r/Jamaica • u/Internal-Job8329 • Aug 21 '24
Culture bad roads
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Do yall agree with her?
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u/Grimcharnn Aug 21 '24
Di road weh mi used to travel pon daily as a child use fi tek 30mins fi reach inna Kingston. As mi grow some time it tek bout 50 mins cause how bad the road be.
Dem need fi do betta, ah one basic ting weh dem (government) supposed to provide an dem cyaa do it.
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u/qeyler Aug 21 '24
It used to take 45 minutes to Portie. Then it was 2 hours. Now, with the improvements it is about 1 hour
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u/mistaharsh Aug 22 '24
It used to Tek MI 3 minutes to shit now mi a sit pon di commode an watch a whole Oliver special....
Lesson: as we get older things deteriorate. So is life. Infrastructure all over the world is dealing with the same issue it's not just a Jamaican problem.
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u/Grimcharnn Aug 22 '24
Wow people really are apathetic to this road condition thing. I get the whole entitlement vibe the lady is giving off but the road should not be like that.
Are we going to pretend that it’s just rural roads that are in a terrible condition?
Or that it’s okay for BASIC infrastructure to be not be properly maintained by the government?
The main through-fares between Norman Manley airport and any part of Kingston are in a terrible state. Not even the most important roads are maintained properly.
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u/mistaharsh Aug 22 '24
You are missing the point. You cannot be hard on Jamaica with their limited resources when a country with endless resources can't even maintain their infrastructure.
All this is funded by taxes. I guarantee that American is not complaining about her hometown that's lacking proper traffic lights bc she doesn't want to pay more in taxes. Remember America doesn't have free healthcare and people will rather fix themselves than see the doctor. That should tell you something about human psychology
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u/Grimcharnn Aug 22 '24
We pay many taxes in Jamaica that are specifically instituted to help maintain the infrastructure that vehicles travel on. You can compare Jamaica to other third world countries and still realise that the government is not handling road maintenance properly.
Registration, fitness, transfer tax, traffic tickets and gas tax and you telling me that they can’t even keep a roads like hope road, HWT road, Spanish town road, etc maintained? Those are roads that see thousands of commuters daily and wouldn’t pass any road quality test.
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u/mistaharsh Aug 22 '24
Infrastructure is a GLOBAL problem. France had Olympians swimming in polluted water. People complained. This is the same France people romanticize and think is upper class. Italy and the Venice channels is NASTY WATER. But we look at them as BETTER than us. Give your country some GRACE!!!!
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u/SluggoVW Aug 21 '24 edited Aug 21 '24
Why is she speaking down to those people. They didn't ruin the roads. I agree with everything else. Jamaica's government needs to invest in infrastructure. I absolutely love Jamaica but the Roads and utilities are crap. Even the new A4 is falling apart already. Pay Jamaicans to do a good job rather than cheap Chinese companies.
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u/Rainbow_Sprite_18 Aug 22 '24
This is my take. Why is she so nasty to that woman and those children? This isn’t their fault. They have no CHOICE but to walk on these raggedy roads.
Which yes, they are crap. But don’t be a complete b*tch to random people because of it.
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u/liltitslovers Aug 21 '24
It's a normal thing for those arrogant returning residents, especially the ones that's coming from America. They all come with entitlement and disrespect. That's why most locals don't even look pon them, even me mi self stay far from them unless I see that they have some mannerisms
As for a road like that. Rural roads like those have a lot of issues to them that can still be fixed with proper planning ofc.
The first issue is that those roads are normally the only access that's there to a community, so blocking it off to fix would be a complete hindrance, especially with how long them always tek
The second is to get the equipment there to fix it. Seeing how narrow the road is, the best thing to do is cut off some of the hill. And you already know how that would go
Third is the material or type of road. The best thing to be used for used like those would be concrete, so it would take way longer to repair and maintenance, oh plus concrete would also help solve the second issue a bit
But the biggest issue is. The people (mayors and councilors) them who's in charge of that area don't really care or aren't really passionate enough to get it fix.
Big nose worse nuh care
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u/qeyler Aug 21 '24
Listen, waaay back in the 70s I was going from Duncans in Trelawney to Town. There were no 'high ways'. And everyone on the bus was exclaiming...'Slow Down Driver!' because the road was that good. In ancient days there were people assigned to every foot of the road and they made sure the road was good.
Move up to the 90s when they were fixing the Bull Bay main road. A mile took 2 weeks and was perfect.
