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Published: Thursday | June 16, 20114 Comments
Azan
Edmond Campbell, Senior Staff Reporter
PRESIDENT OF the Jamaica Manufacturers' Association, Omar Azan, says the time has come for legislation to be introduced to impeach public officials.
"We must be able to have an impeachment done immediately if somebody has acted inappropriately," Azan told The Gleaner yesterday.
He suggested that the Emil George-led commission of enquiry should have included in its recommendations the drafting of legislation to impeach public officials who misuse their office.
Commenting on the findings of the report which was tabled on Tuesday in Parliament, Azan urged the Government to urgently consider the recommendations in the 58-page report.
Convenor of Families Against State Terrorism (FAST), Yvonne McCalla Sobers, has summed up the findings of the Manatt-Dudus report as an "expensive fiasco".
"I am really concerned about the fact that it seems to me so lame and so weak in coming down on behaviour that we saw evidence of," McCalla Sobers told The Gleaner Power 106 News yesterday.
"What I see here is not even rapping on the knuckles but near to the knuckles," she insisted.
Glaring inconsistency
McCalla Sobers argued that the commissioners seemed to have saved their energies for the attorneys by castigating some of them for their conduct at the enquiry.
She argued that there was a glaring inconsistency in the Manatt report. According to McCalla Sobers, the commissioners had set out in detail that Coke's constitutional rights were breached when his telephone records were handed over to the US government. However, she questioned how they arrived at that position while appearing to justify the justice minister's signing of the extradition warrant.
She questioned whether public pressure should trump principle in the signing of the warrant.
Vitus Evans, president of the Jamaica Exporters' Association, told The Gleaner that at least two of the findings of the Manatt report resonated with the views earlier expressed by his organisation.
Evans said, in relation to the hiring of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, the US law firm retained to lobby US officials on the extradition request for Coke, his organisation had made it clear that no political party should have been involved in a treaty matter between states.
edmond.campbell@gleanerjm.com
Published: Thursday | June 16, 20114 Comments
Azan
Edmond Campbell, Senior Staff Reporter
PRESIDENT OF the Jamaica Manufacturers' Association, Omar Azan, says the time has come for legislation to be introduced to impeach public officials.
"We must be able to have an impeachment done immediately if somebody has acted inappropriately," Azan told The Gleaner yesterday.
He suggested that the Emil George-led commission of enquiry should have included in its recommendations the drafting of legislation to impeach public officials who misuse their office.
Commenting on the findings of the report which was tabled on Tuesday in Parliament, Azan urged the Government to urgently consider the recommendations in the 58-page report.
Convenor of Families Against State Terrorism (FAST), Yvonne McCalla Sobers, has summed up the findings of the Manatt-Dudus report as an "expensive fiasco".
"I am really concerned about the fact that it seems to me so lame and so weak in coming down on behaviour that we saw evidence of," McCalla Sobers told The Gleaner Power 106 News yesterday.
"What I see here is not even rapping on the knuckles but near to the knuckles," she insisted.
Glaring inconsistency
McCalla Sobers argued that the commissioners seemed to have saved their energies for the attorneys by castigating some of them for their conduct at the enquiry.
She argued that there was a glaring inconsistency in the Manatt report. According to McCalla Sobers, the commissioners had set out in detail that Coke's constitutional rights were breached when his telephone records were handed over to the US government. However, she questioned how they arrived at that position while appearing to justify the justice minister's signing of the extradition warrant.
She questioned whether public pressure should trump principle in the signing of the warrant.
Vitus Evans, president of the Jamaica Exporters' Association, told The Gleaner that at least two of the findings of the Manatt report resonated with the views earlier expressed by his organisation.
Evans said, in relation to the hiring of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, the US law firm retained to lobby US officials on the extradition request for Coke, his organisation had made it clear that no political party should have been involved in a treaty matter between states.
edmond.campbell@gleanerjm.com
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