AFCP

For Section 2, might I suggest:

Facilitate activities, programs and projects, including historical tourism and community tourism, to promote preservationist development in involved communities, .

Article I. Name of Organization 

The name of the organization is: "St. Ann Creative"

BYLAWS

https://www.boardeffect.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/sample_nonprofit_bylaws.pdf

Article II. Purpose

Section 1. Nonprofit Purpose This corporation is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational and scientific purposes, including, for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code.

Section 2. With attention to their potential for historical, community and eco tourism, or to be otherwise models for sensitive development, set up or support activities, programs and projects that tend to develop the leadership role of selected communities.

Article III. Membership Nonprofits can limit their members to the board of directors. When they choose to open up membership to the public, they should outline some parameters for the following: membership eligibility, dues, members’ rights, resignation, termination and non-voting membership.

Members will pay a recurring membership fee of $1 per month. This will be paid into an account that is transparent and from which no withdrawals can be made.

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Brian Lee and Village to Village: program of Americans helping Africa in relatively selfless ways, without middle man bureaucracy.

For that program to grow its legitimacy, it could help to associate it with Garvey's vision for upliftment of the African world

To associate this African vision with colonial architectural heritage would be healing and unifying (Why?)

It is a cultural element that can get a headstart in SAB and be advantageous for the populist American venture in the African continent

Important for the African world in the Americas as well

Jamaica is an anglophone nation with its interconnected native Jamaican creole language. It has had centuries a hybrid language and cultural style--part African, part European.

Although slavery was endemic in pre European Africa, the scale of slavery of Africans in Europe territories was unprecedented. It is creditably beliecved that at least 11 million Africans were sold into European slavery. 

Whereas  endemic intra African slavery was among people of similar ethnicity, large ethnic and civilizational differences between African slaves and European slave owners might have created unprecedented gaps between slaves and owners. And adapting to those gaps at such a scale and speed might be seen as a most unusual event in history? Moreover, the indiscriminate (?) mixing of Africans of different cultures and languages together so that THEY had to adapt to each other could be seen as an equally monumental cultural challenge. (It's unclear as to the nature of adaptation by and among slaves as opposed to that by or among slave owners. Scholars should delve into this.)

A takeaway from the issue of adaption by continental African to cultural conditions in the West is the unalterable way in which Africans in the West challenge the issue of African identity. Is the African in the West a harbinger of African unity? And, if so, is European heritage therefore embedded in a provisional African identity?  

JAMAICA IS AFRICA

Trevor Burrowes I ratcheted up what I understood of the relationships we're dealing with globally. If we are free (or relatively free) to chart our own course, we are free to designate Jamaica as an African nation within a provisional African unity. As an African nation equal to any other, we would be as entitled as any other to set the rules for that unity. If we can therefore set an example of African independence, then other African nations are free to join us. In this way, as Jamaica goes, so goes whatever we term "Africa." I'm sure we can do better with independence if we work at it. And that means all of us.

Brian Lee and Village to Village: program of Americans helping Africa in relatively selfless ways, without middle man bureaucracy.

For that program to grow its legitimacy, it could help to associate it with Garvey's vision for upliftment of the African world

To associate this African vision with colonial architectural heritage would be healing and unifying (Why?)

It is a cultural element that can get a headstart in SAB and be advantageous for the populist American venture in the African continent

Important for the African world in the Americas as well

Jamaica is an anglophone nation with its interconnected native Jamaican creole language. It has had centuries a hybrid language and cultural style--part African, part European.

Although slavery was endemic in pre European Africa, the scale of slavery of Africans in Europe territories was unprecedented. It is creditably beliecved that at least 11 million Africans were sold into European slavery. 

Whereas  endemic intra African slavery was among people of similar ethnicity, large ethnic and civilizational differences between African slaves and European slave owners might have created unprecedented gaps between slaves and owners. And adapting to those gaps at such a scale and speed might be seen as a most unusual event in history? Moreover, the indiscriminate (?) mixing of Africans of different cultures and languages together so that THEY had to adapt to each other could be seen as an equally monumental cultural challenge. (It's unclear as to the nature of adaptation by and among slaves as opposed to that by or among slave owners. Scholars should delve into this.)

A takeaway from the issue of adaption by continental African to cultural conditions in the West is the unalterable way in which Africans in the West challenge the issue of African identity. Is the African in the West a harbinger of African unity? And, if so, is European heritage therefore embedded in a provisional African identity?  

