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EP: 85 // Hurricane Melissa aftermath · Humanity Unplugged Podcast

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[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome, welcome, welcome.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What's going on?
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[SPEAKER_00]: People, how you're doing?
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's your boy, Germaine, McCrimon.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we have some technical difficulties, but we're going push through.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because to all things, we got to push.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can't just stay the same every day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Whatever happens in your life, you just got to deal with it and you push through.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not going to always end up
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[SPEAKER_00]: the way you want to.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But if you push through and you give it your best, it will end up and you gave it your best effort.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And in life, that's all you can do is give your best to the situation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We'd like to give an honor to the most high who give us the wisdom and knowledge to
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[SPEAKER_00]: Wake up every day with a better understanding and give us the push to go through all our obstacles, trials and tribulations.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We'd like to thank all our fans, we'd like to thank all social media platforms for tuning in, religious leaders and passing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: to us and what we bring to the table each and every week.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is our 85th episode, and we push in to get to that 100 mark.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we're going to keep giving you different things.
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[SPEAKER_00]: However, anytime we have major issues of devastation, government shutdowns,
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[SPEAKER_00]: that oversee a lot of different topics that I might want to get into.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Also, I like to know over time, and as we give it a little time on different situations, issues how the government reacts to it after you give it a few days.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What I'm seeing is,
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[SPEAKER_00]: a pattern with a United States government.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm seeing how they respond to national disasters to how FEMA comes out and give support and how things affect people, the reaction time to get those people the help they need.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And when I look into this situation,
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[SPEAKER_00]: and this issue that just happened on the 21st of October 2025, some of you might know what I'm talking about, some of you that don't will in fact get a better understanding that on Tuesday, October 21st, 2025,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Jamaica and the Caribbean areas cause devastation amongst the land.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It caused Jamaica 48.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it caused Jamaica 6 billion to 7 billion dollars in damages.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's big time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It caused the Caribbean all together 48 to 52 billion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So Jamaica was hit major major major
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not a lot of things still standing in operational in Jamaica.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And people that lives in Jamaica, you know, they're going through it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So when we look at Jamaica and all the people that sit over there, they have no water.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not, the population over there is 2.8 million people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 70 per six, 76 per cent.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Ethnic is African 15.1% mix.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 3.4% is India.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 3.2% white and 1.2% is Chinese.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Zero point eight is other to give you
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[SPEAKER_00]: the demographic.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Look, Montego Bay places like that were hit, you know, tremendous, just tremendous devastation, Kingston.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, it's not cool what happened.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The grill, uh, these
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[SPEAKER_00]: is now devastation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: People are suffering.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's no water.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As I said again, there's no medical, there's no shelters in place.
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[SPEAKER_00]: People are starting to rob people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, when you have nothing, you're robbing people for nothing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They have nothing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So the little nothing that they have,
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I like to thank, before we get deep into this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry, I like to thank my constituents, constituents, my people on the comments that say what they say, I encourage all comments, I enjoy it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I really believe in it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's great that we have people that want to comment,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because, long as you comment, is that in me know that you're aware of our situation, of the issues I bring to the table, you're listening, and that's fine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I appreciate that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're not gonna always agree on topics or issues I may talk about, and that's okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not here for the degree with you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: on issues, I'm just here to bring issues to you, to your awareness, and maybe you can find it in your heart, to do the homework, and get to the facts of the situation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's all we ask.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, getting back to Jamaica, government assistance.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When we look at the government assistance, there's no assistance.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll just say that again, there's no assistance.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A island don't have it to give too much.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you don't know what an island is, an island is mixed of water all around.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the water all around it makes it an area to have material or products either shipped in by water or flown in by air.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So they don't have the natural resources that of the places may have to assist people in need.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It has to be flown in or shipped in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They don't have five or six different hospitals available in Jamaica.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's really good to have a contingency plan that can help and assist the need for this crisis that they have in Jamaica.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The government is not structured to provide assistance on this scale level.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So joining Caribbean islands along with state officials and other non-profit and private organizations have stepping together to try to assist the need in Jamaica.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, for what I know, America, America, America, God shed His grace on the, we do know that America loves to sick out the hand in the sys.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And hopefully they did it on this as well and continue to provide assistance to the people of Jamaica because the devastation there is unthinkable, no running water again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I say that and I'm a keep saying it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When you don't have the bare necessities of running water, if you wanted to make a soup
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can't even do that when you don't have running water.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I remember the time coming up in the projects, we had it pretty rough.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, when I mean by we had it pretty rough, we didn't ever go without a meal, but as we got older, I learned the tricks of the trade of how to make things that stretch as I went to my friends' house
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[SPEAKER_00]: or we went out to different baseball games at Yankee Stadium as a kid, a friend of mine used to always bring ex-salad sandwich.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I used to always say, my God, why he always bring an ex-salad sandwich?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I get tired of eating that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If I was him in my head, my dad looked at me
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[SPEAKER_00]: But as funny as years went by, I understood the look now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He passed and went on home, my father, but that look was a son, you blessed that you don't have to eat, an exquisite.
