Damien King @DamienWKing
A smidgen of economics; a pinch of logic; and a whole heap of petty foolishness. damienking.wordpress.com Kingston, Jamaica Joined July 2009-
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Will a constitutional lawyer pls help me out here. If the appointment was deemed to be unconstitutional, then it has been invalidated. That is, it never occurred (legally). Therefore, the position is vacant and there is no need for a resignation. If this is rubbish, pls guide me.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the aircraft is pleasantly being refueled at this time." (Announcement on board Caribbean Airlines this morning.) Seems the aircraft doesn't like it rough.
What purpose does the first word serve? If you need to go, should you consider waiting? [St Augustine campus, UWI, Trinidad]
The sign at this food court says "no vending". So I had two doubles and started to walk off without paying. [Ariapita Av., Port of Spain]
Attending the Forum on the Use of Intellectual Property for Solutions to the Plastic Problem, Port of Spain. From left: Anecia Levy (Pepsi), me, Renuka Sagramsingh-Sooklal (Minister in the Office of the Attorney General, Trinidad & Tobago), Joy Angulu (JMEA).
Hear from our Executive Chairman, Dr. Damien King as he weighs in on the reality of plastic pollution in Jamaica and the work of Recycling Partners to combat this environmental issue. Watch the full video on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/8D2vNdBXCr0
Shit, you seem to know what you're talking about.
Shit, you seem to know what you're talking about.
When you unsuscribe it can take 10 days? So the recipient of the instruction reads it from the screen; hand writes a note; takes public transportation to the storage facility; takes the stairs to the basement; searches for the cabinet and file; takes out the list... #GimmeABreak
Dear everyone who has ever put in speed bumps anywhere: please take a drive on Garden Blvd in Mona to see how they should be done - not to bring your vehicle to a complete halt and then have to rev the engine to scale the bump, but to be able to drive over it smoothly at 40kph.
It says something about us that so much unambiguous information ("Staff only", "No parking", "Start at 6 o'clock") has to be accompanied by the additional words "strictly" or "absolutely" or "sharp".
Just to hammer home my point: no country can rely on all their governments acting always with transparency, honesty, accountability & integrity, any more than we can rely all people to do so. That is why a country needs independent institutions. That is the only protection!
Take a moment to appreciate that you live in 1 of the few countries in which a govt cannot do whatever it pleases cuz it's contrained by independent institutions such as the Supreme Court (along with the Integrity Commission, Bank of Jamaica, & Auditor General's Dept). #RuleOfLaw
Those who find this difficult to read (understandably), it's because you are embedded in English spelling, which suffers from arbitrariness and inconsistency ("wed-nes-day"?) for historical reasons. There is no good reason to reproduce any of that in the spelling of patwa.
Those who find this difficult to read (understandably), it's because you are embedded in English spelling, which suffers from arbitrariness and inconsistency ("wed-nes-day"?) for historical reasons. There is no good reason to reproduce any of that in the spelling of patwa.
A sign in the Jamaican language (Golden Grove, St Thomas)
Standard: 90% operational 90% of the time. Consequence: There will be fewer machines. How does that help the public?
The Minister is claiming this is an anti-crime measure. Is there evidence that donating instruments reduces crime? Is it a pilot study in which a baseline has been established to know if it works, and then will be scaled nationwide? Or is just an arbitrary (mis)use of public $$.
What the union leadership fails to understand (and it's not a difficult concept) is that every cost imposition on the employer is a discouragement to hire (or to do so formally) in the first place. So the redundancy obligation is not a free lunch.
What the union leadership fails to understand (and it's not a difficult concept) is that every cost imposition on the employer is a discouragement to hire (or to do so formally) in the first place. So the redundancy obligation is not a free lunch.
The Observer interviewed me and Wayne Chen on the proposed unemployment insurance scheme being a more effective and fair way to accomplish what "redundancy payments" do imperfectly now. jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/12/une…
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@kevinobriencha1 @DamienWKing You wrote this and read it over then still decided to send it? Sigh
@DamienWKing Marketing emails are on a timed schedule planned weeks into the future. They have to clear your email from all the servers that are automated to send. This notice is just in case they miss a server that was already about to send you another email.