ICE BOXES

DID FOOD GO TO WASTE DURING THE SHUT DOWN OF TOURISM DURING THE covid LOCKDOWN


If I'm not mistaken, we need a very great increase in refrigeration for unmarketable crops. And these refrigeration resources could be distributed widely throughout all 14 parishes. There used to be ice houses where you could buy ice to put in your lead-lined icebox with sawdust for insulation. If they're still around, they could be put to use again. It's also easy to build ice boxes from cheap materials.

JAMAICA CREATIVE

Dear Doris, 

How are you doing as lockdown seems to be lifting all over? I've attached a couple images that might help explain what my experiments are leading to. It requires a determined amount of cardboard boxes to fill in to make plinths, allowing for the superimposition of walls made from cardboard bricks. (see attachments)

In a building, the walls would partly rest on 2x4 plinth-spanning boards (as the rough sketch on top might indicate). But to fill in a gap in a partly destroyed wall (think that little Main St building in SAB), one wouldn't need boards. Just have a 5' PVC pipe sticking up from the plinth, then slide a rectangle of brick formation snugly on top of the plinth. If the plinth had sufficiently heavy "ballast" inserted in base of plinth (instead of just light plastic and paper pulp) it might not topple over.

ST. ANN'S BAY CREATIVE? 

ST. ANN CREATIVE?

Do you think either of these could apply to a new nonprofit?

Minister Babsie Grange advocates  a JAMAICA CREATIVE. (I'm sure she got the idea from you!). What if "we" take that concept and make it real? 

Placing a few of those plinth block things in the side of the little building (JUST FOR SHOW) would be a possible start for a SAB CREATIVE. (Placing these ready-built items on the floor to SUGGEST boarding up the yawning gap could have zero harmful impact on the physical structure.

Could Min Grange work some kind of protection--as in the govt taking liability for any legal trespassing action?

A SWAP?

1) Would you consider helping me with that little building in exchange with me drawing in fairly detailed manner ideas for Downtown Kingston?

2) As a founder of the "Creative" idea, would you consider leading a Jamaica Creative project, working where there are PHYSICAL creative projects elsewhere than in Kgn? If I'm so blessed as to get grants, it could fund your work? You wouldn't at all have to take on the whole island; only places where there is a partner trying already--like w/ SAB.

3) If Min Grang is an enthusiastic partner, might that streghthen the CREATIVE project all over? 

Hang tough,

T

PS: Could you please give me the email address for the SAB planner? Mr. Pink? Thanks!

2 Attached Images

TO SUSAN NATHAN KNIGHT

Thank you very much indeed for this frightening account!

HOW ARE YOU?

Did your husband get the treatment he needed? How is he now? I know how it is to be totally dependent on selling property, and getting enough from it to go on with the next stage of life. I was able to sell my late mom's Mona house, give some money to my kids, and still pay down on a house in NM. Such things are great blessings that we seem required to put toward "paying it back." It's going to get bad all over, and paying back now might be the best we can do to hold on to some livable world.

THE JAMAICAN SCENE

Thanks for explaining the utter direness of the Jamaican scene. All it is up to is give away land or manipulate it for short term gain. You're making me see more than ever how much the economic system runs on ruthless resource extraction from the land.

But with an ever growing population on an ever shrinking resource base, something's gotta give. We can't grow the land-intensive economic system indefinitely on a finite planet. 

I'm truly saddened by your bitter experience attending to the desired and expected outcomes from the land you owned. On top of it we have a pandemic that is bad enough by itself, while being a sort of handmaiden of either a profound economic depression, or collapse. 

What happened to you speaks of a lack of transparency, clarity or vision in land use policy. I have no illusion that I can change that. I'd like to see Andy's and my recommendations studies at some high level, but even to get feasibility studies would take too long to make sense. So thanks again for taking the time to instill some understanding of what is at stake, suggesting not to allow bauxite to distract my attention.

PLANNING

I don't have to get anyone's buy-in to embark on preliminary planning focused on St. Ann's Bay (or St. Ann Parish), So planning is preferable to getting tangled up in the nightmare of bauxite. I'm content to do that, however hopeless in terms of tangible results. Maybe some unknown beneficient source will arise, where even a sketchy plan could be useful.

What planning could provide:

-- clarity and transparency.

-- Vision: The properties need to conform to a vision. That real estate property is there to make owners money is part of a world view that is clearly not working well in Jamaica (which is unwilling and unable to protect the private-property rights of owners).

-- It wouldn't hurt to have a plan for properties that go beyond advantages to individuals and look at advantages to communities. Manley appears not to have thought these matters through.

