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Seivright supports removing ‘PNP supporters’ from gov’t service
Generation 2000, the youth arm of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party seems bent on taking a backward political step, which would see the wholesale removal of some public servants working in “sensitive government positions.”
G2K’s president Delano Seivright says the thinking inside the organization was that persons opposed to the government and who could sabotage government policies should be removed. He was adamant that after 18 years in power many PNP supporters were in critical positions, which was not healthy for the JLP.
Seivright could not say what yardstick would be used to weed out these persons, opting instead to suggest, “That was up for debate.”
The influential youth arm signaled its intention via the endorsement of an email sent by one of its supporters to its blackberry partners:
“She moved from Education to Finance to Culture then OUT. Why such a long route and why it took such a long time?”
Although no name was called it was clear that the mail was referring to former permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education, Maria Jones.
The text continued, “Remember that what really matters is not the cost to say goodbye to some people who will never support you. What really matters is the cost to keep them in terms of salary, bad advice, undermining you, leaking information, failure to carry out policy decisions, employing and keeping their friends who also do not support you and making speeches that undermine you.
“If we continue to keep these people in sensitive positions then all this really does is to maintain the status quo of Jamaica being a PNP country and the JLP running the risk of being a one-term government. “Remember the former BOJ Governor with his high interest rate policies? Those policies nearly sink the ship. He didn’t like a bone in this government.”
The author of what was tantamount to the Pickersgillian Committee of the 1970s where incumbent PNP chairman Bobby Pickersgill headed a committee charged with the responsibility of ensuring that only Socialists were appointed to government boards, argued that “removing known PNP activists and supporters from sensitive positions in government is not political victimisation but political astuteness.”
“Remember... the JLP paid dearly for facilitating the appointment of a former Police Commissioner who many said was anti the government!!! The message continued: “We won an election which gives us the opportunity to implement policies that we sold to the electorate.
These policies cannot be lead by PNP functionaries and their affiliates dressed in civil servant suites and perceived as being impartial.”
Taking view on board Seivright conceded that the sender of the text message while he was not a GK2 member “he was a close supporter of the JLP and we are taking the view on board.”
“Let me tell you up front you are going to see more of this kind of reasoning,” Seivright told the Sunday Herald Thursday night. He argued that that view was comparable to best practices in the United States where over 3,000 public servants were removed from their posts following the election of President Barack Obama, and in other developed countries.
The GK2 president brushed aside suggestions that he had to contend with significant and political differences between both countries. For example Jamaica is known for and has a stained history of political victimization where adherents of both parties have not only lost jobs but also properties following change of governments.
The young political leader said he was pushing for constitutional changes that would require persons appointed to fill critical positions face a parliamentary committee.
Seivright’s endorsement of what would be labeled as political victimisation has concretized the perception that the removal of some top civil servants including former BOJ Governor Derek Lattibeaudiere and other top technocrats from the Ministry of Fiancé was politically motivated.
Seivright supports removing ‘PNP supporters’ from gov’t service
Generation 2000, the youth arm of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party seems bent on taking a backward political step, which would see the wholesale removal of some public servants working in “sensitive government positions.”
G2K’s president Delano Seivright says the thinking inside the organization was that persons opposed to the government and who could sabotage government policies should be removed. He was adamant that after 18 years in power many PNP supporters were in critical positions, which was not healthy for the JLP.
Seivright could not say what yardstick would be used to weed out these persons, opting instead to suggest, “That was up for debate.”
The influential youth arm signaled its intention via the endorsement of an email sent by one of its supporters to its blackberry partners:
“She moved from Education to Finance to Culture then OUT. Why such a long route and why it took such a long time?”
Although no name was called it was clear that the mail was referring to former permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education, Maria Jones.
The text continued, “Remember that what really matters is not the cost to say goodbye to some people who will never support you. What really matters is the cost to keep them in terms of salary, bad advice, undermining you, leaking information, failure to carry out policy decisions, employing and keeping their friends who also do not support you and making speeches that undermine you.
“If we continue to keep these people in sensitive positions then all this really does is to maintain the status quo of Jamaica being a PNP country and the JLP running the risk of being a one-term government. “Remember the former BOJ Governor with his high interest rate policies? Those policies nearly sink the ship. He didn’t like a bone in this government.”
The author of what was tantamount to the Pickersgillian Committee of the 1970s where incumbent PNP chairman Bobby Pickersgill headed a committee charged with the responsibility of ensuring that only Socialists were appointed to government boards, argued that “removing known PNP activists and supporters from sensitive positions in government is not political victimisation but political astuteness.”
“Remember... the JLP paid dearly for facilitating the appointment of a former Police Commissioner who many said was anti the government!!! The message continued: “We won an election which gives us the opportunity to implement policies that we sold to the electorate.
These policies cannot be lead by PNP functionaries and their affiliates dressed in civil servant suites and perceived as being impartial.”
Taking view on board Seivright conceded that the sender of the text message while he was not a GK2 member “he was a close supporter of the JLP and we are taking the view on board.”
“Let me tell you up front you are going to see more of this kind of reasoning,” Seivright told the Sunday Herald Thursday night. He argued that that view was comparable to best practices in the United States where over 3,000 public servants were removed from their posts following the election of President Barack Obama, and in other developed countries.
The GK2 president brushed aside suggestions that he had to contend with significant and political differences between both countries. For example Jamaica is known for and has a stained history of political victimization where adherents of both parties have not only lost jobs but also properties following change of governments.
The young political leader said he was pushing for constitutional changes that would require persons appointed to fill critical positions face a parliamentary committee.
Seivright’s endorsement of what would be labeled as political victimisation has concretized the perception that the removal of some top civil servants including former BOJ Governor Derek Lattibeaudiere and other top technocrats from the Ministry of Fiancé was politically motivated.
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