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Once more, Jamaicans debate whether states of emergency are an effective crime-fighting tool or a band aid · Global Voices

On the morning of Sunday, November 14, Jamaicans were surprised with the news that Prime Minister Andrew Holness would be holding a press briefing on “matters of national importance.” Some media houses were quick to speculate that the focus would be on crime.

Holness’ announced that states of public emergency had been imposed that morning in seven police divisions, including in Montego Bay and two other parishes in the west of the island, and four police divisions in the capital, Kingston. The restrictions cover approximately one-third of the country and will remain in force for two weeks, after which time they will have to be reviewed by parliament.

States of emergency in Jamaica are nothing new. Between 1962, when the country became independent from Britain, and January 2018, the government imposed six major states of emergency. Two of the six were in response to natural disasters, the others to crime.

In April 2019, states of emergency were declared once again for the same three western parishes currently under lockdown but were lifted ahead of the country’s 2020 general elections.

At the briefing, the prime minister noted that murder rates in the affected areas had increased between 16 and 57 per cent this year. Major Antony Anderson, the commissioner of police, added that as of November 12, Jamaica had recorded 1,240 murders for 2021, COVID-19 curfews and lockdowns notwithstanding. The four Kingston divisions accounted for 32 per cent of that figure, with 392 murders. 272 people had been killed in the three western parishes, making up 22 per cent. Anderson stressed that these numbers did not include the 11 murders that had taken place in the previous 24 hours, nine of them in areas that had been placed under states of emergency. Anderson also noted that a surge in gang-related murders and reprisal killings, fueled by extortion, scamming, and the guns for drugs trade with Haiti, accounted for a little over 70 per cent of homicides…

Source: Once more, Jamaicans debate whether states of emergency are an effective crime-fighting tool or a band aid · Global Voices

A bondade é uma grandeza do espírito

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Fazer o bem não é cansativo, é uma forma de agregar valor na vida do outro. Toda vez que se pratica uma boa ação, não nos tornamos suficientes para a outra pessoa. Antes, nos tornamos suficientes para nós.

A consciência de poder construir coisas de valor, de assumir essa condição de humildade e, o que é mais importante, de nos aprimorar como pessoas, principalmente sobre aquilo que se precisa melhorar, não em relação ao outro, mas no que diz respeito às nossas próprias imperfeições, nos permite enxergar beleza na pessoa que há em nós. A bondade é uma característica da nobreza humana. Só faz o bem, aquele que o bem guarda por dentro de si.

Eu fico extremamente incomodada quando digo que o bem existe e, que precisamos praticá-lo se quisermos ter uma vida com êxito. O incômodo é porque algumas pessoas não compreendem o porquê de minhas palavras. Então…

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Florestan Fernandes

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” A liberdade – como igualdade – se conquista “. Essa é a significação histórica do 20 de Novembro. Os anarquistas, os socialistas e os comunistas não podem compartilhar, apenas, de uma consciência crítica da situação do negro. Eles devem saber que o preconceito e a discriminação racionais estão presos a uma rede de exploração do homem pelo homem e que o bombardeio da identidade racial é o prelúdio ou o requisito da formação de uma população excedente destinada, em massa, ao trabalho sujo e mal pago como surgerem várias investigações feitas nos Estados Unidos, na Inglaterra e na África do Sul.”

Florestan Fernandes. ALIENAÇÃO E AUTOEMANCIPAÇÃO.

Florestan Fernandes. Significado do Protesto Negro. 1ed. São Paulo: Expressão Popular co-edição Editora da Fundação Perseu Abramo, 2017

Marii Freire Pereira

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There is no planet B – Saving our planet starts at home — Chameleon in High Heels — Barbara Crane Navarro

Opening the BBC News App, it’s peppered with updates from COP26, the 26th UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow which ended last Friday.  Many have said that not enough has been done and those nations who are already suffering most will continue to suffer, because us richer nations, who have caused most of this damage, […] […]

There is no planet B – Saving our planet starts at home — Chameleon in High Heels — Barbara Crane Navarro

Guyana: El impacto de la extracción de oro en Wapichan Wiizi — Ecoamazônia — Barbara Crane Navarro

En nombre del desarrollo, la minería aurífera destruye nuestro ambiente, afecta a los pulmones de la Madre Tierra, debilita las relaciones humanas y contamina los ríos. La codicia y el lucro no son compatibles con la vida en nuestros territorios: derriban árboles, afectan a las aves que cantan y silencian los sonidos de los animales… Guyana: […]

Guyana: El impacto de la extracción de oro en Wapichan Wiizi — Ecoamazônia — Barbara Crane Navarro

« My grandparents fished to feed the community in this river. Now it’s just sludge, gasoline, diesel and mercury contamination. Fish die and our Yanomami land is dying. – The gold miners took everything, our safety and our health. » — Barbara Crane Navarro

Yanomami child playing in a river  photo: Barbara Crane Navarro « My grandparents fished to feed the community in this river. Now it’s just sludge, gasoline, diesel and mercury contamination. Fish die and our Yanomami land is dying.  We Yanomami suffer, we don’t have peace. The gold miners destroy our houses (Yanopë), destroy our forest (Urihi), destroy […]

« My grandparents fished to feed the community in this river. Now it’s just sludge, gasoline, diesel and mercury contamination. Fish die and our Yanomami land is dying. – The gold miners took everything, our safety and our health. » — Barbara Crane Navarro

Alphabet soup for the soul vol.2 -“G” — Words from Walden

G is for God “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” Genesis 1:1 The birds and bees, the leaves and trees, the rolling rivers and salty seas. From A-Z, Antelope through to Zebra, these are all a self-nod of the awe-inspiring things that remind me of God. Embrace moments so there will […]

Alphabet soup for the soul vol.2 -“G” — Words from Walden