Colin Campbell steps down

[Sickko]

First casualty of the newest PNP scandal...expected to happen and I told some one this over lunch today.



Guess what he will be the fall guy and will take the heat until the PNP win the next election when he will return under a new guise.



No lazy, JLP cannot win the next election.

[Lazie]

RE: Colin Campbell steps down

There is no doubt the PNP will win the next election.Now, for all who been claiming that they did nothing wrong, explain this? Wrong Jungle and the Minister of Injustice need fi come explain this.

[Sickko]

RE: Colin Campbell steps down

This is interesting...JLP mouth piece Lambert Brown jsut said on TVJ news the leaking of the bank information has NOTHING to do with national interest but party affiliations.



Just passing on some information...BTW lazie go to the Sunday Herald site and rewad Garnett Roper's column...mnake some Camomille tea first as you blood pressure might rise up pon you...

[Lazie]

RE: Colin Campbell steps down

Lambert Brown? Yuh cannot serious! The man is a big supporter of the PNP since Portia took over. I might not live out there, but I'maware of whats going on.

Garnett Roper? Sickko stop give joke. This is the same pastor that encourage corruption that he wrote that the contractor general's office should be closed. The bible warn bout false preacher, this one clearly sold him soul to the devil.

[Mosiah]

RE: Colin Campbell steps down

Garnet Roper?!? Cho!

[Mosiah]

RE: Colin Campbell steps down

And yet Ian Boyle & Karl think it's much ado about nothing.



If the PNP feels that getting rid of Colin Campbell is enuff, they have another thought coming. Personally, I think they need to rid themselves of the Pompous Trio - Pickersgill, KD Knight and AJ Nicholson, and yuh dun know dat will never happen.



And we still need to get to the bottom of this scandal. And the Whitehouse one too!

[Me]

RE: Colin Campbell steps down

Garnet roper is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen. That man have no shame whatsoever.

Absolute shame.

[Karl]

RE: Colin Campbell steps down

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><SPAN class=TopStory>Colin Campbell's head rolls</SPAN>
<SPAN class=Subheadline>Portia returns controversial money to Trafigura - Sacrificing PNP gen-sec not enough, says Golding</SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD>
Monday, October 09, 2006
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<P class=StoryText align=justify>Colin Campbell yesterday became the first political casualty of the untidy Trafigura affair, handing in his resignation to Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, with the image of the ruling People's National Party (PNP) bleeding uncontrollably.<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width=150 align=right border=0><TBODY><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>CAMPBELL. acted in the highest traditions of public life</SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>Late evening, amid rumours that swirled all day that Campbell, the information and development minister and PNP general-secretary had been fired, Simpson Miller said she had accepted the resignation.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Campbell was the man at the centre of the Trafigura storm, having handled the transactions, but he was accused of not giving the party lawyers all the relevant facts that would have prevented them from embarrassing themselves and the party, by stridently defending him in public.
In possibly the worst day of her seven-month administra-tion yesterday, Simpson Miller also announced through party chairman, Bobby Pickersgill that she had ordered her party to give back oil trader Trafigura Baheer the $31 million that brought about Campbell's demise.<P class=StoryText align=justify>But Pickersgill declined to provide the Observer with details about when the money would be repaid or how the party would raise the funds to make the repayment, assuming that its coffers were bare.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"Mr Campbell tendered his resignation to the Prime Minister and Party Leader, in view of misunderstandings that have emerged regarding the funds received by the party from Trafigura Baheer," Simpson Miller said in a statement issued by her press secretary, Lincoln Robinson.<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width=120 align=left border=0><TBODY><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>Bruce Golding </SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>The statement did not give details of the "misunderstandings".
"The Prime Minister expressed her gratitude to Senator Campbell for his sterling service to the country, the Cabinet and to the Party and said she recognised that, by accepting responsibility and resigning, he had acted in the highest traditions of public life," she said.<P class=StoryText align=justify>In the interim, Simpson Miller will assume responsibilities for the portfolios held by Campbell, the statement from Jamaica House said..<P class=StoryText align=justify>Campbell, the first Jamaican journalist to become a minister of information, sounded relieved last night that it was over.
"I can get some sleep now," he told the Observer, an obvious reference to the hours of gruelling meetings lasting from Friday through Saturday midnight, in which the party top brass wrestled with the issue of his termination.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Political analysts read into the resignation a desire by the PNP to cauterise the wound cause by the Trafigura scandal.
But indicating that the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) was going for the jugular, Bruce Golding immediately rejected Campbell's resignation or the return of the Trafigura funds as "not enough to bring closure to the matter".<P class=StoryText align=justify>Addressing obviously buoy

[Karl]

RE: Colin Campbell steps down

Knockalva High School in Ramble, St James,

Knockalva High School, Ramble, Hanover!

[Karl]

RE: Colin Campbell steps down

Well we are getting what we want! Golding gores the PNP! ...not really the PNP gores itself and Golding acts the 'truth-teller'...but, Golding shall find he also acts, unintendedly as 'truth-telling' on himself and his party.

Watch di ride!Dawn Ritch just fired what will appear to some as a whimper...but, it shall prove to be the small hole that undermines the dyke.

More revelations of gifts to each party shall flow unless the parties strike a deal with each other.

Yup!...a mi seh suh!