@DamienWKing Freedom of the press doesn't hurt either
Not only that, their security told me I couldn’t park there at 5.50pm because it was for school only. He claimed the parking spaces are school property. I was tempted to download the title from NLA website for $500 and show him he’s wrong but thought it would be futile.
How does Hopefield Prep get away with removing the entire public sidewalk (in front of their premises) to use it for private parking? #RuleOfLaw [Hillcrest Av]
Language of the heart. If you show this to a deep inner city or rural person who speaks patois fluently and not broken English, they actually read it and the publications they produce in the language fluently. Tried, tested and proven. I’ve experienced it
A sign in the Jamaican language (Golden Grove, St Thomas)
excellent ! I love Jamaica linguistic creativity. We use to say that English is French badly spelled.
Those who find this difficult to read (understandably), it's because you are embedded in English spelling, which suffers from arbitrariness and inconsistency ("wed-nes-day"?) for historical reasons. There is no good reason to reproduce any of that in the spelling of patwa.
If you go back to how you learned to pronounce letters, then this is easy to read. It's only difficult because we learned English (which is quite rubbish). What sound does an 'i' make? Put two of those together and you get a sound like you are saying the letter E: miitn, iina.
A sign in the Jamaican language (Golden Grove, St Thomas)
Beautiful! I have been to several of these services. Those who know the history of the English language would think twice before they complain about the spelling here!
A sign in the Jamaican language (Golden Grove, St Thomas)
People need more exposure to the Cassidy writing system. I promise you when you get it (which isn’t a difficult process), these will be easier to read.
A sign in the Jamaican language (Golden Grove, St Thomas)
@DamienWKing The absence of a study to validate the efficacy of donating instruments as an anti-crime measure raises significant concerns about the allocation of public funds. This underscores the need for a rigorous and evidence-based approach to policymaking.
Zealandia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zealandia
Yuh coulda preach till yuh weak about personal responsibility. Yuh coulda urge dem likkle more. In their minds they are skillful drivers. The only way to prevent them from killing off innocent people & stop lick down light posts taking out entire communities is to ENFORCE THE LAW
Ten people have died in road crashes over the last 72 hours. Four of those fatalities were recorded in the last 24 hours, in two separate incidents. nationwideradiojm.com/jamaica-record…
Double them then.. no point in issuing permits if they can't be enforced, especially given the culture of breaches that has been allowed to thrive..
The mayor of Kingston, Councillor Andrew Swaby, says the municipal corporation would need to double the number of enforcement officers it now has if it is to effectively respond to breaches of building permits across the city. nationwideradiojm.com/ksamc-needs-to…
Agreed. Luxury doesn’t have to convince, it just does
Tip: If a product uses the word "luxury" in its name, it is not.
Make sense, so improving the level of training and overall education level of the labour force will naturally regulate wages more than setting arbitrary minimums which lowers productivity?
@kevinobriencha1 Higher minimum wage incentivizes informality, which tends to have lower productivity than the formal sector, thereby reducing national average productivity. Less stuff from the same inputs. That is amongst other detrimental effects. Otherwise, we could set the minimum at $1 mil.
@GreatKingTony @DamienWKing Lol what? He spoke on this before several times over several years now. Not even like within the last 5 years, before that
@DamienWKing It is good that she has replicated our findings. We documented the impact of rainfall and temperature on violent and property crime in Jamaica in our paper, now forthcoming at World Bank Economic Review. The working paper can be found here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
*ahem* *TAPS SIGN*
This is inappropriate. The Jamaica Umbrella Group of Churches is a Christian group. Does not include mosques and temples much less atheists. We're "out of many" and the intrusion of a particular faith in public decision-making biases those decisions towards Christian prejudices.
Actually I do have words. NEPA is useless. Our enviro laws are wholly ineffective. Our government is FINE with the repeated pollution of a major river by a private company. It's open season on the environment and the GOJ should just admit it and done..
A fish kill has emerged in the Rio Cobre in the community of Zapherton in Linstead, St Catherine. #GLNRToday
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