Chinese TV in Jamaica?

[Muadib]

soo.. the Govt should not borrow any money ??

hmm..

[Mosiah]

true, di trini one dem full a ile (oil)

[Sir X]

Jamaican chinese had a newspaper circulating in chinese up to the 50s for the chinese populace.


Chinese Jamaican
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chinese Jamaicans


Total population
Approx. 70,000 (1998)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Kingston
Languages
Jamaican English, Jamaican Patois
Religion
Christianity, Rastafari, Buddhism
Related ethnic groups
Jamaican British, Jamaican Americans, Jamaican Canadian, Chinese Brazilian, Indo-Jamaicans, Afro-Jamaican
Chinese Jamaicans are the descendants of migrants and immigrants from China, who are citizens of Jamaica, or descendants of Jamaicans. Over the years, many Jamaicans of Chinese descent have emigrated abroad.
Contents [hide]
1 Migration history
2 Community organisations
3 Cultural syncretism
4 Notable Jamaicans of Chinese descent
5 See also
6 Footnotes
7 Bibliography
8 Further reading
9 External links
[edit]Migration history

Most Chinese Jamaicans are Hakka and can trace their origin to the Chinese labourers that came to Jamaica in the mid-19th to early 20th centuries.[2] The two earliest ships of Chinese migrant workers to Jamaica arrived in 1854, the first directly from China, the second composed of onward migrants from Panama; they were contracted for plantation work.[3] A further 200 would arrive in the years up until 1870, mostly from other Caribbean islands. Later, in 1884, a third wave of 680 Chinese migrants would arrive; with the exception of a few from Sze Yup, most of these were Hakka people from Dongguan, Huiyang, and Bao'an. This third wave of migrants would go on to bring more of their relatives over from China.[4]
Since the 1970s, there have been a significant emigration of Chinese Jamaicans from the island, primarily to the United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Since 2005, there have been an estimated 7,000 further migrants from the People's Republic of China to Jamaica, mostly moving into areas such as Kingston, Montego Bay and Mandeville.[citation needed]
[edit]Community organisations

In comparison to Overseas Chinese communities elsewhere, hometown associations related to migrants' places of origin in China were not very influential among migrants to Jamaica.[5] Some secret societies such as the Hongmenhui were active in organising plantation workers in the 1880s; however, the first formal Chinese organisation in Jamaica was a branch of the Freemasons.[6] Later, the Chinese Benevolent Association (中華會館) was founded in 1891.[7]
The first Chinese-language newspaper in Jamaica, the Zhonghua Shang Bao (中華商報), was founded in 1930 by Zheng Yongkang; five years later, it was taken over by the Chinese Benevolent Association, who renamed it Huaqiao Gongbao (華僑公報). It continued publication until 1956, and was revived in 1975.[8] The Chinese Freemasons also published their own handwritten weekly newspaper, the Minzhi Zhoukan (？？周刊) until 1956. The Pagoda, started in 1940, was the first English-language newspaper for the Chinese community. The local branch of the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party) also began publishing their own paper, The Chung San News (中山報) in 1953.[9]
[edit]Cultural syncretism

Interracial marriages came almost immediately, and along with continued immigration the Chinese Jamaican community grew, so that it became the second-largest Chinese Caribbean population, behind only Cuba. The 1946 Jamaica census recorded, 12,394 Chinese Jamaicans: "2,818 China-born, 4,061 local born, 5,515 Chinese coloured," with the latter referring to multiracial Blasian people.[10] The term Blasian is an American term and not of Jamaican origin. It is not used in Jamaican vernacular.
Assimilation has taken place through generations and few Chinese Jamaicans can speak Chinese today; most of them speak English or Jamaican Patois as their first language. The vast majority have anglicized given names, and many have Chinese surnames. The Chinese food culture has survived to a large degree among this group of people.

[Hortical]

Well unuh tink the 500 million come wid no strings attached? Before we blink we gween have more Chinese cars than Japanese cars, Chinese banks, Chinese TV & radio, Chinese massage parlors & hotels.

[ReggaeMike]

soo.. the Govt should not borrow any money ??

hmm..

It sound like dem need to borrow money to you? When citizens owe them at least J$50 billion?

