A Jamaican In Exile

  https://youtu.be/KRch-50w28s Apostle Peter Chambers arrested for making threats against The Prime Minister of Jamaica 🇯🇲 Arrested under cyber crimes act for using language online and or social media which amounts to threat against the life or limb of the Prime Minister Andrew H... youtu.be  I have been warning people that those who stand up to the political establishment will suffer and be punished. There are consequences of speaking truth to power. As one who has been there and done that, I know......I watched this video and I did not hear anything illegal. The amounts of money he had are also not illegal to hold and no explanation to the police is legally required. Churches are tax exempt so the tax authorities cannot claim it. Preachers call down death on who they perceive to be sinners all the time.  The Bible has examples where God punished those who like Pharaoh, tried to block the people of Jehovah.  Many pastors only source of income is from their congregatio...

 http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/commentary/20210322/ronald-thwaites-studying-what-we-know-already I upvoted this excellent writing which clearly outlines the problem. The 'reset' needed is the voucher system. Each family would get a voucher from the government for each child. The monetary value of these vouchers would lead to an explosion in new private schools of varying quality competing with each other leading to the survival of the best. This would encourage a public/private partnership to compete with public education and give the parents of poor children the ability to benefit from the high quality private schools. Such a proposal is difficult to bring in as the Teachers' Unions and their minions in the Ministry of Education (mostly former teachers and union officials) fight tooth and nail against empowering families in this way. To too many teachers, education is their business and the narrow focus of the unions is better pay and working conditions for their memb...

https://worldhappiness.report/ 'Happiness' is one of those things that are relative - it is difficult to measure. Canada is just one step above the USA in this ranking. Some of the 'happiest' countries are also some of the coldest. Does a cold climate help? None of them have huge armies instead focusing on social development. None of them have huge crime problems. Finland is the safest country in the world so no wonder they are number one! What is interesting in this report is that authoritarian, dictatorial countries are way down in happiness. Cuba was not mentioned so the Cuban government may not have allowed the survey but China (87) is way down on the list, much lower than Jamaica, so democracy is important. China may be safe but it is not a happy place. Even though I consider Canada a fairly successful country, Canada (15th) is found wanting in this index. According to Forbes Magazine, 'Finland has long been praised by a multitude of international bodies for it...