot com. If you're blessed and you want to share your blessings with the less fortunate, please go to Mike online dot com, click on that red banner at the top of the page or pick up the phone and call 8 four four H 6 zero hope 844-860-4673 and thank you. Thank you for your love for your support for your generosity.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Please Support Our 'Food for the Poor' Campaign
"We are in our march food for the poor campaign, a Christian ministry that is saving lives all over the world. These children throughout the world are being blessed by your gifts. And as we head into the weekend, we're so close to getting to the halfway point. Our goal is $40,000. It's a big goal, but we'll get there. We're going to get there. I know we have our own problems, but it's safe to say that none of us face conditions like what children and families on the ground in places like Honduras and Haiti, Guatemala, Jamaica go through. I've been there. I've seen children eating just out of filthy bulls. No food, no nourishment, but you can change that. I'm so impressed that already we have about $18,000 raised. We got a long way to go. Our goal is 40,000. I want you to bless our campaign by getting us over at least the halfway point. Please get us over $20,000 today. For a gift as little as $47, you'll be able to feed two starving children twice a day for an entire year. Do you know how great that's going to make you feel? You're going to feed two starving kids two hungry children. For $47, that's two meals twice a day for an entire year. That's a game changer. Trust me, your gift in any amount will not only save lives, but you'll feel great too throughout the entire week, and you're going to do some like I like to say you can do a little bit of God's work. You're going to spread the love and joy of God and Jesus Christ. Through our Christian ministry partners, food for the poor. And all we need, we just need a hundred people. If I can touch a hundred hearts today, we'll be well over our halfway point of our goal.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Thank You for Supporting Victims in Turkey & Syria
"So eternally grateful to you for your generosity and your goodwill. And a few times a year I come to you and I say, hey, let's do some good in the world. And we partner with some of these great charities that are doing God's work. And last month, you stepped up and collectively as a company, Salem media group raised over $300,000 to help the victims of the horrific earthquake in turkey and Syria. And we put that together at the last minute, it was kind of an add on thing we did. You were so incredible, I mean, I forget the number you donated over a 100,000 to our show, Hewitt's audience stepped up big time, collectively Salem raised. I think it was $313,000 in a few weeks. Now, next week, I'm going to start asking you to do a little bit for this Christian charity. This ministry called food for the poor. One of my favorite organizations. And they're the ones who spearheaded the effort to get relief supplies to the poor people of turkey and Syria. They are, they do God's work, and I'm not going to do the heavy ask this week. I'm going to start Monday a week from today. But if you want to get a jump on it, you feel a little kindness in your heart right now. Maybe you could put a little in the kitty for us. Maybe you can donate a little bit and get a jump on our campaign. Get a head start. Go to Mike online dot com and click on that mic on. Click on that food for the poor banner at the top of the page. It's going to put a smile on your face, doing good for people, saving lives, in places like Honduras, Jamaica, the Caribbean, all over the world. Food for the poor is a Christian ministry that they're doing great stuff.
AP News Radio
A University of Alabama basketball player has been charged with murder
"The university of Alabama's men's basketball coach says the team is grieving for the victim after a player and another man were charged with capital murder. Deepest condolences to the family and friends of Jamaica janae Harris. At a news conference Monday, crimson tide basketball coach Nate oats says his team is going through a process as news emerged that Darius miles, a junior reserve forward from Washington, D.C., and another man were allegedly involved in a fatal shooting. We came together last night and talked, thought it was important that we were all here and around a sport one another. Audio courtesy, WBA, miles and another man Michael Lynn Davis have been charged with murder, police say 23 year old jamia Harris of Birmingham died after shots were fired into a vehicle she was in early Sunday morning, near the university of Alabama's Tuscaloosa campus, attorneys for miles, say he and his family are heartbroken, and he maintains his innocence, miles swept to his family as he was led away by police on Sunday. Flip
AP News Radio
Terry Hall, lead singer of the Specials, dies at 63
"Man for the post punk British group the specials has died. The band says lead singer Terry hall has died at age 63 following a brief illness in a statement the specialist called hall are beautiful friend brother and one of the most brilliant singers songwriters and lyricists this country has ever produced, hall joined the band in the 1970s, and the specials became popular for their Jamaica influenced style of sharp suits and pork pie hats, their most iconic song, ghost town. I'm
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Origins of Thanksgiving With Bill Federer
"Bill, tell us, why do we celebrate Thanksgiving? What is the story of Thanksgiving? Well, the little background. So the king of England was a globalist. He was a one world government guy with him at the top. The British empire controlled in the Australia New Zealand Hong Kong brisk ionic Canada Barbados Bermuda Jamaica and America. And so America's founders wanted to break away from this globalist one world government king. And so they flipped it and made the people became. And so where did they get this idea that you could rule yourself without a king? Well, it came from the pilgrims and that it came from the calvinist Puritans that came from the reformation and then they got their ideas from ancient Israel. That first 400 years out of Egypt, it's called the Hebrew republic. And it's the first instance in recorded history of a nation with millions of people and no king. And there's around 1400 BC up to about a thousand BC. And it worked because every single citizen was taught the law. And they were personally accountable to God to follow the law. So this period of history is called the Hebrew republic. And these calvinist puritan scholars study this so intently that they were nicknamed Christian hebrews. So in 1517, Martin Luther starts the reformation and for about a century before the age of enlightenment, you have these scholars in Europe studying, not just the Bible in their own language, but this particular first 400 year period, this Hebrew republic. And that's why they taught Hebrew at Yale and Harvard. They were amazed at coming up with a form of government without a king. And again, it's based on this idea that you teach everybody the law and then everybody walks around aware that they're accountable to a God who's watching them watch them to be fair and it's going to hold them accountable in the future.
