Jamaic Under Spanish Rule Again?

I read the Jamaica Observer editorial today and had to agree (see Globally - unsurpassed glory; Locally - same old story).

In it, the Editor says:

At any other time, it would still have been painful to read the story in our Friday edition that the St James Parish Council, in a hurriedly called meeting, approved the illegal building plan under which RIU has built three four-storey buildings as part of its Mahoe Bay Hotel near Montego Bay.

and..

Historically, no Jamaican has been able to build more than three storeys in the flight path of the Sangster Airport. They would have been summarily locked down, chased out of the country or vilified to the point of shame and degradation.

The Jamaican people must be asking who is running our country - the Spanish or the Government? Why don't we just hand over the reins of government to them? After all, the Spanish once ruled Jamaica.

While we chastise our own and usually don't support them until some foreign entity recognizes them for something, we seem prepared to let the Spanish investors walk all over us.

Disrespecting the people and the government of a country you do business in is not the right way to win friends.

I look forward to the PM making a very clear statement that we will not tolerate this kind of behaviour and no one's money is worth selling ourselves short.

We as Jamaicans must support those companies that respect us and deal with the ones who still have a colonial mindset, thinking that their money allows them to get special privileges and not follow the laws of the land.