Jamaica PM insists remittance on the mend
(CaribWorldNews): Jamaica`s Prime Minister Bruce Golding claims remittances from migrants overseas are back up after a decline earlier this year. `We got word that in August, we had an 8 percent increase over and above August last year. The figures have not been published yet but I`ve been advised that September was also a good month in terms of what was experienced last year,` PM Golding said. The Inter American Development Bank said earlier this year that remittance inflows to Jamaica fell by US$30 million or 18.3 per cent during the month of February 2009 when compared to the corresponding month last year.
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Mr Golding now refers to money entering Jamaica as remittances.
I can remember when Mr. Edward Seaga used to refer to it as "FLOWS".
Money was for him inflows or outflows. Never money or remittances.
So it was fine for Caymanian Seamen to do this when their country was in need, but they do not like to see this happening in their country.
I wonder where some Caymanian families would be now if their grand and great grand parents did not have this option open to them…..
….. just a thought….
Caymanian Seamen earned their money on the high seas, quite often under very dangerous conditions. In reality they were not remitting money from anyones country. They only used the services the various countries they travelled to offered. The ships they worked on were most times registered in countries they never visited and had no chance of remitting from those countries.
The seamens situation is a horse of a different colour and should not be used as any type of comparison to our situation.
I know what I am talking about. I am one of those seamen.
DON’T START!!! We’ve been over this ground before my friends. People come here to work. They can’t stay. They have families. They support them in the EXACT same way many Caymanians sent money back to their families.
End of discussion.
One love. Peace.
no wonder our economy down, jamaicans up here paying low permit fees making thousands of dollars sending it back home,tax the money transfers let our government get something from what they earn here,everything here is to cheap and easy for them to make the money,jamaica economy is coming up and ours is going down because all of the money is going out to jamaica and none is staying here.its too late with the money transfer fees our country lost millions of dollars it should have been implemented from years ago.know what they are saying now?they will save it and take it with them instead of sending it.
Maybe you should try and work on your grammer!
Grammar???
I think that post was done by Telex.
Apparently "grammer" is a technical term for the gibberish which passes as English grammar on some of these topics. "Grammer" reflects, amongst other things, the lack of apostrophes in contractions, risible use/absence of capitals and excessive reliance on multiple exclamation marks for rhetorical effect. Know your grammer!
For example the sentence:
"All trueblood Caymanians would agree with me when I say why don’t you go home?" is correct grammatically.
But as a matter of correct grammer the sentence would be
"all trueblood caymanians would agree with me when I say why dont you go home!!!!!"
Apparently the number of exclamation marks reflects the amount on generations one’s family has lived here. This allows for greater respect to the views of a fifth generation Caymanian over a mere third or fourth generation one. Grammer is a complex multi-functioned means of communication.
Many of us found grammer difficult in the beginning but stick at it and it all makes sense.
What is worrying is that we’ve got people of similar intelligence as this man running the country!
Don’t light a match. That brain emission would blow the roof off.