A photo that speaks a thousand words...

How could I not have posted this photo earlier.... President Obama you are a diplomatic and a gentleman.. I personally would have spat in her face.

rsp

RIP Whitney

I was by no means her biggest fan, but without a shadow of doubt in my opinion, along with Barbra Streisand and Luther Vandross she had the best singing voice both in terms of tone and control, that existed in my lifetime...with Nat King Cole before my lifetime..... RIP Whitney...thanks for blessing us with your talent...

USA vs Cuba/China

For years I have been amazed at how my neighbours to the North, try to justify their relation with China vs their relation with Cuba.

I think this Roland Martin opinion on CNN more or less captures my views on the subject.


rsp

Beautiful Photos of the land of my birth

Got this link from a friend of mine....

the photos to me are breathtaking.


rsp

After Barack Obama, please let this not be the next Black role model..

rsp

I really am too skeptical of politicians..

and it isn't just Caribbean politics and politicians...

Earlier this week, a former PNP MP switched parties..she clearly isn't the first politician to switch sides and the reverse has happened and I have been as skeptical as those as I am of this 'switch'. What I find particularly disturbing about this one, was up to a few months/years ago, the JLP was asking her to be removed as MP since she had dual citizenship with the US which is currently (thank goodness) not allowed in our constitution... (our constitution does allow dual citizenship eligibility with commonwealth countries, which I am also opposed to, but that's for another time); yet they(the JLP) welcomed her with open arms when she switched sides..

I am also for whatever reason very disappointed when public servants who I consider exceptional at what they do, join political parties.....I'd like to think that to be a really great public servant you must be party blind, but I guess you need to be party blind at work only, and I am not sure if anyone can really do so convincingly and totally.
This week one of our imho well respected, exceptional public servant is rumoured to be running for the JLP..

And just in case someone is wondering if I am only disappointed when it happens in the JLP, I was equally disappointed when a former exceptional Police Commissioner joined the PNP as a candidate.


rsp

A little late in blogging the info, but we have a new PM in Jamaica....

We have a new Prime Minister in Jamaica....our ninth and also our youngest eve. He is also the first to be born in an independent Jamaica......I have high hopes for him and wish him nothing but good luck.....met him once in 2006 when he was an opposition MP and in a brief five minute or less conversation he made a lasting impression on me..... I met lots of people all the time, but not many do I remember five years later vividly.....


I wish him well.. and I sincerely hope it is a dawn of a new politics in Jamaica..

rsp