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quarantine assessment questionnaire, and have them all approved, prior to buying your ticket.

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COVID pandemic has resulted in a lot of bureaucracy. No turning up to your favorite travel agent to buy a ticket on the spot, anymore. Not only do you have to make sure you have been tested negative for coronavirus, within a certain time frame of your flight, but you also have to complete an online form, including a

The following process may be daunting but as a June 2020, the success rate was a total of 8,418 approvals that had been granted to Jamaicans overseas who had applied to the JamCovid online Ministry of Health system for permission to return “a yaad”, under the controlled re-entry programme. If you are thinking of doing the same, here is some useful information.

You will need to go online and complete a re-entry form which is about a 4 pages long and once approved, you will be free to book your flight. Before

you go online, make sure you have everything you need with you, as some of the sections time out, for example, the security code, or it is going to ask you the full address of where you are going to stay. No point ringing up the person while you are completing the form, it will time you out.

Likewise, you can be looking for information in your wallet, on your phone, in an email, or on you PC- you must have everything on hand ready.

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DAY SPENT IN PARADISE

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C ONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 This article is to prepare you in advance.

So before you startHave your phone close by you.

Have the email address you have been given, open so you can access the OTC (one-time code), and put it on the phone, which will be counting down (it gives you a few minutes)

details Employers full name and contact details The last date you travelled to Jamaica Details of your return ticket (if couldn’t back because the airport was closed) The address where you are currently living The dates and names of places you have bee to over the last six weeks. Once you have this, go online.

Go online under www.jamcovid19.moh.gov.jm

Have your passport with you because you will need to information on it, and you will need to take a photograph of it.

Have full name, email address and phone number full street address of the place you are staying.

Have full name, email address, phone number and full street address of your contact person in Jamaica.

You TRN & NIS number, if you are a resident Parents full name and contact

A DAY SPENT IN PARADISE Creating delightful memories is what a trip to Ocho Rios, Jamaica, is all about, so friends these are the places you must visit whenever you get there.

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This beautiful property has a natural cove which is surrounded by 5 acres of lush tropical rain forest. Visitors

have the opportunity to interact and "Swim With" dolphins, enjoying the thrill and charm of these amazing lovable creatures. Visitors can also swim with, hold, feed and learn about the evolutionary secrets of the Caribbean sharks. They can capture their dream of being a dolphin trainer for the day. Dolphin Cove is the place to spend the

day enjoying lots of fun activities. There is something for everyone. Entrance includes and allows guests the following activities as often as they wish. Guests can captain their own mini-boats and explore the coast, interact and snorkel with stingrays, take a glassbottom kayak ride to explore the fascinating underwater world, watch the hilarious

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C ONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 Shark Show and interact with exotic birds, snakes and iguanas on the Jungle Trail walk.

Relax on the glistening white sandy beaches, enjoy the tropical surroundings, taste the famous Jamaican coffee at the Star Buccaneers coffee shop, browse for souvenirs or jewelry at the gift shops. See the Shark Show while the one -legged pirates roam freely along the boardwalk of “Little Port Royal” and perform a “jig or two”. Entrance is included with all dolphin and shark interactive programs.

Once at Dolphin Cove, you’ll have the most exciting experience of your lifetime.

After all that visitors will want to take the wild fun trip along the coast to Dunns River Falls. Where they will hold hands with all those who enjoy climbing and a guide will show them exactly what they need to do to make it to the top of the falls. A very invig-

orating massage is what they'll get, if they should decide to stop for a while and sit before a rock where the water flows over. It will beat on your head and your shoulders, leaving them with a great relaxed feeling. Another surprise offered by nature. Visitors will also want to enjoy the exhilarating bobsled ride, which was inspired by our Jamaican winter Olympians.

After all that it will be time for a lovely meal at Mystic Dining. Where the panoramic view is great and the food is excellent.

ful flowers at the "Butterfly Attraction Garden". And visitors should not leave until they hop on over to Chukka Caribbean. Where they will extend all that fun. They'll want to take the country bus trip to Bob Marley's Birth place, where he was buried.

While they rock to his great Reggae songs and check out all the other things. They can do while they are enjoying this wonderful adventure; after all this visitors will agree with me, when I say Jamaica is truly a paradise.

After you have rested for a while you will want to take flight through the tops of the rainforest with the "Canopy zip line tour" or you might want to see eye to eye with the wild life when you take the “Sky Explorer Tours”.

Visitors also enjoy seeing the colorful Jamaican butterflies as they fly among the beauti-

Switch to breadfruit flour The foreign taste and foreign itches that Jamaicans have developed partly through the efforts of our low self-esteem, history and of the foreign media I call the Hollywood Trojan Horses, now have the common housewife screaming for deliverance as flour prices jump and dance upwards. Why in a land where we do not grow wheat, do we have a lust and taste for wheat flour? When I was a boy we had breadfruit falling off trees (ripened and rotten)! Why do we not have the taste for breadfruit flour? Breadfruit trees used to be easy to grow and required low maintenance and so the associated costs of production should not be prohibitive unlike yam or cassavas, which have to be replanted annually.

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Organization J AMAICAN A MERICAN C LUB

PO Box 62 Elk Grove, IL 600009 USA

This not for profit club's sole purpose is to create unity among positive people who have passion; therefore, the Jamaican American Club will not align itself with any religious, political or social classes that are unwilling to respect an individual's choice for their interpretation of the world.

E-mail: JamaicanAmericanClub@yahooo

Goal: Help the community remain viable.

UNITED WE BARGIN DIVIDED WE BEG!

Intended audience: Any individual who would like to help is welcome.

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C ONTINUE FROM PAGE 5 But when a brainwashed perception (Wheat flour is the best) develops from a bias, it becomes entrenched and almost immovable. The local housewife and citizenry are as much to blame for rising wheat flour prices because they lusted after the wheat flour, developing American agriculture and did not demand breadfruit flour and so lead to the development of Jamaican agriculture. Hard choices in building a nation often means changing our tastes and preferences before crises hits. We should have developed a taste for breadfruit flour decades ago!

FOOLISH JAMAICANS NEED TO BE TAUGHT WHAT NATION BUILDING IS We thought nation building was watching cable TV and eating American apples. We thought that nation building was getting a multiple visa. We thought that profiling and styling was nation building. Or we thought it meant overstaffing Air Jamaica or using short cut methodology. Nation building means switching from wheat flour to breadfruit flour and setting a goal to plant five million breadfruit trees. Nation building means cancelling your cable TV and

starting a college fund for your children and grandchildren.WE WILL NEVER DEVELOP OUR ECONOMY AS LONG AS WE HAVE ENTRENCHED FOREIGN TASTES AND ITCHES Low self-esteem people make a low selfesteem nation and LOW SELF-ESTEEM PEOPLE MAKE THE BEST CUSTONERS! All smart marketing experts know this. Low self- esteem people will spend their money on cell phones and not on a college fund for their children.

They will buy American grapes not invest in their bank accounts and cable tv before setting up a retirement account.

Low self-esteem persons make the best consumers because one of the most potent drivers of human interaction is the desire for recognition and importance. These persons will go into debt and to great physical lengths to feel important and style and profile to catch the eye of onlookers.