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Friday, August 20, 2010
The sudden resignation from the Jamaica Railway Corporation (JRC) board of Mr Harold Brady, the attorney-at-law who inspired such intrigue during 'Dudusgate'รข has piqued our interest.
Mr Brady, in his resignation letter to Transport and Works Minister Mike Henry, said that he had indicated at the time of his appointment that he would not be available for reappointment when the life of the board comes to an end on October 31 this year.
He also said that very recent developments in his firm's international professional relationships may result in a conflict of interest between his position on the board and his firm.
While that is a very noble position to place in the public sphere, we cannot help but wonder whether Mr Brady was forced to resign.
If so, why, and more poignantly, why at this particular time?
We raise these questions in the absence of the much-needed closure that the Government has refused to bring to the issue of its unholy defence of Mr Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, who was eventually extradited to the United States to answer charges of drug and gun-running.
For we hold that there is much that Prime Minister Bruce Golding has failed to tell us about the real reason why he has so -- contemptuously in our view -- dismissed the concerns of many who want the skinny on how Mr Brady rose to the forefront of negotiations with the US law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips on behalf of the Jamaican Government to shield Mr Coke from extradition.
So far, we have been encouraged to believe that Mr Brady did so on his own steam.
But we submit that if we were to be given a less fantastic explanation, there would probably be no need for the doubts that arise every time Mr Brady hits the headlines.
It may be that no significance is attached to Mr Brady's resignation. However, we do not feel that we can easily make that assumption, given the history of subterfuge that has characterised the past 10 months.
As things stand now, we have maintained our endorsement of the position of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce, the MSME Alliance, the Jamaica Exporters' Association, the Jamaica Manufacturers' Association, and the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica not to engage the Government in the critical Partnership for Transformation talks until it comes clean.
For it is most distracting to have to keep jumping out of the water every time the sharks of 'Dudusgate' come calling.
Friday, August 20, 2010
The sudden resignation from the Jamaica Railway Corporation (JRC) board of Mr Harold Brady, the attorney-at-law who inspired such intrigue during 'Dudusgate'รข has piqued our interest.
Mr Brady, in his resignation letter to Transport and Works Minister Mike Henry, said that he had indicated at the time of his appointment that he would not be available for reappointment when the life of the board comes to an end on October 31 this year.
He also said that very recent developments in his firm's international professional relationships may result in a conflict of interest between his position on the board and his firm.
While that is a very noble position to place in the public sphere, we cannot help but wonder whether Mr Brady was forced to resign.
If so, why, and more poignantly, why at this particular time?
We raise these questions in the absence of the much-needed closure that the Government has refused to bring to the issue of its unholy defence of Mr Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, who was eventually extradited to the United States to answer charges of drug and gun-running.
For we hold that there is much that Prime Minister Bruce Golding has failed to tell us about the real reason why he has so -- contemptuously in our view -- dismissed the concerns of many who want the skinny on how Mr Brady rose to the forefront of negotiations with the US law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips on behalf of the Jamaican Government to shield Mr Coke from extradition.
So far, we have been encouraged to believe that Mr Brady did so on his own steam.
But we submit that if we were to be given a less fantastic explanation, there would probably be no need for the doubts that arise every time Mr Brady hits the headlines.
It may be that no significance is attached to Mr Brady's resignation. However, we do not feel that we can easily make that assumption, given the history of subterfuge that has characterised the past 10 months.
As things stand now, we have maintained our endorsement of the position of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce, the MSME Alliance, the Jamaica Exporters' Association, the Jamaica Manufacturers' Association, and the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica not to engage the Government in the critical Partnership for Transformation talks until it comes clean.
For it is most distracting to have to keep jumping out of the water every time the sharks of 'Dudusgate' come calling.
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