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Immoral, unethical, but not illegal
Tamara Scott-Williams
Sunday, October 29, 2006
Watched Milton Walker's show Direct on CVM the other night. I sat there, for the most part, riveted, glued to the set, fascinated all the while by Raymond Pryce, chairman of the youth arm of the People's National Party, the Patriots, and feeling a little sorry for the Senator, Dr Chris Tufton, his political counterpart for the evening. I sat there thinking that the Jamaica Labour Party was surely being out foxed that night on the air.
Tamara Scott-Williams
For Pryce is slick, fast-talking, seemingly erudite, confident, has a quick-draw handle on the facts and the information and wasn't backing down for a second from argument put forward by Dr Chris Tufton -president of the JLP's young professional group, Generation 2000, or G2K. Tufton was putting forward an argument about the PNP's political arrogance and refusal to provide clarity on political stink, much less Trafigura. Pryce cut a lot of dash, no question. Tufton, by comparison, seemed a little pedantic.
By no means was any of this a beauty contest. But packaging and choreography was part of the presentation and as far as that goes, Pryce had won hands down. He was dazzling and smooth and made some of us think that perhaps we were just asking too much. The Distraction Theory holds that: "Exposure to nature appears to reduce pain through different types of mechanisms, including distraction and stress reduction. Distraction theory holds that pain absorbs attention; the more attention devoted to pain, the greater the experienced intensity.
If patients are diverted by or become engrossed in a pleasant nature view, they allocate less attention to pain, and accordingly the intensity is reduced."
I was very distracted by Raymond Pryce's every word and action, because he looked as though his world was trouble-free. Dressed in a very slim navy blue suit, with tie, shiny and fashionably square-toed lace-ups, he looked pulled together and fit.
He sat at the edge of his stool, feet on the second bar, hand casually akimbo or laid purposefully across the anchor desk. He looked ready to leap off that stool onto the table in a single bound, if he needed to demonstrate a point. Dr Tufton, by comparison looked a little rumpled, a little like a forgetful professor, a little slow to start, a little didactic and defensive with his accusations of the PNP's political arrogance.
And when Pryce offered that "Colin Campbell chose to resign to allow more space for the (Trafigura) issue to be aired, suggesting that certainly, this is the more "contemporary" manner in which to resolve issues such as these. It suggested that only the unsophisticated among us would not understand that Campbell's resignation was a heroic and not a shameful act.
It was clear that the PNP had in their arsenal a young man who would go to any lengths to make the Jamaican public, all , believe that the events surrounding the Trafigura affair were, as the PNP has been positioning it: "Wrong, but not dishonest. Illegal, but not corrupt."
Who was this man, Pryce? Pryce has been hovering below the radar for a little while after suffering the fallout of a faulty analysis in which Minister Phillip Paulwell publicly accused 13 retailers - including two of the island's largest supermarket chains - of price-gouging in the aftermath of Hurricane Ivan. Paulwell was acting on information from the Consumer Affairs Commission of which Pryce was director of research and information at the time. He subsequently resigned.
You may recall Pryce's sage counsel when he said that consumers were likely to end up with larger expenses, in the form of the reconnection penalty atop their bills, if they insisted on protesting infrequent and inaccurate meter reading procedures by refusing to pay their bills. "I am not convinced that this is a well-thought-out approach nor is it the most appropriate," he said. He saved a great many people a reconnection fee and a
Tamara Scott-Williams
Sunday, October 29, 2006
Watched Milton Walker's show Direct on CVM the other night. I sat there, for the most part, riveted, glued to the set, fascinated all the while by Raymond Pryce, chairman of the youth arm of the People's National Party, the Patriots, and feeling a little sorry for the Senator, Dr Chris Tufton, his political counterpart for the evening. I sat there thinking that the Jamaica Labour Party was surely being out foxed that night on the air.
Tamara Scott-Williams
For Pryce is slick, fast-talking, seemingly erudite, confident, has a quick-draw handle on the facts and the information and wasn't backing down for a second from argument put forward by Dr Chris Tufton -president of the JLP's young professional group, Generation 2000, or G2K. Tufton was putting forward an argument about the PNP's political arrogance and refusal to provide clarity on political stink, much less Trafigura. Pryce cut a lot of dash, no question. Tufton, by comparison, seemed a little pedantic.
By no means was any of this a beauty contest. But packaging and choreography was part of the presentation and as far as that goes, Pryce had won hands down. He was dazzling and smooth and made some of us think that perhaps we were just asking too much. The Distraction Theory holds that: "Exposure to nature appears to reduce pain through different types of mechanisms, including distraction and stress reduction. Distraction theory holds that pain absorbs attention; the more attention devoted to pain, the greater the experienced intensity.
If patients are diverted by or become engrossed in a pleasant nature view, they allocate less attention to pain, and accordingly the intensity is reduced."
I was very distracted by Raymond Pryce's every word and action, because he looked as though his world was trouble-free. Dressed in a very slim navy blue suit, with tie, shiny and fashionably square-toed lace-ups, he looked pulled together and fit.
He sat at the edge of his stool, feet on the second bar, hand casually akimbo or laid purposefully across the anchor desk. He looked ready to leap off that stool onto the table in a single bound, if he needed to demonstrate a point. Dr Tufton, by comparison looked a little rumpled, a little like a forgetful professor, a little slow to start, a little didactic and defensive with his accusations of the PNP's political arrogance.
And when Pryce offered that "Colin Campbell chose to resign to allow more space for the (Trafigura) issue to be aired, suggesting that certainly, this is the more "contemporary" manner in which to resolve issues such as these. It suggested that only the unsophisticated among us would not understand that Campbell's resignation was a heroic and not a shameful act.
It was clear that the PNP had in their arsenal a young man who would go to any lengths to make the Jamaican public, all , believe that the events surrounding the Trafigura affair were, as the PNP has been positioning it: "Wrong, but not dishonest. Illegal, but not corrupt."
Who was this man, Pryce? Pryce has been hovering below the radar for a little while after suffering the fallout of a faulty analysis in which Minister Phillip Paulwell publicly accused 13 retailers - including two of the island's largest supermarket chains - of price-gouging in the aftermath of Hurricane Ivan. Paulwell was acting on information from the Consumer Affairs Commission of which Pryce was director of research and information at the time. He subsequently resigned.
You may recall Pryce's sage counsel when he said that consumers were likely to end up with larger expenses, in the form of the reconnection penalty atop their bills, if they insisted on protesting infrequent and inaccurate meter reading procedures by refusing to pay their bills. "I am not convinced that this is a well-thought-out approach nor is it the most appropriate," he said. He saved a great many people a reconnection fee and a
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