Yardies, at home and a farrin' (Part 6)

[*JG* 2]

No one ever said crimes and murders don't happen everywhere. In my neighborhood, 3 different crimes involving guns happened just last week. However, to dismiss the crime of Jamaica with the wave of a hand is a cop out. [b]Per capita, it is the murder capital of the world[/b]. Something still needs to be done about that.

And, I was not dishonoring Jamaica in my tirade. I was going off on Jamicans I personally know who are driving me crazy. I have every right to do this because this is happening to me. It Has nothing to do with dishonoring Jamaica as a whole.

That is NOT true.

Oh, I'm sorry.....they dropped to #3....My bad.

Showing latest available data. Rank Countries Amount (top to bottom)

#1 Colombia: 0.617847 per 1,000 people

#2 South Africa: 0.496008 per 1,000 people

#3 Jamaica: 0.324196 per 1,000 people

#4 Venezuela: 0.316138 per 1,000 people

#5 Russia: 0.201534 per 1,000 people

#6 Mexico: 0.130213 per 1,000 people

#7 Estonia: 0.107277 per 1,000 people

#8 Latvia: 0.10393 per 1,000 people

#9 Lithuania: 0.102863 per 1,000 people

#10 Belarus: 0.0983495 per 1,000 people

#11 Ukraine: 0.094006 per 1,000 people

#12 Papua New Guinea: 0.0838593 per 1,000 people

#13 Kyrgyzstan: 0.0802565 per 1,000 people

#14 Thailand: 0.0800798 per 1,000 people

#15 Moldova: 0.0781145 per 1,000 people

#16 Zimbabwe: 0.0749938 per 1,000 people

#17 Seychelles: 0.0739025 per 1,000 people

#18 Zambia: 0.070769 per 1,000 people

#19 Costa Rica: 0.061006 per 1,000 people

#20 Poland: 0.0562789 per 1,000 people

#21 Georgia: 0.0511011 per 1,000 people

#22 Uruguay: 0.045082 per 1,000 people

#23 Bulgaria: 0.0445638 per 1,000 people

#24 United States: 0.042802 per 1,000 people

#25 Armenia: 0.0425746 per 1,000 people

#26 India: 0.0344083 per 1,000 people

#27 Yemen: 0.0336276 per 1,000 people

#28 Dominica: 0.0289733 per 1,000 people

#29 Azerbaijan: 0.0285642 per 1,000 people

#30 Finland: 0.0283362 per 1,000 people

#31 Slovakia: 0.0263303 per 1,000 people

#32 Romania: 0.0250784 per 1,000 people

#33 Portugal: 0.0233769 per 1,000 people

#34 Malaysia: 0.0230034 per 1,000 people

#35 Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of: 0.0229829 per 1,000 people

#36 Mauritius: 0.021121 per 1,000 people

#37 Hungary: 0.0204857 per 1,000 people

#38 Korea, South: 0.0196336 per 1,000 people

#39 Slovenia: 0.0179015 per 1,000 people

#40 France: 0.0173272 per 1,000 people

#41 Czech Republic: 0.0169905 per 1,000 people

#42 Iceland: 0.0168499 per 1,000 people

#43 Australia: 0.0150324 per 1,000 people

#44 Canada: 0.0149063 per 1,000 people

#45 Chile: 0.014705 per 1,000 people

#46 United Kingdom: 0.0140633 per 1,000 people

#47 Italy: 0.0128393 per 1,000 people

#48 Spain: 0.0122456 per 1,000 people

#49 Germany: 0.0116461 per 1,000 people

#50 Tunisia: 0.0112159 per 1,000 people

#51 Netherlands: 0.0111538 per 1,000 people

#52 New Zealand: 0.0111524 per 1,000 people

#53 Denmark: 0.0106775 per 1,000 people

#54 Norway: 0.0106684 per 1,000 people

#55 Ireland: 0.00946215 per 1,000 people

#56 Switzerland: 0.00921351 per 1,000 people

#57 Indonesia: 0.00910842 per 1,000 people

#58 Greece: 0.0075928 per 1,000 people

#59 Hong Kong: 0.00550804 per 1,000 people

#60 Japan: 0.00499933 per 1,000 people

#61 Saudi Arabia: 0.00397456 per 1,000 people

#62 Qatar: 0.00115868 per 1,000 people

Weighted average: 0.1 per 1,000 people

[TRELAWNY PARISH 10]

di ole a oonuh mad tuh rass..good luck to ooonuh

but si yah! a u start eeh...bout she fi jus sidung and ride eehh...lawd Kimmy u no easy and u si seh mi still inna HEAT!....CHO MI GAANE FI SOME ICE

lawny did you check the video I posted in Jawi's story?

picture us all telling our men, we know someone who rooks 3-4 times a day....I bet they will all try and rise to the occasion.

