Bus Fare Gone Sky High

By: Jodi-Kaye Watson

It seems like the price of everything is rising except the salary of Jamaicans. It has been announced that The Office of Utilities Regulation has approved a 25 per cent increase for rural buses and hackney carriages. Jamaica is a nice place to live, but it seems so impossible when you have citizens working for minimum wage while at the same time bus fares are increasing. When you really think about it $3,700 per week cannot do much. There are bills to pay, children have to go to school and people have to eat.

No working individual should take home less than $6,000 per week when considering the economic situation Jamaica is facing. I remember, just the other day one loaf of bread was for $95, now when you visit retail outlets it's $190 for that same loaf of bread! This is unbelievable! Jamaica needs a miracle if we are going to survive.

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You have some individuals who have to take two or three public vehicles to get to work, now with imminent increase in bus fares they may as well stay home, as they may be better off. It seems as if some Jamaicans are only working to pay bus fare and buy lunch. Jamaicans really have it hard. It makes no sense for us to play the blame game as it will not make the situation better. All that I can say is... "be strong Jamaicans and pray for a miracle because we really need it."

Dugu Dugu

@tc this Sharon person should go back to Jamaica as she will get caught eventually and get deported and it don't make sense to suffer. one ting mi aggo tell Jamaicans now America,Canada and England is for people who have proof of formal education and who have good luck, farin anno fi poor people. all who seh Jamaica have no money unnu just too lazy to find it because its there, thats just my opinion.....

Incognito

TC, she needs to go back home, if she can't get it together in 7 yrs what are the chances she will ever get it together. She left the 10 yr old at 3 and the 12 yr old at 5. These children do not even know her as mother. She doesn't want to go home because she is ashamed as a woman and as a mother. Sometimes when we are thinking about going abroad we need to have a definite plan and not just anxious to get out; if you are single with no dependents you can do that shyt, but a mother has to think as a mother and separation from your child/ren for such an extensive period is not healthy at all. Your child has a better chance of success if you are an active participant in their life, than just a Western Union mom and barrel mother.

TC, I hope she does what is right, and failing is not the worse thing that can happen to her, GOD forbids one of her children getting ill and dying and she not being their to help, or she dying in NY and her children not around. I'll keep her in my prayers.

dap -pa

the lord will not give us more than we can bear.

vaughn

too meny miles beind me too meeny trials

too meny taires i need to remember there

is too much to gain to loose

tc

i need someone opinion on this, a situation, sharon (not real name)in the usa for 7 years illigal with 3 kids back home suffering in every way, ages 10,12,15 and she not doing well either, cleaning people house with a weekly salary of $370, living in a single room etc. i told her to go back home but she thinks thats a bad idea. someone please help me out on this, she will be reading also, thanks.