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Golding's recipe for gridlock
Dawn Ritch, Columnist
Opposition Leader Bruce Golding has promised constitutional reform, National Housing Trust benefits for every contributor, the consolidation of payroll deduction into a single security scheme, and much other bureaucratic tinkering of that nature.
This is painful historical irony. I would never have expected any Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) leader to offer constitutional reform. Labourites are noted for their conservatism, not adventurism.
New green colour
More than anything else, this demonstrates that in their own party, the Labourites have been entirely vanquished by the Endimites. Golding's opportunism never fails to astonish.
The Endimites came along with Golding from the National Democratic Movement (NDM), and 'captured' the JLP. Now the Opposition Leader has stitched the NDM platform unto the JLP, and I for one won't wear it.
The JLP's party colour has always been Kelly Green or Jamaica Green. Now under Golding, it seems that any colour green will do. That is unfortunate because when everyone wears a different colour green on the same political platform, it creates a dappled effect which looks like battle fatigues.
At the conference, the green had a lot of blue infused into it. And now with everybody in exactly the same blue-green colour, it looked even more like a military uniform.
This sense of military fascism was heightened by the Opposition Leader's security being dressed in full black uniforms, and standing on either side of the podium while he spoke.
Why the necessity for all this camouflage? Is it in order to disguise that Bruce Golding is an Empty Suit, a yes-man who fancies himself as a leader? As defined in The Sunday Telegraph, an 'Empty Suit' has little talent, and no fixed opinions, but crawls to his superiors well, and plays office politics with great skill.
The mobilisation of thousands was impressive. But they looked young to me, as though they didn't have a vote. Moreover, there was no spirit. Those watching it on television probably had a better time than those who attended.
The person who brought down the house however, was Steven Golding, who as far as I know, has no standing in the matter. He is merely the son of the current JLP leader. If he is to be so promoted, then at least make him the president of G2K so he'll have some work to do.
This pseudo-Rastafarian made a mockery of the Lord's Prayer. He said 'Our father who art in Parliament, Bangarang be thy name ...'
The JLP has ridiculed Portia Simpson Miller for saying she feels anointed by God. The fact is that she is entitled to feel that way because during her campaign for the PNP presidency, she went to the Kingston Parish Church specifically to be blessed by the Bishop of Kingston. Is young Golding now saying that his father is the God who gave that blessing?
This makes no sense at all. They accuse the Prime Minister of blasphemy, yet the JLP has now used the predominant Christian religion of the country without any sense of sobriety whatsoever, to entertain a vast crowd, which was otherwise bored out of its collective mind.
Golding ought not to have found his son's performance so delightful. The vast majority of Jamaic
Dawn Ritch, Columnist
Opposition Leader Bruce Golding has promised constitutional reform, National Housing Trust benefits for every contributor, the consolidation of payroll deduction into a single security scheme, and much other bureaucratic tinkering of that nature.
This is painful historical irony. I would never have expected any Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) leader to offer constitutional reform. Labourites are noted for their conservatism, not adventurism.
New green colour
More than anything else, this demonstrates that in their own party, the Labourites have been entirely vanquished by the Endimites. Golding's opportunism never fails to astonish.
The Endimites came along with Golding from the National Democratic Movement (NDM), and 'captured' the JLP. Now the Opposition Leader has stitched the NDM platform unto the JLP, and I for one won't wear it.
The JLP's party colour has always been Kelly Green or Jamaica Green. Now under Golding, it seems that any colour green will do. That is unfortunate because when everyone wears a different colour green on the same political platform, it creates a dappled effect which looks like battle fatigues.
At the conference, the green had a lot of blue infused into it. And now with everybody in exactly the same blue-green colour, it looked even more like a military uniform.
This sense of military fascism was heightened by the Opposition Leader's security being dressed in full black uniforms, and standing on either side of the podium while he spoke.
Why the necessity for all this camouflage? Is it in order to disguise that Bruce Golding is an Empty Suit, a yes-man who fancies himself as a leader? As defined in The Sunday Telegraph, an 'Empty Suit' has little talent, and no fixed opinions, but crawls to his superiors well, and plays office politics with great skill.
The mobilisation of thousands was impressive. But they looked young to me, as though they didn't have a vote. Moreover, there was no spirit. Those watching it on television probably had a better time than those who attended.
The person who brought down the house however, was Steven Golding, who as far as I know, has no standing in the matter. He is merely the son of the current JLP leader. If he is to be so promoted, then at least make him the president of G2K so he'll have some work to do.
This pseudo-Rastafarian made a mockery of the Lord's Prayer. He said 'Our father who art in Parliament, Bangarang be thy name ...'
The JLP has ridiculed Portia Simpson Miller for saying she feels anointed by God. The fact is that she is entitled to feel that way because during her campaign for the PNP presidency, she went to the Kingston Parish Church specifically to be blessed by the Bishop of Kingston. Is young Golding now saying that his father is the God who gave that blessing?
This makes no sense at all. They accuse the Prime Minister of blasphemy, yet the JLP has now used the predominant Christian religion of the country without any sense of sobriety whatsoever, to entertain a vast crowd, which was otherwise bored out of its collective mind.
Golding ought not to have found his son's performance so delightful. The vast majority of Jamaic
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