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PNP barking up the wrong tree
Michael Lee-Chin once said that success is one per cent strategy formulation and 99 per cent strategy execution. This dictum, I believe, is true for any organisation - commercial business, school, youth group, political party and yes, a national government.
The People's National Party (PNP) has finally made public the first draft of the Progressive Agenda, a new framework for governance which, when implemented, should make Jamaica a much better place to live, work, raise families and do business.
The party has insisted that this is not a manifesto; hence, there are very few specifics. The detailed agenda, I imagine, should be forthcoming much closer to the elections which are due in 2012. Whether in its current form (framework for governance) or in its next stage (manifesto), the Progressive Agenda falls under the broad heading of a strategic plan to move the country from where we are to where we want to go.
One cannot fault either of our political parties for the quality and efficacy of the manifestos published in the past. In other words, strategy articulation was never a problem for our political parties vying for power. The main problem has been, and continues to be, policy execution when in government. In fact, both Prime Minister Bruce Golding and Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller are on record giving their full endorsement and support to the Vision 2030 National Development Plan.
Michael Lee-Chin once said that success is one per cent strategy formulation and 99 per cent strategy execution. This dictum, I believe, is true for any organisation - commercial business, school, youth group, political party and yes, a national government.
The People's National Party (PNP) has finally made public the first draft of the Progressive Agenda, a new framework for governance which, when implemented, should make Jamaica a much better place to live, work, raise families and do business.
The party has insisted that this is not a manifesto; hence, there are very few specifics. The detailed agenda, I imagine, should be forthcoming much closer to the elections which are due in 2012. Whether in its current form (framework for governance) or in its next stage (manifesto), the Progressive Agenda falls under the broad heading of a strategic plan to move the country from where we are to where we want to go.
One cannot fault either of our political parties for the quality and efficacy of the manifestos published in the past. In other words, strategy articulation was never a problem for our political parties vying for power. The main problem has been, and continues to be, policy execution when in government. In fact, both Prime Minister Bruce Golding and Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller are on record giving their full endorsement and support to the Vision 2030 National Development Plan.