PORTMORE WEBSITE e-News Publication Date: Febrary 22,2007 - 06:10 pm Editor: Kennedy Reid Subscribers: 321 Sign up: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/portmore_e-news/ Reply to: webmaster@portmore.org Web site: http://www.portmore.org Phone: 876-320-7343 TOPICS: 1) Death Penalty - Paulette Charles 2) St. Catherine Major League Football Standings - Bruce 3) Homophobia and mob violence in Jamaica - Joy Lumsden SPONSORED BY: WhatsWhatJamaica.com http://www.WhatsWhatJamaica.com 'Real Jamaicans, telling you how things really go' Dr. Errol Williamson "Working for St. Catherine Southern." http://www.thejlp.org/candidates/candidatepdfs/ewilliamson.pdf email : errol_williamson@yahoo.com Call him at 817-0592 "st. Cath di Taste" Cricket, Art, and Food in our Parish! http://www.portmore.org/st-cath-di-taste/ Oasis Christian Community You are invited to Video Vibes Portmore Mall Saturday 24th http://www.occvision.org 1) ======================== Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:51:11 -0800 (PST) From: "Paulette Charles" Add to Address Book Add Mobile Alert Subject: Death Penalty To: webmaster@portmore.org Hi Could you give me an update on where capital punishment to be reintroduce in to Jamaica is at, meaning if there was any changes in whether the government will implement it to fight crime. My email is paulette2110u@yahoo.com I will be thankful if it can be as soon as possible because I am doing an SBA on the topic “Capital Punishment to be reintroduce in Jamaica to decrease crime” Paulette WEBMASTER’S ANSWER I am not sure, but I believe that Capital Punishment has not been carried out in Jamaica mainly because there are some very powerful people who are against it. Firstly the Law Lords of England have made the conditions for execution impossible for Jamaica to meet and our Legislature does not have the will to rise to the challenge. In fact, I suspect that our European masters would be so angry if we were to execute a murderer that they would cut aid to Jamaica! The Human Rights groups – local and international – are venomously against execution saying is cruel. They too would call down fire pan wi head. Personally, I believe 100% in public execution of murderers and Child molesters in as cruel a manner as possible! The only problem is… Are we ever sure we have the right person? Plus we need to give these demons time to make peace with God (what a pity) What's the Solution?… Lets just lock them up for Life instead... or is that too cruel also? I think you need to interview someone in the JUSTICE industry. Kennedy 2) ======================== From: RamGolfr57@aol.com Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 04:57:35 EST Subject: St. Catherine Major League Football Standings To: kennedyreid@yahoo.com After Round 10 (of 16) GROUP A DB Basovak 8-1-1 (25 pts.) +12 goal diff. Tru Juice 7-0-2 (23) +15 Black Lion 2-4-2 (10) -5 Albion 2-5-3 (9) -7 Rodwood 2-6-2 (8) -12 Windsor Lion 0-5-5 (5) -6 GROUP B Independence City 5-2-3 (18 pts.) +4 goal diff. Bodles 5-3-1 (16) +9 Meadows 4-2-4 (16) +2 Central Link 4-3-3 (15) +2 Waterloo 2-3-5 (11) -1 Portmore Gardens 0-7-3 (3) -13 ROUND 10 SCORES Independence City 2, Albion 1 Meadows 2, Windsor Lion 1 Bodles 4, Rodwood 1 DB Basovak 3, Portmore Gardens 1 Tru Juice 1, Central Link 0 Waterloo 0, Black Lion 0 ROUND 11 MATCHES Feb 15 DB Basovak at Central Link Feb 15 Portmore Gardens at Rodwood Feb 15 Waterloo at Windsor Lion Feb 17 Bodles at Albion Feb 17 Independence City at Black Lion Feb 17 Meadows at Tru Juice . 3) ====================== Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:54:20 -0500 From: "Joy Lumsden" To: "me" Subject: Homophobia and mob violence in Jamaica After a very pleasant luncheon with a group of people to whom I gave a talk about the 1907 Earthquake, I came home today ready to continue work on my current web site. I was brought to a total standstill in that work by a long phone conversation about the horrendous event that took place yesterday evening at Tropical Plaza. A mob of hundreds of Jamaicans bent on beating up, and presumably killing, four young men suspected of being gay, were only prevented from doing so by the eventual intervention of the police, who had to use tear gas to control the mob. I trust