Pepperpot – Lowly security guard stands up to the big man
People at the Comprehensive Clinic on Slipe Road were full of praise for a female security guard who refused to budge on Monday when the deposed kingmaker insisted he should be put ahead of others waiting in line for their malaria and yellow fever shots. “I don’t have all day to waste down here,” the upper St Andrew man shouted. “I’m sorry, Sir, you have to wait your turn. Many others are here before you,” the guard calmly replied. Needless to say, she became the hero of the patiently waiting crowd as the embarrassed man slinked away.
Mrs Malahoo’s forte
International law is definitely not Attorney General Marlene Malahoo Forte’s strength. She needs to learn that the US may exercise its sovereign rights at its embassy. This applies to all embassies including Jamaica’s. What else does she not know?
PR lesson for Mrs Kamina Johnson Smith
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade sent out a statement saying the minister, Mrs Kamina Johnson Smith, had stated that unconfirmed reports said two people believed to be Jamaican might have been killed in the Orlando massacre in Florida. The Government cannot be sending out unconfirmed reports and rumours as official release. Such information is of no use to anyone.
PM reinventing Spanish wheel
Prime Minister Andrew Holness is unaware that the late Florizel Glasspole, while he was education minister, declared Spanish as the official second language of Jamaica. The PM is in the dark and is clearly reinventing the wheel.
18 degrees south… yet again
TVJ is getting its knickers in a twist over Pepperpot saying that it should vet programmes more carefully before airing them over the 18 Degree North’s report that did a hatchet job on PM Holness.
TVJ says it did not repeat the programme because of Mr Holness’s injunction stopping it. Isn’t that the point? If there was better vetting there would be no injunction.
Question of the week
Are Jamaicans being asked to pay twice over the Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke debacle? First there was the trauma and stress over the uprising to protect Dudus. Now the Tivoli commissioners are recommending compensation.
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