Today, the Chinese do a shit job with shit materials so that road doesn't last a year
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u/liltitslovers Aug 22 '24
What beat the Chinese is our unexpected terrain of so many groundwater. So it's not poor material, just the constant shifting of the ground itself
But let me say this since it seems that you've been awhile for a while...
Local contractors can't compete with them, nor are they even worth it at this point cause all they do is overcharge and under-deliver. Look at Spanish town road (6miles to downtown kingston), the amount they've gotta for that road could have built it 3 times over. But all they did was lay some pipes down and drop some asphalt
Even on Waltham Park Road just the other day. Local contractors had about 60 meters or so of roads to fix with concrete, and yk how long it took? And even now, it still nuh deal wid good
Don't blame the Chinese when it's our very own contractors that are performing way below standards and our very own country men that's there doing bare minimum. You will look pon all a site and see 10 ppl siddun while just 3 a work
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u/qeyler Aug 22 '24
I am on the North Coast. The roads were done and are falling apart. Check from Morant Bay to Port Antonio... how many times the road has been redone since the Chinese started their 'belt and road'.
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u/Own-Staff-2403 Aug 21 '24
We are basically just an American puppet state, that allows American Companies to exploit innocent people while the rich get richer.
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u/istodaywednesday Aug 21 '24
You cant bring your foreign attitude in another land. It's rude and showcasing privilege. That's not how things are done there.
This is so rude.
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u/Cobey1 Aug 21 '24
For real. She sound like she visits her family yard once a year on vacation and then comes with a mouth full of bullshit and opinions.
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u/istodaywednesday Aug 21 '24
Just so much. JA is a blessed country, she talking about the roads. Look at the beautiful horticultural and ocean babe.
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u/Square_Copy3154 Aug 21 '24
Man the only time I get truly mad there is if someone is preaching to me and I’m not attending a religious function and if I’m waiting in a bank line and people keep cutting claiming they were there 2 hours ago.
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u/Calm_Guidance_2853 Linstead | Yaadie inna USA Aug 21 '24
Jamaicans and others do the same with Americans when they go to the USA, so it's only fair. At the end of the day we can all learn from each other. She was disrespectful but at the end of the day what she's saying is true.
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u/istodaywednesday Aug 21 '24
At the end of the day she was ruuuudde sucks teet. They may complain about traffic and when the BQE but she literally was filming people without their authorization, including pikney, and demand it be fixed. That's a huge difference at the end of the day. Also for what it looks like she was in a taxi at the end of the day. She needs to sit back and enjoy the horticulture.
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u/Calm_Guidance_2853 Linstead | Yaadie inna USA Aug 22 '24
"At the end of the day she was ruuuudde sucks teet."
I already said this🤷
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u/-dum0mub- Aug 21 '24
Becaue unoo nah nuh sense. Big difference.
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u/Calm_Guidance_2853 Linstead | Yaadie inna USA Aug 21 '24
She's saying the exact same thing as any other Jamaican. If you say she make no sense then you also she Jamaicans make no sense.
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u/-dum0mub- Aug 21 '24 edited Aug 21 '24
One a Patois Wednesday. Two yu not Jamaican. Most people in rural areas know how difficult road repair dem part deh is. Hence the lack of complaints from residents. Especially when Beryl jus come thru
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u/Calm_Guidance_2853 Linstead | Yaadie inna USA Aug 22 '24
"Especially when Beryl jus come thru"
People were complaining about the government 1 week after beryl, but now the government needs more time? You can't even type the right patwa but even if I'm not Jamaican is not an issue. Jamaicans and West Indians talk about Black Americans all the time, so Black Americans can do the same thing back. Keep practicing your patwa.
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u/istodaywednesday Aug 21 '24
🤣🤣🤌🏽
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u/-dum0mub- Aug 21 '24 edited Aug 22 '24
Bomb. Bo. Claat. If I mi did have a Gold meeda a gi yuh just fi yuh username. It is automatic proof that God is real.
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u/-dum0mub- Aug 21 '24
Mi did si da monkey ya pan TikTok . So why nuh go tell ar paarie dem fi stop shoplift di grocery store dem inna Chicago an Oakland an leave Jamaica people alone?
Wow - rural and tertiary roads are bad. We neva know that Tank u for telling us! But you do not pay tax or are willing to educate yuself on our budget situation and make yourself useful, so why bodda?
