PNP Calls for Full Investigation into NSWMA Break-in and Fir

[Skeng DX]

The People’s National Party (PNP) is expressing grave concern about reports of a break-in and fire at the head office of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) in Kingston on Sunday night (December 4).

The Party says its own checks with the Police reveal that the Police were called to the NSWMA office after persons tried to set fire to the building.
PNP Calls for Full Investigation into NSWMA Break-in and Fire

Reports reaching the PNP are that men armed with guns held-up security personnel on the premises and ordered that the offices be opened. It is also reported that the men took computers and files before setting fire to the building.

The PNP’s Shadow Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Colin Fagan is calling on the Minister of Housing, Water and Environment, Dr. Horace Chang, who has responsibility for the NSWMA, to immediately order a full investigation into the reports. Mr. Fagan is specifically requesting that information on any missing files and computers be made public and the country told how this will affect the operations of the agency.

The PNP spokesman is urging that the matter be treated with urgency and the nation told the truth about the situation.

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DK Duncan
Another scandal in the making? last night the guard at the National Solid Waste Authority was tied up and blind folded and the Archive with all the NSWMA files set afire and burnt. Also part of the audit department. Ironically, the Ministry of local Government was to begin an audit this morning. If an investigation is to be done into the Joan Gordon Webley run body, no records will be available. How convenient. It is as suspicious as the killing of Comrade Minister Roy McGann and Joan Gordon Webley husband several years ago.

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[Gamma]

what about a full investigation into trafigura?

[Skeng DX]

same thing mi a ask fah...............why dem jus dont strip them of them rights (for eg.. to appeal etc..)......and just done with all a this

[Exile]

You have no comments on the header subject? Is this just plain coincidence? Or good governance?

[Mosiah]

Isn't it in court?

[Me]

Full investigation needed. That is an agency that has allowed pure slackness for decades and they need to put it in line, along with INSPORT.

DK going into all out assualt mode the personal matters. Him better hope opponents don't start bringing up some of the incidents he is connected to.

[Sickko]

We also saw where the Offices of INSPORT was also 'broken into' after serious fraud was discovered...makes you feel like some one is trying to destroy evidence

[Me]

Solid Waste is the specialist in dead man on payroll and INSPORT specialize in hiring "consultants".

[Willi]

Well hidden too! LoL

[Gamma]

An investigation is warranted no doubt about that.

[Willi]

Just like the break-in back in 2007 of Peter Phillips computer files, it stinks to high heaven.

Somebaddy ah try cover up! We have a Jakan disease fi real:

JDIP, NWA, Trafigura



Tuesday, December 06, 2011

"But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully..." (2 Corinthians 4:2)
Dear Reader,

I'm not sure that there is another example anywhere. I can't think of any country in the world where both the governing party and the Opposition are simultaneously embroiled in allegations and investigations of corruption in the middle of an election campaign while the rest of us pretend that what is happening is perfectly normal.
As the two main parties, the ‘gangs of Gordon House’, engage in finger-pointing, what about their collective shame?



As the two main parties, the ‘gangs of Gordon House’, engage in finger-pointing, what about their collective shame?