The Officer Tatum Show
'The View' Hosts Blame the Queen's Death on Race
"The queen died, and these dirty helpers, I call them hamburger heifers. These dirty hamburger helpers on the view had the nerve to make it about racism. Wrote a clip. Because if you really think about what the monarchy was built on, it was built on the backs of black and brown people. She wore a crown with pillaged stones from India and Africa. And now what you're seeing, at least in the black communities that I'm a part of, they want reparations. You know, Barbados left at left the left the sort of this monarchy. This colonization. Jamaica, I have a lot of Jamaican Friends. That's coming soon. And right now, Charles now is in a position. He's, I think, has 14 colonies that he is now head of state, including Australia and Canada, I believe. If not correct, it's time for him to modernize this monarchy. And it's time for him to provide reparations to all of those colonies. For the love of Jesus of Nazareth, these people are nutty.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Sunny Hostin: Black People Want Reparations From the Monarchy
"This is sunny hostin. Look, the United States was built on the backs of black and brown. And we want our reparations. And you know, the Americans. The Catholic church was built on the black and the backs of people who back in black and brown people who were forced to convert to Catholicism. So I think there's a lot of that that we're coming to terms with. And I think one of the things that Charles can do to get some popularity is maybe take some time away from speaking to his plants and speak to this issue. Yeah. Recognize this issue. We're speaking with a person speaking to his plants. And maybe bring his family back together after the allegations of racism that have been made by duchess Meghan Markle and her husband, his son, prince Harry. Maybe they can address that as well. So again, ladies and gentlemen, it's a load of hooey what they're talking about. But here's more from sunny hostin. I studied in London. And so I lived in London. For a while. And I got caught up in the pomp and circumstance of it all as well. I wanted to see the changing of the guards. I wanted to see everything. I wanted to meet the queen. Because I think we all love glam and pageantry. And I think, though, we can mourn the queen and not the empire. Yeah. Because if you really think about what the monarchy was built on, it was built on the backs of black and brown people. She wore a crown with pillaged stones from India and Africa. And now what you're seeing at least in the black communities that I'm a part of, they want reparations. You know, Barbados left at left the left, the sort of this monarchy, this colonization. Jamaica, I have a lot of Jamaican Friends. That's coming soon. And right now, Charles now is in a position. He's, I think, has 14 colonies that he is now head of state,
AP News Radio
Queen Elizabeth II changed the monarchy forever
"Constant in my life the world mourns Queen Elizabeth II The queen was much more than Britain's monarch she was a sovereign to another 14 nations and a rare figure who was almost universally admired through hemispheres generations social divisions and politics tributes to her have come in from other monarchs leaders dignitaries and rockstars even in places where the relationship with British monarchy is complicated for tributes flowed in India prime minister Narendra Modi said Elizabeth personified dignity and decency in public life while Caribbean leaders from Jamaica to Bermuda Monte death which occurred as several British territories in the Caribbean seek to replace the monarch with their own heads of state I'm Charles De Ledesma
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Can the Deep State Stop Donald Trump? Doug Collins Weighs In
"Stick in your lane of being a former congressman being a conservative being an attorney, can they stop president Trump, you look at what's happened in the last 6 years, from you said he's going to be in The White House. I can curb, but let's look at what they've done. The Billy Bush tapes, Russia collusion, Mueller probe, impeachment one impeachment to quid pro quo. January 6th committee southern district of New York cases against him and his company and his children. I know. I knew before the Mar-a-Lago really dug that they were going to forward criminal referrals, spurious ones from the January 6th committee to the Department of Justice. Now I am 110% sure they will after Mar-a-Lago. It'll be some BS about obstruction of an official proceedings or mishandling of classified information or whatever it is. They also demented, is there any way they can stop him at this point? What's your prediction? I don't think they can within the Republican Party. Again, they're not focused on the Trump voter. They're not probably on a Mac. They're not talking about America first. They're not what they're trying to do is to get to the folks that they think they can influence to say, we don't want to do this again. And I think that's what they're trying to do. So everywhere you turn, no matter what is coming up, they're going to continue just the ram page of saying he was not what we needed. He's not there. And again, now, supposedly these adults that are in The White House now have yeah, they've done a great job. They gave away Afghanistan. They've had inflation. They've killed our old and energy. People are starting to see that and they're saying, wait, I'm going to tell you a quick story. I was just out of the country. My wife and I took our first vacation in ages, ages. I was in a van going back to the airport in Jamaica. Somebody the gentleman who was driving said something about the we said something about the election. He said, yes, economies terrible. He said, he said, the guy you got now, terrible. He said, I want to go back a couple. And so I thought he was saying, Obama. Yeah. I said, so you want to go back to president Obama. He said, no, not Obama. I like the other one. Trump. This is a Jamaican citizen said, I want Trump. And here we'll listen to his reason. He said, when he was in office, economy was good.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Two Black Teenage Girls Charged With Hate Crime in 'Anti-White' Attack
"Black teenage girls in New York City were arrested Tuesday that is let's see Friday three days ago. Charged with hate crimes over the brutal attack on a 57 year old white woman, riding a bus and queens earlier this month. The New York police department said that a 15 year old girl in the 16 year old girl were arrested on Tuesday in the confines of the 102nd precinct. They each faced two counts of assault while carrying out a hate crime. And aggravated harassment while carrying out a hate crime. Their names were not released by police due to their ages. Quite follow that. I mean, this is serious crime. NYPD released a video on a photo showing three black girls walking down a city street earlier this month. About 6 50 p.m. police said the three unidentified individuals now to approach the 57 year old female passenger. On the southbound MTA bus and the vicinity of Jamaica avenue, and woodhaven boulevard struck her in the head with an unknown object, causing a laceration and bleeding. They carried out the attack while making anti white statements, police said. God even Fox News capitalizes white. Oh my God.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
How Woke Culture Ruined Dating
"This story you'll find to be interesting because I think it says a lot about the unfortunate state of dating culture, among people in my generation. But it's a sweet story. I was visiting Cambridge back in October of 2020. We were sent home that year due to COVID. It was my junior year. And there were some friends I had who were living off campus in Cambridge, zooming. And so I just made a trip because what the hell else was I doing that semester to Cambridge to visit my friends off campus. And there's this fabulous ice cream store in Harvard square called JP lex. It's named after Jamaica plains. It's a suburb of Boston. That's what the JP stands for. They have the best ice cream. I gained 15 pounds freshman year. That I have since lost, thank God, but thanks to that ice cream. Anyway, it was late at night, and I had just seen one of my friends. And before I went back to my hotel, I had to stop there to get an ice cream cone. And I was just sitting outside. It was October. It was a nice evening. Just eating my ice cream alone. And this guy walked up to me. And he sat down with me, and I immediately sat down? Well, I should clarify. He approached, and he said, hi, I'm, oh, God, I can't remember his name, Jim, or started the Jay. I think you're really beautiful. Do you mind if I sit? And I was very, very taken aback. And he looked, you know, he didn't look menacing, so I let him sit. And he was really sweet. He was saying, I'm a graduate student. I'm living off campus, you know, what flavor is that? You know, he was just being nice. And I was so freaked out. I just sat there kind of paralyzed. And you know me, I am rarely without words. I just, I didn't know what to do. And I felt really bad, and I said to him, you know, oh, I so appreciate your, I don't know. Your forthcoming Ness or your politeness, I said something, but I'm not comfortable with this.
AP News Radio
Watch Live: Johnny Depp returns to stand trial against Amber Heard
"Supermodel Kate moss says actor Johnny Depp never purposely hurt her when they dated in the 1990s as she testified in Depp's libel trial against his ex-wife actor Amber Heard I'm Archie's are a letter with the latest Kate moss testified for less than 5 minutes by videolink to a courtroom outside Washington Amber Heard had referred to a rumor that Depp had pushed moss downstairs during their relationship Moss testified she had slipped on the stairs after a rainstorm in Jamaica and Depp carried her back to her room and got her medical attention Moss denies Depp ever hurt her He never pushed me kicked me or threw me down any stairs Step is suing her saying she defamed him with a 2018 op-ed piece in which she described
Backlisted
"jamaica" Discussed on Backlisted
"Just with my publishing head on, you know, Monique ruff is moment of black conscious, which is I think a great novel and it's a massive bestseller and you think if you want, if you want to put some context from the culture that this is coming from, this is one of the that's true. It feels to me like one of the great texts of I'm not an expert on Caribbean poetry, but the fact that this isn't available and talked about. Doesn't it tell you something about the publishing climate and why things are allowed to go out of print and why they're brought back into the print? Well, I did want to ask you the question Margaret, when you were starting Allison and busby. I mean, did you have a clear mission to want to try and spring? Because you published all kinds of books that you didn't want to to be publishing into a ghetto. You wanted to spring black writers into the mainstream. It wasn't anything as conscious as that. We were publishing what was that we thought were interesting. It should be imprint. George laming is out of print. Okay, let's reprint George lemming. Let's reprint see a large aim. Let's call him McKinney's. And American Reuters. Taste really tasted by taste and quality. It was naivety perhaps. Or idealism, but it was not based on any sort of convention or any you were making up your own rules. Exactly. Exactly. Well, because four of the rare surviving copies of Jamaica are gathered in this room. Sorry. I like it. I think this must be Andrew's coffee because it's got some very neat annotations and hairbrush. Look at that. Okay, I'm going to need to see that. Isn't that incredible? There's different from our addition. Yours has got the correction. So because people can't easily get hold of this. Ray, would you share a passage that you feel is? Isn't it representative of you? Part of the Jacob, what I'll do is I'll read this and just, you know, this is, I'm just dropping you in to the moment and the momentum of this epic poem. There was that spark that moved the land that rumbling shifting accustomed response while you knowledgeable patient watched the pelican breast to belly. Ex Mecca. Providence paradoxical poor child.