Money should only be borrowed when:

1. You have the funds (your own funds, not someone else's funds) but don't have access to them at the time you would take out the loan.

2. You are 99.9% sure of making back the money to pay off the loan.

3. If your currency is the foundation of the world's financial system (as it was with Britain before World War I and now with the US after World War II, but even the US is finding that it can't live off a debt lifestyle forever).


In this case they don't have the funds (since they haven't collected it) and aren't even sure of getting it (since money is being spent on things like chairs for the minister of tourism and monuments to lost children instead of things that might produce money such as an alternative energy industry).

Take that Chinese loan being used for road construction. It is supposed to be paid back out of the gas tax. So since the gas tax is money that is definitely being collected, why go get a loan on which you pay interest to do this road work? If it is that the gas tax isn't going to provide enough money then how could the gas tax be used to pay back a loan larger than the funds from the gas tax as well as paying back interest on said loan? Any way you slice it, it seems odd at best or a blatant waste at worst.

[Muadib]

yuh evah buy a house ?

[Willi]

Den you think the man dem aggo buy the port and nuh staff it with competent people dem can truss?

Would you make a massive investment in Jam and truss that Jams will run it well given past evidence????

Jamaica will have to start from baby steps to progress to a level where we will be trusted to run big operations.

Besides, China need fi employ dem people too.

[Willi]

And so?

Bettre that than watch the likkle remittance from America continue to dry up.

Why our chess suh high, when we nuh have nutten fi recommend us? We need fi learn humility fast.

[ReggaeMike]

yuh evah buy a house ?

Yu mean if "I ever bought a house without having a job or any other means of getting the money to pay back the loan as per point 2 in my second post (i.e. being 99.9% sure of making back the money to pay off the loan)?" No, because that would be height of foolishness.

Yu telling me that you buy houses regularly without having a job or any sure means of paying back the loan? What you think a loan is? Free money to buy essentials like house, car, land, food and water?


Plus, when buying a house with a loan, it is only commonsense that you take out a loan that you can afford (i.e. one you can actually pay back in your own lifetime) and thus buy a house that you can afford. It makes no sense to buy a $200 million monstrosity with 6 bedrooms, 8 bathrooms, 3 kitchens, 2 pools, a jacuzzi, 20 acres of land (complete with watchtowers and guards) and a heliport if you are making $1 million a year and have no sure prospects of increasing that earning potential to $15-20 million a year. Rather you would take out a smaller loan (maybe $10-15 million), buy a smaller house and start paying off the loan from day 1 whilst still trying to increase your earning power in order to:

1. pay off the loan quicker so you avoid paying too much in interest over the years.

2. look towards buying a better house (once found you can then sell the old house to get an immediate injection of cash so that if you actually need to take out another loan again then the loan isn't overburdening).

So now tell me, what kind of money is Jamaica generating such that it can not only pay off the old loans (which are substantial and date from various PNP and JLP administrations) but the new ones? Hasn't it been widely reported that Jamaican productivity is anaemic and continues to drop? Aren't some fellas in the Jamaican government still basically unknowingly/subconsciously encouraging further drops in productivity by favouring certain friends who import cement rather than the company which produces cement and in the process employs more Jamaicans than any importer ever could? And note that it isn't like they are encouraging the cement importers to invest in cement production (at least I've never seen it said so in the papers), but rather want them to continue importing cement with a waiver on a tariff which is generous (15%) compared to other countries (where a similar tariff goes as high as 30%).

[Jawge]

Trust me it looks nice on paper now but it will not end pretty. all those "workers" that are coming are really members of the PLA.

[Willi]

Like every american tourist is CIA????

Duppy story.

[Jawge]

Not at all because the US was never a communist country. It's only one entity that runs all businesses in china.

I see that you are only interested in the destabilizatin of Ja. I get a glimpse of Joshua's advisors now.

[Willi]

LoL

So how come Daddy Bush is a big investor in Hutchinson Whampoa...or maybe yuh didnt know that?

I was never anybody's advisor.

[Muadib]

nuh you seh wi have nuff income fi come in ??

Mek up yuh mind..

[MdmeX]

I agree Mosiah..not in to the Trinidad soaps..dats why me ongle use Dove..

Ah bwoy