Yardies, at home and a farrin' (Part 3)

[Sonshyne 2]

Well.....at least you got through and know there is no date That's better than not getting through and not knowing......sorry. Hopefully you will have better luck next week

Thats true Not knowing is far worst

[Minfay 0]

There were times when (I swear) they answered the phone and stuffed it in a drawer....just to let me hang there....all the minutes I ate up on my calling card trying to get an answer out of those people.

[smileypaige 0]

...the "visa making machine" could be broken....it's happened before.....sorry, I really do wish there was something I could say to make you all feel better.....

The truth of the matter is that the Embassy SUCKS and I am a firm believer that they do try to make it more miserable hoping that it will become too hard and too stressful and you will give up. That is what I have always thought -- NEVER have I run into more of a bunch of incompetent people in my life.

If I treated people who are calling my office like they have treated "us" -- I would have lost my job a long, long, long time ago.

Well if it would have just been the visa machine being broken, then at least I'd know what's going on. As it is, I got through to someone and they proceeded to tell me that my case had been withdrawn. She couldn't even find the interview and told me to call back next week to speak to someone else. At that point my brain was completely fried so I hung up. After a few minutes I decided to call back and have them search a different way. Well they found our case but no Visa has been printed yet. Of course when I asked why she said there was nothing on the record to tell her the reason. So again I get to call back next week and see what's going on, ASSUMING anything gets put in the file. This is absolutely ridiculous......

How are they going to approve the Visa's then realize something is wrong? And wouldn't you think they'd immediately note the file. We are living in the computer age!! So Monday, I will again, sit on the phone dialing over and over again until I reach a person and pray they have some information. If there is something wrong with the paperwork, we could still be looking at months until he can get here. This process really REALLY SUCKS!!

[brownnskinn 0]

I just found out my loving husband was cheating on me. I guess sometimes it is too good to be true You all take care. He's been seeing this 16 year old for the past 6 months. Her mother called me today. She is on the way over. with her daughter. Of course he left. It's so sad. I would have never had a clue. He's been so good to me. More details later.

Edited January 26, 2007 by Denden

[Shemmy 4]

...the "visa making machine" could be broken....it's happened before.....sorry, I really do wish there was something I could say to make you all feel better.....

The truth of the matter is that the Embassy SUCKS and I am a firm believer that they do try to make it more miserable hoping that it will become too hard and too stressful and you will give up. That is what I have always thought -- NEVER have I run into more of a bunch of incompetent people in my life.

If I treated people who are calling my office like they have treated "us" -- I would have lost my job a long, long, long time ago.

Well if it would have just been the visa machine being broken, then at least I'd know what's going on. As it is, I got through to someone and they proceeded to tell me that my case had been withdrawn. She couldn't even find the interview and told me to call back next week to speak to someone else. At that point my brain was completely fried so I hung up. After a few minutes I decided to call back and have them search a different way. Well they found our case but no Visa has been printed yet. Of course when I asked why she said there was nothing on the record to tell her the reason. So again I get to call back next week and see what's going on, ASSUMING anything gets put in the file. This is absolutely ridiculous......

How are they going to approve the Visa's then realize something is wrong? And wouldn't you think they'd immediately note the file. We are living in the computer age!! So Monday, I will again, sit on the phone dialing over and over again until I reach a person and pray they have some information. If there is something wrong with the paperwork, we could still be looking at months until he can get here. This process really REALLY SUCKS!!

That sucks!!!! I'll keep you in my prayers....

I just found out my loving husband was cheating on me. I guess sometimes it is too good to be true You all take care. He's been seeing this 16 year old for the past 6 months. Her mother called me today. She is on the way over. with her daughter. Of course he left. It's so sad. I would have never had a clue. He's been so good to me. More details later.

Sorry Dee. You know I'm here for you....

[Minfay 0]

I just found out my loving husband was cheating on me.

Dee Baby....I'm speechless.....

[Shemmy 4]

Well.....at least you got through and know there is no date That's better than not getting through and not knowing......sorry. Hopefully you will have better luck next week

Thats true Not knowing is far worst

Good luck next week

[Dwarf_Ogress 0]

I just found out my loving husband was cheating on me. I guess sometimes it is too good to be true You all take care. He's been seeing this 16 year old for the past 6 months. Her mother called me today. She is on the way over. with her daughter. Of course he left. It's so sad. I would have never had a clue. He's been so good to me. More details later.

OMG! I am sooo sorry to hear this

[nyseness 0]

I just found out my loving husband was cheating on me. I guess sometimes it is too good to be true You all take care. He's been seeing this 16 year old for the past 6 months. Her mother called me today. She is on the way over. with her daughter. Of course he left. It's so sad. I would have never had a clue. He's been so good to me. More details later.