The Dan Bongino Show
Dan Bongino Recalls Violent Situation in Kingston, Jamaica
"I was thinking back to the time I had gone over to Kingston Jamaica which is not a war zone and it's case to Jamaica but they have a high crime rate so it can be dangerous depending on where you are what time of day But we found ourselves in my prior line of work in a really bad situation and we were there filming with this ABC crew for a book Jenna Bush was writing And we found ourselves caught at the end of this alley and a bunch of people came out that weren't necessarily friendly And some weapons and we got it all on video because it was being filmed for the thing We went back and looked at it later we were like gosh that was really bad So we went back to the hotel I forget what we were saying We went back to the hotel and that night we were having a few adult sodas afterwards The shift was over of course And I remember talking to the cameraman and I said to him you know it's interesting You never put the camera down that whole time He had these guys in front of you with the machetes and all this and you know you never put the camera down He kept filming he didn't even look even frazzled by it I keep in mind we're supposed to be these You know big you know tough masculine Secret Service dudes right And you know I was a little hanked out but I was like okay this could get ugly fast and I was scanning and looking around at all And yet this guy didn't seem worried at all and I talked to him about it I'm like you know that's kind of kind of cool how you didn't get frazzled He's like man let me tell you something This is nothing I was in Mogadishu and you know he was there when that whole Black Hawk down thing went down not filming that particular episode but right around that time when Somalia broke bad And he's like that was nothing
What's the 311
"jamaica" Discussed on What's the 311
"Welcome to Sonya travel park. So up is Jamaica. A supporter of my she said, hello Sonia. I be listening to your child podcasts. I love them and I'm have an idea about can you also please talk about couples traveling and I sent you a place where they actually have couples traveling. In the PlayStation set me everyone was Jim maker. Do y'all know they have a couples resort in Jamaica? Family. Friends. How come I didn't know this? Yes, they have a couple resort. She said they have 24 hour Gourmet dining. Unlimited premium wine and cartels. In room, mini bars, nightly entertainment golf and tennis, are limited school for diving. Unlimited water sports, a cat on Moran Cruz. An area excursion, a trip to darns river, falls, a trip to the poplar sunset bar. And she said, it's much, much more. She said, it's luxurious romantic. And it's great for couples. And that is also in the leading travel magazines. And a website has been named among the best hotels in the world. And however, it's the high level of satisfaction among our guests in extraordinarily repeat. Thank you, Trina, 'cause I did not know they had a couple's result in Jamaica. I really appreciate that. I was going to talk about Jamaica perrier, but I didn't know that there was actual couple results. And she gave me some beautiful pictures too. Thank you very much for that. I really appreciate that. Jamaica was going to be up there on my travel vacation with other places. So this is for couples. If you are in your significant other or your spouse or whoever want to go to Jamaica they have an actual couple that you would love to go to, it sound like it's a beautiful place. I have never been, so I wouldn't be able to tell you this, but the fact that she gave me this, I and I guess anyone who has been here, y'all can also email me or leave a comment under this podcast at SV 7 6 6 7 5 two at Gmail dot com and let me know what you thought and how the service was and if you enjoyed it as a couple, would you go back, you know, what you liked about it, what you didn't like about it. Let me know. 'cause I don't know. It sounds like a beautiful place. And maybe one day I'll go to this result just to see. But I like to thank you for listening to my podcast and thank you again, trena. You know, like I always tell my supporters that if y'all have places y'all want me to speak about anything you want me to speak about just email me or DM me and let me know and I really really truly appreciate the support I really do. I really appreciate all the support that I have been receiving from y'all and you can please give it a 5 star review on speakers I heart radio where we will see a podcast that please share..
The Larry Elder Show
Winsome Sears Shares Why She Chose to Serve Her Country
"My dad joined the marines because he said he could go with the action is and he loved the uniform. Why did you join the marines? Well, I joined the Marine Corps because when my grandmother died I was 18 years old at the time I was supposed to go to college, the very next month I was all set, everything my courses, my books were bought. But when she died, I looked at her in the casket, and I thought, well, what's the purpose of life if you're just going to die, all the good that she did, all the love she's dead. You see, I knew the lord, but I, you know, I was 18 years old. What do I really know? And I just thought my life was over. And I saw a jet magazine. I flipped it open. There was a Marine Corps advertisement. This was in Jamaica. It was in Jamaica. And I said, that's it. I'm going back to America, and the marines will give me a reason to live because I need some discipline, and that so when I joined the Marine Corps I was still a Jamaican citizen. But
AP News Radio
Jamaica arrests ex-Haiti senator sought in leader's slaying
"A a former former Haitian Haitian official official sought sought in in the the killing killing of of president president Jovenel Jovenel mo mo Louise Louise was was arrested arrested in in Jamaica Jamaica on on Saturday Saturday police police in in eighties eighties a a former former senator senator John John Joe Joe well well Joseph Joseph is is now now in in custody custody meanwhile meanwhile police police in in Jamaica Jamaica say say other other people people were were arrested arrested with with him him and and they they are are trying trying to to figure figure out out whether whether they they are are family family members members Joseph Joseph is is a a political political opponent opponent of of the the assassinated assassinated president president in in late late October October Jamaican Jamaican authorities authorities arrested arrested former former Colombian Colombian soldier soldier Mario Mario Antonio Antonio pelos pelos seus seus pelos pelos use use he he was was recently recently extradited extradited by by the the U. U. S. S. and and awaiting awaiting another another court court hearing hearing more more than than forty forty people people including including eighteen eighteen former former Colombian Colombian soldiers soldiers have have been been arrested arrested in in the the killing killing of of Louise Louise who who was was shot shot several several times times at at his his private private residence residence in in an an attack attack that that also also injured injured his his wife wife I'm I'm Julie Julie Walker Walker
The Dan Bongino Show
Jury in Jussie Smollett Trial Begins Deliberations
"Can you believe the juicy verdict is starving that hasn't come out yet What is going on in this jury room What could you possibly be talking about I'm not getting sidetracked What did you say Jim What did they say Right did Jeffrey Dahmer thing was only 5 What are they talking about in there What could you possibly be discussing If the small Yankees what could you be discussing for juicy There's nothing to discuss You know I had nothing surprises me anymore After watching the OJ verdict when I was a young man sitting in a doctor's office doctor Shu and Jamaica queens I was sitting in a waiting room waiting to have my shoulder looked at and watching the OJ verdict Everybody in the room go what I'm not surprised by anything If juicy gets off I'm telling you I wouldn't be surprised I want it on the record now I am not going to come back on the air if the verdict exhibit oh my gosh what a stunner juicy got off I mean if you're out 5 hours in this case holy
VICE News Reports
"jamaica" Discussed on VICE News Reports
"Think i keep on going on going on like this where they go home and do about this. We need some justice we need. We knew this right. This is not the first time that bauxite mining has wreaked havoc on the water. Supply and was crazy is not even the first time that this company has polluted this exact river this They're being charged with violating the wildlife protection that by the national environment and planning agency but defines when they happened at all. They're so small in this case is just around thousand dollars wait. There only being fined around a thousand dollars for all of that. Exactly thousand dollars. And the company went dow-. They denied responsibility for the pollution in a statement to the media. They said they don't accept liability for the fishkill but they're taking steps to restore normalcy to the river. So you've got this manmade environmental disaster affecting much of jamaica and you've also got a prime minister who claims that he cares about environmental protection above all else. What's standing in the way of stopping these crises stopping buck mining and at the very least keeping an out of cockpit country are was. I could tell you what prime minister holding is thinking. We reached out to his office for an interview but he refused to speak with us. So the three other government officials. It looks bad for him at home and considering he wants to be a climate lead on the world stage. It looks bad for him abroad. Because he's very sensitive to how he's perceived by jamaicans in the diaspora and a lot of folks. They sent money home to jamaica so he wants to keep them happy to like. I said before. There's this long history with bauxite here. So even for critics walking away from an industry that once gave you that money is hard. So in a sense you can say that the jamaican government is still kind of addicted to this idea of bauxite mining and what it can do for the country. But guess what it ain't doing that anymore and also from your reporting it sounds like this is generating a lot of controversy in pushback from people on the ground. Yeah it's a lot of pushback and it seems to be working a little bit because the government seems to be reacting to it in may they announced they were basically gonna shrink the possible mining in. Snl went seventy three. They're going to take twenty three square miles and make them unavailable for mining. But here's the thing they didn't specify which parts of the wants seventy-three that was and aranda was promised the different mining lease somewhere else on the island to make up for it. I'm sorry what. Yeah but hold on on top of that all of snl one. Seventy three remains remains outside of that protected area of cockpit country so all of this sounds a little iffy to me and it's hard to see this as a full victory. Jamaica has been colonized and extracted from in so many ways over the years and cockpit country. You have to understand. This is a special place as a rare piece of untouched. Land does not for tours. These people govern them sales and just like their ancestors before them. Kick the ashes of the british chief curry and the descendants of the. Maroons are gonna sit. I live by and just settle for anything less than the full preservation of their territory ancestors fought for land. We fought for the freedom south determination existing with and what we knew was home. So it's the same thing we're looking at our territory being encroached on by minor is not guns spears knives and all bloody walmart doesn't mean it's not this is an economic war right so it's directly related to what our ancestors fought board. It's.