Funnily, if she invested in a small Bitumen refinery, she coulda be one of the richest black persons on dis side of the Caribbean. But - that is black people. Just waan fi chat and live inna big house pon di beach. Might have to borrow some cheap money from di Chinese man.
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u/dearyvette Aug 21 '24
Kiss mi neck, for Wednesday.
Somebody please tell me she’s not talking about roads that were just washed out by hurricane flooding, 5 minutes ago.
For anyone who has never been to rural America (because this person is clearly American), there are tens and thousands of country roads that look just like this. There are thousands mountainous country roads that have never even been paved, thousands of dirt roads that cannot have mail delivered or trucks that can climb them in the winter, and millions of potholes on winding mountain roads that look exactly like this.
I’m not saying the roads shouldn’t be repaired, but she’s clearly in the country, and the country roads look just like this in HER country, too.
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u/Allrounder- Aug 22 '24
If she even drives in suburban Georgia or Virginia, she'll see potholes for days. A suh dem love gwaan like Jamaica a di worse. Di road dem need fi fix yes, but she need fi bill.
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u/dearyvette Aug 22 '24
Yup! Same with some suburban Florida, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island roads. I’m sure this is the case in the whole country, though it’s worse, the farther from the cities you get.
I once met a nice man, while at a laundromat. He knew the road I lived on because it was infamous for the car-wrecking pot holes, and he fixed roads for the next town over. Two nights later, there was a whole crew of guys filling in the potholes on my road. It was amazing. (They have to pay to dispose of leftover asphalt every day, so he decided to use the leftovers on my street.)
Maybe this woman should go stand in a laundromat, and pray. :-)
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u/ralts13 Aug 21 '24
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. The roads are bad which is unfortunate but this is a common issue with lack of funding for rural roads. Unfortunately we just dont have the budget to justify it.
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u/dearyvette Aug 21 '24
Exactly. She’s loony, and I’m not loving the way she rolled up on that family, either. “Ma’am, please don’t speak to my children that way, or I’m going to clock you with this Paradise Mango I just picked up.” Lol
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u/Ok_Section_3260 Aug 21 '24
The fact that she thinks someone doesn’t give a shit because they don’t want to be in her video is crazy. She needs to stfu.
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u/Glittering-Day9016 Aug 21 '24
Bruh you can’t have it all. This is not a 1st world country. I’m not saying it’s not a problem but you sound like a babbling entitled moron. You also have to realize that apart of the problem is the weather. You chastising random people especially in front of kids is classless.
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u/Square_Copy3154 Aug 21 '24
US don’t even have good roads, let’s not pretend like it’s wonderful here either.
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u/Glittering-Day9016 Aug 21 '24
Depending on where you live and the general income of that area dictates how soon it will be fixed. Roads will break down eventually no matter where you are. The way she’s going about it is not cool.
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u/Square_Copy3154 Aug 22 '24
Exactly, roads in the Midwest are shit, even if they get fixed they go bad a week or 2 later because they poorly patch them up. Some of the roads are worse here than Jamaica. I have a bunch of issues with how I’m treated in Jamaica, but I have no clue how people are going to act like the roads in the country are just magically going to get fixed. Same people complaining aren’t the same people who will pick up a shovel and do the work themselves. And yes if it’s my own road, and I have money for supplies, I’m gonna fix the potholes I can so my car doesn’t get ruined.
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u/UnwaveringEmpathy Aug 21 '24
Yikes, what an irritating person to listen to 🤢. It sucks that for some people in the video, they think THIS is what Americans are like. “MY country of heritage”. Bitch, they LIVE there.
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u/Omegateeth25 Aug 21 '24
She disgusting and doesn’t know the history. Don’t go to other people’s neighborhoods and make them feel bad for their living condition. You’re black im sure if another culture’s wealthy person came to your neighborhood pointing at how small your house is or dirty you are you’d be pissed
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u/More_Feature_6940 Aug 22 '24
She has a point on the Jamaican government BUT there are better ways to bring awareness than to talk down about the country. I’m American and I was embarrassed watching her talk to the locals like that. I have family in Jamaica and I know exactly what trials and tribulations they have to deal with. Us Americans have to do better 🤦🏽♀️ Big up Jamaica!
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u/Memoryworkrewardsme Aug 22 '24
The entitlement. Why you talikng down your own people?
