Yeah man a suh mi like it….same suh…. not ina yuh cabinet but it did up ina u buffet doe? How unno so lie?  Yeah di same blob a grease whey dem report pan yessideh whey di observer scrape whey di story…yeah him….Don’t bare picho a unno a kiss pan di cheek did deh ina di man office? Hor  di man neva tell yuh seh him did have bare a yuh picho dem?? …Cabinet big and buffet smaller nuh suh…only a selected few?  Yeah Mr Grease whey nasty nuh like clean him house …before di house whey yuh buy a Chancery Hall wid di bandoolo business dem.. Yuh Landlord did chow yuh outa yuh rental house a Redhills and a bare lawsuit yuh ina now…. Di bwaay whey yuh did a try tax him anus neva know yuh bruck? Di people dem a road a wonder why afta di Dudus ting yuh end up bruck and cudden pay yuh workers dem?? How comes? Yuh sen home di people dem widout pay…you sack of filth… Yes Mr Big Legendary Actor…..Mr Big Nostril……it look like di whole a unno have one ting in common? Dis big owl nose…yeah man.. di people dem always a talk bout you…. seh yuh a suh but  choo di whole Jamaica know yuh a Legendary nobody neva a seh why.. Legendary dem seh yuh was  a big man man di board ina di man business…yes dat same business deh whey him sen home di people dem an dow pay dem…Suh all when mi hear some man halla out NOT IN MY CABINET…mi know a cause dem ina him buffet…AWOE!

By his own account, national hero Sir William Alexander Bustamante was born on February 24, 1884, which would be 127 years ago today. He died on August 6, 1977 at the age of 93. This national hero who was Jamaica’s first prime minister in political independence was decorated with British, Jamaican and other honours, and is arguably the most decorated Jamaican in history.

Two days ago, Mark Myrie who goes by the stage name “Buju Banton” was found guilty in Florida, USA, of dealing in cocaine. Is he really guilty or has he been framed? I do not know, but in any case it is another sad episode in the life of a popular entertainer. In the now defunct Jamaica Herald, on November 2 1992, some 18 years, three months and three weeks ago, my column was entitled, “From Busta to Buju”. At the time, it was in the news that Buju Banton’s song Boom bye-bye was causing a furore in the powerful gay communities in North America and Europe. It all happened when someone translated the lyrics into the sort of English that would be understood in North America.

The parallel that I drew was with respect to the West Indies Federation that had started in 1958 and from which Jamaica withdrew after a referendum in 1961. As George Eaton wrote in his book Alexander Bustamante and Modern Jamaica (page 172) , Bustamante found out that his popularity in Jamaica was not exportable. Likewise with Buju Banton. I tried to warn Buju, then 19 years old, to learn from the mistakes that Bustamante made as an elderly man. I spoke similarly in a radio commentary on IRIE FM.

It is sad that Buju Banton, despite his growth in the music industry, didn’t seem to have learnt from that experience half of his life ago. Winning a Grammy Award means nothing to the Americans if either they think you are guilty of a crime or decide to take revenge for “dissing” the powerful American gay organisations. I believe that Bob Marley and Peter Tosh understood this because they never sang such songs. Bustamante being the most decorated national hero in Jamaica, which included foreign honours, meant nothing in the Caribbean and worldwide.

Alexander Clarke-Bustamante was an avid letter writer to both the Daily Gleaner and the Jamaica Standard newspapers in the mid-1930s. Someone then asked in a letter to the Jamaica Standard who was this Alexander Clarke-Bustamante. This was when Bustamante told the tale of being adopted by a Spanish captain in Spain. His cousins Norman Manley, Edna Manley, Michael Manley and Rachel Manley refuted that. So did George Eaton. Bustamante did not cross the Atlantic before 1950. He changed his name from Clarke to Bustamante in time for the first elections under Universal Adult Suffrage in 1944.

Bustamante’s main contribution to the growth of Jamaica was in leading the struggle for the rights of the most downtrodden workers in Jamaica. The Bustamante Industrial Trade Union was the first in Jamaica to encompass all categories of workers. It was founded from the ferment in 1938 that brought about the political movement for self-government and Independence. In 1943 Bustamante founded the Jamaica Labour Party.

The JLP won by a landslide the first election under Universal Adult Suffrage in 1944 and PNP President Norman Manley did not win a seat. In 1949 the JLP won again but received fewer votes than the PNP. The JLP lost to the PNP in 1955 and again in 1959. In 1958 the Federation of the West Indies began and by 1959 Bustamante campaigned against it. Jamaica voted to secede in a referendum held in 1961.

In the April 10, 1962 general election, the JLP won and Bustamante became Jamaica’s second premier. On August 6, 1962, he became Jamaica’s first prime minister. He was ill for the last three years in office but did not seek re-election in 1967. Donald Sangster succeeded Bustamante. He died 48 days later and was succeeded by Hugh Shearer. Then came Michael Manley, Edward Seaga, Michael Manley again, PJ Patterson, Portia Simpson Miller, then Bruce Golding.

Was Bustamante ever a Roman Catholic? Did he say that to corroborate the Spanish captain adoption tale because Spain is 99 per cent Roman Catholic? Bustamante was told that for a Roman Catholic wedding, at least one of the marriage partners had to be Roman Catholic. He immediately advised his fiancée Gladys Longbridge to take instructions to become Roman Catholic, which would not have been necessary had he been Roman Catholic.