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[SPEAKER_00]: every time we go out, that I put money in your pocket to buy a hot dog or you have it to buy it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Some kids don't have it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So they mom have to deal with and do what they can to still provide for that child.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that ex-solid back in the day, I know I might tell my age
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[SPEAKER_00]: our cheap meal, because all you need was some eggs and some mayo and you whip it together and salt and pepper and my God, it did what it did.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes desperate times calls for desperate measures and when we look at situations in Jamaica
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[SPEAKER_00]: you in a situation where you have to provide, you have to bring forth, or you have to have some type of understanding to the situation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You have to provide, you know?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And there's no dedicated time and for you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's no dedicated,
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[SPEAKER_00]: time for you to provide.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When you have to provide, you just have to provide.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You have to bring it in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The kids don't want excuses.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The kids don't want delays.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're hungry.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The clothes are dirty.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They got to be washed and you got to lay them down and get some rest and you don't have much
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[SPEAKER_00]: overweight, the parent, it puts a strain on the parents that provides for the families.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So in this case, in Jamaica, the carnage, the life loss, there's no food, there's no
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, it's rough.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's very rough for them to provide for their families.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, what do you do?
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[SPEAKER_00]: How do you give to your family?
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[SPEAKER_00]: How do you maintain peace?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Listen up.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We need it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We need it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No water, no food, no light, no bed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And you get hold of your calcimatic issues.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right, right off the track.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're off the track.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're off the track.
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[SPEAKER_02]: For those living in Jamaica's forgotten hill communities, there is no choice but to take a truck into the nearest town, and search in the ruins and debris for supplies.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But this is not so much looting.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Rather keeping their families alive until outside help arrives.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We are homeless, we need a lot of help.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But there is no sign of assistance and their despair is growing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Everything is gone.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I have no holes, I have nothing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No food, nothing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Everything has to have 60 homes and everything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We join their journey back home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We like 5 to 6 homes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We join their journey back home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We like 5 to 6 homes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: past shot at houses and shops.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just want to let you guys know the carnage is real.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's real, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's really real out here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: These people have nothing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you're living in abandoned areas.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just living hanging clothes out just to dry.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, to try to keep some fresh, clean clothes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's nothing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: through a landscape crushed into submission.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And once in a small town of Brampton Lane, we hear for ourselves of their acute suffering.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And this is not 20-year-old people, he's a 45-and-up, older people, 60, 70-year-old people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And they're holding the head up, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But it's devastation, carnage everywhere.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Do you make a beeper?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Need this for a minute.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No water, no food, no light, no bed, no sleep on.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Can you get hold of your calms and medications?
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[SPEAKER_01]: We have to try.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You have to try.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You have to try.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Can you go?
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[SPEAKER_01]: You have to try.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You have to try.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I have to try.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I have to try.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I have to try.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I have to try.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I have to try.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I have to try.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Twenty miles away, we did discover a trickle of aid arriving in the most devastated parish.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But nowhere near enough to satisfy the requirements of tens of thousands of Jamaicans who have lost everything.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The desperation we saw there up in the hills is met by the urgent needs along Jamaica's battered coastline.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it says something about this country's sense of solidarity and community that the first aid to arrive in this town are private donations.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let me tell you guys, six days pass and this is the first aid that arrived.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, take it that Tuesday was the 21st, six days would be the 27th, 28th.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and people just now getting any type of help and supplies and it's not easy and your government this thing coming to government this is privately shot out by a private person private entity gave out a track the trail of full of stuff bags you know and these little bags they have is all they can get right now could everyone got to get something
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[SPEAKER_02]: The local member of Parliament told me of his shock at that lack of a national and global response.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm really wondering what is going on, I've been crying like a voice in the wind and it's very disappointed that we have not seen more of a government and response to what is a crisis.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now I haven't heard device president to president.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I haven't heard anyone.