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u/GngstaPartyPeople Aug 22 '24
This the first time encountering a black women or black man from America? Cause if you did you would know they do this religiously to each other
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u/frazbox Aug 21 '24
Let’s spend to give these rural area utilities. Do they pay taxes? How long will it take to recoup the monies spent?
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u/Godalinva Aug 22 '24
What in gods name, leave those people alone! Who is she to go to their country and blame random civilians for how the road looks????
Go harrass the government and stop filming people
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Aug 22 '24
I'm sorry ! But she needs to realise that it is the country part of Jamaica. She lived in America too long. Like is there a bunch of houses there to begin with. You fix the roads you lose that rural setting. Because it will attract more people to live there and the government will out developments so it's a give or take. If you want nice roads stay in the us
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u/sexruinedeverything Aug 21 '24
People a pay nuff money to come vacation a we yard. Nuff money too to get Juta and Private Taxi to the destination spots. Them have a right to speak on the readiness of the country them pay to come see. If we nuh want them come deh, wi need fi say so.
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u/ZyberZeon Aug 21 '24
Yo, why dis woman vex mi so. You tink dis a 1st world yaad? She fi shut her bomba.
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u/qeyler Aug 21 '24
I don't need to watch, I ride a motorcycle. Last month I went to Golden Grove for gas. I came back looking like a mud pie. The dust on the 'road' (term used loosely) made it look like I had been rolling on the ground. I went to Machioneal and if it wasn't a dirt bike I wouldn't be typing now.
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u/Expensive_Candle5644 Aug 21 '24 edited Aug 21 '24
So I have a question. Yes the roads are frigged up. But didn’t everyone raise hell when the Chinese came in with the highway 2000 project. Jamaica doesn’t have to finances to fix all the roads especially the rural ones like this. It’s going to be outside money to do it I would think? No? And we all know the touristy parts of the island will have priority before the roads in country and outside of Kingston get fixed
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u/-dum0mub- Aug 21 '24
"But didn’t everyone raise hell when the Chinese came in with the highway 2000 project. Jamaica doesn’t have to finances to fix all the roads especially the rural ones like this. It’s going to be outside money to do it I would think? No?"
5 factual errors, 1 logical. Please do over.
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u/Expensive_Candle5644 Aug 21 '24
I was asking a question. If you disagree please correct and educate me.
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u/stewartm0205 Kingston Aug 21 '24
My friend told me Seaga said Jamaica had too many roads and couldn’t afford to maintain them all so it wouldn’t. And that has been the Jamaican government policy since then.
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u/thelanai Aug 22 '24
Why is she yelling at those people? I'm assuming they did not make the roads. She has clearly never been to a truly rural place in America. I lived in 1 for 3 years for school. Some of the roads were worse than the road pictured.
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u/Comfortable_Gain1308 Aug 22 '24
Bet she doesn’t even pay taxes in that country and she’s demanding all that crap . Roads I kinda understand but trim the bushes and shit ? 🤣🤣
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u/Square_Copy3154 Aug 21 '24
She doesn’t sound Jamaican at all, she sounds like an African American who is either half Jamaican or pretending to be Jamaican.
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u/dearyvette Aug 21 '24
Lots of Jamaican grew up in the US and sound American. She could have left as a young girl person, or be of Jamaican descent.
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u/Square_Copy3154 Aug 22 '24
I’m aware of that, I’m half and don’t sound Jamaican at all ( that was intentional by my Jamaican parent) but it she is saying she is returning home and saying recording a bunch of people without their consent and in an entitled manner, it just seems weird to say it in a very non Jamaican accent.
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u/Square_Copy3154 Aug 21 '24
For reference, I’m half, can’t speak but can understand most of patwah. I’d bitch about the roads to myself, not random people walking around. They can’t help that. Nature destruction they definitely can help. The island water resources need to be preserved for the benefit of every living thing there.
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u/Salivating_Zombie Aug 21 '24
The entitlement being displayed in this video is shameful. If you don't like the roads in Jamaica, don't go there.
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Aug 21 '24
I love that most the comments are bashing her instead of the real issue being spoken about. If is not a highway in Jamaica the roads fucking sucks. If we as a ppl don't start complaining and demanding better we are goin to continue gettin the fuckery we been gettin. But I guess most people love and used to dem fuckery yaa
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u/GngstaPartyPeople Aug 22 '24
That's coo but being a snarky bitch to the regular everyday people there ain't cool. Tf is being disrepectful to them gonna do? I'm a little ignorant on how things are in Jamaica cause I am not from there but if she really cared she shoulda bought a little poster and took her snarky big back ass to whatever the Jamaicans call their Whitehouse and protested.