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"jamaica" Discussed on VICE News Reports
"They refused to let it happen country. So what we're doing is marking along the boundary but right now mining is happening all around the cockpit so this whole fight over mining is focused on a very important border this is where marketing all territory army green with the red in the centre indicates maroon territory is not just steve curry in the maroons. Who want to preserve this land. Because of their historic connection to it there are a whole lot of people in cockpit. Country who don't wanna see bauxite mining there so almost a decade ago the maroon cheese join a bunch of people and organizations around this area and they all sat down to define the boundaries of cockpit country as a way to basically lay down the line and say no mining beyond this point then in november of twenty seventeen were able to bring all the perspectives together. And we agreed upon boundary for the cockpit. Contr prime minister andrew holness gives us beach that boundary will be enshrined in law and within that boundary. There will be no mining. This is okay. This is where we're getting somewhere. The prospect of mining is not something that we contemplate easily. But here's the thing. This cockpit country protected area that was created by the prime minister is different from what the maroon cheese and the other folks in cockpit country wanted the government said. Yeah yeah sure no mining cockpit country except for this one huge piece of land that they carved out where mining could happen special mining lease one seventy three or as they call it. Snl went seventy three so if the government says that they want to protect this area. Why did they leave this particular part of cockpit asi now we getting now we get into the good part now. We get into the juicy part. Because i had the same question mr dixon sir. How you doing sir. And so that confusion led us to meet this guy. Hugh dickson you got strong vacant handshakes. So that's that's the that's the sake of trust that trust. He's the executive director of the southern trelawny. Environmental group one of the organizations that define the boundaries of cockpit country. It was notice of here where it deviates from the recommended boundary visit conveniently left out yes conveniently next for bauxite mining and what he told me is that there's a us company named aranda that owns the least of this land and stands to profit from mining. It but is not just a random. That'll profit if this part of cockpit country mind. The government of jamaica is a fifty one percent shareholder with noranda in a company called aranda jamaica. Talks that partners to the jamaica government is actually a shareholder in a mining company.
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"jamaica" Discussed on VICE News Reports
"Excuse me brother. how're you doing. I'm trying to get the outcome. Can you state. I appreciate it. Thank you jamaican dp here. Were better than any other. Gb as google maps as any of but the new i. I'm looking for Chief richard curry. A oh was a was a so. Who is chief curry young fellow. He's kinda swabbed. Oh man. It's good to be greeting. I received that i received that. He's the youngest of a council of former room cheese. Who lead this territory and jamaica cockpit country. We won't allow sitting back much longer to allow our offspring to be deprived of that freedom of choice to live off the land and benefit from that land. Likely do after the maroons kicked the british is in seventeen hundreds. They signed the treaty and the british. Were basically like okay. Y'all got it we give up. This is your land so the center of maroons have had a claim to the land. For longer than the modern jamaican government has been existed. If you look right on the edge of that hill right there you can see that. Somebody's farm you look inside banana trees in the top right there and they live off the land their self sufficient. You see 'cause i hear you know. This is a farming community. Let me tell you. This place is beautiful. There's jungles mountains. Springs coming up out of the ground with fresh water. I mean you could literally just sip from these rivers and springs for the percentage of make us fresh drinking water come from cockpit country. What is at stake here. If they allow mining to begin in this territory and it has the highest diversity of animals and plants anywhere on the island so many like endemic species mining strips on office minerals brand office properties that are essential for growing crops. So have you bring mining into this place. You're gonna fuck all of that. We've seen evidence of bauxite. Mining has done to farmlands and it's irreversible money comes and money goes this we only once the cockpit country is maroon territory. The people will defend. What's there is what bauxite mining. What is its history in jamaica. Yeah that's a very good question because year bach side people. I what the hell is that. a lucky young lady. Yes jamaica is perfect vacation spot but jamaica now is doubly important important to the whole free world because here has been discovered box side so after jamaica gained its independence from the british colonization. Pretty much changed clothes and was now in the form of a largely foreign own tourism industry. Only a few hours from the united states beautiful tropic island rising from the blue caribbean sea and then in the nineteen fifties bauxite was discovered side. The are bromwich. Aluminum made bauxite is used to produce aluminum. They make planes with them. You go to a cookout and you wanna take leftovers. You wrap your plate in foil. Reynold's aluminum has been far motion developing jamaica bauxite and by the nineteen sixties jamaica have become the world's leading expert bauxite sipping out almost five million a year. That's a lot of money more aluminum for the nation's defense and more aluminum for all your needs from the vacation. Land of jamaica and reynolds metals company pioneers up progress through aluminum through the seventies and eighties. Bauxite mining was a really big industry. These towns where the mining was happening. They were like boomtown. But this thing about mining is that once you dig up that's it no more bauxite there And so over time this box. I started to dwindle. And around the same time the jamaican government. They saw these companies. Were making a whole bunch of money but the box profits. They weren't seeing any of it. They were like no no no no no no no no. They can't be making all this money and taking it away from us right so jamaica just started attacking the mining more and some of the companies. They were like well you taxes. We're gonna leave. This led to the box. I industry in jamaica to shrink and now it's only three percent of the economy and it provides fewer than five thousand jobs despite all of that the government. They keep pouring money into this industry to support an charter expand it if the industry is on life support why do they keep trying to expand it. It's still is profitable is just not as profitable as it once was but you have to look at the industry that jamaica has. It's only a few of them. There's tourism agriculture and there's bauxite mining and this bauxite mining is a legacy business. It's like an institution. These politicians is almost like they're attached to this idea. That box side is going to save them. And there's money to be made but the ordinary folks in jamaica. They're not seeing that money. And in many ways the bauxite mining industry is harming them. Is there anywhere in this house where you can get away from the dust. As it stands there's no mining cockpit country but all around cockpit country. There is money and so this gives us a good idea of what happens to these. Communities once mining begins about thirty miles south of cockpit country in saint elizabeth pairs mining's been going on for decades. This is it dustin from monday angels. That is just in one day and one of the folks. We had the good fortune to meet was a very very spirited woman knocking under. I hear any longer. Her name is ms mckinney. Mcleod how far are we from. The mud. Lake actually against the mining company near where she lives the stores. It's toxic waste from the mining in the lake within eyesight of her front door. Miss mcleod and everybody else in the community. They call it the mud lake. Yes he threw them trees and so this mud lake is just full of bauxite mining waste. Yeah it's miles of like this open storage for toxic chemicals that are the result of aluminum refining and when it dries it becomes cracked earth. It looks like the surface of mars almost in the red dust blows out of it over everything. Someday we stand up it you who get down into scratch you scratching schedule is all over her furniture her body and it gets into her water supply but this is in the back of the house. How does the does get back and you have to understand. These folks don't have central air conditioning. Right out there in the country in these jungles in the mountains. You know you gotta be able to keep your windows up in. You have to be able to keep your windows open. You understand what we have. What.
