Don One N Who Did Want To See Who D US Cable did ATalk About

[Skeng DX]

you can read more at http://wikileaks.fi/cable/2006/02/06KINGSTON230.html

and http://wikileaks.fi/

Corruption Concerns
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¶5. (C) Perhaps for effect, XXXXXXXXXXXX professed concern about
support for Simpson Miller's campaign from notably
unscrupulous figures such as Paul Burke, a 1970's-era
radical-turned-businessman and backroom PNP operative.
XXXXXXXXXXXX described Burke as being politically savvy and
intellectually gifted, and therefore of great use to Simpson
Miller's campaign. At the same time, he said, given Burke's
past shady dealings and associations, Burke had attached
himself to Simpson Miller's campaign because he is able to
exercise greater influence with her, and because he hopes to
benefit from a Simpson Miller victory. Minister of Commerce,
Science, Technology, and Energy Phillip Paulwell is another
PNP "politician with a past" who is backing Simpson Miller,
said XXXXXXXXXXXX. (Note: Paulwell, reportedly a longtime
associate of and close collaborator with Burke, was a rising
political star until 2001, when he approved a USD 4 million
loan to a private telecom company known to be in financial
trouble, and which subsequently collapsed. End note.)

[Skeng DX]

Davies and Blythe: XXXXXXXXXXXX's Also-Rans
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¶6. (C) XXXXXXXXXXXX was entirely dismissive of Karl Blythe's
low-profile campaign, saying that Phillips had won over key
delegates from under Blythe's nose, in Blythe's own home
constituency. He characterized Blythe as erratic and
unpredictable, and observed that he seemed to be in the race
"because of ego." (Note: Blythe was forced to resign as
Water and Housing Minister in 2002 after he was found to have
acted improperly in supervising a low-income housing grant
program. End note.) Though more respectful of Finance
Minister Omar Davies and his "Campaign for Prosperity",
XXXXXXXXXXXX said that Davies has run his campaign badly thus
far, causing private sector donors to lose faith and reduce
considerably their funding for his effort. According to
XXXXXXXXXXXX, Patterson persuaded Davies to enter the race to
provide a more promising (and palatable) alternative than
Blythe to Phillips and Simpson Miller, and because Patterson
harbors long-standing grudges against both Phillips and
Simpson Miller. Patterson, he explained, has never forgotten
that it was Phillips who conveyed then-Prime Minister Michael
Manley's 1991 request for Patterson's resignation as Finance
Minister after Patterson was found to have improperly waived
fuel import duties for a PNP crony who was also the local
manager for a multinational petroleum company. As for
Simpson Miller, she earned Patterson's ire by daring to run
(unsuccessfully, as it turned out) against him to succeed
Manley in 1992, and by frequently missing or arriving late to
Cabinet meetings over the years, which Patterson viewed as a
lack of respect for his authority.

....

[Skeng DX]

seeit yah

That said, the involvement of Paul Burke, Danhai Williams,
Kenneth "Skeng Don" Black, and their ilk with the Simpson
Miller campaign - or indeed any other - is cause for some
concern

[Willi]

Hehehehe,

Now Peter P can get more respect from me.

Go deh Peter drape up PJ, yes.

[Don1]

So these US operatives believed that Paul Burke would join a Portia administration?

Ridiculous....

[Don1]

seeit yah

I agree those figures are a cause for concern...they must be watched

[Muadib]

yuh nuh.. after him have surrogate fi dat !

[Willi]

Or is Paulwell dem a talk bout? Nuh him was the rising star!

[Willi]

'No hidden agenda' - Paul Burke denies alliance with Finance Minister
published: Tuesday | February 1, 2005

By Omar Anderson, Gleaner Writer


Burke, Davies, Simpson Miller and Phillips


FORMER PEOPLE'S National Party (PNP) Region Three chairman Paul Burke yesterday dismissed suggestions that his candidacy for party vice-president was simply a ploy to further the political ambitions of Finance Minister Dr. Omar Davies.

Mr. Burke also confirmed a Sunday Gleaner article that he had officially withdrawn from the race to succeed Prime Minister P.J. Patterson as party president.

"I am not in any alliance with any other vice-presidential or presidential aspirant in my offering myself as a candidate, although I welcome and need the support from all of these comrades without exception, and which hopefully, I will receive," Mr. Burke said in a statement.

AGENDA WELL DOCUMENTED

"I have no agenda. The political agenda which has guided me over the past sixteen months, has been well documented. I can, therefore, truthfully and categorically state that there has been no intrigue, subterfuge, secret alliances or hidden agenda on my part."

Mr. Burke was responding to an article in The Sunday Gleaner by former North West St. Ann Member of Parliament Arnold 'Scree' Bertram, which alleged that Mr. Burke's 11th hour nomination was done to spark the struggling candidacy of presidential hopeful Dr. Davies.

"Paul Burke's eleventh-hour nomination for the PNP's vice-presidential race reflects a strategic decision by the political camp of presidential hopeful Omar Davies, to create an opening for their candidate who has so far failed to make an impression within the party," Mr. Bertram wrote.

CLOSE TIES TO DAVIES

"The reliance of Davies on Burke is not new since it was Burke who facilitated his elevation to the chairmanship of Region Three two years ago. It is this emerging alliance which provides the basis for the boast from the politically naive around Davies that after February 5 Dr. Peter Phillips' candidature will be sabotaged beyond recovery."

Responding further, Mr. Burke said he was pleasantly surprised at the allegation of a collusion between himself and Dr. Davies, declaring that the candidate of his choice to succeed Mr. Patterson was Minister of Local Government Portia Simpson Miller.

Mr. Burke's last minute entry as a candidate for vice-president almost brought the PNP's 66th annual conference at the National Arena more than a week to a standstill. So unprepared were party officials, including the secretariat for a vote, that it took the intervention of Mr. Patterson to get the situation under control. The vote is now set for Saturday where Mr. Burke will face Dr. Phillips, Dr. Davies, Mrs. Simpson Miller and Dr. Paul Robertson to decide on the party's four vice-presidents.

Mr. Burke added that his withdrawal from the PNP presidential race was based, among other reasons, on the fact that the other four vice-presidential aspirants have not supported his idea for a separation of the responsibilities of the party president and prime minister.

[Willi]

If dem wrong here, I wonder what else dem get wrong???

How reliable are the evaluations in these cables? Some of it seems clueless, like the quality of Omar's reign. ROTFLMAO

Does Babylon have our interest at heart?

It is time that the greens and the orange coalesce around common ground. We are being played.

[Sir X]

Babylon is being swayed by stale salad lunches , if dem a complain bout di PM wife salad dem really serious ? Its like an idiot given an opinion about runnings after talking to man who a him friend.

Such is US espionage in the carribbean and to a latter extent central america.We are not that valued , they use gossip as fact.