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Re: Bend down low, let me tell you what I know...
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: Glad to see you're okay. Welcome back. Sorry to say, there may be a Gamma in your future (Jamaica's as well). If this hurricane season isn't indicative of global warming, then as sold time people used to say, a Massa God a come.
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What can one say about this incident?
Mon Nov 14, 2005
JLP protestors tear gassed
Monday morning several Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) mayors and Members of Parliament were tear gassed by the police as they approached Jamaica House with a protest.
The JLP members were leading a delegation to Jamaica House to deliver a letter of protest to Prime Minister PJ Patterson, regarding the allocation from the Local Government Ministry to carry out repairs for buildings damaged during the recent hurricanes.
When RJR news arrived at the scene Mayor of Kingston, Desmond McKenzie, obviously overcome by the fumes, was being bundled into a vehicle and transported to hospital.
Another councillor from the St. Mary division was also reportedly hit with a canister and has been taken to hospital.
It is also reported that Spanish Town Mayor Andrew Wheatley and JLP Deputy Leader and St. Thomas Member of Parliament James Robertson were also hit.
At the moment, the demonstrators led by JLP councillors including several mayors, are gathered in front of the Police Officers club which the police say is the legal distance from Jamaica House.
The demonstrators allege that they had not breached the 200 yard legal requirement, but were tear gassed by the police at Devon House.
Assistant Commissioner of Police, Owen Ellington, has invited the protestors to select 11 representatives who will be allowed into Jamaica House to deliver the letters.
But the councillors say they are awaiting the mayor's return from hospital before they meet with the Prime Minister.
Minister of Transport, Robert Pickersgill, and Local Government Minister, Portia Simpson Miller, are at Jamaica House and are in discussions with the protestors.
In the meantime, Deputy Leader of the Jamaica Labour Party, James Robertson, is demanding an apology from Prime Minister Patterson.
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Despite all our troubles, Jamaica still wins travel awards. Imagine if we could get this crime monster under control, we could tell those likkle peenie mosquito islands who a facety with us over visa to to take a long walk off a short pier!
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