**************************************************** **************************************************** *** *** *** THE PORTMORE WEBSITE NEWSLETTER *** *** *** **************************************************** **************************************************** Newsletter: Number 22 for 2004 - Edition 1 Publication Date: November 23, 2004 Title: Responses (KR) Editor: Kennedy Reid Subscribers: 152 (up from 147) Sign up: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/portmore_newsletter/ Reply to: webmaster@portmore.org Web site: http://www.portmore.org Phone: 876-320-7343 Note: Please read notices at end of newsletter CONTENTS ======== 1. TVJ Program - Anthony James 2. Crime Statistics - Conliffe Wilmot-Simpson 3. Bush Bias - Dr. Alfred Sangster 4. Fright night - Three shot dead at Portmore bar - Gleaner 5. Mount Royal Estates - Tawana Gray 6. Comments on the Portmore Website Site - Misc. 7. development of Portmore - Farrah Lumbley ############################################################ 1. TVJ Program - Anthony James ############################################################ CDate: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 To: webmaster@portmore.org Subject: First Page entry From: anthony james I will be producing a programme for TVJ dubbed "A Peek at Portmore" to be aired during "Smile Jamaica its morning time" in 2005. Kindly submit all information you have on this sunshine community that would substantiate this serial. I would love any information you have on the crocodiles in Portmore to be our first feature. Thank You ******************* Webmasters Comment ******************* The Crocodiles in Portmore are quite docile and we should learn to live with them.... If you want VERY good information on them, there are experts at the NRCA who have lots of information and history of the Crocodiles in Portmore. Every time a Media House looks at Portmore they feature the same items ... traffic, disaster management, etc. Why not feature the schemes and the efforts of the Citizens groups, The municipal organisation, The shopping centers and hotel strip, the schools and colleges, the sporting facilities, the historical and natural treasures, unique individuals... there are other topics of interest. The information in the Site is all I have. Kennedy **************************************************** ***AdVT.******************************************** *** *** *** Lees Fifth Avenue *** *** *** *** 'Visit us online at' *** *** http://www.leesfifthavenue.com/ *** *** *** *** *** ********************************************ADVT.*** **************************************************** **************************************************** ############################################################ 2. Crime Statistics - Conliffe Wilmot-Simpson ############################################################ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 From: "Conliffe Wilmot-Simpson" To: portmore_newsletter-owner@yahoogroups.com Kennedy, I noted your comments on the crime rate and the suggestion that it may be overreported. There ia a great need to question a lot of the statistics we take for granted. On Octeber 24, on the front Page of the Gleaner, there was a report that used data provided by JASPEV (Jamaica Social Policy Evaluation) which stated that, Jamaica has among the lowest per capita crime rate in the western hemisphere for the last quarter century. If you care to look at the UN data on www.unodc.org/pdf/crime/, you may not reach the same conclusion. The data appears to be very highly suspicious. An example: Ecuador has a low of 1 and a high of 3 for total crime recorded per 100,000 population between 1980 and 1986. Jamaica had a high of 2479 and a low of 2019 for the same period. Sweden had a high of 13,087 and a low of 11,171 and Saint Kitts and Nevis had a high of 20,101 and a low of 14,335. With statistics like these, we should be asking more questions and doing more comparisons, before we start patting ourselves on the back. Regards, Conliffe ******************* Webmasters Comment ******************* Conliffe, I once sat in a meeting and heard a Superintendent of Police giving the audience his statistics. The data was so poor that I stopped writing... it didn’t make sense. Since then I have called into question the source of our primary crime data. Plus, I want to know how many complaints miss the statistics... for example, how many calls to they get about night noise.. this is not even recorded as a problem. Anyway, we still have a crime problem to address. Kennedy ############################################################ 3. Bush Bias - Dr. Alfred Sangster ############################################################ From: "Dr.Alfred Sangster" Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 21:51:29 -0500 Dear Kennedy, Congratulations on your comment about Bush. You are correct with the choice and also at the massive anti Bush feeling here. He will survive for sure!! Good letters in today's Sunday papers challenging the anti Bush sentiments by Neil Lewis in the Gleaner and Edison Humphries in the Observer. Regards Alfred Sangster ******************* Webmasters Comment ******************* Dear Sir, A good PNP friend of mine called me a "confused socialist" since I am a Republican supporter and yet a member of the PNP. But if Jamaicans would take time to understand the issues they would have more in common with Republicans than they think... That same friend phoned to correct me about Kerry’s position on "Gay Marriage". I stand corrected; Kerry is actually not for gay marriage but for gay civil unions. For the comfort of the Democrats and the local media, I have some quotations .... the first from Abraham Lincoln who lost many elections: "I'm like the boy who stubbed his toe. I'm too old to cry, but it hurts too much to laugh." Another good quotation ... "Fight on, my merry men. "I am a little hurt, but I am not slain. "I shall lay me down and bleed a while, "Then I'll rise and fight again." This is Scottish lore (or, some say, words actually said by Sir Andrew Barton, high admiral of Scotland in the 1500s): ############################################################ 4. Fright night - Three shot dead at Portmore bar - gleaner ############################################################ published: Monday | October 11, 2004 http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20041011/lead/lead7.html By Robert Lalah, Staff Reporter THE PORTMORE community is today reeling from the shooting deaths of three of its residents by unknown assailants early Saturday night. The victims have been identified as 51-year-old Ronnie Bennett, slot machine operator of Braeton; Alvest O'Mally, 57, of Bridgeport, and Cornel Bruce, 40, security guard of Waterford, all in Portmore, St. Catherine. An unidentified man from Edgewater, was injured and taken to the Spanish Town Hospital. More than 1,000 persons have so far been murdered since the start of the year. Reports from the Constabulary Communication Network (CCN) are that about 8:30 p.m. Saturday, three armed men entered Nid's Vintage Pub in Naggo Head