Marie's View From Crow Nest

Marie's View From Crow Nest A Jamaican Perspective on Social Issues, Lifestyle and Relationships.

18/05/2026

ENFORCER BUT CONTEXT MATTERS

General/Law: A public official, police officer, or authority figure who ensures laws and regulations are followed
Jamaicans are now an endangered specie, who will stop this murderous gang of terror parading the streets of Jamaica as law enforcers.
Is this the strategy to make THE PM look good, so he can brag about crime statistics, but what is the true figure, when Jamaicans are still being eliminated whether by ENFORCERS wearing the State Uniforms, or the ones dressed in Civilian Clothes.
Another Jamaican Citizen has been sent to meet her maker prematurely.

16/05/2026

Let's hear it for the l7fe saving properties of the Savior NaRRA.

Dispenser of truth.

12/05/2026

This is my opinion to which I am entitled.
So JAMAICANS dandruff a scratch dem head ova a very suggestive sexually explicit BILLBOARD.
Yet every end of the Lenten Season, there is an equally staged event with live warm bodies parading in the streets of the Municipality, of the domain of The KASAMC.
Only difference this is a major money drawing event.
This
is a raw UNADULTERATED BACCANALIA SHOW OF CREATIVITY IN COSTUME DESIGNING. NOW,
I am in no way advocating for sexually suggestive BILLBOARDS to be placed in the vicinity of schools or near pious places of Church worshippers, even though we could question the piety of many who attend these revered places.
Anyway in moving forward, in the future maybe the Department with the responsibilities for selling Advertisement Spaces at the Municipality of the KSAMC, shud first vet the products, and also the placement, because after all we want to encourage the creativity of our young fertile
minds, granted that not everyone here in Jamaica is from a certain order.
In my sphere of reference, Jamaica has come a long way baby, like a certain cigarette Ad used to display, enticing women to smoke in the Public, now Cigarette Billboards are not even displayed Publicly anymore.
Yet, alcohol which can become a weapon of mass destruction, it's glamorized in all its finery any given place, highways and byways, underpass and overpass, in Jamaica we can display SELECTIVE OUTRAGE when it suits us, but then again Jamaica's Moral Compass has strayed from STRICTLY NORTH, hovering and even tethering on the POINT OF of NO RETURN.
SO IF A SEXUALLY SUGGESTIVE BILLBOARD CAN AWAKEN OUR COLLECTIVE SENSIBILITIES, to the decayed society that Jamaica has become, then kudos to that creative marketing genius, who will go down as brave in the ADVERTISING MARKETING INDUSTRY.
Maybe if this was THE FAMOUS MADISON AVENUE STRIP IN THE BIG APPLE, this creative person would be lauded and sought out, afterall products have to be marketed in order to get traffic, and all segments have to be served.



Remember the streets of New Kingston is always available.
My opinion, I don't drink Rude Boy.

09/05/2026

This morning while listening to a Show, I heard something that is so profound, that word 'RESILIENT', being used used to describe Jamaicans.
See the erudite RALSTON HYMAN, put it squarely where it belongs in our Jamaican lexicon, it plain and simply that means wi love sufferation.
Seeing that most of us are descendants of the PLANTATION SOCIETY, we are so used to hearing that no betta no deh, so we go with the flow, and gi crooked politicians with no scruples and no morals, unfettered power to rob, pillage and plunder our National Coffers.
We hear blatant lies being told in
The Parliament, and no one is held accountable.
People just run wid pathological mendaciousness, to bolster and inflate their egos.
So my fellow Jamaican, we wi ago disembark from de SS GULLIBLE, and board de SS ACCOUNTABILITY.

08/05/2026

GLORY DAYS OF CINEMATOGRAPHY IN JAMAICA.
Was passing by THE CARIB THEATRE IN CROSS ROADS, as I frequently do, and ecety time I can't help but reminisce on the glory days of cinematography in Jamaica.
Who remembers when on a Wednesday afternoon there was the 1:30 p.m. matinee, it was the place to be as Downtown Kingston closed for half day, like a kinda fiesta.
Then it would be followed by 4:30 p.m. matinee show, this was the usual day on a Wednesday for the Opening of New Cinema Releases.
Not to be outdone, THE REGAL THEATRE, located a stones throw away, which has now been refurbished into a Shopping Center, they had Retro Movies, "Oldies but Goodies", showcasing the Classics of the Golden Era of Hollywood.
These two THEATRES, were able to operate before dark because they were covered venues, beautifully built and decorated, THE GOLDEN DAYS OF CINEMA IN JAMAICA.
But as they say, technology has made many things become obsolete and now we have entertainment on demand in the comfort of our homes.
But it used to be fun to go to the movies, those were date nights for many budding couples on a limited budget, who cud only afford popcorn and a soda.
And for the youngsters people used to get dressed up to go to the movies especially on holiday nights when there would be a Big Open Night, for a Grand Release, with a Larger than Life Movie Star.
Name a Big Movie any of you saw at the Carib.
"THE SOUND OF MUSIC" starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with an All Star of players, did it make you cry, I did.
Another one, "LOVE MEANS NEVER HAVING TO SAY YOU ARE SORRY", starring Ryan O'Neal n Ali McGraw, tear jersey dat one.
To Sir With Love, Sidney Poiter, dat one wax ethnic pride for us people of color, so many great movies, that we talked about even after the silver screens cane down signaling THE END.
P.S. We rose for the anthem, and if it was a MGM Studio Release, their trademark "LION" appeared on screen with that signature roar, and off course, in our own imitable Jamaican style you could hear the men saying "LION", as our indigenous culture of Rastafarianism was kinda coming from subculture to mainstream.