LOL, Mine would say, "That's all?" -

It's all good in JA.....wait til your man gets here. I haven't slept in 4 years

It can be rough...juggling being married, working 12-14 hours a day, working out, keeping a teenage daughter on the right track (a job all by itself), help taking care 3 other kids, cooking and cleaning and trying to maintain a social life

I CAN'T WAIT............. Doing EXERCISES RIGHT NOW... Wait...deh..mi POP something

[*JG* 2]

Ok - so Jamaica is not the murder capital of the world - but it is #3. Check out this link: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_...ders-per-capita

so it's NOT number one right???

While you're there, check out the country with the MOST crimes overall......

Showing latest available data. Rank Countries Amount (top to bottom)

#1 Dominica: 113.822 per 1,000 people

#2 New Zealand: 105.881 per 1,000 people

#3 Finland: 101.526 per 1,000 people

#4 Denmark: 92.8277 per 1,000 people

#5 Chile: 88.226 per 1,000 people

#6 United Kingdom: 85.5517 per 1,000 people

#7 Montserrat: 80.3982 per 1,000 people

#8 United States: 80.0645 per 1,000 people

#9 Netherlands: 79.5779 per 1,000 people

#10 South Africa: 77.1862 per 1,000 people

#11 Germany: 75.9996 per 1,000 people

#12 Canada: 75.4921 per 1,000 people

#13 Norway: 71.8639 per 1,000 people

#14 France: 62.1843 per 1,000 people

#15 Seychelles: 52.9265 per 1,000 people

#16 Hungary: 44.9763 per 1,000 people

#17 Estonia: 43.3601 per 1,000 people

#18 Czech Republic: 38.2257 per 1,000 people

#19 Italy: 37.9633 per 1,000 people

#20 Switzerland: 36.1864 per 1,000 people

#21 Portugal: 34.3833 per 1,000 people

#22 Slovenia: 33.6236 per 1,000 people

#23 Poland: 32.8573 per 1,000 people

#24 Korea, South: 31.7267 per 1,000 people

#25 Mauritius: 29.1982 per 1,000 people

#26 Zimbabwe: 28.8753 per 1,000 people

#27 Lithuania: 22.8996 per 1,000 people

#28 Spain: 22.8867 per 1,000 people

#29 Latvia: 21.921 per 1,000 people

#30 Uruguay: 21.7017 per 1,000 people

#31 Russia: 20.5855 per 1,000 people

#32 Ireland: 20.2376 per 1,000 people

#33 Bulgaria: 19.9886 per 1,000 people

#34 Japan: 19.177 per 1,000 people

#35 Romania: 16.4812 per 1,000 people

#36 Slovakia: 16.3537 per 1,000 people

#37 Jamaica: 14.3231 per 1,000 people

#38 Belarus: 13.1592 per 1,000 people

#39 Mexico: 12.8406 per 1,000 people

#40 Tunisia: 12.5634 per 1,000 people

#41 Costa Rica: 11.9788 per 1,000 people

#42 Ukraine: 11.7793 per 1,000 people

#43 Hong Kong: 11.6817 per 1,000 people

#44 Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of: 9.689 per 1,000 people

