“There is a growing gulf of distrust between (Jamaican) government officials and the media that has contributed to a decline in institutional respect for press freedom,” declares the most recent World Press Freedom Index. The report ranks Jamaica, two points lower than in 2023, at number 26 out of 180 countries.
If Reporters Without Borders, which ranks global press freedom annually, had dived a tip deeper into the factor of distrust in Jamaica, they would have found that this issue is at dizzying levels between the government and the people, and between the people and the police.
The people view their government with disdain, police with indignation, academics with general disregard, entrepreneurs with great suspicion, and the church with utmost contempt.
Jamaica is at the boiling point, bubbling in a pot full of distrust, discontent, and great deception. Like crabs in a barrel, the majority of the population is busy trying to eke out a living – legally or otherwise – grasping at straws, every man for himself, while hoping against imminent and ultimate destruction.
Despite the puerile pat on the back from the Trump administration and the promises of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Jamaica still reels from tier three travel advisories issued based on the plagues of crime and violence that are wreaking havoc across the country.
The blatant bloodletting, especially the murder of the innocent, the hundreds of children who go missing each year, and the levels of deadly domestic violence signal to the United States and other nations that the troubles that Jamaica is seeing are as persistent as its poverty.
The unrelenting demand for blood is recompense paid to dark spiritual forces for favours they grant to ungodly individuals in families, communities, and sectors. Police fatal shootings, States of Public Emergencies, Zones of Special Operations, and other crime-fighting efforts may appear to tame the monster for a while. But the truth is that many Jamaicans have embraced the dark world and are in the centre of intense spiritual warfare. It is a fierce battle for the soul of a diadem. Flesh and blood are futile in this fight. What is required is righteous intervention, aka repentance, prayer, seriously seeking God, and turning away from wickedness.
The government appears to be too busy feathering its nests, parading propaganda, and paying homage to its political gods to be bothered with this truth. Having rewarded itself with up to a 300% salary increase, it is of little concern to them that too many Jamaican families can barely pull together $300 to purchase dinner on many nights and that the urgent call for repentance must be heeded.
Mammon and manifest riches are being brandished about as the symbols of success to which all must aspire. The moral underpinnings of our society that have kept us sane and sound for many years have been eroded.
We have arrived at a place where witches and warlocks can offer money and power to anyone who is willing to sell their souls and deliver blood to the demonic forces they employ, and too many have done so.
Over centuries, this nation has gradually rejected righteousness, accommodated a barrage of gods, danced with demonic forces, and engaged various forms of witchcraft at the highest levels. Jamaica is now properly under divine judgement, and from all indications, has elevated Baal, Baphomet, and Mammon to the highest places.
The worship of other gods has deadly consequences. Untold curses have already started to overtake the nation. While the government brags about economic stability, the cities are bleeding, and the farmlands are rain-starved for the most part.
While the health ministry might offer explanations for the low birth rate, the people of God know that when a nation is cursed, population numbers plummet. Jamaica’s Population Health Status Report 2000–2022, which was tabled in Parliament last year, showed that the country continues to face a low birth rate problem, with the total number of live births declining sharply over the last 20 years. Jamaica’s crude birth rate, which is the number of annual live births per 1,000 population, declined by 10.3 percentage points from 21.7 per 1,000 population in 2000 to 11.4 per 1,000 population in 2022.
A cursed nation also suffers a dramatic decline in production. Last year alone, the two weather systems that impacted Jamaica targeted and devastated the breadbasket parish and food-producing belt across southern Clarendon and St. Elizabeth. This is after these areas suffered months of extensive dry spells, and an increased amount of food had to be imported from other countries. So low were agricultural yields that the government moved to remove the tax on food imports to increase inflows.
Corruption is celebrated, and the authorities are seeking to expand the season of debauchery and the worship of Bacchus across every parish.
Bacchus is the Roman name for Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, revelry, and fertility. He is associated with the ecstatic rituals and orgiastic celebrations, such as carnival.
Neither the government nor the governed has any regard for the stomach-wrenching, lukewarm church that has been spat out of the mouth of the Almighty.
The church is forced into silence, turning a blind eye to the wretchedness because of consistent compromise and secret deals with Mammon.
When Jamaica contemplates shutting down churches on carnival routes to facilitate Bacchus parades, the deal is done. There is no question who is elevated in the nation’s highest seat.
Jamaica is slipping fast; the judgement against this rebellious nation is intensifying. Sliding down the Press Freedom Index is one of many indicators as to where we are headed. Someone sinister is benefiting from the catastrophes, crises, and calamities. That someone is Satan. His mission is to steal, kill, and destroy.
God cannot be mocked. Jamaica cannot harbour crosses on itself and expect growth, prosperity, and other holy blessings. It is a fool’s paradise.