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u/chungfat Aug 21 '24
When rain fall and the basement that she lives in gets flooded, her landlord threatens to throw her out.
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u/Infamous_Tank6017 Aug 21 '24
Jamaica don't need to fix no road by the way that jeep rocking mam u need the excercise 🤣
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u/TheloniousMonk85 Aug 22 '24
lol was this her first time? Who talks like that so rude
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u/GngstaPartyPeople Aug 22 '24
That's american black women for you
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Aug 23 '24
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u/GngstaPartyPeople Aug 23 '24
A Jamaican doesn't sound like this she sounds like she was born in Atlanta
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u/West-Wash6081 Aug 22 '24
This must be the road from Mandeville to Montego Bay. Worst road I have ever driven on.
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u/Imaginary-Past-8103 Aug 22 '24
Charity begins at home . Start the process so people can add to it then the government will come and intervene
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u/olskoolfresh89 Aug 22 '24
Why she telling the bystanders off like it’s their fault. That road gots character 😂
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u/NYCaliber Aug 22 '24
she not Jamaican, she need to go take her complaints and bad attitude back to Atlanta where it belongs
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u/TheTallJamaican Aug 22 '24
Everyday I think about how Jamaica can be great. Even if a one parish at a time
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u/No_Effective4958 Aug 22 '24
This needs to be on main character sub especially cus she’s not a native.
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u/Ill-Television-5499 Aug 22 '24
If she don't shut up.... Yes the roads can be better but how she speak. Someone might kick down her clott
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u/DriipWrld Aug 22 '24
Who does this bitch think she is? How dare u come and disrespect these people who live here and deal with these struggles year round while u get 2 leave and go back 2 wherever the fuck ur from until u decide u wanna come back and visit?
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u/Confident_Volume_255 Aug 22 '24
I guess she has been too, Americanized don’t forget where you came from. Never never criticize your homeland, even if it’s a desert.
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u/reezusshuttlesworth Aug 22 '24
she sounds so ignorant that it’s actually comical, i bet she goes to italy and complain about the cobblestone roads.
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u/Dazzling_Assist_2723 Aug 22 '24
I’m horrified by her video as an American who travels to Jamaica several times a year and while the road conditions are less than ideal esp the further you get away from more main areas, her thought process is that of a entitled American who knows nothing about her home country. The way she spoke to hose people in the beginning… go back to America to your perfect fkn roads !
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u/Nor916Cal Aug 22 '24
I agree with her. And not only that roads but people dumping their trash on the side of the road. The roads in Negril are horrible and scary as hell.
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u/GngstaPartyPeople Aug 22 '24
Leave them tf alone how you just gon pull up on random people and start being a sparky bitch. If you don't like it take that up with Jamaican goverment.
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u/GngstaPartyPeople Aug 22 '24
I say this all the time and it's so true black american women have the worst media representation on the internet I've ever seen. It isn't as bad as how people talk on Indians but they definitely right under them.
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u/Electrical-Simple142 Aug 22 '24
lol she must think she in America. Shes finding out the hard way that only in the USA the government is obligated to do those things. Not saying it’s the best country but it’s better than most
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u/No_Canary8289 Aug 22 '24
Seems like you need to run for office if you care that much you being nasty towards a citizen as if she can do something about it
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u/im2full Aug 23 '24
Typical spoiled American. Alot of us dont realize how good we have it. With that being said, Michigan, USA roads are bad too.
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u/jamrock2050 Aug 23 '24
She doesn’t make enough to own a home in the states to understand road fixtures to way out country areas are paid mostly by the homeowners. The government is not chipping in for low traffic roads, so its a shame to see her down these people
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u/spacedildo42 Aug 24 '24
She talks a lot for some one who doesn’t live in the area and comes for vacation. She should start working and clearing the roads then.
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u/wilotaur701 Aug 24 '24
The stupidity and complete lack of awareness. This is the worst type of American, the ones that have a little money and show it to the world, which in reality shows you have none. Gotta be looking good in the hood
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u/Low_Ad3112 Aug 25 '24
Towards the end of the video when she screams out to the government “I’m SUING YOU ALL!” For a moment I thought that maybe the whole thing was just tongue in cheek and exaggerating and ‘acting like an entitled and opinionated rude know it all, to get the comments going, good or bad, and to get those that agree and disagree to fwd it in hopes it goes viral or something. Until at the very end she doubles down and reiterates “THIS ROAD SUCKS!”.
