I kept asking myself, is this what my slave ancestorrs lived and died for? My god! Their pre-slavery lives as awful as it was, once emancipated was more aspirational than that of their current political decendants.

Our current Prime Minister does not appear to know when to hold them and when to fold them….I am left wondering how she was able to host Harry after all the vitriolic pre-visit spoutings she made, she seemed unable to keep some of her more quarrelsome thoughts between her two ears.

One can walk away from relationships,e.g. the one between Jamaica and England without being overtly disrespectful or cutting all avenues for post-depaarture relationship building in the process.

Good manners is often better than pocket money or “power” for that matter.

Jamaica has certainly made an impression on the rest of the world, as small a country as she is.

Our Prime Minister should not confuse external knowledge and regard for Jamaica with Jamaica being ready for self-isolation.

At the end of the day, “It is much easier to catch flies with honey than it is with vinegar”. Would it have killed her to use a respectful civil approach in advising the British leadership of her intentions to change the current relationship between the two countries?

Does she think there is a global ragga muffin language? Was she not a journalist in her previous life?

I was a child when she returned to Jamaica, and boy was I in awe of her. My mom recalls that at that time every other word out of my mouth was “Portia”.

I am however unsure whether I would want my eight year old daughter to view her as a role model now the way I did after her return to Jamaica when I was a kid.

I may have even studied Politics at university because of the impression she made on me and my other class mates then.

She has certainly changed from the woman who returned to Jamaica then to how she comes across now.

It is okay to speak patoi, (it is my nation language), locally and amongst ourselves whereever we may find ourselves; it is not when you are speaking to a global audience, which includes other world leaders if you are to be understood.

Jamaica’s first language is English, a decent command of the English language is an asset when representing your people in an official capacity at home or abroad.

Our Jamaican accent will always, but always transcend the sound of all other languages. Speaking well will never undermine that or our identity.

She does not have to speak patoi to be identified as a Jamaican in Jamaica. Even the Jamaican unborn knows she is Jamaican. She has the capacity to be an aspirational figure.

Speaking well does not make her any less of a Jamaican, it implies that she is a learned one.

The women and girls of Jamaica could really use that on their way to growing up and finding a place in life and society for themselves.

As Jamaicans we can all speak patoi; however, unless we all want to emulate Ms. Lou and become Comedians, we must all learn to speak in a manner through which we can be understood by a wider audience of listeners.

Our P.M. could be a great role model in that and other regards, if she were to respect us enough to speak a globally accessible version of the English language that we can all emulate and thereby create broader linguistic access for ourselves, regardless of where we are.

That said, I am sure Accompong Nanny is pleased to see her in the position that she is in. All I am asking is that she does her proud, by respecting the value of her people and working the hardest she can to lift them up.

I hope that she will make a true and honest broker of the memory of the ancestors and the lives of their descendants.

As for the whole voting thing, in my honest opinion, you don’t vote, you don’t have much of a say…..but then again when you think the persons who are being voted in are ASSHOLES……that should be a good enough reason to not vote. As for you wanting us to work as a team….great Barack Obama speech, but this is Jamaica, what in Heavens name were you trying so desperately to accomplish???……unity???….if our forefathers couldn’t do it, why do you think in this day and age it will be any easier??…..mind you we are much worse now than we were then.
You know this would have been such a great movement towards unity, too bad its closer to a dream rather than reality…..com on lets face it, this society is filled with too many lackadaisical individuals for us to even try and get up off our lazy ass and stop writing shit down on paper, wasting words and actually start DOING something about it, this society is far too corrupt for change aneyways….oh and before i forget, WE LIVE IN JAMAICA FOR CRYING OUT LOUD (and as much as it kills me to say this) IT WONT BE CHANGING ANYTIME SOON!

Voting shouldn’t give “one a say”, if you want a say work, pay your taxes, then talk!

There is no such thing as far too corrupt to change! We have been through slavery where one individual owned another. And that changed. Yes it required sacrifice, yes it required suffering, but change did come.

It’s because of the state the country is in which makes this moment ideal for change. We want change we just don’t know where to look for it, and that is why I say they, the PM and OPP are assholes as they have taken a job, taken the pay and ignore the work.

The mere fact that you took the time to read and respond, means that you are feeling something. You are just frustrated because you do not know where to look or what you need. The generation of ideas is the first part of any plan. Share with us and in time I am sure you will find something even you can do.