Kevin O’Brien Chang said he was in a recent publication, and many others have been misled into believing Bustamante was Roman Catholic. I made that mistake in the same 1992 article mentioned earlier. Even the local Roman Catholic Church thought so. When Bustamante died in 1977, a Requiem Mass was celebrated by the late Archbishop Samuel Carter.

Let us pray for Buju that he does not go to prison but is deported to Jamaica. He can continue his singing career without returning to the USA.

Reggae star Buju Banton faces up to 15 years in jail after being convicted on three counts of drugs and weapon charges. Arrested in 2009 following an alleged cocaine trafficking deal, the singer – who last week won the Grammy for best reggae album – is being held for sentencing without bail.

“I’m fighting for my freedom,” Banton told the court during the trial’s final hours. “I’m fighting for my life.” The jury in Tampa, Florida took 11 hours to convict Banton, born Mark Myrie, for conspiracy to possess cocaine with the intent to distribute it, possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, and one more trafficking charge. He was acquitted on a fourth charge of attempted cocaine possession. “This is not about Buju Banton, the reggae singer,” assistant US attorney James Preston told the jury. “This is about Mark Myrie, the drug defendant.”

This was the musician’s second time defending this case before a jury. Earlier proceedings, in September 2010, ended in a mistrial. The charges stem from meetings and phone calls made by Banton in late 2009, recorded by a Drug Enforcement Administration informant. Banton was allegedly helping to set up a major cocaine deal, and although he did not invest money in the plan, nor even stand to profit from it, prosecutors said he was an essential broker for the deal. In one video, shot at a warehouse in Sarasota on 8 December 2009, Banton can be seen allegedly tasting cocaine for potency. Banton’s defence attorney has insisted that his client was simply a “big talker” who “tried to act cool”.

After the jury’s verdict was read out, Banton hugged his attorneys and blew kisses of thanks to his supporters in the courtroom, according to MTV. His bail was revoked and he is now in custody pending sentencing. The 37-year-old reportedly plans to appeal the ruling.

Di time she tek a mek harself a specktakkle she go do har hair properly…damn kunnuh munnuh

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Love Thy Neighbor – What’s the Origin of this Phrase?
“Love thy neighbor” is a term that’s become almost clichéd over the years. But where did it originate, and what does it really mean? In a time when neighbors, at least in America, are people we rarely see (thanks to garage door openers and busy lives), or are thought of as nuisances with barking dogs and noisy children, how can we possibly love our neighbors?

Love thy Neighbor – Christ’s Answer to Religion
Love thy neighbor was, in part, Jesus’ answer when the Pharisees, the chief religious sect of that day, asked Him about the greatest commandment in the Law (See Matthew 22:36-40). These religious leaders had made almost an art form of classifying all the various laws and giving them relative degrees of importance, so in asking Jesus this question, their aim was to test Him. His answer stunned them: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.

Jesus was summing up all the law in these two statements. If we love the Lord God with all our heart, soul and mind, loving our neighbor is the natural result. The question then is, who is our neighbor, and how do we love him or her?

Let’s look at who Jesus says our neighbor is: You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. (Matthew 5:43)

Is our neighbor more than the guy next door? Could he or she be someone in our community or almost anyone we meet? Could our enemies also be our neighbors? Jesus says that it’s so. But how can we love someone who acts hatefully toward us?

When we love God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength, we grow to recognize that everyone is part of His creation. Will everyone be in heaven? No, but that’s not because God doesn’t desire that to be the case. His Word tells us that God desires that all would be saved (1Timothy 2:4). So it’s clear that God sees all of us as potential children. Because He lives outside of time and has seen the end from the beginning, He also knows who will choose salvation and who will not. For us, that is where faith comes in. It is not for us to know who will choose Him and who will not, but we are called to be His witnesses. In order to fulfill that calling, we must love others enough to desire their salvation just as He does.

Here’s the good news for those who find this teaching difficult: Nowhere does it say we have to like our neighbor!

As for the how part of this formula, we turn to these words from the Apostle Paul. In Romans 13:8-10, Paul says:

Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not bear false witness,” “You shall not covet,” and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
Love Thy Neighbor – Get to Know Jesus
“Love thy neighbor” is not as hard as it looks on the surface. It simply means respecting others and regarding their needs and desires as highly as we regard our own. Keeping this commandment, however, is likely to require the supernatural assistance only God, through Christ, can provide.

How can we learn to love the guy next door with the barking dog, especially when we don’t even like him? Perhaps the secret is to recognize that our neighbor, whether it’s the guy next door, the checker at the local grocery store, or the Sunday school teacher at church, is someone as worthy of God’s love as you or I. In The Message paraphrase of the Bible, John 1:14 is expressed as follows:

The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood. We saw the glory with our own eyes, the one-of-a-kind glory, like Father, like Son, Generous inside and out, true from start to finish.
Could it be that the way we love our neighbor is through getting to know Christ, the living Word of God? It’s human nature to emulate those we admire most, so in getting to know Christ, we’ll discover a God worthy of our whole-hearted love, and our neighbor will see that love in us.