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Not only has the national discourse since the last election been almost exclusively about who is more corrupt than whom, but the election campaign is equally shallow and antagonistic. Both sides are crying shame on each other at decibels - one side shouting "Trafigura" and the other, "Manatt".
As the two main parties, described by some as the "gangs of Gordon House", engage in finger-pointing, the question is, what about their collective shame? It is something to behold how they have both agreed to call wrong right and right wrong.
What we are seeing on the campaign trail is a barefaced redefinition of values. For the Opposition leader to casually and jeeringly express that everybody knows that Trafigura was a donation to the PNP without apology or explanation is incredible. It is even more astounding within the context of the PNP's fight to keep the Jamaican public from hearing the proceedings of the Trafigura trial now under way. Why the secrecy if it was just a benign gift, and has the Dutch company settled on whether it was a donation or a commercial agreement?
I want to remind the Opposition leader that the money was given to the PNP by a company doing business with their government at the time. So what about the problem of influence-peddling and conflict of interest? More important, what was to be exchanged for the gift? Rumours continue to abound about which part of Jamaica's heritage was going to be sold for "30 pieces of silver". Even while the politicians are jumping up and down on stage, those questions are still unanswered.
To shrug off the deep and far-reaching implications of a deal with a company with the reputation of Trafigura Beheer not only demonstrates a complete lack of integrity and ethics, but the reluctance, and perhaps the inability to understand how morally reprehensible that kind of association was, is mind-boggling. At the time that Trafigura Beheer was being engaged by the PNP, the company's reputation had been tainted by the "oil-for-food" scandal as well as the dumping of toxic waste in the Ivory Coast.
Equally amazing is the finger-pointing by the JLP at the PNP about Trafigura while that party at the very same time is under investigation for the JDIP/NWA scandal. Where do these people get the gall to parade and ridicule corruption this way?
Is the government trying to tell Jamaicans that none of them noticed the posh, new offices of the NWA and deduced that it would have to be furnished commensurate with the aesthetics? Add to that the allegations of nepotism. Who exactly benefited from the deal and exactly how much are those contracts worth?
From my earlier days as a talk-show host, there were questions being asked by the public about JDIP.
I'm appalled that decent, hardworking, God-fearing Jamaicans are being asked to cast their votes for the two political parties while they are actively embroiled in investigations of corruption. Are the people of Jamaica being asked to rubber-stamp corruption? The message to the electorate seems to be, "Vote for me. I am not as corrupt as the other guy." What a country!
The tragedy of the situation is that the PNP and JLP have no reason to feel shame or remorse because the rest of us in the society are either waiting on the gravy train, or like the church, have lost both courage and conscience. Instead of calling out the politicians for the multiplicity of scandals leading up to and including this period, those who dare to speak for the church have said that they see nothing wrong with the elections being held in this holy period of Advent, even while it is dubbed the "silly season". It's the same church that has no problem with carnival being held at Easter. I'm flabbergasted!
There is also no need to fear any other political opposition since the system has effectively locked out independent parties or what is popularly described as "third parties". Not only are elections being held in a climate of corruption, but none of the proposed electoral campaign finance reforms have been put in place.
With no representation on the Electoral Commission, and with a requirement for state funding set so high that it is virtually impossible for independent parties to compete, the PNP and JLP are guaranteed electoral supremacy and support. The two parties' disregard for disclosure of donors and the ineffectiveness and inability of the ECJ to enforce certain rules and regulations, means that the PNP and JLP have it all "lock" as Jamaicans would say. What a country!
With love,
bab2609@yahoo.com



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[Gamma]

Bwoy mi haffi seh mi agree wid har full 100%!

[Skeng DX]

Suspicious

MINISTER OF Housing, Environment, Water and Local Government Dr Horace Chang has cast an eye of suspicion on the destruction of documents at the offices of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA).

Chang told The Gleaner yesterday he wants to know why someone would move to destroy documents at the agency.

The minister raised the concern yesterday as an air of mystery hung over the NSWMA, a little more than 24 hours after gunmen entered its premises, tied up a security guard, and allegedly stole computers and set fire to files.

"It is of concern that someone would want to damage documents at the office … . I need to find out why," Chang said.

He said the police and the fire department were conducting intensive investigations and a report was expected by today.

Emelio Ebanks, public relations officer for the Jamaica Fire Brigade, told The Gleaner yesterday that the department responded to a fire at the offices of the NSWMA and discovered that two sections of the building housing records were ablaze.

He said one unit from the fire department extinguished the blaze.

Chang said his staff would be sent in today to provide him with details about documents that have been burnt or damaged by water.

He said there were documents that have been damaged beyond recovery.

"A security guard was tied up by the miscreants," Chang pointed out.

He stressed that the NSWMA was a very important government agency and that it was crucial that the public be provided with information on the fire.

Yesterday, the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) called for Chang to immediately conduct investigations into the circumstances which led to the fire.

Sources close to the matter said personnel close to the NSWMA had been uneasy in recent days after questions were raised about the operations of the agency.

Colin Fagan, Opposition spokes-man on local government, is "specifically requesting that information on any missing files and computers be made public and the country told how this will affect the operations of the agency".

The PNP spokesman is urging that the matter be treated with urgency and the nation told the truth about what happened.

[Mosiah]

It's in court!

[Willi]

Behind closed doors!