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    Civil society groups want transparency on JEEP
    Wednesday, January 25, 2012



    THE new government's controversial omnibus job programme -- the Jamaica Emergency Employment Programme (JEEP) -- is again under the microscope with civil society lobbyists demanding greater transparency regarding its funding.
    Jamaicans For Justice (JFJ) and the Jamaica Civil Society Coalition (JCSC) have both requested more details about how the programme will be implemented. This, in the wake of declarations by the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party, that the first phase of JEEP is really the result of a loan agreement it signed with the Inter American Bank (IDB) while it was in power.
    Both the JFJ and the JCSC want the Government to explain how much counterpart funding is needed for the loan and exactly where it will come from.

    "In the absence of such openness it will be difficult to reconcile that on the one hand the finance minister is coming to Parliament to announce more cuts and austerity, and on the other hand, we will be laying out millions of dollars of counterpart funding to enable 'JEEP'," said JFJ in its release yesterday afternoon.

    This was echoed by the Coalition which, in its press statement, called on Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller to "explain to the nation the total amount which taxpayers will have to find to match the IDB loan and where that money will taken from".
    The fact that the selection of the 700 unemployed persons to participate in the programme will be done by members of Parliament also does not bode well, according to the lobbyists.

    "This is the old style discredited politics of 'scarce benefits and spoils', whereby party supporters get work in disproportionate numbers to those of other, or no political persuasion. Already we see one MP reported as saying that of his quota of 50 jobs "based on consultations with councillors... 10 of the people selected are supporters of the JLP, five did not vote in the last election and 35 were PNP supporters," said JFJ.

    The human rights group argued that in 21st century Jamaica, people "must see competitive selection processes which result in the most competent persons getting the jobs" and called for an immediate halt in the selection of workers by MPs. The group wants this task to go to relevant Government agencies to ensure that a transparent and fair selection process which will see the most able persons employed.

    The JCSC, too, called for the establishment of a multi-stakeholder process, "which is systematised, with appropriate benchmarks for monitoring and evaluating performance. We recommend that the process be coordinated through the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, and involverelevant state agencies, community-based organisations and other non-state actors engaged in community development and social welfare in the process of recruiting and identifying the potential workers", said the coalition.


    Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz1kV2xWw4m
    TIVOLI: THE DESTRUCTION OF JAMAICA'S EVIL EMPIRE

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  • #2
    Originally posted by Don1 View Post
    "This is the old style discredited politics of 'scarce benefits and spoils', whereby party supporters get work in disproportionate numbers to those of other, or no political persuasion. Already we see one MP reported as saying that of his quota of 50 jobs "based on consultations with councillors... 10 of the people selected are supporters of the JLP, five did not vote in the last election and 35 were PNP supporters," said JFJ.
    i saw this and didn't like it... however, we have to be realistic and recognize the progress that is being made... the ideal for which most reasoned people wish, is very difficult to implement in jamaica... imagine the outcome, if most of a project is staffed with the opposition's supporters because they have greater competence...
    'to get what we've never had, we MUST do what we've never done'

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    • #3
      So hold on, we tell unoo say 10 labourite get work and unoo nuh satisfy wid dat? Wha more transparency unoo want? LOL!
      "‎It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men" - Frederick Douglass

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      • #4
        Ah hope ah nuh nutten like bollo wuk kah dat was gi weh money ting. Dat deh money ah di easiest money mi evah si man get, man bilfold full up an not eben lift straw, plus if dem tink seh yuh a eben independent yuh dead fi hungry kah a peer badup yuh get if yuh guh fi get likkle ah di wuk.

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        • #5
          I though who u voted for was private..How dem know who people vote for? even the know the people dem that didnt vote...weh dem do, ask people or a just activist dem hire?

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Plush View Post
            I though who u voted for was private..How dem know who people vote for? even the know the people dem that didnt vote...weh dem do, ask people or a just activist dem hire?
            Don't aks mi...aks di PNP
            TIVOLI: THE DESTRUCTION OF JAMAICA'S EVIL EMPIRE

            Recognizing the victims of Jamaica's horrendous criminality and exposing the Dummies like Dippy supporting criminals by their deeds.. or their silence.

            D1 - Xposing Dummies since 2007

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            • #7
              How long has it been since they took power? Where is Mosiah and his suitcases? Oh let me guess Karl...there are so many posts on the board he probably didn't see this one

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