'Today was not business as usual' - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
'Today was not business as usual' - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM: "But there was another reason, way beyond our shores, why the protest did not get much traction. Ever since we heard that victims of Hurricane Katrina waited on their rooftops way longer than any of us has ever languished in a storm, Jamaicans have been falling in love all over again with our country.
I have a friend whose New Year's Eve mantra used to be 'If I am still in Jamaica next year, shoot me.' Since the Katrina reports, this same lady says, 'I have been telling people all week, Jamaica is paradise!' She said after she went to check on her businessplace on Tuesday, she went home and watched CNN.
The JLP protest, designed to tell us how terrible conditions were in Jamaica, sequestered us in our homes putting us up- close-and-personal with the unspeakable horror of New Orleans.
It sent me to the internet where I learned that the Mayor of New Orleans had left 2,000 school buses parked, buses which could have saved the lives of thousands. It sent me to the BBC, where I saw two British tourists talk about the hunger and thirst of the little children in the Superdome, and describe how they were spirited away in an army truck, leaving starving US citizens behind."
I have a friend whose New Year's Eve mantra used to be 'If I am still in Jamaica next year, shoot me.' Since the Katrina reports, this same lady says, 'I have been telling people all week, Jamaica is paradise!' She said after she went to check on her businessplace on Tuesday, she went home and watched CNN.
The JLP protest, designed to tell us how terrible conditions were in Jamaica, sequestered us in our homes putting us up- close-and-personal with the unspeakable horror of New Orleans.
It sent me to the internet where I learned that the Mayor of New Orleans had left 2,000 school buses parked, buses which could have saved the lives of thousands. It sent me to the BBC, where I saw two British tourists talk about the hunger and thirst of the little children in the Superdome, and describe how they were spirited away in an army truck, leaving starving US citizens behind."
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