-- Environment and Landscape: The assumption that subdividing properties, clearing land, and building (at this stage, concrete being de rigeur) is appropriate is not reasonable to my mind. We need all the biomass we can muster, and the loss of it is causing drought. The landscape needs to be bushy and wild, and structures need to go on plinth blocks that require no significant digging or clearing.

-- Preservation: Any structure planned to be demolished should be photographed and measured by draftsman/engineer/builders, and we might need to train planning staff to do it themselves on  government required grid paper. None of this is rocket science. 

-- I operate mostly as a one person think tank, and I do actual advocacy through Facebook, hoping it can raise consciousness and promote specific local actions. I see little to no results from this, but not trying seems worse.

-- Values: The world is awash in a value system that I have no obvious power to interrupt. I therefore focus on design standards that maximize biomass and rural aesthetics, that preserve water, and allow for adequate food production. This is not terribly successful either, but it is more feasible in terms of cost, and could be effected if attitudes merely changed. 

TREES

https://www.fs.fed.us/nrs/news/review/review-vol26.pdf

LISA HANNA

Dear MP Hanna,

It was very pleasing to see you enjoying a little (much, much deserved) R&R. I seem to be on a list that allows me to make comments. Thanks for the inclusion.

The shut down is auspicious. Bauxite needs to manage their sites in completely different ways--primarily planting forests on all surfaces that are not involved in actually mining or transporting. This would also include vegetation-covered roofs. Even those huge earthen piles could be covered with some sort of vegetated net. Could it work to run the emissions along the edges in perforated tubes and cover them with carbon absorbing plants?

https://www.facebook.com/STANN360/photos/a.485155942119/10156909125047120/?type=3&theater&ifg=1

Whoever will be accountable while having the people's interest at heart

There may be a requirement to do things outside the norm that genuine leaders must initiate by themselves. If any leader would authoritarianism, I imagine it would be you. Not many, if any, people could have summoned the vision of a Marcus Garvey. He had to lead from the top, while never losing site or respect for people at the bottom.

I'm afraid I have rather accommodationist tendencies, tending to proceed gradually along commonsense lines that at least do no harm.

I replaced each name with a letter of the alphabet for the sake of privacy

conversation on Restoring St. Ann's Bay.

 A wrote: then what?

Trevor Burrowes: "...they will be closing down at the mines at water valley for 2 or 3 months but it wont be closing down in discovery bay contract workers will be laid off and permanent workers who operate machines will go to discovery bay and work. That's why they are working extra hard right now to carry most of the bauxite to dbay right now👍"

Trevor Burrowes: There's plenty of off-road space (see the image) to plant trees to absorb the pollution. There's one good example at bottom right. So why don't they do that all over the grounds? How hard is it to plant trees?

B wrote: They need to get out and stop raping the country's resources, we need all the red dirt we can keep #farmerlife

Trevor Burrowes i GUESS THEY FIGURE THEY NEED ALUMINUM FOR PLANES (AND MANY OTHER INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS). (Sorry, caplock error). Even so, what's the excuse for not planting trees (as densely as that clump at lower right) on all the green areas?

B wrote: Jamaican bauxite has been finished we need to keep all our dirt and share it with farmers especially those on poor soils, our attitudes must change of towards our longevity and survival, agriculture and forestry are the only sustainable pathway that are renewable for our survival, every other resources are limited and temperamental..

C wrote: I'm not an expert on this but it would seem practical for govt authorities to step in and require Noranda to gather all the sargasso seaweed polluting the beaches and truck it up to strip mined sites, spread it where they have not replaced the top soil and it will in due time decompose and help to heal the land.

Trevor Burrowes: I love the idea. The tree idea was to deal with whatever is transmitted that cause cancer clusters. But trees ought to help the respiratory system in the age of COVID too?

C wrote: In a properly designed composting operation the decomposing pile of organic material will have perforated piping that channels methane gas to fuel a small incinerator that burns plastic waste to produce a baseline amount of energy to make the whole operation self sustaining.

Trevor Burrowes: Wonderful energy idea! So they'd have more than one product interacting. Undoubtedly, these varied ideas should be given expert scrutiny. My perforated tube idea was to replace the smokestack with a perforated conduit and cover it with constantly renewed CO2-absorbing plants. That would be work for farmers. So instead of a net environmental nightmare bauxite mining could be a kind of environmental plus.

C wrote: Trevor, there was a lady from the Cockpit Country Warriors group with a catchy name, I think it was Miduntalk Wright, who is apparently a Jamaican in Toronto who organized a protest against the Jamaican Embassy in Toronto to protest mining in the Cockpit Country of Jamaica. If you could recruit her that would be great!