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"jamaica" Discussed on VICE News Reports
"Particular spot was the same spot that cogil and the warriors with gather right so these seem stones that you're seeing here. I've been seem stones that they will sit on this trees over three hundred years old and still bears fruit. Today is birth grown. The revolutionary warriors defeated the british. He's very secret secret. Grown so your in the heartland of maroon territory down here in jamaica in an area that they call cockpit is still governed by the maroons. The descendants of indigenous people informants may africans who defended this piece of dirt and the british almost three hundred years ago. They kick the colonizers asks have been says like we do burned appendages. Don't blame today. These folks in cockpit country are fighting a new battle. We don't want any minute. We need to preserve no mining in the country. We are stay. We said no mine. That's me no miami again to protect their land but this time is from the mining industry. We're not we're not. We're not moving or not moving. Start all over again not moving..
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"jamaica" Discussed on Unclassical
"Move. Why guy say that. What is the reason pacific zinc. Kp married the man hesitated it was. He was searching for words that he said lost then. He shook his head he would say. Normal pepsi felt been charlotte. I'm sorry for her for mainly lately looked in the window again and spoke to. Would you take a cup of tea here before we guy he said his long. Drive before you and colon. It's called on the moors. She doesn't she's like night. I'm feeling i think t- will not right now thank you. Let's just gash to be. Imagine me being a bit like hearing you gonna go where your aunts and uncle. You haven't got another plan. Well don't do it now. Fucking freaked me out. She's kind of bridge is now being like i'm related to the people in my business on like she's we'll maintained herself worried about you know her safety round the look at the end of the day. We'll be nice by ali so jamaica. Korean seems like bringing an might be less than friendly. Brave is determined to get that be with patient. I have a question. So this isn't really jamaica. Make it. I'm just imagine duffy damore. I sitting down having applied looking around like a story for this place. And the like. Hey choi to build a welcoming by. I think it was once a fucking shit on writing. I've been really nice. Jamaica in was fuck you know not true but yeah i've been i've written in my nights hareb who scored in washington to sell down and boatman Bridgestone so they begin johnny jamaica n across the stormy a mr. That's dangerous should be walking on the dock in stone anymore. Twist your ankle. Leo's night there on a road. Okay okay yeah. But it's just like three holes new head of her so after a while driving head of her on the crest and to the left but some sort of the rest of the left second. Serve the right and straight second. Chris the left. It's not you want to pretty much with some sort of a building. Starting back from the riot she could see who'll chimneys murky dim in darkness. There was the house now. At the cottage at this was jamaica. It stood alone in glory. Full scratch the winds. Mary clock gathered quote around town fought in the class. The horses have been pulled to a standstill. Stood sweating onto the rain steam. Coming from the.
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"jamaica" Discussed on Unclassical
"Starting with a the coach. Mary is on is cold. And leaky dab november night. Gradually the passengers leave coach. She said his he'd she's the last. One gosh gosh this involvement at the moment but means go. Poke jail spooky spooky context of line of the piece of minimal. There is so this isn't relevant to today. I'm sure it's different that this is how it is at the time so deal okay I'm thirty involvement at the moment on the man lives in launceton He's got in on this one road across the malls which very like truck trust talking stormy nights thing at all. Not right is one in jamaica. And so he's like he tends to marines l- look ongoing factional thinks that's where they have Some getting the right away by a horrible. Johnny like the most nights if all your kick down in bald men and then someone will take to lonestar tomorrow morning. And she's i'm jamaica in jamaica. He cries shook. Oh no no. You can't yeah so they've stopped involvement and he's like lady like you must tell her that she called her to make an end kids jamaican instead of being like you compulsively and women's like no sweetie light. There'll be no work for you there. If you if it's work you're off a unit will be places for taylor stay hips. Not sure we can find you. Something like say nice looking for looking for employment that kind of thing find regional looked after a say. She's bit like fine. This is the song. I sing when we find the page mary. Small to have nice. You'll be alright. She said i'm going to to relatives. My uncle is the landlord of jamaica on. That was a long silence. Your landlord sorry. Let retake your uncle. That was a long silence in the grey light coach. Mary can see that the woman and the man staring at her. She felt shield suddenly anxious. She wanted some white of reassurance from the woman but it did not come then. The woman drew back from the window. Sorry she said citing son of my business of course at night okay. Onto the drive began to whistle rather red in the face is one who wishes to ridge self situation. Marianne food impulsively untouched. On would you tell me. She said i shot. Mind we say is. My uncle not liked is something the matter. The man looked very uncomfortable. Spoke roughly devoid rise to make his a bad name. He said hail jamaica school tiles gab out is under mckay trouble. Maybe they're not true. Well sorta tales lost mary. Jesus countries ahead of the matthew like oh the matthew not very nice. Do you mean as much drunkenness. That as my uncle encourage pat company commit himself. I don't want to make trouble here on thing. it's not. It's only what people say it's not don't make jamaica anymore. That's why and you'll days we used to. We used to to the horses there and feed them. Go in for a drink but we don't stop there anymore we hoses passed and wait for nothing else. We get to the five lanes.
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"jamaica" Discussed on Unclassical
"Patriot headed for jamaica jamaica There are some of the people only coach. Well there's a lady who is k. Farm lady she's not she's not high mighty and she's looking around she's good natures and she pulls alan cake and chows down on slash sharah. No they've you try and you had a bag of the offer against anyone else in the carriage. If you story that everyone's version of inmates to where you have like your crystal and the trade in the personal exit sauce helping themselves and know that fucking mind and you buy saw angrily eating from the bike and then you get off the train and realize your christmas in your you something cringe happens. I have a voice being on time right. Not not voice fucking scurry ended. I think because. I'm really normal. I actually take the chris by throw them in the bedroom. It didn't happen didn't happen to happen. Repressed that this is what i find. We'll keep lost bass guitar adnan. it's easy to recruit how as a backup which. I didn't find him by. Just once people think you're normally with mcsally faking remember the cages content to a anyway display. Oh struggling mental health. At least mary ellen's country. So pitiful. she's on this right jamaica anymore. Question i was gonna say jamaica in can't should be finishing stop because it is okay school jampacked with job so i'm she grew up in a nice In qom with her mother and father who run a farm when she rose to the challenge took raising all. I'm managing a of ood biker. Gypsum is already linked unless you suspected illegal and the second. Kate is reaching book. Zen trouble guys trouble. So the tension of was called halston and reading of how stood yes don't arizona folklore folk for friendly and elston. The name of was known and respected in the town for the widow had had a hard fight against life when her husband died and there were not many women who would have lived alone. She did with one child. Mepham tend would never thought of taking love of them. I love that you said you have like. Oh i'll take one nine grow on trees you come. He'll be fat. Actually if she comes with the fucking farm. Brady make our country's for well that was at monaco mannequin. Who would also the farmland married far married..
