Diaspora to Jamaica's rescue in building food security

[Don1]

Big up yuhself mi bredrin!

Farm Up Jamaica Gets $5 Million
Published: Monday | February 16, 2015 0 Comments


Gregory Cook (left), co-founder and executive vice-president of doTERRA, and Neil Curtis, founder and chairman of Farm Up Jamaica. -Photo by Dave Rodney


Last month, more than 600 tourists participated in planting 10 acres of ginger in the community of Haddo, Westmoreland. The project was a partnership between Farm Up Jamaica, a non-profit organisation registered in New York, and doTERRA, a Utah-based organisation that is the world's largest seller of essential oils.

So successful was the West-moreland ginger project, that doTERRA's Healing Hands Foundation has donated J$5 million to Farm Up Jamaica to enable improvements with an existing organic onion farm in New Forest, South Manchester.

[Bricktop]

private foreign enterprise growing ginger in jamaica for export contributes to building local food security? interesting concept

[Don1]

Yep very interesting...especially for those who know what Farm Up Jamaica is all about

[Bricktop]

Farm Up Jamaica "works" for doTerra...and i know what doTerra is all about...follow the money

[Don1]

Nope mi nuh need nuh instruction pon dis from casual observers...

Mi dun know di deal pon dis from 2 year now from principals who did try get mi involved...An' mi juss tek di opportunity now fi mek di Bar informed.

All you know is the content of a typically poorly written newspaper article or a website which you misinterpret

[Muadib]

Suh dis not 'begging from the Diaspora' ?

When yuh have time send di bar di rule book on when Diaspora fi get involved... and when is yard begging..

or is ongly when yuh 'know dem' and can drap name...

[Don1]

In dis case unnu suh backward unnu wudden even know how fi beg dem kinda technical assistance whe di bredda ah provide. Unuu affi know ow sitten guh fuss before unnu cyan beg it

Unnu ongly well versed inna beggin money or Babylon goods....is dat unnu know full hundred

As to "know dem" mi ongly bring up dat cause ah guy ah try lecture mi bout sitten im nuh know bout. Ah nuh nutten fi mi know dem man deh

[Muadib]

using Dumb1 logic any country that offers a bond is begging...

lol ! woiee !

<With his country financially overwhelmed, Ben-Gurion turned to the Diaspora community for help. In September 1950, he convened a meeting of American Jewish leaders at Jerusalem's King David Hotel, where he proposed issuing bonds to help provide Israel with a more secure economic foundation. Ben-Gurion's goals were two-fold: to obtain millions of dollars in funding for immigrant absorption and the construction of national infrastructure, and to engage Diaspora Jewry as active partners in building the new Jewish state.>

Look like yuh need nuff lecturing fi chue..

[Don1]

LOL! Yuh ah one real eediat. Yuh switch from one beggar argument to di nex. This is the operative phrase yuteman:

With his country financially overwhelmed, Ben-Gurion turned to the Diaspora community for help.

Lesson 1: Financially overwhelmed means "broke ass"...meaning begging for help from family on grounds of compassion & "love of country". Yes that emotionalism can generate funds... like the US$2B++ (15-20% of GDP!) remittances unnu waste on eyelash, hair extensions, Flat Scream TVs and assorted consumer rubbish

Lesson 2: Nothing is wrong with people begging for compassion...IF they can be trusted to use the money wisely. Unfortunately Jews CAN be so trusted but history proves that Jamaicans CANNOT

Lesson 3: You asked me "when is the diaspora going to deal with a bond"?? Yuh ave sense yute?? Wi muss issue sovereign debt paper??? Ah suh yuh foolfool???

There is no diaspora bond for us to "deal with" until you lazy, broke ass ingrates figure out how to float one...and sell it. We're actually waiting on unnu broke asses to "deal wid it"

Believe me I didn't know you were such a buffoon... Thought you were just joking when you came with that garbage. Now kindly tek whe yuhself wid dat eediat argument

[Muadib]

You are truly an eediat of unparalleled proportions...

Remittance:

<Despite the high volume and frequency of remittances, however, these funds are only a survival mechanism. They are based on bonds of attachment that are personal, rather than national; in most cases, they are uncoordinated at a national level. While remittances offer evidence that members of diasporas care about their home countries — even if it’s primarily to keep their loved ones off the breadline—these funds do not and will not offer a permanent path to development. There is little governments can do to harness the flow of incoming money except make transactions cheaper and easier.>

You are the joker.. now run along guh play wid yuh robot dem.. some tings clearly biggah dan yuh.. my bad.

[Bricktop]

You are the joker.. now run along & guh play wid yuh robot dem

[Don1]

Yeah diaspora prop up unnu beggars by providing 20% of unnu income...an weh unnu duh wid di Money???? Unnu save or invest any?????????? Nope

Now wid yuh confused likkle self yuh a complain bout why diaspora nuh "deal wid" some bonds.... when is JA Guvvament & private sector muss deal wid dat suh wi cyan si if it mek sense fi buy. Yuh ave sense yute???

Scratch dat...Clearly yuh nuh sensible. Now dat mi expose yuh fraud...mek sure yuh nuh come back yahsuh wid dat garbage

[Muadib]

suh yuh don't tink a Diaspora Bond might be a solution for solving the Education crisis in Jamaica ?