So, I still could be wrong, I’d have to look at her previous posts and comments to see if she’s being herself or just acting like the biggest asshole (or is it Karen) on the planet.
FIRST of all, she has absolutely 0% Jamaican HERITAGE. Heritage does not denote any recent genetic or or even ethnic ties to the island. It means living and carrying yourself in a similar way, or being influenced by, or even adopting a people’s traditions, teachings, lifestyle, philosophies, morals, ethics and/or attitudes.
So she just mean ‘ancestry’ as in her great grandma on her fathers side was half Jamaican. Cuz there is absolutely nothing about her that is Jama I CAN in any way…even tho I hear a lot of JAMA I CANTs talking in a similar way, unfortunately they have been exposed to and adopted that ‘heritage’ from people just like this ‘lady’, and I use that term purely to describe her physical traits.
Unfortunately she is from America but I would be insulting myself and the around 300 million other decent educated intelligent and culturally sensitive (ok maybe 200 million) people that are true Americans.
Unfortunately those Americans don’t tend to go to the places their great grandparents came from and start acting like due to that completely irrelevant fact “if it’s even true” cuz obviously she know nothing about anything to do with Jamaica. Other than she knows who’s coat tales to ride on to give herself SOME sort of identity other than entitled/privileged and opinionated Karen from the US that gives all Americans a bad name. And fake Jamaican Americans even a worse name.
In fact I bet there was some shame and scandle in her family and she’s not even 1/16th Jamaican genetically and is a jacket from an American tourist, and not biologically from that great grand dad on her mothers side who’s ‘Jamaican’ (making that up).
Anyway on to the content, the reason why that trail (it’s not a road) isn’t a proper road, is because that’s how places stay nice and quiet and isolated from loudmouth control freaks like her.
Hey! I’m filming you without your permission, now answer my questions and contribute to this abomination of a travel video and AGREE with what I’m complaining unceasingly about (while missing all the beauty surrounding her),or feel my wrath. No? Ok then you don’t care about anything you dumb bushbilly, you’re not concerned about my hemorrhoids hurting every time we go over a bump. You’re probably only thinking about where your next meal will be coming from, or if the lights are back yet from the hurricane, or other stupid stuff like, wondering why that screwfaced bad minded loud mouth holding the camera is complaining about the roads, while she is being chauffeured through my yard ON the very road I’M thankful for because I used to have to walk up and down it many times a day for water or to go to school or work when it was just a donkey path. Or maybe she was just hoping the lady would give her $50 so she could pay the bus driver to take her to school tomorrow instead of walking. Idk
Anyway, she’s not Jamaican and she’s not American, she’s Karen.
Totally oblivious…that first they hope for a decent home, them some steady food, then maybe some luxuries like electricity, and pipe water, and after all that, or maybe before all that lol internet service, and then a few other things like clothes, a flat screen, a laptop, some cash in their pocket… etc etc etc THEN maybe they’ll bitch about the things you are crying about. The rough paved donkey trail, the happy dogs that wander around free, oh, btw if she’s reading this, try feeding a person since you are so concerned about feeding the dogs. The dogs get fed, usually the scraps after the human beings eat.
I hope that poor driver was getting hazard pay. If not if anyone knows him or someone like him give them this idea please. Install a camera and mic in your taxi for Karen’s like this. You could start your own YouTube channel and make millions. People love to watch a train wreck while it’s happening.
One love
and SMILE Jamaica, she’s likely already left your beautiful island and returned to where she came from.
Sigh
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u/Potential_Ad_3476 Aug 25 '24
She act like she in the states and not Jamaica with all those requests
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u/wargio Aug 25 '24
Didn't listen, but just looking at the video I thought the roads were pretty good lol. St Thomas is an absolute nightmare. I give them another 5 - 10 years before I feel the urge to revisit.
