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LETTER OF THE DAY - Send some to prison
Published: Saturday | December 17, 2011 0 Comments
THE EDITOR, Sir:The recent Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP) drama, when one examines the manner in which the project is conceptualised, managed and politicised, goes to the heart of why Jamaica continues to be poor after almost 50 years of administering our own affairs.
None of the players in this tragic drama would spend their own money in such a reckless manner. For far too long we have allowed these politicians and some public servants to ride roughshod over this nation's business while we sit by and comfort ourselves in the nonsense that both sides do it, 'so a no nutten'.
The so-called 'uncommitted' had better get off their fences and take a stand if they wish to make this island the paradise home for their children and themselves. Left to the rabble on both sides of the political divide, Jamaica has only one way going, and that's deeper and deeper into chaos, indiscipline and abject poverty!
attempted cover-up
After reading Dr Omar Davies' account of the JDIP scandal in The Sunday Gleaner of December 11, 2011, it is clear to me that the Government, through the Cabinet and its MPs, was complicit in the act of keeping the JDIP matters hidden from public scrutiny, by ensuring it was kept off the Estimates of Expenditure and, hence, not subject to parliamentary scrutiny. Is it that they all had something to hide?
We are talking about US$340 million (J$29.3 billion) of borrowed money that must be repaid by the Jamaican people! Such total disregard for proper and transparent administration of such funds in properly regulated societies would lead to significant prosecution of persons so entrusted by the public. This is one issue that must never be allowed to go away.
It is indeed distressing that this matter doesn't seem to be of any great concern to the people of this country in the run-up to the upcoming general election. According to the polls, a significant number of Jamaicans are of the view that JLP leader, Andrew Holness, 'deserve a chance'. What chance? Mr Holness has been there all along! Jamaica is in too serious a place to talk about giving someone a chance.
I await patiently, yet not with bated breath, for the prosecutions, trials and subsequent imprisonments that must follow these JDIP investigations. I am tired of living in a poor country that needn't be poor.
CARL BLISS
cabliss@logic-one.net
Published: Saturday | December 17, 2011 0 Comments
THE EDITOR, Sir:The recent Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP) drama, when one examines the manner in which the project is conceptualised, managed and politicised, goes to the heart of why Jamaica continues to be poor after almost 50 years of administering our own affairs.
None of the players in this tragic drama would spend their own money in such a reckless manner. For far too long we have allowed these politicians and some public servants to ride roughshod over this nation's business while we sit by and comfort ourselves in the nonsense that both sides do it, 'so a no nutten'.
The so-called 'uncommitted' had better get off their fences and take a stand if they wish to make this island the paradise home for their children and themselves. Left to the rabble on both sides of the political divide, Jamaica has only one way going, and that's deeper and deeper into chaos, indiscipline and abject poverty!
attempted cover-up
After reading Dr Omar Davies' account of the JDIP scandal in The Sunday Gleaner of December 11, 2011, it is clear to me that the Government, through the Cabinet and its MPs, was complicit in the act of keeping the JDIP matters hidden from public scrutiny, by ensuring it was kept off the Estimates of Expenditure and, hence, not subject to parliamentary scrutiny. Is it that they all had something to hide?
We are talking about US$340 million (J$29.3 billion) of borrowed money that must be repaid by the Jamaican people! Such total disregard for proper and transparent administration of such funds in properly regulated societies would lead to significant prosecution of persons so entrusted by the public. This is one issue that must never be allowed to go away.
It is indeed distressing that this matter doesn't seem to be of any great concern to the people of this country in the run-up to the upcoming general election. According to the polls, a significant number of Jamaicans are of the view that JLP leader, Andrew Holness, 'deserve a chance'. What chance? Mr Holness has been there all along! Jamaica is in too serious a place to talk about giving someone a chance.
I await patiently, yet not with bated breath, for the prosecutions, trials and subsequent imprisonments that must follow these JDIP investigations. I am tired of living in a poor country that needn't be poor.
CARL BLISS
cabliss@logic-one.net
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