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Imagine a Jamaica without charity - chairman - 11-26-2016
We are completely in agreement with the notion of the Government doing all it can to encourage charitable giving, including the provision of tax incentives above what it now offers.
It is impossible to quantify the full value of the countless acts of charity, without which we cannot imagine the degree of suffering that our people, especially the poorest Jamaicans, would be experiencing, nor how far behind we would be in national development of our country.
For that reason, we embrace Tuesday’s call by some of Jamaica’s leading supporters of charity for changes to the country’s tax laws that would boost the amount of money that corporations now give to philanthropic causes.
By credible estimates, over the past 10 years, eight of the island’s most generous corporate givers — who have now been nominated for this year’s Jamaica Observer Business Leaders Award — have cumulatively contributed more than $7 billion to various charities.
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This $7 billion surely is nothing to scoff at, given that it relates only to eight companies. Yet we believe that it is a mere drop in the bucket when one factors in the innumerable acts of daily charitable giving by the private sector as a whole and the thousands of Jamaicans from whom flows the milk of human kindness.
From simple acts of giving, Jamaicans have constructed impressive entities to receive and distribute resources to a wide array of organisations and individuals whose very survival is at any moment in danger.
An army of Jamaicans organised in groups calling themselves service clubs devote lifetimes to helping the poor and unfortunate. Scores of their members take time to visit shut-ins, prisoners, state homes for children, or to sing carols at Christmas to bedridden patients in hospitals.
Schools have come to depend heavily on their past students for things ranging from even basic items to modern computers and science laboratories. Churches, longest in the game of giving, bring in numerous groups of doctors in a variety of fields, as well as medical supplies for health fairs that benefit thousands.
And even at that, we still have not yet talked about the relatives who, taking the term “charity begins at home†literally, share their worldly goods with impoverished family members, some of them sending home billions of dollars yearly in remittances from abroad.
We are aware that the Government is doing a fair bit in tough economic times to assist these charitable endeavours. Yet we sense that more can be done in the nature of the suggestion by Mr Earl Jarrett, the general manager of the Jamaica National Building Society (JNBS), that the State should allow family and corporate foundations to direct contributions to their favourite causes while receiving a total write-off for this expenditure.
Another useful suggestion came from Mrs Patricia Duncan Sutherland, chairman of the Joan Duncan Foundation, who felt the Government could allow big charitable givers to work collectively to identify a consequential national need and fill the gap, thus relieving the State of that obligation.
The eight corporations nominated for this year’s Business Leader Award are JNBS, Digicel Jamaica, Heineken, JMMB, National Baking Company, NCB Group, Sagicor Group, and Scotiabank Group.
They are already all winners. Ask any homeless or indigent Jamaican.
JAMAICA OBSERVER
Re: Imagine a Jamaica without charity - mapoui - 11-26-2016
who writes these articles ::confused:: bwoy they really think the Jamaican people stupid eh..or are the Jamaican people really and truly stupid ::confused:: ::confused::
it would seem so from what go orn there. for example did those corporations really give 7 billion dollars....and in what kind of money ::confused::
if they give it in Jamaican dollars its what...just a few million USD
and look at this...Jamaica is currently operating at something last time I read it of 150% of GDP relative to its national debt.
Jamaica is BRRRROOOOOOOOKE...and at interest. if that is their debt somebody is making an awful lot of profit off Jamaica by comparison of which 7 billion of any kind of money as charity is cacapool money
and who holds that debt...yes Rothschild..and how was it built up..by the take over of the Jamaican central bank by Rothschild at independence way back in 1962, and have been charging Jamaica interest by lending that country its own money at interest for 54 years now.
that's the sweet games that's going on...THE ULTIMATE FREE LUNCH
that is why Jamaica is dirt poor..because it is being bled to death by international banking.
but it is the same with each and every Caribbean island. they are all in the same boat includign Titty. Titty is lucky because we have oil and oil has been at high prices with few breaks since 1970
so look at the Observer..the stinking Observer, promoting CHARITY as the basis of national development for Jamaia. isnt that phucking sweet! ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL::
JAMAICA'S DOES NOT HAVE A HOPE AND A PRAYER UNLESS THEY TAKE BACK THEIR BANK AND SPEND THEIR CURRENCY ON THEMSELVES WITHOUT INTEREST CHARGES...AND AT THE SAME TIME REPUDIATE THE NATIONAL DEBT ALREADY BUILT UP BECAUSE IT SIMPLY CANNOT BE REPAID..IT IS TOO LARGE.
AND ALSO IT HAS BEEN BUILT UP BY FRAUD AND COERCION..FEAR OF USA INTERVENTION AND DESTRUCTION OF THEIR COUNTRY... AND IT IS NOT A JUSTIFIED DEBT. KICK OUT THE ROTHSCHILDS/ZIONISTS, TAKE BACK THE COUNTRY AND START AFRESH.
that is the anser ...not to jackass charity. phuck charity! and phuck the Observer
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Re: Imagine a Jamaica without charity - ketchim - 12-03-2016
Calgary repaired their bob sled after it broke down
and they were grateful for this Charity !
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/jamaican-bobsled-team-calgary-van-broke-1.3849020
"We have $1,700 in our account and we have to feed 12 athletes.
It's hand to mouth."
Jamaica Bobsled Team ✔ @Jambobsled
https://www.generosity.com/sports-fundraising/help-the-jamaican-bobsled-team-reach-the-olympics--2
1:46 PM - 12 Nov 2016
Re: Imagine a Jamaica without charity - ketchim - 12-03-2016
$6,547 USD
raised by 99 people in 2 months
22% of $30,000 goal
Re: Imagine a Jamaica without charity - mapoui - 12-03-2016
wat goin orn with the board...will this get posted ::confused:: ::confused::
Re: Imagine a Jamaica without charity - chairman - 12-03-2016
we will move forward. we will take over the world
Re: Imagine a Jamaica without charity - chairman - 12-03-2016
hi mapoui
Re: Imagine a Jamaica without charity - chairman - 12-03-2016
good evening
Re: Imagine a Jamaica without charity - chairman - 12-04-2016
you are really fighting the errors
Re: Imagine a Jamaica without charity - tpicks - 12-04-2016
Excellent gesture, eight corporate givers gave over seven billion dollars over the past ten years. This is highly commendable, this must have gone a long way to alleviate the degree of sufferings among the less privileged.