05/05/2026

Let's have a National Day of Solidarity for all our fellow Jamaicans who are victims of Hurricane Melissa, and it's been almost seven months since they have been abandoned by the Government of Jamaica, and become domiciled under tarpaulins.
So, for all who are saying that this Administration is doing a good job, please remember that Melissa has taken a lot from these unfortunate people, please leave them with their dignity.
Time to do better for these people, they are Jamaicans who are suffering, have a heart ❤.


03/05/2026

At times many men who perceive that they have absolute power and that they are infallible, please remember that this power is a mechanism for corruption.
As the saying goes, Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely.
All thru history Power has been the downfall of many, many men.
CAESAR HAD HIS IDES OF MARCH, they say he never wanted to become King, but his behavior said different, as he acted in a Kingly manner.
NAPOLEON MET HIS defeat as he underestimated his opponents, got his military demise in the BATTLE OF WATERLOO.
KENNEDY HAD HIS BAY OF PIGS.
Also the Vietnam War and its aftermath was not particularly kind to the VERY SUPERIOR FORCE OF THE USA.
THE BUSHES, also initiated a war based on a false premonition, and these lies
unfurled like a waving flag.
So that's the story of some powerful men all thru history who had fallen and never got up, some faded only to become infamous as they are immortalized for the evil that they have done to humanity.
Jamaica is now tinkering on this brink as there is a man who is seeking unfettered power to wield and deal in powerful financial shenanigans, with the Public Coffers.
This person and his Administration already has a low trust deficit within the country's financials, the trust deficit is very low, but he cares not, because he has the numbers and with this he has taken unfettered Power to pillage and plunder the Public Coffers.


02/05/2026

NO ACT OF TYRANNY COMITTED!!
She was committing an act of desperation. And there is a critical difference between the two. More than that, she was reaching for a tradition that stretches back seven decades in the Jamaican parliament, one that cuts cleanly across party lines.
THIS WAS A DEMOCRATIC MOMENT IN PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY.
Mrs. BROWN BURKE
She did not invent a new form of protest.
She joined a long, cross-party line of Jamaican parliamentarians who understood that sometimes the Mace is the only microphone the powerless have left.
Excert from WIREDJA
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica May 1, 2026- Calvin G. Brown.

02/05/2026

Oonu run in caz Mrs. HOGGANESHA shout Fyah Fyah, the Mace has been touched, a Parliamentary grapinghas taken place. "Parliament Police get har", she shouted.
So dem a run to the Mace defence, an inanimate object that has been fashioned from a weapon of war.
So as we pay homage to King Charles the 3rd, who vicariously sits in the Parliament, we ignore the voices of our people.
There will be Fyah Fyah, inna oonu Wyah,Wyah.
Mrs. HOGGANESHA ON PATROL.


02/05/2026

LIBERATION DAY!!
Protest had always been a part of many cultures. Think about the ones who have gone before, had they not decided that today is the day, would some illegal acts have been changed.
Parliament is the people's house, not Julet and Andrew domain, and if the elected representative that was sent there by the people is being sidelined, then action shud be taken. Go do oonu research, instead of harping on protocols, this is not the first and won't be the last.
Well done ABB, you deserve The Medal of Freedom, from tyranny.


30/04/2026

We shud be giving MP ABB, A Parliamentary Medal of Freedom as she has emancipated her fellow COLLEAGUES from brute force bullyism being executed from the Speaker's Chair, in the form Executive Power.
MP ABB exercised a form of protest because the collective voice of her fellow MPs wasn't being heard, who has been sent to GORDON HOUSE TO represent their interest. Drastic times calls for Drastic measures, and yes this too shall pass, as Sir or Madam Mace will still command attention and hold a pride of place in the Nation's Parliamentary Procedures. It will still be seen as that invisible and immortal vestige of Power, a relic and vestige of our Colonial Past, that we empower thru a SELECTION IN THE PARLIAMENT sitting in The Speaker's Chair, who exerts her Power thru bullyism.
So, as we salute The Honorable Angella
Brown Burke, who in an
SOS MOMENT DARED TO UPSET THE BRITISH CROWN, who vicariously sits in The Parliament High and has a watch dog still demanding and showing us,
that an inanimate object is very powerful, and will/ shud not be disturbed by mere mortals.
But ABB, we salute you, this moment will be etched in the annals of our Parliamentary Democracy.


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