Comments on: Jamaica’s Violence Spirals Further Out Of Control http://www.marviaspanamajournal.com/272/jamaicas-violence-spirals-further-out-of-control/ Candid Reflections of A Female Missioner Pastor In Panama Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:12:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Jamaipanese http://www.marviaspanamajournal.com/272/jamaicas-violence-spirals-further-out-of-control/comment-page-1/#comment-2009 Jamaipanese Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:57:31 +0000 http://www.marviaspanamajournal.com/?p=272#comment-2009 thanks for visiting and sharing the link with interested persons thanks for visiting and sharing the link with interested persons

]]> By: Marvia http://www.marviaspanamajournal.com/272/jamaicas-violence-spirals-further-out-of-control/comment-page-1/#comment-2007 Marvia Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:15:11 +0000 http://www.marviaspanamajournal.com/?p=272#comment-2007 Jamaipanese, Thanks for visiting. I quite understand how you feel. It is depressing. However, we have a choice to sink in the depression or choose to do something about it. Thanks for keeping a positive image of Jamaica alive. I join with others to draw attention to the problem and add pressure where we can. Something has to change - for better not worse. Thanks for sharing the link to your new site. Peace, Marvia Jamaipanese,
Thanks for visiting.

I quite understand how you feel. It is depressing. However, we have a choice to sink in the depression or choose to do something about it.

Thanks for keeping a positive image of Jamaica alive. I join with others to draw attention to the problem and add pressure where we can. Something has to change – for better not worse.

Thanks for sharing the link to your new site.

Peace,
Marvia

]]> By: Jamaipanese http://www.marviaspanamajournal.com/272/jamaicas-violence-spirals-further-out-of-control/comment-page-1/#comment-2006 Jamaipanese Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:12:47 +0000 http://www.marviaspanamajournal.com/?p=272#comment-2006 I am so depressed whenever I think about the violence going on in Jamaica. Sadly I see no end to it. I will not give up though and a while ago I launched a site that focuses on positive news and info related to Jamaica @ http://www.jamaicapage.com I am so depressed whenever I think about the violence going on in Jamaica. Sadly I see no end to it.

I will not give up though and a while ago I launched a site that focuses on positive news and info related to Jamaica @ http://www.jamaicapage.com

]]> By: Marvia http://www.marviaspanamajournal.com/272/jamaicas-violence-spirals-further-out-of-control/comment-page-1/#comment-1994 Marvia Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:50:49 +0000 http://www.marviaspanamajournal.com/?p=272#comment-1994 Derri, Sorry that I had to start with such dreadful news but it hit hard I tell you. It's not an easy reality to accept and the Amnesty report confirmed what I felt all along. Remember when I spoke of the power of 'we'? Well that's what it will take for Jamaicans at home and abroad to do whatever it takes to have a positive impact on this situation. Change has to come. Can you imagine it otherwise? Yes we must never 'cease praying'. However, more of our church members are embroiled in and benefiting from the criminal activity of children and grandchildren. And that is part of the problem as well. The task is great but not impossible...... Blessings! Derri,
Sorry that I had to start with such dreadful news but it hit hard I tell you. It’s not an easy reality to accept and the Amnesty report confirmed what I felt all along.

Remember when I spoke of the power of ‘we’? Well that’s what it will take for Jamaicans at home and abroad to do whatever it takes to have a positive impact on this situation. Change has to come. Can you imagine it otherwise?

Yes we must never ‘cease praying’. However, more of our church members are embroiled in and benefiting from the criminal activity of children and grandchildren. And that is part of the problem as well.

The task is great but not impossible……

Blessings!

]]> By: Derri http://www.marviaspanamajournal.com/272/jamaicas-violence-spirals-further-out-of-control/comment-page-1/#comment-1991 Derri Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:35:37 +0000 http://www.marviaspanamajournal.com/?p=272#comment-1991 Hey Marvia, Been waiting for a long while for a new post and when you finally do post, it’s about crime in Jamaica! Thanks Marvia! Thanks a lot! The truth is, the truth hurts! All you’ve said is the truth. I don’t listen to the news anymore and when I do its just to hear if there is anything interesting in the headlines. Disillusioned am I? Yeah maybe that’s it. I feel relatively safe. None of this violence has hit home close enough (God forbid it does). Numb to all of this? Yeah maybe I am. Super confidence and faith in God my Jehovah Nisi? Yeah that’s part of it, which it was a major reason why. I’ve resolved to just do my one little part. Speak out against the injustice that I come across. Try to get this into the psyche of the youth I teach Sunday School (I teach all boys). So many of them have been sucked into this self-destructive “informer fi dead” rubbish where ppl don’t speak out for fear of reprisal. No one volunteers information or help. I pray that they don’t actually believe the stuff they say but are only outwardly advocating this to be controversial in class. So yeah I know about the crime, I’m aware of it. I can’t die before God wants me to… This im sure is far from the right response, dismal. I’ve got hope in God, hope for change but outside of my daily encounters I guess I don’t have that active hope that goes out and goes the extra mile… Hey I don’t know… Thanks for the info on Batfink. :D Seems like a pretty cool cartoon, If only super solar sonic radar and wings of steel were the answer… Bless Hey Marvia,
Been waiting for a long while for a new post and when you finally do post, it’s about crime in Jamaica! Thanks Marvia! Thanks a lot!

The truth is, the truth hurts! All you’ve said is the truth.

I don’t listen to the news anymore and when I do its just to hear if there is anything interesting in the headlines. Disillusioned am I? Yeah maybe that’s it.

I feel relatively safe. None of this violence has hit home close enough (God forbid it does). Numb to all of this? Yeah maybe I am.
Super confidence and faith in God my Jehovah Nisi? Yeah that’s part of it, which it was a major reason why.

I’ve resolved to just do my one little part. Speak out against the injustice that I come across. Try to get this into the psyche of the youth I teach Sunday School (I teach all boys). So many of them have been sucked into this self-destructive “informer fi dead” rubbish where ppl don’t speak out for fear of reprisal. No one volunteers information or help. I pray that they don’t actually believe the stuff they say but are only outwardly advocating this to be controversial in class.

So yeah I know about the crime, I’m aware of it. I can’t die before God wants me to…
This im sure is far from the right response, dismal. I’ve got hope in God, hope for change but outside of my daily encounters I guess I don’t have that active hope that goes out and goes the extra mile…

Hey I don’t know…

Thanks for the info on Batfink. :D Seems like a pretty cool cartoon, If only super solar sonic radar and wings of steel were the answer…

Bless

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