#45 Greece: 9.6347 per 1,000 people

#46 Venezuela: 9.307 per 1,000 people

#47 Thailand: 8.80422 per 1,000 people

#48 Moldova: 8.58967 per 1,000 people

#49 Kyrgyzstan: 7.50486 per 1,000 people

#50 Malaysia: 6.97921 per 1,000 people

#51 Qatar: 6.76437 per 1,000 people

#52 Zambia: 5.27668 per 1,000 people

#53 Colombia: 4.98654 per 1,000 people

#54 Turkey: 4.11252 per 1,000 people

#55 Armenia: 4.03889 per 1,000 people

#56 Georgia: 3.21338 per 1,000 people

#57 Papua New Guinea: 2.39711 per 1,000 people

#58 Azerbaijan: 1.76416 per 1,000 people

#59 India: 1.63352 per 1,000 people

#60 Yemen: 1.16109 per 1,000 people

Edited May 14, 2008 by Jomo's girl

[brownnskinn 0]

I CAN'T WAIT............. Doing EXERCISES RIGHT NOW... Wait...deh..mi POP something

[*JG* 2]

It hurts me to see him slowly learning this lesson.

I feel your pain, and I know how hard it is to sit by and watch him go through something that hurts.

I used to sit back and be quiet. Lately, I've spoken up more and more. I can't let him be hurt anymore.

He called his mom Sunday. She said she's sick and needs to go to the doctor. I said why doesn't she go? He said, she says she has no money. I said, um.....free medical care in JA since April 1st. Andre said why would she say that then? Um....cause she thinks we don't know. Neverending. You can't even call your mom on Mother's day.........

Good evening everyone, I think we need to clear up what free medical care in JA means. The free only applied to the Dr's vist at the hospital and some clinics. All lab, xrays (ancillary services) vaccinations and medicine are still at a cost to the patient. If the patient is seeing a private Doctor at his/her office there is still a cost.

JA did not throw out the baby with the bath water. What I am trying to say is, there are still waiting periods (long lines) at all clinics. You can go to a clinic and a hospital and not be seen because of this because the waiting list is too long. ...... Or the Doctor (specialist) you need to see is not at the clinic today. I hope we all understand that there is no such thing as total free health care anywhere in the world. There is poor health care(free) or good health care ($$$$$). You pick your own prescription. Pay you might get good service, but if you want free you have wait for whatever they want to give to you. Yes, JA is trying to give it's people something and something is better than nothing.

Sorry,but if my mother was sick, I would move heaven and earth to get her some care.

Be Bless

Roxcie

Thank you so very much Roxcie for giving my fellow "Jamaicans" the real understanding behind this free medical thing here in Jamaica.

I just feel moved at times of how people seem to find all thats wrong or going wrong in Jamaica but hardly ever stop to give honor where honor is due. I must say that as a Jamaican im am proud of the step that the Jamaican government has taken to "try" and assist those of us who cannot afford to visit a private doctor because of financial reasons. (and might i add the big US of A is yet to put some level of normalcy to its medical care system). Think what you may about the medical care system in the Jamaica, but the government here tries very hard with the limited resources that it has.

I just wish and pray for the day when Jamaicans who have left here and supposedly goes to the where the "grass is greener" will not only see what is wrong with this beautiful country but will also spend some time to see the vast improvements that have also taken place here.

You all talk about crime about in Jamaica as if Jamaica is the only place that crime exists?????? I watch the news every evening and there is not ONE evening where i dont see someone being murdered senselessly in the great America.

Give honor where honor is, Jamaica like everywhere else in the world has its fare share of problems and no one government or small group of people can fix it.

Thank you.

Respectfully yours,

Jamaican Citizen

Kish --

As a Jamaican MYSELF I'm hurt by this statement, but everyone is entitled to type as they feel. I don't feel that nothing that was SAID yesterday attacked JAMAICA at all. You're in Jamaica, right, not in the states as yet. If the tables were turned or when you get here you'll have a BETTER UNDERSTANDING. What we spoke of yesterday is nothing new and like I said have been going on for many, many YEARS. I love my country and plan to move back there in the future. My parents choose to come here, not because things were BAD IN JAMAICA, but because my mom came to go to nursing school in the states and my dad didn't want to be away from his young wife and we followed a few years later, because he wanted his family together.

True crime is everywhere, but it MAKES ME SICK to my stomach to watch my aunt who has lived and worked in Jamaica her entire life as a school teacher get robbed by the very people she may have taught in grade school. I MAKES ME SICK to my stomach, when people who have lived in the US, CANADA or ENGLAND return to Jamaica to live out the rest of their lives, but can't, live where they grew up in Jamaica because of CRIME. IT MAKES ME SICK to my stomach when people who were EDUCATED in the states return to Jamaica to start up a business and put back into the country, but can't because of CRIME! My girl it is what it is.

