Online feedback
Published:Tuesday | October 12, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Below are edited excerpts from comments posted online at www.jamaica-gleaner.com by readers to yesterday's lead story 'Tax hurts tourism', which said that The United Kingdom imposed air passenger duty (APD) is having a devastating effect on arrivals to the Caribbean.
It's an anti-black people plot
The sooner Caribbean countries, particularly Jamaica, wake up and realise that England does not have their interest at heart, the sooner they will stop looking to them for anything and the better off we will be.
There are some of us who think English people are still our lords and masters and, therefore, should dictate how we live. These same people can't see that the intention of these English is to see these islands destroyed so they can use it as proof that black people cannot govern themselves.
Just use the Privy Council as an example. Those of us who believe that the Privy Council has our interest at heart are not only naive, but do not mean their country any good. By now, they should realise that the Privy Council couldn't care less about the crime situation in Jamaica and the Caribbean. To them, this is going as planned!
- Guest
elite scam
This tax, disguised as APD in regard to the so-called global warming is just another part of the elite's global-warming scam or, as it is now called, climate change. These people are going to tax, charge and fine the world to the point where there will only be two classes of people in the world - the very rich (the elite) and the very poor.
The elite are not satisfied with just enslaving a few poor countries here and there; they are now going to literally enslave the world. It's too bad the people of the Caribbean and others that have been exploited did not become wiser after slavery.
- Brian
What of medical tourism?
What about the prediction last month that Americans would be travelling to the Caribbean spending billions of dollars on discounted medical tourism? Sick people will still travel, that is, if the prediction is worth the paper it was written on.
- Maude Cooper