Jackass sey de worl' no level. Jackass sey de greata de joy whey u feel, de more de sorrow lick yu.

No man. This not right. 'Tis the season to be jolly, even this one time for the year. It is the time when Santa Claus (even though we don't believe in him) is the one the children should be looking out for, not the grim reaper.

The world is not level at all. How can 14 people die in a single motor vehicle accident in Jamaica at any time, much less at Christmas?

Anything extraordinary

Jackass, like the rest of Jamaica, really, really felt it when he heard about the people in Portland who went over a precipice and were killed. They were not trying to do anything extraordinary, just to earn a honest living, when the truck went over.

Is pure bawling after that.

But the world is not level on another level as well. Look how many times criminals are going about their deadly activities and the cars they are in work perfectly fine, the road does not give way underneath the wheels and it seems they are not even caught in a speed trap. So how come 14 people on their way to making their honest bread the very hard way go over a precipice and die?

No man. This is not right.

Train service

And it shows something else that is unlevel about Jamaica. We all know that trains crash, but Jackass believes if we still had a train service there would be less need for the mass movement of people by individual vehicles around the country and less scope for accidents. If there was train service from Portland into Kingston, more persons on their way to the market to sell their goods would have used the service and, chances are, there would not be an accident of this magnitude,

But no. Jamaica, with its history of having one of the first train services in this Hemisphere and certainly, Jackass hears, one of the most scenic, has no train service. It has been allowed to run down, and, with the highways being carved out across the country (as wonderful as they are) there seems to be no chance that it will be coming back at all.

(Jackass is willing to bet that many sections of the track have found themselves into the scrap metal business. If people can steal parts of bridges and telephone cable, taking up parts of the disused track should be child's play.)

So that horrible accident in Portland is just so wrong on so many levels. Jackass feel it for the people them and add his own to the tons of condolences, cause every single one counts.

Jackass sey de worl' no level. Jackass sey some accident jus' mash up de whole country, like dis one.

Jackass, like the rest of Jamaica, really, really felt it when he heard about the people in Portland who went over a precipice and were killed. They were not trying to do anything extraordinary, just to earn a honest living, when the truck went over.

Is pure bawling after that.