Will Dean stay or change the course?
Written by Ross Sheil
The United States’ National Hurricane Centre (NHC) is projecting that Hurricane Dean will make landfall in Jamaica before 2 p.m. on Sunday, nine days before Election Day, August 27. Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has called a meeting of the National Disaster Committee for tomorrow.
In a statement issued by her office today, the Prime Minister said the meeting was necessary to ensure a swift recovery following the storm, which has reached category one status with wind speeds of 90 miles per hour. The NHC has warned that Dean could strengthen into a category three storm by Sunday with winds of up to 130 mph.
The Jamaica Constitution allows for an election date to be delayed by up to 30 days following the impact of a natural disaster. You can track the progress of Hurricane Dean via Go-Jamaica’s weather site.
August 16th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
Your question is extremely thematic with respect to the Hurricane Dean and the August 27th election.One is hoping that it will change course.Pastor Phinn would be the ideal person to ask this question.
August 16th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
change the course
August 16th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
Lets pray the hurricane will not be too close to jamaica. On this occasion im hoping for a change of course but certainly not the the JLP as i dont trust Bruce Almighty.
August 17th, 2007 at 12:43 am
I was afraid of this Hurricane season affecting the upcoming elections in Jamaica but come rain or high water Jamaicans are going to change the course that this PNP corrupt government is on. Pastor Phinn & Co. will we be having SHOWERS or a PNP Hurricane on August 27th?
If the good people in Jamaica won’t stand up for Jamaica. The bad won’t stand down.
IT’S TIME FOR A CHANGE VOTE JLP OR NDM AND SAVE JAMAICA!!!
cottrellhyatt@yahoo.co.uk or Cottrell.Hyatt@googlemail.com
August 17th, 2007 at 10:25 am
Why can’t Portia tell us where “She found some money”? This Hurrance will not change the outcome. PNP will be kicked out. I trust Bruce more than the stupid loser we have in Office right now. A Lie Dem Lie!
August 17th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
Pleeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzz people let’s change course. I am so sick and tired of “Sistah P” or wait, the more mature version “Mama P” the woman is as dumb as a bat. I don’t want to draw my tongue, therefore, i will just say. Go Bruce Almighty!!! People, let’s stand for something that is right and change course. Let’s predict it. like hurricane Dean let’s change course and see a new and brighter future for Jamaica, the land we love.
August 17th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
IT IS MY PRAYER THAT JAMAICANS WILL NOT GET ON A BAND-WAGON ABOUT THE HURRICANE “CHANGING COURSE” AND NOT TAKE IT SERIOUSLY.
LET US BE PREPARED.
I ALSO PRAY IT WILL CHANGE COURSE, BUT IT DOES NOT LOOK THAT WAY. IT IS HEADED STRAIGHT FOR US, JUDGING BY THE MAP (AND PATH) ABOVE
August 18th, 2007 at 11:56 am
Will your current prime minister, Portia Simpson-Miller, publicly ask the people to pray to God that He would divert Hurricane Dean away from the island, as did your former Prime Minister, P. J. Patterson, when, in 2005, Hurricane Ivan was making his way right to Jamaica? God did indeed answer that courageous and humble prayer of his and your people, and Ivan was miraculously diverted from a direct hit to your nation. I am scouring the news to find out what Simpson-Miller is saying to her people now, and all I can find is that she is asking you to “unite.” It is well and good to be physically prepared with emergency supplies and procedures, but nature is surely in God’s hands - it is not by chance. Call upon the Lord for His intervention with Hurricane Dean. Yes, unite, but make sure you unite in prayer in addition to the tangible things. I’ll be praying with you! Remember, the Lord says that you have not because you ask not. So ask!! The Lord’s blessings and protection be upon you and your nation now.
August 18th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
I inadvertently misstated the year of Hurricane Ivan. It was 2004, not 2005. PRAY! Call upon the name of the LORD for His help and intervention.
August 19th, 2007 at 6:08 am
living in Sweden, the Swedes love and workship Jamaica and Bob Marley, hope nothing happens to my beautiful Island
August 19th, 2007 at 7:30 pm
God will not be mock, sins will not go unpunish, god will not allow the daily corruption and abuse of poor people, to continue any longer. He had send hurricane dean as a messenger, that Portia, her Prophets and her corrupt government must go, so that the cleansing of the country can begin.