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Wignall's World
Mark Wignall
Sunday, March 13, 2011
I have said it before and I will say it again. Pick any infinitesimal moment in Jamaica and in that speck of time, this land of ours it at once a fairy tale, a paradise, a puzzle and a horror story.
Thursday afternoon, the Dudus extradition/Manatt enquiry and all seems to be going well. Or so we are moved to believe. KD Knight, lawyer appearing on behalf of the PNP, is doing his job, asking questions and probing for specific answers. Attorney General and Justice Minister Dorothy Lightbourne seems more at ease than the day before, but the questions are no less penetrating.
LIGHTBOURNE… why would she need to bring up a private matter, which happened 31 years ago, and carry it to this very public Commission of Enquiry?
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She has even decided to actually face Knight and stare him in the eyes and direct her answers to him instead of the "Mr Chairman" bit as I had recommended in my Thursday column. The truth would eventually float to the surface, somewhere in the enquiry between questions and answers. Only the truth, or so we were hoping.
But then it happened, not a truth nor a barefaced lie nor some inanity in-between the two, but utter stupidity. And from the quarter that we would least expect it to come. Throughout the interface between Knight and Lightbourne, both trained lawyers, it didn't need any special prescience to determine that there was no love lost between them.
After all, in the enquiry, the JLP and the Government it forms began its stint there behind a cloud. Something dreadfully wrong had taken place, foolish judgements had been made and worse, human lives had been lost.
It had happened under the watch and under the directions of the JLP administration and it was the prime minister who had sanctioned the enquiry. At every step thereafter, public servants and especially those at the political directorate level would be under fire from the lawyers appearing for the Opposition PNP.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/colum...#ixzz1GaBR7wCq
Wignall's World
Mark Wignall
Sunday, March 13, 2011
I have said it before and I will say it again. Pick any infinitesimal moment in Jamaica and in that speck of time, this land of ours it at once a fairy tale, a paradise, a puzzle and a horror story.
Thursday afternoon, the Dudus extradition/Manatt enquiry and all seems to be going well. Or so we are moved to believe. KD Knight, lawyer appearing on behalf of the PNP, is doing his job, asking questions and probing for specific answers. Attorney General and Justice Minister Dorothy Lightbourne seems more at ease than the day before, but the questions are no less penetrating.
LIGHTBOURNE… why would she need to bring up a private matter, which happened 31 years ago, and carry it to this very public Commission of Enquiry?
1/2
She has even decided to actually face Knight and stare him in the eyes and direct her answers to him instead of the "Mr Chairman" bit as I had recommended in my Thursday column. The truth would eventually float to the surface, somewhere in the enquiry between questions and answers. Only the truth, or so we were hoping.
But then it happened, not a truth nor a barefaced lie nor some inanity in-between the two, but utter stupidity. And from the quarter that we would least expect it to come. Throughout the interface between Knight and Lightbourne, both trained lawyers, it didn't need any special prescience to determine that there was no love lost between them.
After all, in the enquiry, the JLP and the Government it forms began its stint there behind a cloud. Something dreadfully wrong had taken place, foolish judgements had been made and worse, human lives had been lost.
It had happened under the watch and under the directions of the JLP administration and it was the prime minister who had sanctioned the enquiry. At every step thereafter, public servants and especially those at the political directorate level would be under fire from the lawyers appearing for the Opposition PNP.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/colum...#ixzz1GaBR7wCq
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