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Chris Burns
Monday, August 30, 2010
Mr Prime Minister, if there were nothing improper to hide, protect or to gain from months of obfuscation, why were you so belligerent in defending the so-called "constitutional rights" of Christopher "Dudus" Coke, only to genuflect to pressures from the same Uncle Sam you "traced" earlier? If your intentions were pure, why didn't you or your Cabinet colleagues tell the truth, tell it early and tell it all from the start? Mr Prime Minister, if it was indeed the Jamaica Labour Party, and not the Government of Jamaica which hired Manatt, Phelps and Phillips, why are you and your Cabinet colleagues continuing to respond to questions in your substantive roles as government officials and not as JLP operatives? Why, in your capacity as leader of the JLP, have you not instructed party officials to produce the contract between the JLP and Manatt? Why is the government so unrelenting in its quest for us to "move on" when Manatt continues to say it was working for and on behalf of the government?
Mr Prime Minister, why do you think it will be easy to bamboozle the Jamaican people into accepting mediocrity over excellence and uprightness? Do you take us for idiots? Finally, why is it so hard to resign; hath you no sense of shame? Sir, the actions of the Jamaica Labour Party government, under your leadership, particularly over the last fourteen months, have confirmed beyond doubts that which many have known for a while, but refused to accept. It has confirmed that the Jamaican body politic is rife with men and women who pretend to be altruistic, but who have absolutely no awareness of the value of either honouring their moral responsibility or ethical obligation to the people of Jamaica.
In no decent democracy would Bruce Golding, Dorothy Lightbourne or Douglas Leys be allowed to continue in office.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/colum...nister_7910265
Monday, August 30, 2010
Mr Prime Minister, if there were nothing improper to hide, protect or to gain from months of obfuscation, why were you so belligerent in defending the so-called "constitutional rights" of Christopher "Dudus" Coke, only to genuflect to pressures from the same Uncle Sam you "traced" earlier? If your intentions were pure, why didn't you or your Cabinet colleagues tell the truth, tell it early and tell it all from the start? Mr Prime Minister, if it was indeed the Jamaica Labour Party, and not the Government of Jamaica which hired Manatt, Phelps and Phillips, why are you and your Cabinet colleagues continuing to respond to questions in your substantive roles as government officials and not as JLP operatives? Why, in your capacity as leader of the JLP, have you not instructed party officials to produce the contract between the JLP and Manatt? Why is the government so unrelenting in its quest for us to "move on" when Manatt continues to say it was working for and on behalf of the government?
Mr Prime Minister, why do you think it will be easy to bamboozle the Jamaican people into accepting mediocrity over excellence and uprightness? Do you take us for idiots? Finally, why is it so hard to resign; hath you no sense of shame? Sir, the actions of the Jamaica Labour Party government, under your leadership, particularly over the last fourteen months, have confirmed beyond doubts that which many have known for a while, but refused to accept. It has confirmed that the Jamaican body politic is rife with men and women who pretend to be altruistic, but who have absolutely no awareness of the value of either honouring their moral responsibility or ethical obligation to the people of Jamaica.
In no decent democracy would Bruce Golding, Dorothy Lightbourne or Douglas Leys be allowed to continue in office.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/colum...nister_7910265
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