Dee I'm so sorry to hear about this. We're here for you no matter what.

[brownnskinn 0]

I just found out my loving husband was cheating on me.

Dee Baby....I'm speechless.....

MEE too ######!!!!! like I SAID i DIDN'T HAVE A CLUE. there was this one time when his phone rang....he was like i'll call you back real fast, So I'm like who was that and of course he lied. But I forgot about it...cause you know how I tell you gu she's here later

[Jonesie 1]

I just found out my loving husband was cheating on me.

Dee Baby....I'm speechless.....

MEE too ######!!!!! like I SAID i DIDN'T HAVE A CLUE. there was this one time when his phone rang....he was like i'll call you back real fast, So I'm like who was that and of course he lied. But I forgot about it...cause you know how I tell you gu she's here later

WHAT????

Dee my prayers are with you and your kids. You have my email address if you need to chat

[brownnskinn 0]

I just found out my loving husband was cheating on me.

Dee Baby....I'm speechless.....

MEE too ######!!!!! like I SAID i DIDN'T HAVE A CLUE. there was this one time when his phone rang....he was like i'll call you back real fast, So I'm like who was that and of course he lied. But I forgot about it...cause you know how I tell you gu she's here later

WHAT????

Dee my prayers are with you and your kids. You have my email address if you need to chat

You know I'm in shock!!!! I was trying to keep that..he loves me for me spirt!!! That he would never use me. I just don't know where to go from here. You guys know about how I talk about the way he treats me.....almost perfect. Well I guess I was wrong.

[Jonesie 1]

I just found out my loving husband was cheating on me.

Dee Baby....I'm speechless.....

MEE too ######!!!!! like I SAID i DIDN'T HAVE A CLUE. there was this one time when his phone rang....he was like i'll call you back real fast, So I'm like who was that and of course he lied. But I forgot about it...cause you know how I tell you gu she's here later

WHAT????

Dee my prayers are with you and your kids. You have my email address if you need to chat

You know I'm in shock!!!! I was trying to keep that..he loves me for me spirt!!! That he would never use me. I just don't know where to go from here. You guys know about how I talk about the way he treats me.....almost perfect. Well I guess I was wrong.

Is the girl's mother pressing charges against him for statutory rape, since she was only 16?

Dee I feel for you, and I'm praying for you all right now

Edited January 27, 2007 by Jonesie

[Jonesie 1]

Manchester water danger

Increased levels of bacteria in uncovered catchment tanks

Friday, January 26, 2007

The Manchester Parish Council yesterday heard that a staggering 98 per cent of the parish's 61 water catchment tanks are uncovered, posing a major health risk from increased levels of bacteria in the parish's water supply.

According to Wayne Mitchell, the local government body's deputy superintendent of road and works, the danger exists because the chlorine used to treat the water weakens quickly under direct sunlight.

"When we do the [chlorine residual test] in the morning, by the afternoon the following day, basically the results are pretty low...," Mitchell told the council's Board of Health and Environmental Sanitation meeting.

"So we have prepared estimates and forwarded to the Ministry [of Local Government and Environment] for funding to have all these tanks covered, because what you find is that [in] the tanks that are covered, the water quality is much better than in the ones that are not covered," he added.

The meeting was called in response to environmental health reports for November and December 2006 presented by the Public Health Department.

The reports said that of 135 chlorine samples taken in November, 36 showed an absence of chlorine in the catchment tanks. Of 123 samples taken the following month, 52 showed an absence of chlorine.

In the bacteriological analysis of water in the parish, the report said of 61 samples taken in the month of November, 12 indicated unsafe levels of bacteria, while 49 were safe. For December, of 64 samples, 17 indicated unsafe levels of bacteria.

Mitchell denied, however, that some catchment facilities go untreated altogether, regardless of whether they are covered. He said transportation problems in December lengthened the usual two-week turnaround time in which the tanks are treated to three weeks.

While Mitchell did not give a figure for the estimates submitted to the ministry, he said the request was for a "substantial amount of funds" totaling millions of dollars.

"The council at present can't undertake that expenditure, so we had requested assistance from the ministry," Mitchell said.

Government statistics show that more than 190,000 people live in Manchester, whose capital, Mandeville, has proved a popular retirement town for older Jamaicans who lived abroad for years.

Edited January 27, 2007 by Jonesie

[Sonshyne 2]

I just found out my loving husband was cheating on me. I guess sometimes it is too good to be true You all take care. He's been seeing this 16 year old for the past 6 months. Her mother called me today. She is on the way over. with her daughter. Of course he left. It's so sad. I would have never had a clue. He's been so good to me. More details later.

Sorry to hear that