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u/losadwight Aug 27 '24
All I'm saying is I don't understand how the MILLIONS OF DOLLARS THAT FLOW TO JAMAICA BC OF TOURISM....DOESNT MAKE A DIFFERENCE? It's not America elitism....its just me... a woman from Iowa that WONDERS WHERE IN THE ACTUAL EFF THE MONEY IS GOING? COLLEGE EDUCATIONS? NO. IMPROVING WAGES??? NO. IMPROVING SAFETY??? NO. IMPROVING INFRASTRUCTURE? NO...(TRUST AND BELIEVE WE FIX OUR HILLY RAIN-SOAKED SHIT SO IT IS, IN FACT, POSSIBLE). I HABE TRIED MULTIPLE TIMES AS A NURSE TO VOLUNTEER...TRIED DURING HURRICANES AND COVID TO COME AND HELP. BUT NOPE YOUR GOVERNMENT WOULDN'T LET ME. SO ....that's that.
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u/Soft_Breadfruit_8141 Jan 10 '25
Meanwhile wherever she lives in America I promise you the roads and bridges ain’t much better.
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u/Naive-Werewolf9010 Aug 22 '24 edited Aug 23 '24
Look, does she come across like an a-hole? Yes. But where's the lie? I have been fortunate enough to travel extensively, and I've seen other developing countries that somehow manage to pave their roads and provide basic services—areas where Jamaica struggles.
I'm sorry, but where there's a genuine will, there's always a way to improve. It's disheartening to see so many commenters making excuses for the fact that Jamaica fails in the most basic task of governance, paving the fkn roads. There's nothing wrong with holding useless politicians accountable and demanding better from them. But, judging from the comments defending mediocrity, these politicians know they will never be held to account, and Jamaica will continue to stumble along doing the bare minimum.
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u/kuunami79 Aug 22 '24
This was exactly how I felt in Ghana last month. In 2024 there is no excuse. And I believe it's a cultural issue because many countries with lesser economies have better roads. This is what happens when the government has no pride in the appearance of their country
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u/Visible_Collection74 Aug 22 '24
Someone hasn’t been told how the government in Jamaica is basically non existent
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Aug 21 '24
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u/frazbox Aug 21 '24
Ask yourself this, spend $1mil usd to fix road for less than 100 households or spend the same amount to fix roads for 1000 households?
People who live aboard seems to not understand that a lot of Jamaicans (especially tho use that like in the deep rural areas) don’t pay taxes.
Another thing is a lot of people build houses on land that doesn’t belong to them ;and where they build their homes, there wasn’t any roads there for years. Nuff a dem people need to move to places that are more developed for residential living
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u/dearyvette Aug 22 '24
$1 million USD can only fix 1 mile of road in the US, roughly, and Jamaica didn’t have half the equipment we normally use, as of a few years ago. Roads like this one are actually very expensive problems.
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u/Dependent_Giraffe_52 Aug 22 '24
Looks like compton roads
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u/bigguavaent Aug 22 '24
What road in Compton California looks like this? You're just trying to compare the poor state of roads in Jamaica to the USA and that's not the case. By far and large the US road infrastructure is just superior. Jamaica needs to stop being so backwater and repair its country.
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u/Klutzy-Rice-6691 Aug 23 '24
I agree with her. But her accent is horrible lol. New American who now think they are better than where they are coming from. I’m sure those roads were the same way when you lived there not so long ago judging by your accent. Instead of doing this, really seek change within the community. Rally up some people and get a petition started or pour your new foreign money into the community. Hold politicians accountable. Filming this just for entertainment but no action or follow up steps is useless.
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u/losadwight Aug 24 '24
I agree with her whether she's 5% jamaican or none! I live in the states. I've been there AT LEAAT 9 TIMES....HOW DOES THE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TOURISM BRING IN NOT FIX ROADS ..PAY Y'ALL MORE...ETC???
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u/-dum0mub- Aug 24 '24 edited Aug 24 '24
I disagree with her whether she's 95% jamaican or all! I live in jamaica. I've been there AT LEAAT 9 TIMES....HOW DOES THE TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS AGRICULTURE/AUTOMOBILES/AVIATION/WEAPONS/COMMODITIES/SOFTWARE/SERVICES BRING IN NOT FIX you people low education level, poor infrastructure, massive debt, obesity..PAY Y'ALL MORE...ETC???
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Aug 24 '24
She from USA complaining about roads in another country 😂
And being rude to those people saying they don't care? They look like they dont even own a car they probably worried about there next meal
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u/FlyGuy365 Aug 21 '24
The sad truth is someone else from abroad will come to Jamaica and fix these issues not Jamaica smh.
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u/xch3rrix Aug 21 '24
She maybe on to a real issue (infrastructure) but the arrogant elitism she shows the locals is the problem.
American exceptionalism is a problem