Yardies at Home and a Farrin (part16)

[Forever Young 1]

Mawning Yardies,

where's DARA????

Here I am (((waving))).. I took some days off from work and since I have no internet at home well no work means no play...lol

Girl where do you find your friends? For them to live in NYC you would think they would be more open minded since NYC is a melting pot. I mean geesh even I before falling in love with a Jamaican was pretty closed mind but never in my wildest dreams would I make some of the comments she said. Maybe you need a new circle of friends Newly...lol

Living in NY has nothing to do with making people more open minded - I have met some of the most close minded people in NY - there are neighborhoods that are completely segregated to one race / religion -

Agreed Sus...certain parts of NY are SO segregrated it's disgusting!! Howard Beach...Bensonhurst...Staten Island...don't even get me started on Long Island!

Gill

[TRELAWNY PARISH 10]

i take that back...not always...make sure to call first

mi naw nu phone...just cook sumtin mi we bring the ziplock bags and tupperware

[TRELAWNY PARISH 10]

Mawning Yardies,

where's DARA????

Here I am (((waving))).. I took some days off from work and since I have no internet at home well no work means no play...lol

Girl where do you find your friends? For them to live in NYC you would think they would be more open minded since NYC is a melting pot. I mean geesh even I before falling in love with a Jamaican was pretty closed mind but never in my wildest dreams would I make some of the comments she said. Maybe you need a new circle of friends Newly...lol

Living in NY has nothing to do with making people more open minded - I have met some of the most close minded people in NY - there are neighborhoods that are completely segregated to one race / religion -

Agreed Sus...certain parts of NY are SO segregrated it's disgusting!! Howard Beach...Bensonhurst...Staten Island...don't even get me started on Long Island!

Gill

Yeah, I didn't know that until I ended up in New Rochelle and some place called Disdell Estates near Bronx, bway mi a tell u I was so lost. Didn't help to drive a car with tinted windows no one would give us directions...I told my cousin, look someone will call the police and they'll tell us how to get back to Queens and that's what happened.

[finesse 3]

i take that back...not always...make sure to call first

mi naw nu phone...just cook sumtin mi we bring the ziplock bags and tupperware

dats ow it go sometime.....i'm like..where you going with my chicken? people crazy

[^KK^ 3]

oh Gees!! I'm tryin to get some work done, but I really don't feel like it.

That was me yesterday..and kinda today..

[BunzTheMagicSnail 2]

Mikuzi shooting:

Witness tells of shot Kiwi's fight

4:00AM Saturday Jul 11, 2009

By Alanah May Eriksen

Tiki Hunia, pictured with his grandmother Irihapeti Hunia, was known as a `gentle giant'. Photo / Supplied

Tiki Hunia, pictured with his grandmother Irihapeti Hunia, was known as a `gentle giant'. Photo / Supplied

A woman who saw the incident that led to New Zealander Tiki Hunia being fatally shot at a Jamaican hotel has described how he pounced on his attacker to protect his wife.

The American was on holiday with her boyfriend, who was also held at gunpoint and forced to hand over the contents of his pockets.

The 34-year-old, who did not want to be named, and her partner were fellow guests at the Mikuzi Guesthouse in the upmarket suburb of St Andrew in Kingston, the capital.

The pair were standing under a gazebo - where about 10 other people were sitting, including Mr Hunia and his wife Nickie-Jean, who were on a second honeymoon - to look at a map where there was light, when two gun-wielding men entered the property.

One of the gunmen started yelling asking if a man named Angelo was there before he pressed a gun against the stomach of the woman's partner and made him hand over US$30 and the keys to his guesthouse out of his pants pockets. Meanwhile, the other gunman approached Mrs Hunia and snatched the cellphone out of her hand, upsetting her husband.

"He got upset because he wanted to protect her so he jumped on the person and they just fell into the bushes in the garden and started to fight," the US woman told the Weekend Herald.

"At that point I just said, 'Okay, I have to get out of here.' So I ran. While I was running I heard shooting so I told the receptionist to call a police and then I went to hide myself.

"We were hiding in the room for a few minutes and then we walked out and his wife was frantically running around and looking for her husband."

She said they found Mr Hunia behind one of the cottages.

"He was lying on the gravel. He was wounded but he was still breathing."

The police arrived a few minutes later and the woman and three other people rolled Mr Hunia on to a blanket and carried him into the police car.

Mrs Hunia sat next to her husband and they were driven to the hospital, where Mr Hunia died.

The witness believed the intruders had staked out the property and planned the robbery because they struck minutes before a security guard arrived to start his shift. He was walking towards the guesthouse when he heard the gunshots.