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"jamaica" Discussed on Ali on the Run Show
"So did that in twenty fifteen there were three. Other competitors I won the race. And i ended up lapping. A woman in the race A masters runner and since two thousand fifteen. No-one has entered the fifteen hundred jamaica at and that means that. I have not competed at the trials since two thousand fifteen so i was just waiting on bated breath to see if anybody would register for the trials this year in the fifteen hundred so that i could go and compete at trials You know it's. It's a blessing in a curse to not have to compete at your trials. It allows me to take on other Competitive opportunities are not speaking for trials. But you also don't get to race with the opportunity to come national champion so usually qualifications pretty anticlimactic for me however this year Another woman sign up. Fifteen hundred so I found out about three days before. The trial's maybe four days before the trials that i was expected to compete so i had to quickly change all my travel plans and get down at kingston and yeah. I ran the thirteen hundred against one. Other woman Her name is tara. And i was super excited that she signed up and that we got to race. Oh i won the race. So there's my top three and Nowadays there are vacation standards and world ranking descending order less i was a world ranked number thirty two. I believe Which was my My qualifications gangs things already. That was a really long answer. No no no. Oh please i love it. I love because otherwise. I would have had asked one hundred. Follow up so no. You're so it's interesting too because you are such a wonderful advocate. I know that we've talked about this with you on the show before but how much you do for girls and younger athletes especially in jamaica of wanting them to compete and train and get into running so i think it could be easy to look at the situation. You've been in and say like oh hey sweet. I know i'm gonna get to go. I know i'm number one. But i sensed and i mean you said that it was exciting. That another woman signed up. It wasn't like oh. Shoot someone here to challenge me. Yes so where do you fall on that with like. Would you like to just have one other person. You gotta raise kinda know you're gonna get the spot or award year dream be to have a massive full field of women showing up to compete to represent jamaica. I would love full field. I mean that's that is my hope for the future. It's slow going. You know especially with covert i the year before saugus yet twenty twenty eighteen. I can't you But before i was able to do sort of like a mini camp info Outreach session in in jamaica and i was really excited marketing that ball rolling and just making more connections encouraging more athletes But kobe really. You made everything come to a screeching halt and Kobe still charging hard in jamaica as it is now with with a lot of places But vaccine rates are slow. And i mean we're still experiencing curfews When i was there for the trials the curfew was eight. Pm for weeknights. Six pm on saturday. Two pm on sunday So it's really limited of of what what you can do. And i'm really hoping that wants the world gets back on Onto a relative level of normalcy. That i can Try again try to keep that ball rolling of getting more women Keeping more women above eight hundred.
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"We'll talk about that a little bit later but no no we are here. Jj to talk about what has just happened not what is going to happen. That was the us defeating jamaica. One nil on the night How do you want to go through this standout performers guys who struggled sequentially. I i think sequentially might be problematic because it wasn't one of those games. Well i do want to say one thing. If we're gonna talk if we're not gonna do sequentially let me at least get this out of the way early. Fifteen seconds in and the us just like that. Set the tone for me. Right out of the gate where i was like. Oh what are we getting here tonight jamaica just like throwing the the press straight at the us right hence pressure two blocks on tenth clearances for the us. They could not get the ball out of their own end and it set up a good chance for jamaica within the first fifteen seconds of the game. I think it set jamaica stall out as well in terms of. Hey we're not going to try and play it through you but we are going to press you and try and create turnovers and if you look at the fleming shot which was well saved by matt. Turner came from a turnover by the aforementioned hero of the night. Which will now be forgot that matthew hoppy went on a slaloming run in the middle of the field lost the ball and fleming said the shot which was saved by by turner. But that was what we're trying to do and tonight was one of those gains wasn't that this was exactly how you would imagine in your brain in your mind of what a gold cup quarterfinal game against jamaica would be. It was extremely physical taints It was nervy at times it was jamaica being. Let's be honest. Theodore whitmore sentenced to be very direct. How many times in the first minutes do we see long diagonal balls trying to get behind our fullbacks and pinups back in that way. There were never going to pass through us. They looked for the open player and in fact one of their best periods when things got raggedy towards the end of the first half and they looked to counter look to play in transition and the us were trying to play more ball. But we're struggling for for a lot of the game and you felt this is going to come down to a little bit of grace a tiny bit of imagination and ultimately that's what it was christian. Roll down get to the byline clip into the fire. Post huge error by andrea blake. No points saying otherwise a guy who was very clean in his catching off crosses all night makes a horrible decision..
Impeachment: A Daily Podcast
"jamaica" Discussed on Impeachment: A Daily Podcast
"Off the last days that came over from From West africa ivory coast and stories that she told a house school my grandma to pass or how she got How she got cats sheriff how Her treat makes watch. I'd number for the opposition ministry and it was hard for it. Gives you to speak about it. And what i whenever i hear about it though. Yeah it is a deep for what does that make you. What does make you think. Terry that justice would look like in financial terms and how that money might be distributed or used. I mean it you'll be used to develop a better because like there's never a a price on money and can never pay for trump billions of people but then something has to like. The island is in shampoo with at that. I think i don't know that. Thank you so much for your call and sharing your story. i really really appreciate it And so professor cut joe. Ten billion dollars as this reported. Petition will claim for jamaica It's pegged to the amount in today's dollars peg pay to those former slaveholders. I understand but in today's dollars it's actually not that much money. The new york city budget alone just for this year is a hundred billion Then again the population of jamaica is only around three million people in new york city. eight million. but we're talking about compensation for hundreds of years of financial plunder. So is it clear how it would work or do you have an opinion about how it would work best best thing. The last week alluded the jamaica. Right now on the entire caribbean jamaica. You make that. The fight remember character on the theory is about ten years ago. Petition the european palm the european nations for reparations. So that part of the problem is that jamaica trinidad guyana and i both soon aghanistan lucia. All these countries are under tremendous strengths From the virus for example in terms of poverty in terms of education in terms of hello no on so why. We don't necessarily expect that we would get their people to get direct payments. He was without the thing that the systems infrastructure needs as much. But the kind of place jamaica depends almost entirely on money's being sent from tourism and it'd be the but a billion over the last six months on tourism but there's no infrastructure. I mean years ago they had bauxite but no natural resources and these countries intend to simply infrastructure intensive their clearances intends of this schooling in terms of the whole question of joblessness. We'll see what's happening in south africa right now. Then the schools these countries are structurally weak. And of course these are areas. In which i think that reparations intensive repair and the wrong just a few minutes to go. There's no monetary kind of reduced lives to monetary. but it's a good indicator of for. You could better the lives of those around. So i think if those kinds of social services intend to poverty homelessness and such that we could. Of course Begin to pour money into the set of germany's trying to amid the horrible genocide. Took place so. I think it's a these areas of social services. An elt mending could begin to repair the wrong. That has been done over. Lots of centuries as to your point in terms of our the budget in the new yorker number that new was sold. I think the suriname for about twenty five bucks at a time when these countries when these countries would produce in places like but the betas that that will produce much of than many of his states here..
