Portia Says Mugabe’s Comments Disrespectful

Published: Thursday September 13, 2012 | 4:20 pm8 Comments

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller.
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has responded to the disparaging comments by Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe against Jamaican men calling them unfortunate, misguided and disrespectful.

In a release from Jamaica House a week after Mugabe made the comments, Simpson Miller said the remarks must be dismissed as untrue and disrespectful to the hundreds of thousands of Jamaican men who are excellent fathers, professionals and outstanding citizens.

READ: Don’t be like Jamaicans – Mugabe

“The remarks, regardless of whether they were spoken ‘in jest’ as was stated in yesterday’s edition of the New Zimbabwe Newspaper, were grossly unfortunate, misguided and untrue,” Simpson Miller said.

She continued: “We are confident that the remarks of President Mugabe do not represent the sentiments of the people of Zimbabwe, other African countries, and the rest of the world.”

READ: Mugabe too rude!

The Prime Minister said her confidence is predicated on the fact that there are many outstanding and globally accepted examples of the character and contribution of Jamaican men, who have set the benchmark as exceptional achievers.

Mugabe, on September 5, said Jamaican men were drunkards who were caught up with smoking marijuana and were had therefore deferred leadership to women.

The Zimbabwean president was speaking at the launch of the 2012 Research and Intellectual Institute Expo, in Harare.

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Asafa Powell here with his neice, the controversial sprinter is said to have not one but two babies on the way. One from popular celebrity host Amita Persaud- Webb and another mysterious unnamed young woman.

A blind self-confessed homosexual who is in custody as a result of his alleged involvement in the lotto scam on Tuesday told the court that he was finding it hard to cope in jail as he was constantly being ridiculed and abused.
Claude Pryce, popularly known as ‘Wendy’, lost his sight in 2009 following a incident in which his lover gouged out his eyes.
The 28-year-old accused, who resides in St Andrew, was arrested on August 8 and charged with conspiracy to defraud after he was allegedly caught collecting nearly $2 million at the Constant Spring Post Office in St Andrew.
On Tuesday, the feeble-looking Pryce — who was making his second appearance in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court in relation to the case — begged Magistrate Stephanie Jackson to admit him to bail.
But RM Jackson told him that she could only entertain an application on his next court date on September 27. He was then remanded in custody.
Pryce was arrested at the post office where he allegedly went to collect a Fed Ex package containing US$9,500 and two cheques valued at US$6,000 each.
Police also alleged that they later seized $103,300 from his home.

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US census figures show more than one in five children are living in poverty
2011 data also show decline in household income for second year as presidential candidates debate economic recovery
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guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 12 September 2012 11.57 EDT

Food is distributed by a food bank in Deposit, New York. The converted beverage truck delivers fresh produce, dairy products and other grocery items to people in need. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
New figures have been released by the US census bureau revealing a yearly decline in median household income for Americans, growing inequality and more than one in five children under 18 years old living in poverty.

In a survey of data for 2011, the census discovered that real median household income in the US had dipped by 1.5% from its level in 2010 to sit at $50,054 a year. The fall is the second consecutive annual drop and comes in the middle of a bitterly contested election in which America’s tepid economic performance has been a central theme.

While President Barack Obama has based his campaign on a claim to have saved America from the brink of financial disaster, Republican challenger Mitt Romney has lambasted the country’s lacklustre economic performance, especially continuing high levels of joblessness.

The figures released by the census also show that little dent has been made on America’s high levels of poverty, with some 15% of the nation – representing around 46.2 million people – living in poverty in 2011. The figures are worse for the very young, where the poverty rate for those under the age of 18 is 21.9% – or some 16.1 million children. These latter figures are roughly unchanged in 2011 from 2010.

However, income inequality in the US has grown. The Gini Index, which measures income inequality, increased by 1.6% to a score of 0.477 in 2011. Though few other countries have yet produced figures for 2011, that number for the US shows a more unequal economy for America than the 2010 figures for countries like Uruguay, Argentina and Bangladesh. Within the figures there was also an increase in the share of aggregate income for the top 20% of Americans of 1.6% and – within that group – the top 5% saw a jump of 4.9%.

Luck ran out on a female member of a robbery gang on Thursday in the capital. She led a team of four robbers in a car to steal from a female passenger.

She was not so lucky to escape as probing eyes watched their robbery operation from a distance and sympathisers swooped on them to rescue the victim.

The lady-robber was the only one apprehended out of the five thieves as she could not escape thinking phonetics would save her while others ran away. She was immediately mobbed and stripped naked.

Inside the ash coloured Nissan Sunny were loads of ATM cards, Passports of various persons, her bag containing many phones.