Human will and human waste
HEART TO HEART
Betty Ann Blaine
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Dear Reader,
Betty Ann Blaine
You know you live in Jamaica when going to the polls and griping about human waste are spoken about in the same sentence. What a country and what a week!
The People's National Party, through its vociferous agriculture spokesman Roger Clarke, felt "cocksure" that it had the kind of story that could "waste" the JLP and do what neither the 2007 elections nor the courts could do - to hand electoral victory to their party.
After all, what could be a bigger scandal than for Jamaicans to be told that the JLP had been feeding us on a steady diet of food grown with human waste? But Roger Clarke left out a very important part of the story. He somehow forgot to tell us that the people of Jamaica had been on that human waste diet for decades before this, including the countless years under the PNP administration. One particular news station reported the head of the fertiliser company in the United States as saying that the product had been coming to Jamaica for over 66 years!
Human will and human waste
HEART TO HEART
Betty Ann Blaine
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Dear Reader,
Betty Ann Blaine
You know you live in Jamaica when going to the polls and griping about human waste are spoken about in the same sentence. What a country and what a week!
The People's National Party, through its vociferous agriculture spokesman Roger Clarke, felt "cocksure" that it had the kind of story that could "waste" the JLP and do what neither the 2007 elections nor the courts could do - to hand electoral victory to their party.
After all, what could be a bigger scandal than for Jamaicans to be told that the JLP had been feeding us on a steady diet of food grown with human waste? But Roger Clarke left out a very important part of the story. He somehow forgot to tell us that the people of Jamaica had been on that human waste diet for decades before this, including the countless years under the PNP administration. One particular news station reported the head of the fertiliser company in the United States as saying that the product had been coming to Jamaica for over 66 years!
Human will and human waste
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