BITTER SWEET JAMAICA

If there is one thing that I hope I will never be called is a "Hypocrite". I want to be known as the woman who called a spade a spade and this country a dump. Sorry...I have not been known to be very patriotic and I know I should be, considering the situation here in our little island. But I have tried hard and I can't.
There are days when I really wonder if the so called "smarter" Heads of Government really care for the people who they so eagerly run after seeking their votes. Its election time again here and i think it is the same time in the Americas. The only difference I believe is that your candidates are not going around cursing each other in a brawling manner while on the campaign trail. This really bothers some of us here in Jamaica.
When our own dear Prime Minister gets up on a platform and says of the Opposition "Don't Draw Mi Tongue"...what exactly is a little common citizen like myself to think. I have never been one to mingle with loud and obnoxious people and that is exactly what she (yes we have a woman for the Prime Minister) sounds like and it is really shameful.
The terminology "Don't Draw Mi Tongue" is a phrase my grandmother and mother used to say when they wanted us to stop arguing with them. We always knew that when this phrase was repeated that there was nothing good that would come thereafter and whatever we were doing we would promptly stop. But to hear the Prime Minister The Right Honorable Portia Simpson-Miller utter those words from her mouth on a platform addressing the Jamaican people, the same people from who she is seeking their votes, is down-right shameful.
There should be a mandate for how they are to address public gathering. I mean, they have a mandate for everything, why not a mandate for this too.
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Then on to the issue of this crime thing which has increased so much since the Prime Minister announced the date for elections. People are dropping like rain drops in the rainy season. And people are getting killed because of their political affiliation. Imagine that.
If I wear a Green blouse out to do my own business in a community that is mostly PNP (and they Red) then I stand the chance of not getting out of there alive or better yet with a cap in my wherever...It has happened and is happening almost every day here. I am not a patriotic person like I said before and if you ask me where is a great vacation spot I will not tell you to come to Jamaica and feel alright. Because frankly, YOU WON'T FEEL ALRIGHT having to watch your back at every turn. Go some place else until this political heat wears off. Enjoy the summer in one of our other Caribbean islands that's not as bad as here.
I know, but what will happen to our tourism industry? I would ask you one question "WHAT TOURISM INDUSTRY?" Like I said this government has run our little to the dumps and the opposing party is no better.
All I can say is pray that our dear Parliamentary Officials have a change of heart and brain power and develop some sort of virtue.

There are not a lot of Jamaicans who read my blog and I really hope that one day my readership will increase and that our politically blinded Jamaicans will open their eyes to some open minded criticism of the members of Parliament that they so wholeheartedly follow and lust after...

I say to all ONE LOVE UNTIL MY NEXT RAMBLE