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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><SPAN class=news_summary>General Secretary of the <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 600; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue! important; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Arial; POSITION: relative">Jamaica</SPAN><SPAN>Association of Local Government Officers (JALGO), Helene Davis Whyte is pouring cold water on a suggestion that all <SPAN id=clicksor_sp_contr onmouseover='return ClxLaD("contr",event)' onmouseout='ClxTMo("contr")'>contr</SPAN>ibutors to the National Housing Trust (NHT) should be guaranteed a housing benefit. </SPAN></SPAN>
<SPAN class=news_body>Addressing the Jamaica Labour Party's annual conference on Sunday, party leader Bruce Golding said under a JLP administration, the NHT would be restructured.
But speaking with the RJR News Centre Monday morning, Mrs. Davis White said the <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue! important; BORDER-BOTTOM: blue 1px solid; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Arial; POSITION: relative; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent">proposal</SPAN> was not practical.
“We believe that the opposition’s promise to guarantee a benefit to every contributor is unrealistic at this time purely because we are talking about guaranteed benefits to all working age contributors and that to our mind is something that is not doable certainly in the near future,” said Mrs. White.
“It is something that I would expect each of us would want but to our minds it is not something that is doable,” she continued.
She was also not supportive of Mr. Golding's plan to reform the <A class=kLink oncontextmenu="return false;" id=KonaLink2 onmouseover=adlinkMouseOver(event,this,2); style="POSITION: static; TEXT-DECORATION: underline! important" onclick=adlinkMouseClick(event,this,2); onmouseout=adlinkMouseOut(event,this,2); href="http://www.radiojamaica.com/news/story.php?category=2&story=30193#" target=_top><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue! important; BORDER-BOTTOM: blue 1px solid; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Arial; POSITION: relative; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent">payroll </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink sty
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><SPAN class=news_summary>General Secretary of the <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 600; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue! important; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Arial; POSITION: relative">Jamaica</SPAN><SPAN>Association of Local Government Officers (JALGO), Helene Davis Whyte is pouring cold water on a suggestion that all <SPAN id=clicksor_sp_contr onmouseover='return ClxLaD("contr",event)' onmouseout='ClxTMo("contr")'>contr</SPAN>ibutors to the National Housing Trust (NHT) should be guaranteed a housing benefit. </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class=news_body>Addressing the Jamaica Labour Party's annual conference on Sunday, party leader Bruce Golding said under a JLP administration, the NHT would be restructured.
But speaking with the RJR News Centre Monday morning, Mrs. Davis White said the <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue! important; BORDER-BOTTOM: blue 1px solid; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Arial; POSITION: relative; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent">proposal</SPAN> was not practical.
“We believe that the opposition’s promise to guarantee a benefit to every contributor is unrealistic at this time purely because we are talking about guaranteed benefits to all working age contributors and that to our mind is something that is not doable certainly in the near future,” said Mrs. White.
“It is something that I would expect each of us would want but to our minds it is not something that is doable,” she continued.
She was also not supportive of Mr. Golding's plan to reform the <A class=kLink oncontextmenu="return false;" id=KonaLink2 onmouseover=adlinkMouseOver(event,this,2); style="POSITION: static; TEXT-DECORATION: underline! important" onclick=adlinkMouseClick(event,this,2); onmouseout=adlinkMouseOut(event,this,2); href="http://www.radiojamaica.com/news/story.php?category=2&story=30193#" target=_top><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue! important; BORDER-BOTTOM: blue 1px solid; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Arial; POSITION: relative; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent">payroll </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink sty