Impeachment: A Daily Podcast
"jamaica" Discussed on Impeachment: A Daily Podcast
"That of course britain paid a tremendous amount of and i think it's been about a fifth of the national budget of the time so yes But of course we had to of the petition that is being made that. Be the sons and daughters of slavery. Never got offense from that. Even poor are haiti was made to pay back the french For the question Recognizing the independence professor cudgel ryan. Who will go ahead. You wanna make point. Go ahead show. I wanna make one point. Is that the notion that reparations should be paid because us directly descended from slaves could trace their line. He's not entirely true. I am from trinidad. I grew up on the estate and my family of the biggest one of the biggest. Horde of the caribbean william hardin. Burnley of just finished a book about two years ago on the slave master trinidad and we lived on that plantation from the inception of eighteen. Thirty four grade. Greg gonna follow the sports. We could traces lineage in that. Same that it's so they the direct connection in terms of our being ripped off and exploited by these masses so difficult a personal coat for personal stories in my book display masters trinidad. I sort of Speak about that at least nasty. Who of course is on the largest plantation. I grew up with a big house in my very site every day. So sorry about that. But i thought what know connection that. I wasn't aware of of your book to bring the title. So why don't you say it again. So now that people are getting to know you buy this interview. They know what your book is. My last book is schooled. This leave master. Trinidad william hardin burnley and the nineteenth century atlantic world and he was one of the biggest slaveholders. Got some of the most money that book that britain compensated in the british. Caribbean non just in Internet out of jamaica but the entire caribbean again. The book is the slave master. Trinidad william hart and boondi and the nineteen century atlantic world superstar university of massachusetts press. Thank you so who will decide on. This claim the queen herself. Boris johnson..
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"jamaica" Discussed on Impeachment: A Daily Podcast
"The june eighteenth federal holiday and a greater national focus on the anniversary of the tulsa race massacre. More americans have been getting more familiar with the history of slavery and the amount of money plundered in that context from black families over the centuries. Well now reuters. Is reporting that. The nation of jamaica is preparing a petition to queen elizabeth for the uk to pay ten billion dollars in reparations for some of the financial effects of slavery there the uk rural jamaica in the colonial era independence only came in the nineteen sixties. So what might reparations from the uk to jamaicans look like and could this process offer any kind of a model for the united states with me. Now selwyn cudjoe professor of african studies and comparative literature at wellesley. He has been chair of the history of ideas at wellesley and among other things that director of the central bank of trinidad and tobago professor cudgel. We appreciate time for this today. Welcome back to wnyc. Brian thank you have been pack again. Let me be on with you can reuse this opportunity to go over some history. I many listeners may not know such as we know sixteen nineteen in this country much better now as the year of the arrival of the first enslave people. Thanks nicole hannah jones..
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"jamaica" Discussed on Run That Prank
"Letter for today. The subject you have to watch the babysitter. We'll get into that in just a little bit but right now. The nephew is in the building with today's prank phone. Call which you got for us. Where see me dig until the stupid archives up here we go Wedding what did you just hear me with. The w. i god. Did you hear that. I said what where Where wedding in jamaica wedding in jamaica. Okay all right. Let's get marrie. let's go hello hello. I'm trying to reach ivan place. At the moment this is janice can help you. Name is mark. I'm calling from a travel agency. Oh hey how you doing. I'm good. I'm good I actually have some information for me. He just finished paying his last payment. As far as you all traveling you guys are getting you guys. The granting married going on a honeymoon is that right right right next month relations. Yes thank you okay. Well listen. I got you information for you and i wanna make sure. The million address was correct. So i know you guys Flight tickets out as well as a few forms and things like that. So you guys would be pretty much well taken care of. This sounds good okay. Are you pretty pretty excited about this Unexciting they're excited. I can't tell you okay. Good good good. Well i'll tell you what In april tell you jamaica queens is going to be a great place at Snow will burned off by then. And it'll be pretty much The summer coming around you know. Snow jamaica queens. Now we're going to ocho rios in jamaica. You know islands while we wait. Wait wait wait wait wait. There's no snow okay. Hang on hang on. Hang on I've been working with ivan on this for quite some time. I actually have you guys book to go to jamaica queens now. There has to be some sort of mistake. Because we're going to re so. But that's not what i am i have. I have to make acquaintance. I have new york okay. Well i'm telling you you're wrong. I don't know if you pulled up the wrong person. no i can't. I'm i've jonathan. You guys are going out the second weekend in april is that correct. That's correct but we're going to ocho. Rios no edgy. For jamaica queens. There's a problem then. Because i'm not getting married there Love new york. But i'm getting married there. So what do we need to do. I mean i. I i don't know what to do at this point right now. Missed out. Because i'm getting married next month and understand that i worked diligently with your fiance so to speak and i got you. Guys scheduled for jamaica queens. I have the hotel's ground was not. I was not him love new york. But that's not where i'm getting married. Span thing now okay. I'm letting you know you're raising your voice. I mean i'm letting you know that ivan has scheduled this and you guys are scheduled to make acquaintance. Okay you don't let me know where i'm getting married. We've written you checks. So i need you to correct the problem and i will continue to my my voice until you somebody at your damn you are correct. The problem two real areas upscale. Okay you're not going to yell at me and now you're yelling at me composure. No okay we're done. I need to talk to you superior. I'm sorry we spent way too much money. I'm getting married next month. And you're calling. And telling me that. I i need somebody else on the phone. Okay because i'm gonna come. Where where are you me a moment. I'm pulling up to see if i can get some flights out to ocho rios okay last minute. I told him to go. Oh my god the flights so completely booked that week it alleged Get a private jet for fifty sixty thousand dollars ma'am. There's no way. I can get you in or out of dollars make it happen. You need to make something happen okay. I'm being nice. You don't wanna talk to either so trust me. You need to make something happen on a little computer call. Somebody else in the roy should be nice. Where you you continue to raise your voice. I me now using profanity at me. You're going to jamaica quaint. Listen to me. It was your job to take care of transportation for us to get from the us. Ocho rios montego bay. How would that supposed to handle you. Were supposed to handle it and your man said you. Guys were going to jamaica queens and that's what i took. No maybe he's jamaica queens. We were very clear. And i know he was very clear. I'm being very clear. Now you just listen to me. You have one job how you screw that up. I know but i need you to make it happen going up. But you're going jamaica queens. Maybe you clean. And he's taking you jamaica but that's not. Listen you civil. I'm not getting married in new york. You understand me. Don't mention new york one more time in this conversation. I do not meant to new york. Why don't go mentioned new york went. That is the actual ticket. I have you scheduled for because you screw that up and you're getting ready to correct it. Get on the computer at correct. Figure it out. Your job is listen to me. Your job is from ocho rios too much. go that work out making. I'm not gonna sit here and go back and forth with you okay. I need to first of all. Stop yelling at me. What the kind of customer service do you think this is. I asked you earlier in this conversation to get somebody else on the phone. If you cannot help me now. What i need you to do is figure out how you gonna get me for ocho. Rios too much ego. And i'm not getting no bring up. Don't bring up new york. I need you to work. Don't tell me where. I'm going to spend my honeymoon in jamaica. Queens new york fiance made a mistake. I'm not gonna pay for the mistakes. And i'll have we fix something. That'd be.
