Law turns off investors. Excuses?

[Willi]

In Switzerland, if it bruk di Guvvament fixes it. Why, cause is dat wi pay tax fan. so what Guvvament kallec tax fah...fi fatten Tician pocket?

Steeeuuups.

[Willi]

Extending this argument, if Police cant assure safety investors must start vigilante groups and hut criminals?

There are certain things that are the purview of the State. Dont use the negative examples as if that situation is desirable or to be emulated.

[Bricktop]

So private business pay for public roads? What planet you live on?

[Reggaedoc]

They do right now. Police can't assure security at all times, and so a cottage industry has developed around the idea of security. Armed security guards, off duty policemen doing private detail etc etc. These of course are not the same as the grotesque example you have chosen to demonstrate your point, but it is a subtle example of a posse system. Private patrols in upper St. Andrew is one such example. Mind you, nothing is wrong with it in my opinion.

[Reggaedoc]

Steeupps...Yuh believe the hype!

i personally know of farrin investors who tried for Baths in Labarite and Sochie times and get rebuffed.

If you naah deal wid serious fishhead yuh outta luck and that is what many investors refuse to get into..

As to Indian railway, would YOU tek an Indian train? I thought so....

Is like yuh figget what happen to dem CommonWealth Games bridge...

Millions of people take it every day, and will continue to take it every day, so whether I, or you for that matter, would take it is irrelevant to the Indian people.

[Reggaedoc]

In Switzerland, if it bruk di Guvvament fixes it. Why, cause is dat wi pay tax fan. so what Guvvament kallec tax fah...fi fatten Tician pocket?

Steeeuuups.

That is why America attracts more foreign investors than Switzerland.

[Willi]

Many people use our Baths too, but yet still yuh deh yah a cuss bout loss of potential like the rest of us.

I know a lot about India, as my ex-coworker was the son of the Cabinet Secretary when they exploded the first test nuke, and he told me a lot. Also my science teacher in Hi skool was a physicist on the same nuclear project...

[Muadib]

Look like yuh juss yapp fi fun..

when yuh back to reality let us know.. we are talking about the Jamaican Government.. dem cyaan even run di basics wheh dem SUPPOSE fi run much less..

Get real..

[Assasin]

You don't realise that them try dat already??? If them can't run Dunn's river and make profit, what else them going to run???

Every hotel the government invest in it end up been a lost and right off for the people of Jamaica, private people take it and turn it around. Government never make a profit of Air Jamaica, JOS or JUTA yet Mini van man dem look like them a bade.

Our government need not to do anything else but healthcare, security, Education the things that all government do. We know it will be a loss but we can live with that. What government need to to is concentrate and how they can make Jamaica investment friendly and when I am talking about investment friendly I am talking about where ordinary people can invest or start a business in stability and make reasonable proflts.

[Tilla]

RD, maybe that is the way things operate in New York. I live on Kansas City and if a pipe burst on a public road which affects my supply, it is the city's responsibility to fix that. That is a part of the reason why I pay taxes - for them to address the issues which affect the public with the money they get. If pipe burst on my property, then that is a different matter.

[Bricktop]

I don't know how Reggaedoc gone from road to sidewalk...in places like New York wou are responsible for clearing your sidewalk of snow...not if a pipe breaks...

[Tilla]

Same here boss. I have the responsibility to clean my sidewalk before my place if it snows as well.

I have lived in Washington DC, Maryland, Texas, Arkansas, Kansas and now Missouri and I have never come across anything close to what Reggaedoc is suggesting in those places. It has always been a case of the city government being responsible for those things.