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HOTLEGZ....weh di rass you ago...no mek mi get pon the JERSEY TURNPIKE

DIS IS A RASS PUBLIC BOARD...unu TYPE WAH DI RASS UNU WAH TYPE...

BUN FIYAH pon FIYAH!

This is so very true. I love Jamaica and all of it mishaps. I have hopes of living there someday as well. It is scary, living in America, scary same way.

I was sadden to learn my $300 coach bag was made in CHINA! I have nothing against China, but dang is there anything made in the USA anymore. This country should be a shamed of it's self. I wonder what was really the actual cost of making the bag. I wish I had gone to Walmart and bought 30 made in the USA bags.

But would those 30 bags last you as long as the Coach bag?

[brownnskinn 0]

LOL, Mine would say, "That's all?" -

...dang, We think we have it bad.

[brownnskinn 0]

Sus! 10 days left girl. You ready for ur trip? Anything special planned?

I am BEYOND ready for my trip! Finished my last final yesterday, and am totally unmotivated to work, lol - I want to try to pack this weekend so that I don't have to deal next!

Nothing specific planned, but it will be fun - DJ hasn't ever been to Negril, so it will be a week away from his friends, my friends, and time for just the two of us - I want to go to YS falls, Mayfield Falls, or the Black River - We have a car, so I intend to explore a bit!

beautiful places i'm sooooooooooo JEALOUS

Mi too....I can't wait, we are going in August....I get to take the pickney with me this time, I'm so excited!

[sus 70]

I CAN'T WAIT............. Doing EXERCISES RIGHT NOW... Wait...deh..mi POP something

:rofl:

[TRELAWNY PARISH 10]

I CAN'T WAIT............. Doing EXERCISES RIGHT NOW... Wait...deh..mi POP something

BROWNIN u don't know about the exercise you can do anywhere and anytime and shssssssssssss (no one will ever know you're doing them)

[*JG* 2]

Yup 3-4 daily

bettah watch out. I bet he trying to breed you too.

Yes...that's during the week Gotta keep the love life going strong....

3-4 times a day every day during the week? Damn.......how do you have time for anything else? What are you doing on here now????????

[TRELAWNY PARISH 10]

I CAN'T WAIT............. Doing EXERCISES RIGHT NOW... Wait...deh..mi POP something

:rofl:

SUS;

You must know what "EXERCISES" I'm talking about.

[brownnskinn 0]

Ok - so Jamaica is not the murder capital of the world - but it is #3. Check out this link: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_...ders-per-capita

so it's NOT number one right???

While you're there, check out the country with the MOST crimes overall......

Showing latest available data. Rank Countries Amount (top to bottom)

#1 Dominica: 113.822 per 1,000 people

#2 New Zealand: 105.881 per 1,000 people

#3 Finland: 101.526 per 1,000 people

#4 Denmark: 92.8277 per 1,000 people

#5 Chile: 88.226 per 1,000 people

#6 United Kingdom: 85.5517 per 1,000 people

#7 Montserrat: 80.3982 per 1,000 people

#8 United States: 80.0645 per 1,000 people

#8

[sus 70]

I CAN'T WAIT............. Doing EXERCISES RIGHT NOW... Wait...deh..mi POP something

:rofl:

SUS;

You must know what "EXERCISES" I'm talking about.

I sure do, Girl! I have to start doing them - Got 10 days to get back in shape!

[Ms. Hellwig 0]

Yup 3-4 daily

bettah watch out. I bet he trying to breed you too.

Yes...that's during the week Gotta keep the love life going strong....

3-4 times a day every day during the week? Damn.......how do you have time for anything else? What are you doing on here now????????

I was kinda wondering the same thing!

[TRELAWNY PARISH 10]

I CAN'T WAIT............. Doing EXERCISES RIGHT NOW... Wait...deh..mi POP something

:rofl:

SUS;

You must know what "EXERCISES" I'm talking about.

I sure do, Girl! I have to start doing them - Got 10 days to get back in shape!

OMG...I'm on the FLOOR in tears ......... ya'll Killing me today