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of dis rhatid flooding. He has already spent $14M on trips in a year and a bit.
'Bout how he cutting trip short.

Loud stewwwwwwwps

In reply to Chrissy

What do you want the PM to do? Man the floodgate?

In reply to FuzzyWuzzy

Check out di video and pics -unbelievable - road buss in half - bridges gawn - roads gawn down di gully.
Yuh cyan even see Flat Bridge - Sunnyside is a mess - nuff rescues today

In reply to Chrissy

In this age of instant communication. By jove!!!!

And an Acting Prime Minister with all the powers and authority of the PM is appointed by the Governor General.

In reply to Chrissy

I have seen vids. All I can say is wow.

Didn't realize it was going to be that serious.

I saw a van disappear in the rushing waters.

In reply to Chrissy

Can Holness stop the flood?

Have you heard of the phone, email, gotomeeting?

Labour is in power, Chrissy will bitch about everything.

In reply to archangel

And there will be lots more today - starting shortly

In reply to archangel

In this era of fake news..that vid was more than likely the one that was actually in Pakistan

Tell me if this looks familiar

In reply to Chrissy

you are correct sister, Mayor Bloomberg cut short his trip to Bermuda during the NYC floodings, Christie got a lot of political flack for not coming back to NJ during the same time.

In reply to camos

You know what's worse - he was on an official trip to DR and no one knew because last week the Gleaner had a front page story about the number of trips since taking office and the $14M cost.

So there was no public statement about an official visit.

In reply to LBW375

$130+ - that is all

Still to come

By di way he returned last night

PM HOLNESS MAKES OFFICIAL VISIT TO DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.

In reply to Chrissy

Even in US$, that's lunch money.

In reply to Courtesy

Lord Have Mercy.

It must be old age.

In reply to nitro

...or badmindedness coupled with hatred for PM Andrew and the JLP.

In reply to Chrissy

It is a problem if no business, overtime is garnered from these trips.

You have to spend on sales and promotion but you are a socialist you will never understand.

remember a lot of you were talking all sort of shit when Portia went to Chavez funeral on a private plane!

In reply to DIEHARD

Yeah it looks familiar but I think that came on national TV if I am not mistaken so how would that be, if it actually did?

Also, I got a whatsapp audio recording of a lady who said she saw the thing happened.

If it is false, you really can't believe Nything you see these days.

In reply to archangel

that came from flooding in southern Africa.

I think the video is of an incident in Pakistan. When I first saw it yesterday I had my doubts because the pople did not sound Jamaican

We can not always believe what we 'see'

Back in the day I recall that a number of people swore they can seen the 3 wheel coffin!

In reply to jacksprat

I remember the three wheel coffin. Some said it went past my school on Mountain View Avenue.

In reply to camos

Local 10 Florida just showed the severe flooding in Jamaica - the rains started on Sunday - he left on Monday, Notice the link.

A release from the OPM on the official visit to the DR.

"Prime Minister Andrew Holness left the island this evening (May 15) for an official visit to the Dominican Republic..."

So you wanted the PM to cancel an official visit...and the reason: because of a matter that has not yet happened.

Diplomacy at its best for you.

In reply to Courtesy

None one of my friends or I heard anything on the news or read anything in di Gleaner.

But that hardly matters - he left in di middle of di rain. If layperson me was warning folks about serious rain from last week, why weren't they paying attention.

Guess your peeps pay so much attention that peeps have to die during Christmas floods. Defend dem all.

In reply to Chrissy

Yes, cancel the visit at the eleventh hour because of impending heavy rains. And tell the DR officials: I am cancelling the official visit because the anticipated heavy rains are expected to cripple Jamaica and my country cannot deal with any disaster without my physical presence.

And further, Jamaica and the DR are thousands of miles away and there is absolutely no communication links between the two countries and my office could not have arranged for my speedy return in case of emergency.

Signed.
PM Andrew Holness.

Allyuh good wee.

Diplomacy for you.

In reply to Chrissy

Only a hating ass like you would make such an asinine statement.

FYI, the Christmas eve deluge registered the highest amount of rainfall ever recorded in Saint Lucia during a 24 hour period.

The deaths which you refer to were mainly as a result of landslides brought about by Hurricane Thomas which will happen with such intense rainfall in any island in our region. No amount of forward planning could have mitigated against this.

The recovery for the trough, considering the widespread damage, was miraculous.

Continue to take your cheap asinine pot shots.

In reply to Courtesy

Your problem is you like to chat without checking details. Go check out the rainfall numbers in some parishes in the past three days.

As the discussions have stated clearly this was no normal rain.

It is a fact that your people were not properly informed about the severity of the rain either.

Wake up - there is no need for people not to know in advance - people just need to check and they'd better with all this climate change.

Cheap asinine shots are what you take most of the time - deal with it.

In reply to Chrissy

And the information on weather systems will only be disseminated to the people of Jamaica when the Prime Minister is on island? Foolish!!

Now your cheap shot says "people died".

Go inform yourself. NO ONE DIED AS A RESULT OF THE CHRISTMAS EVE TROUGH.

And BTW, there were warnings from the Met Office.

Even your favourite channel - Weather.com predicted scattered showers for the day.

But as usual, your sensational, uninformed version is re-invented and intended to deceive.

In its midday Christmas Eve forecast, the MET Office had warned that residents in areas prone to flooding and landslides are asked to exercise caution. Small craft operators and sea bathers are advised to exercise caution due to rough seas”.

In reply to Courtesy

Met office releases are never enough when serious weather events approach.

KYS!

In reply to Chrissy

What about Weather.com which predicted scattered showers for the day and a 60 percent chance of rain? Did you not read it in the article or is it your haste to spread drivel?

Now Kiss Your Own Skunt. I have had enough of your uninformed and ridiculous garbage.