and immediately opened fire hitting the four men. Bennett and Bruce died on the spot, while the two injured men were taken to hospital where O'Mally died and the other man admitted. Investigators say Bennett's licensed firearm was taken by his killers who fled the scene in a waiting motor car. When The Gleaner visited the murder scene yesterday, residents were at a loss as to the reasons behind the killings. A woman who claimed to have witnessed most of what happened, said the bar was jam-packed with persons watching the football match (Jamaica vs Panama) on television, when a suspicious looking man man walked in. She said that, being a regular at the bar, she couldn't recall having seen the man before "Wid how tings a go now, mi get suspicious anytime somebody strange come here," the eyewitness noted. She said moments later, two other men walked in and the three immediately brandished handguns. "Dem tell everybody fi hold up dem hand and look down. After dat, mi just hear shot a fire left and right and mi run out", she said. The eyewitness said she ran through a back door into an adjoining house until she heard persons saying the men had fled. She said she returned to the bar to find the bullet riddled bodies of men she knew for close to 20 years. "Mi deh here almost 20 years now and dem deh right here wid mi di whole time," the woman explained. LOVE Other persons spoke about the love one of the deceased ­ Bennett ­ had for his young daughter. "Ronnie woulda always tell everybody bout him daughter, and bout how him hope she never change. Him love her so till," said one bystander. Residents say Mr. Bennett's daughter and wife were among the first to arrive at the scene after the killing. They described the moment as heartbreaking, when Mrs. Bennett cried uncontrollably over the blood drenched body of her husband. The St. Catherine South Homicide Team, which confirmed that two other bars in Portmore were robbed earlier that night, are investigating. ############################################################ 5. Mount Royal Estates - Tawana Gray ############################################################ From: "Tawana Gray" Subject: developers? Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 13:40:26 -0500 Who is the developer for Mount Royal Estates? Please email me and let me know? ******************* Webmasters Answer ******************* The Developers are in the Portmore Pines Plaza. Ask for Mr. Ronny White's office. ############################################################ 6. Comments on the Portmore Website Site - Misc. ############################################################ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 To: webmaster@portmore.org From: odean spence i am sorry about the storm .and hoping every boddy is ok .i just want to big up my friends at caymanas garden site d and my father lascells spence. -------------------------------- Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 To: webmaster@portmore.org Subject: First Page entry From: nichole clarke I am a former resident of Portmore and I must say that the site is the best site I have seen so far that shows anyone intricate details of Portmore. It made miss home even more... keep up the good work...very informative site. ---------------------------------- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 To: webmaster@portmore.org Subject: First Page entry From: meeks cook i love reading news from portmore and would love to get more ------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 To: webmaster@portmore.org Subject: First Page entry From: nicolae I grew up in portmore and migrated 5 years ago. Is there a people search on this site where i can search for friends? ---------------------------------- rom: "Tracy-Ann Lyne" To: webmaster@portmore.org Subject: Hi Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:44:04 -0600 I attend the Brideport High School and I was checking out your site and if you were asking for ratings I would give you a 4 1/2. It is a nice site site though. Keep up the good work. Anyways I was wondering if you could get pictures of the Bridgeport High School Track Team and send it to me. I would really appreciate it. My email address is [e-mail deleted] Thanks in advance. ------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 To: webmaster@portmore.org Subject: First Page entry From: littlely Nice site, its a little dull-ish but nice. --------------------------------------- Subject: ONE UP! Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 From: "Veon Moodie" To: webmaster@portmore.org Hi, I am a resident of Portmore and wasn't aware of this website until today. Good going. What about sending out ads. (that's if u haven't done so already) on the cable stations and to churches and other places where people gather so that more persons can be aware of the site? Keep up the work and thanks. Regards Veon Moodie ****************** Webmasters Answers ******************* Thanks for your comments everyone! Here are a few answers: No, I can not post a people search option on the site... too much work! Particularly to fend off the spammers! I can not post pictures of Bridgeport High track team unless you send it to me. Mi jus too busy for dat! Sorry. Veon, I love your ideas for promotion. If I had something to sell on the site, that would be even better. Ad space does not cut it! In the mean time the site is a free public service... or jus an extension of mi "little" ego. When I run out of cash, then the site will go off line. It has been on 6 years now, but until closing time, let's enjoy it ... life is a journey. One of these days I will invite all site fans to a function. Might be we can work on something then. ############################################################ 7. development of Portmore - Farrah Lumbley ############################################################ Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:25:42 -0800 (PST) From: "Farrah Lumbley" Subject: re: historical development of Portmore. To: kennedyreid@yahoo.com Hello Mr Reid, my name is Farrah Lumbley. I am doing research on the development of Portmore as a Municipality. I just read your article on the Portmore website and would like to consult with you if possible on the topic. Thank you very much. ******************* Webmasters Comment ******************* Well, just 'Kcall mi henny time!' at 320-7343. Anyway, much of what I have to say is on the website already under the topic "municipality". What is bemusing about he Portmore history is hearing various persons spin on the matter! So do talk to as many persons as you can.... not just me... I may become the sole hero of the tale! (laugh) Interestingly, I see material published from the website at Tom Redcam Library, the JIS library, and in the Greater Portmore Branch Library. I am told that students are frequently referred to the site or given copied of the material... Can you imagine sey mi head a swell from all this attention! So I hope all the info is correct! It's always good to double check items from the Internet. 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