that we all realize that anyone living in Jamaica, or visiting Jamaica for that matter, is in the same danger as those young men. Lynch mobs in Jamaica are now able to set on anyone suspected of anything, of a crime as petty as picking pockets, and beat and chop them to death, and nothing is done. And being in the wrong place, at the wrong time, wearing the wrong clothes, could expose anybody, regardless of colour, ethnicity or class, to the same terror faced by those young men yesterday evening. It is a level of luck that we don't deserve that we are not facing today the reality of four murders, of young men 'suspected' of being gay. I am feeling at the moment so sick, so angry, so disgusted, - so despairing for this island, that I am not sure I see any point in continuing with my small attempt to illustrate the enormous achievements of Jamaicans of all classes and origins over three and a half centuries. There is so much to be proud of, so much to celebrate, and to emulate – but this is where we have got to in 2007? Some of you know my disillusionment with almost all organized religion; that disillusionment is only reinforced by the thought that over 200 years of Christianity in Jamaica have brought us to this! When are all right thinking people going stand up and say this has to stop; our judicial system must be made to work, our laws must be dragged out of their 19th century 'colonial' past, our police must be reformed; so that mob violence and vigilante 'justice' can be ended totally. I could also go on about how a perversion of Socialism, a perversion of Democracy, a perversion of academic freedom have fed into the situation we are now confronted with – a situation almost entirely of Jamaicans' own making. I so often ask myself what I and all the rest of my generation should have done, but did not do. Now I shall think about going on with my web sites, if it seems they serve any useful purpose at all, but in any case I have to do vastly more to support the work in which my sons and daughter are so deeply involved with Jamaicans for Justice, and to support in whatever small way possible the work of the other Human Rights groups in Jamaica. There is a point at which one cannot be merely an observer of a society destroying itself relentlessly from the inside. If you share any of my feeling on this – at least as a first step express in any way you can support for Human Rights Defenders in Jamaica. Joy Lumsden I shall also post this email on all of my current web sites. -- . . . always something new to find out! http://joyousjam.googlepages.com/allmypages No matter what road I travel, I'm going home. WEBMASTER’S CONTRIBUTION Please do continue doing your good work! Have you seen the 1907 Earthquake exhibition at the Institute down town? It is excellent… everyone should see it! Now don’t become too despairing,,, mob justice is not unique to Jamaica. Remember the Rodney King riots in the USA or the riots in France? They were just as wrong! Every society under pressure will have negative mob behavior. I certainly do understand the terror of mob justice…. when I was a child I was held by a rural mob accusing me of being a thief! I was quite shocked. A strong man held my hands while people pieced together my life of evil. I would have been killed if someone did not 'remember' me from the village down the road. This is why I oppose street justice and police killing of people THEY accuse of being criminals. I encourage everyone to get justice done though the courts. People who are gay need to remember that Jamaicans, like most other societies, do not accept their behavior and they need to be cautious. Most Jamaicans are still nice people! Kennedy END) ============================================================ SPONSORED BY: WhatsWhatJamaica.com http://www.WhatsWhatJamaica.com 'Real Jamaicans, telling you how things really go' Dr. Errol Williamson "Working for St. Catherine Southern." http://www.thejlp.org/candidates/candidatepdfs/ewilliamson.pdf email : errol_williamson@yahoo.com Call him at 817-0592 "st. Cath di Taste" Cricket, Art, and Food in our Parish! http://www.portmore.org/st-cath-di-taste/ Oasis Christian Community You are invited to Video Vibes Portmore Mall Saturday 24th http://www.occvision.org