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Funny commentary on Frankly Speaking this morning (Irie FM). Franklyn McKnight says that members of our parish council are to take a trip to Switzerland to seek investments for Jamaica. 
Yes, read it again.
Franklyn wonders if the members of the St. Catherine Parish Council will promote Spanish Town as the Mother of All Extortion towns?!?
Imagine councillors from Spanish Town in the Swiss capital...what really can they tell anyone about the former capital of Jamaica?!? Much of the town is a dirty market, where urinals, makeshift ones, so to speak, are found at every corner, where the historic buildings around Emancipation Square die a slow death. They are unable to prevent the rot occurring to the historic iron bridge, one of the oldest in these parts. The list of failures with this parish council and indeed perhaps all of them around the island is as long as the distance from Kingston to Geneva! But they have time to be traipsing to Europe under the guise of promoting Jamaica. How many building approval requests are sitting on their desks right now?
I wonder how many people will make this trip this time. Certainly, it can't be as many as the 75 that needed to have gone on that local government convention a few months ago, the largest group from any single country.
And by the way, does Jamaica Trade and Invest know about this conference in Switzerland?
Yes, read it again.
Franklyn wonders if the members of the St. Catherine Parish Council will promote Spanish Town as the Mother of All Extortion towns?!?
Imagine councillors from Spanish Town in the Swiss capital...what really can they tell anyone about the former capital of Jamaica?!? Much of the town is a dirty market, where urinals, makeshift ones, so to speak, are found at every corner, where the historic buildings around Emancipation Square die a slow death. They are unable to prevent the rot occurring to the historic iron bridge, one of the oldest in these parts. The list of failures with this parish council and indeed perhaps all of them around the island is as long as the distance from Kingston to Geneva! But they have time to be traipsing to Europe under the guise of promoting Jamaica. How many building approval requests are sitting on their desks right now? I wonder how many people will make this trip this time. Certainly, it can't be as many as the 75 that needed to have gone on that local government convention a few months ago, the largest group from any single country.
And by the way, does Jamaica Trade and Invest know about this conference in Switzerland?
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