Immigrants of Toronto
"jamaica" Discussed on Immigrants of Toronto
"Is there anything else that you like about canada and toronto that you want to share i mean i know it's not the weather it's doing the i love the The wealth of opportunities that. I fear that i've been financial at otherwise networking opportunities While jimothy the most around just jamaica people from here there and so forth here in canada. You're meeting people from all over the world so the networking opportunities great here from the in your spirit is also huge Entrepreneur yourself huge in in and it's not it's not the you know in a lifetime fantasy In as it relates jamaica. Everybody's interested in your in jamaica your most employees interrupting your own species great here and the the resources to You know to accomplish it the community. It's also wonderful here if you're able to find Right community it's just great and by community. I mean like just the volunteer spirit The looking out for each other. The just strengths that around relationships and the protection of relationship in canada. So those are all things that i love school. I think will here if you have. Children are just incredible. I and i said they see the community in terms of where you live. I live in a really incredible area. And i love it. I love being able to walk and go where they wanna go all these different freedoms. I love my kids outside and right now the call back and not have to worry that. There's going to be a drive by all these things and really. I love all those things about. Can i think i think the catholic i mean something came like today but the welfare state. When you care about your people you come under society like i would say a public hailed public schools. Kinda thanks. you see the impact that they have in society in general like you have a more educated population because everybody has access to education at your healthier population because again everybody has access to over so i think those kind of things make make huge differences like wow. This is great shelly. Before i let you go. I know that as a cinema grant and s enterpreneur. You're actually in montreal toronto. So you know two of the of the big cities in canada. So is there any advice that you can share with the new commerce or people that are thinking about coming here ideal In economic made note of it. Because i think it's very important and you're not in any specific Order and needed by give to professional person coming not just professional. Personally i would say Make use of meeting You're going to find a lot of Professor other professionals there that you can do. That's the message in your network in especially if you're an unknown and maybe the current situation that you're in will not Connects you to where you wanna go is that you know many immigrants from here and we come on we have to adopt and not even be in the field that we were experts in our home countries that were you know a little bit of a hurdle to get you know to accomplish the same level of professional authority and dissension that we did but you can still grow. You can connect so. I think you should make use of nathan Get advice from friends and khalid's in your field so finding a person that you work with them see that You know in the holiday company. Sometimes you don't know needs to act questions. I immigrants there's persons that already have gone through That journey the long view that we journey on and they can give us save time and money in commissioner role Volunteer another thing that they wanted to quick to get involved in the canadian society. Volunteers find a charity. You know some For profit Non nonprofit 'cause that you you like and just be a service you're going to meet people you're gonna find a community and you know you're just gonna get a bitter an impact on that way by junior communications will We come from different Countries and you know we have different languages. You're bilingual your medical center. You speak spanish. English skills may not be The strongest but i think you should fight junior chills especially if you wanna go into an era that will require heat that will require you to communicate with others That are not you know creek language. You know some places Into canada and they missed some opportunities because they didn't step out of their comfort zone and find you of their communicating skills I like i said before. I question that's one of the. There's going to be huge. Don't just stay in your your immediate home fight and find out what what is there. What is available And neck strategically When you get into these next for your connect for your future wherever it is that you want to go. You're gonna try to get connection. That was an issue in getting You know up that ladder take advantages of Eucheuma programs that the government has many people don't know they're they're opportunities there that the they're gonna sit you they have you know programs and certain things so you need to find a newcomer center when you're canada's go there and see all the different programs that are available that you can take advantage of No your city come out of your home and see what's around you and get to know canada. You came here for a reason. You don't just stay cooped up it out and maybe you you're when you're alive you're not able to live in the era that you would be You know you'd love however get out and see what their rutan learn new skills and upgrade yourself continually even if you have to do it on side of job up here. We're not in the best job of their dreams. But find time to upgrade your skills Then missing anything. Yeah just a Available resources and opportunities and Just be positive they you know sometimes the immigrants you can be knocked out. You know you you expected certain things and you and it's not And nothing is easy but one thing we know if you were in your country so many times. I did this in the beginning of like if i was in my country and i faced. The you know the setback. What would be the Recovery probably not at all but in this country. You can recover. So why not all. I want to Encourage you to stay focused. Where are keep pushing forward because you have I can't guarantee that if you do that you will be successful. You will be successful. You will accomplish your dream and you know it's possible here in canada. I think those although those on the jesus mentioned are racially. I and i i think a lot of the things that you said is I think you just explained in a better way. What some people say a you need to do some networking and they just throw it like that the way you said like use lengthen volunteers who you can meeting people get out and meet someone outside your your area your Even just reaching out to people in on lengthened. I made some people have done it to me super happy to do it. They'd send the message and say hey. I know your work. On example..
Immigrants of Toronto
"jamaica" Discussed on Immigrants of Toronto
"Is really warm. It's really nice weather the whole year. Here you have nice weather for like three days in the summer and definitely was really a shocker. Now whether the so then then after you were incubated in you move there on all that you decided to move to toronto in two thousand nine. Why was the the reason. Why did you decide to move again. Business related and we were in technology and then Opportunities presented themselves in in ontario and welcome back. i love back You know for me. I didn't have a lot of problems with this. In terms of choosing ontario or was more opportunity just ontario. There's just so much more growth. There's so much more growth You know you don't notice it. Until when i went into when i left jamaica winning that wow and then for trump to try to while while at just how fast things move. How bigger you know. Everything is in toronto so on for sure it was Opportunity base why we We will especially in technology. I think toronto general interior like the whole provinces. They're funneling a lot of money to to make this. I would say like one nine hub of north america. So i i work in technology. Well so i. I see the amount of even the amount of job postings in you can find it. It's incredible yet on the other hand. Like i know quebec specially city montreal more european style. Sater's isn't it beautiful right european field. I love that but yeah for sure. It was for Knowing the especially in the assisted like working technology you need to go with the cover. Art are so in this case interiors. Copley anyway let's go. Let's go back up here in you being you being working in technology and your you said like your ass you interpreter. I'm assuming in your career especially once you move to canada. I both quebec and toronto. What tell many honestly how many visit like maybe pick. A few of the successes. If you had the you might have an had if you had to stay in your home country i quite a lot. I wanna early. Starter are part of big quaint in two thousand twelve. I was early to Big my You know i was. When i was that we purchase bitcoin when it was like i think less than a hundred dollars. You know and We were part of the first team of Persons both in the us and canada were into bitcoin mining so betraying with net like never been part of an opportunity Like that if i was in jamaica i would have never been a part of the different technologies that i was able to ask the here. We have so many Not that they're not qualified persons in jamaica but persons here like engineers that we've worked with here and Different developers and so forth. They have a lot more access to tools and technology. And you know don sitting. Just were able to develop a lot of product on that. I would not have been able to develop If i lived in jamaica enterprise wise so that also in all of those you know monetary value them. They have Might sound changes. It's always different things. So in terms of austin i'm show Changes in my life. I would never be able to accomplish financially. This thing that i accomplished while i was in canada. So fantasy who's great And the second. That was just the quality of life in jamaica I was born Or like you were poor real poor. But i came out of i was more and more successful as your however the quality of life the standard living candidate as it relates to safety as it relates to health healthcare and. There's so many things that i would never that does not exist jamaica So my children to some just a different kind of lifestyle. And compare what i was. Exposed on jimmy guessing. The quality of life is. it's just inviolable. You can put a price on that like even my friends and family mexico like i mean they don't really leave in the most dangerous areas of the city or anything. But you still know. Like even when i was leaving back there like You know that you cannot go and take a walk at midnight. Because it's it's it doesn't matter what you just june two sections dangerous so just being able to do it just a. I don't know. I think the piece that you feel when you're doing those kind of things knowing that you say quote unquote free. Because i know have more safe. Yeah thank you. Turn your door open. I close my car on my garage door like this never happened. You know jamaicans are great. I'm jamaican and i love them dearly. But so many things i like. You could not have that life on their this rita Not watching you know everywhere you go. Look you know being so careful Yeah i don't you. Don't have that in jimmy unfortunate and i have that here and i really really appreciate it. Let me just ask you again. Because i know the the quality of life is is great in as you said like financially. You wouldn't have been able to have this opportunity. You have staving in in jamaica..