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Well it seems like talks done indefinitely, PSOJ still not satisfied with Golding's (or rather The Gelding's) explanation:
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...-talks_7734914
PSOJ still seeking full details on Manatt talks
No disclosure, no talks
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
MONTEGO BAY, St James — The Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) yesterday reiterated its resolve not to resume critical social transformation talks with the Government until it comes clean on the scandal concerning its efforts to railroad the US extradition request for Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.
"The position has not changed and as a precursor to resuming talks there will have to be full disclosure; the problem we have been having is that we are told one thing and something else trickles out. We want to put this thing behind us but this is the position," PSOJ President Joseph Matalon told a breakfast forum in the here yesterday.
The PSOJ put the talks on hold in May following the stunning revelation by Prime Minister Bruce Golding that he sanctioned the hiring of US law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips to lobby Washington to drop its request for Coke who is accused of drug and gun-running.
However, even though the organisation is maintaining its resolve not to resume talks in the absence of satisfactory disclosure, it signalled its support of the Government's current efforts to dismantle the country's garrisons in the search for Coke, who has been on the run since May 24, when Golding the security forces went into his former stronghold of Tivoli Gardens to serve him a arrest warrant.
The forum, the second of a series sponsored by FLOW Communications, saw Matalon and Nicholas Scott, vice president of the PSOJ and chair of the PSOJ's Economic Policy Committee, promoting the economic framework of recommendations that the orgnisation drafted a year ago, to the business community in western Jamaica.
Matalon and Scott both expressed the desire to concentrate solely on economic issues, as opposed to other pressing issues such as crime, education and environmental policies at the forum which was staged at the Ritz-Carlton Rosehall resort.
However, several other issues were raised during the question and answer session which followed, including one from businessman Tony Hart, who made a suggestion on easing pressure on the court system.
"There are hundreds of classrooms that are empty on weekends, why not allow the justices of the peace (lay magistrates) to use them as courtrooms to deal with some of the minor cases like traffic offences that are clogging up the court system?" Hart asked.
Matalon: "People need access to justice, one of the things about Tivoli is that the people felt they had access to justice. Coke provided access to justice, which the Government did not provide," he said.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...-talks_7734914
PSOJ still seeking full details on Manatt talks
No disclosure, no talks
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
MONTEGO BAY, St James — The Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) yesterday reiterated its resolve not to resume critical social transformation talks with the Government until it comes clean on the scandal concerning its efforts to railroad the US extradition request for Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.
"The position has not changed and as a precursor to resuming talks there will have to be full disclosure; the problem we have been having is that we are told one thing and something else trickles out. We want to put this thing behind us but this is the position," PSOJ President Joseph Matalon told a breakfast forum in the here yesterday.
The PSOJ put the talks on hold in May following the stunning revelation by Prime Minister Bruce Golding that he sanctioned the hiring of US law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips to lobby Washington to drop its request for Coke who is accused of drug and gun-running.
However, even though the organisation is maintaining its resolve not to resume talks in the absence of satisfactory disclosure, it signalled its support of the Government's current efforts to dismantle the country's garrisons in the search for Coke, who has been on the run since May 24, when Golding the security forces went into his former stronghold of Tivoli Gardens to serve him a arrest warrant.
The forum, the second of a series sponsored by FLOW Communications, saw Matalon and Nicholas Scott, vice president of the PSOJ and chair of the PSOJ's Economic Policy Committee, promoting the economic framework of recommendations that the orgnisation drafted a year ago, to the business community in western Jamaica.
Matalon and Scott both expressed the desire to concentrate solely on economic issues, as opposed to other pressing issues such as crime, education and environmental policies at the forum which was staged at the Ritz-Carlton Rosehall resort.
However, several other issues were raised during the question and answer session which followed, including one from businessman Tony Hart, who made a suggestion on easing pressure on the court system.
"There are hundreds of classrooms that are empty on weekends, why not allow the justices of the peace (lay magistrates) to use them as courtrooms to deal with some of the minor cases like traffic offences that are clogging up the court system?" Hart asked.
Matalon: "People need access to justice, one of the things about Tivoli is that the people felt they had access to justice. Coke provided access to justice, which the Government did not provide," he said.
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