This is Mr Lincoln Augustus, first second cousin of...

This is Mr Lincoln Augustus, first second cousin of Holymagiman.

My dear Mr Hardmano, I am really surprised that you have been informed that proxy votes are not acceptable, as my understanding of the matter is completely different.

It is my belief that votes can be cast by shareholders who are physically present, or by a proxy vote if they are unable to attend, for whatever reason.

The reason for the proxy vote being allowed is to allow for fair voting in all circumstances, and especially in circumstances where a company board may decide to have a vote at a most inappropriate time in a most inappropriate place, such as at midnight on New Year's Eve in the basement of a two star brothel in Ulan Bator in Mongolia.

So it may be a good idea to recheck your information that proxy votes are not acceptable....perhaps you should get the most honourable Mr Dennis Morton to confirm the fact (that proxy voting is not being accepted) by e-mail.

And then,hopefully, you would post that e-mail on this site, so that we can see that we are wrong and that you have been rightly informed about the rejection of proxy votes.

For the worst thing that you could do is to accept what we think as the gospel truth, for we are but poor uneducated Jamaicans who are still trying to come to terms with the moral decay in those who should know better........


It would be an interesting question for someone to ask the OIP Board whether they would pay a dollar for a ten cent screw. They may possibly duck and weave at being asked such an inane question, because which board likes to discuss the price of screws when there are other matters at hand that are bigger and of more importance.

But by and by, if the questioner is persistant and unyielding and not put off by the boards reluctance to enter into the world of screws, then I suppose the OIP Board will eventually have to admit that they will not normally consider paying one dollar for a ten cent screw to be sound business practice.

For that matter, I do not think that any sane person would pay a dollar to get a screw that is perceived by most to be worth only ten cents at most, for a screw is a screw and nothing more or less.

And why not?.....because they could get 10 ten cent screws for a dollar, and surely, ten screws are better than one, because, as everyone knows, you then get more bangs for your buck if you get ten screws rather than one.

And so the questioner at the EGM should further ask, why is OIP paying a dollar for what , to all intents and purposes, appears to be a ten cent GGX screw, , when it could so easily get 10 GGX screws instead if it stood firm.

It has been written in countless novels and sung in many a ballad that if the the person who is offering the screw is also involved in some way with the hand that is paying for the screw,then there is surely going to be a lot of hand movements and obfuscations, and one can only hope that in the middle of all this, some poor souls do not end up losing their pants and not knowing whether they are going or coming.

But time is passing and a new day dawns and so I have to leave you with the blessing of the Lord.

MLA