Mr Hunia's mother, Gloria, said the gunman pistol-whipped her daughter-in-law in the head and she ran into the lobby to get help while her husband was wrestling with the gunman.

"She heard the two gunshots when she was in there. When she came back, my son was lying on the ground.

"She thought he was okay, [that] the gunshot had gone through his arm. But it had actually gone into the side of his chest and had pierced his lung."

A brother and an uncle of Mr Hunia, who was originally from Te Teko in the Bay of Plenty, arrived in Jamaica yesterday.

Also yesterday, family and friends paid tribute to the man they called a "gentle giant".

Kara Warren flatted with Mr Hunia in Hamilton - where he met his wife while at Waikato University - and attended his wedding. "I can't help but smile and remember the good times. That's what is getting all of us through."

Mr Warren said Mr Hunia treated all his friends as if they were his best mates. A tall man, "he could have been the enforcer or something like that but he chose to be a pleasant guy".

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said yesterday Jamaican police were no closer to catching the gunmen.

"Mr Hunia's death has been noted at the highest level by the Jamaican Government. We're in close contact with the family and we're providing consulate assistance to Mr Hunia's wife via the British High Commission in Kingston and via the New Zealand High Commission in Ottawa."

I know this sort of senseless violence happens everywhere. But, the size of the island and the economic need for foreign visitors makes me pissed off when I read something like this.

it annoys me to no end

now when they catch those guys they shouldn't even be carried before a court

they should be hung out in public and stoned

[TRELAWNY PARISH 10]

I have a question, since dem tap serve food on the Air Jamaica flights, you don't think they'll mind if I bring fry fish, fry dumplins, (2) bully beef sandwices; my sister will have ackee and saltfish with festival and eat that on the plane. Ya'll think they'll take it from us. Too bad I can't bring a thermos a milo like I use to do back in the day.

[phillyfashionista 8]

Hey Dada ( Waving ) How were your days off? That's what I need some time off I am always working I am worn out! I have been shopping like crazy lately to ease my stress LOL

[dillon 6]

Tre- if the flight attendants don't take it away from you I am sure the passengers will. Why are you going to go and STANK the plane up!

[BunzTheMagicSnail 2]

I have a question, since dem tap serve food on the Air Jamaica flights, you don't think they'll mind if I bring fry fish, fry dumplins, (2) bully beef sandwices; my sister will have ackee and saltfish with festival and eat that on the plane. Ya'll think they'll take it from us. Too bad I can't bring a thermos a milo like I use to do back in the day.

den a so yuh haffi carry yuh belly wid yuh go everywhere? is a 12 hour flight dat?

reminds me of that episode of oliver where him carry him pot a porridge and ask the air hostess for a tall glass a lemonade lol

[*JG* 2]

I have a question, since dem tap serve food on the Air Jamaica flights, you don't think they'll mind if I bring fry fish, fry dumplins, (2) bully beef sandwices; my sister will have ackee and saltfish with festival and eat that on the plane. Ya'll think they'll take it from us. Too bad I can't bring a thermos a milo like I use to do back in the day.

They allow food on planes. I dont' see why they would, Tre.

[^KK^ 3]

I have a question, since dem tap serve food on the Air Jamaica flights, you don't think they'll mind if I bring fry fish, fry dumplins, (2) bully beef sandwices; my sister will have ackee and saltfish with festival and eat that on the plane. Ya'll think they'll take it from us. Too bad I can't bring a thermos a milo like I use to do back in the day.

I didn't know this..I remember reading the SPIRIT AIR purchased the airline. Dang it..

[TRELAWNY PARISH 10]

Tre- if the flight attendants don't take it away from you I am sure the passengers will. Why are you going to go and STANK the plane up!

Cause I'm KUNTRI....we have a very early flight and traveling with young kids and I know they won't eat in morning. They usually get on the plane sleep and hour or so then wake up hungry. I'll see...can't believe I have to be at the AP at 4:00am --

[^KK^ 3]

Tre- if the flight attendants don't take it away from you I am sure the passengers will. Why are you going to go and STANK the plane up!

lol..my thoughts...I don't even bring fish to work for that fact. I wouldn't want someone else to stink up the place therefore I won't.

[finesse 3]

I have a question, since dem tap serve food on the Air Jamaica flights, you don't think they'll mind if I bring fry fish, fry dumplins, (2) bully beef sandwices; my sister will have ackee and saltfish with festival and eat that on the plane. Ya'll think they'll take it from us. Too bad I can't bring a thermos a milo like I use to do back in the day.

damn ooman, the flight only a few hours...