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[SPEAKER_00]: talk about it and they may have for the most part I don't watch Trump anyway so I don't really know what he says unless I tune in I don't tune in majority of the time because it's a show, it's a soap opera, it's you know days of our lives with Trump and um
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[SPEAKER_00]: So maybe there's some type of assistance given out, but according to what I'm seeing here, and what I've done some research on, desperate needs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: These people in desperate measures, they need help.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What I am seeing is suffering.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's what I'm seeing, that's what my eyes are seeing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Among those waiting here by the water front is Tina James.
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[SPEAKER_06]: No help, we don't say no, no, no ear force, no food by the government, no doctor, we have no hospital, we don't have no clinic, we don't have no school, we don't have no food, please we're asking our internals, we need help, we need it, we need it, we need it, we need it, not far away we met her friend Diane Poise, inspecting the wreckage of her house.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She was injured in the
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[SPEAKER_05]: Honestly, I see a hundred and fifty different color light when it hits me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Her neighbor filmed the hurricane at his peak last week.
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[SPEAKER_02]: As it pummeled houses, there's to no chance of resisting winds of this velocity.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just want to tell you guys.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The video will be put up on a YouTube page.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm probably going to play all of it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's only five minutes long.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I have to give you this type of information where you get this have a visual.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because sometimes people don't understand talk.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They understand what their eyes visually.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And this is a great way for you to understand and get a better understanding of how people are suffering.
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[SPEAKER_05]: This is where my four kids were.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Diane spent that night huddled here with her children, protected by bags of cement, thankful their merged life.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Once there is life, there is hope.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I will always believe in that I have life.
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[SPEAKER_05]: do what we have to do, but one day every time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, it's one day at a time for people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's understandable, you know?
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[SPEAKER_02]: As we drove back through the sea of destruction,
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[SPEAKER_02]: We are getting counted the residents of Brompton Lane.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Those we are joined in the truck two days earlier.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We need water, we need food, we need all the supplies you can get to survive.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Still forgotten they were pleading with passing motorists for help.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Jamaicans have been promised a massive relief and recovery effort by their government and by the world.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Robert Moore, ITV News in Western Jamaica.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, people are still waiting for help.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Government said they're going to help a week after they're still waiting.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Of course, to take about a week to process the paperwork.
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[SPEAKER_00]: another two three weeks to get a response and then the money be released funding.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They won't get relief till and when November now, maybe November 15th, November 16th, that following week or the week of Thanksgiving, the 21st or whatever, they might get a shipment in a couple of shipments.
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[SPEAKER_00]: full of assistance to give some type of relief, maybe some good Samaritan or whatever has had a tent for hospitals, something that can help out those people in Jamaica.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to take time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is nothing that's going to heal overnight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to take a long time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, I will keep you posted on this and keep you updated on what's going on in Jamaica, but for right now, they need help and they need a lot of resources to be given to them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Simple resources.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Water.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Close.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Food.
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[SPEAKER_00]: These are the resources they need.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, they don't need a lot of resource.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They need just a basic resources, just to survive.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Where's it at?
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we're looking to it again, and see what comes up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But right now, that's what it is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's rough.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's really rough.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm your host, Jamema Cremon.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is a Mani down plugged podcast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I haven't really heard too much Trump is talking about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This new fighter jet, he gave the Air Force F27, I think it is F26, a new fighter jet, like we need that right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Great Trump, give him a new fighter jet.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Wippedee, Wippedee do, we got a new fighter jet.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Happy for that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But we're still shut down.
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[SPEAKER_00]: uh... we do know that the government's use me the government will be uh... given out full stance and we got a time if that's going to be still standing i'll let you know by two's day got a look into it i don't know i might do another podcast saturday i think we need a little update joint and i'll let you know what's what but right now that's where it's at
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm your host, hopefully guys, stay strong, stand tall, stand for something or you're going for for anything, uh, protect your at all times.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm your host, your main equipment to zoom in the unplug pie case.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Stay up, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Stay up.