Did not watch much news in Jamaica...but...

[Islandman]

When it come to politics, is Bronze Age Jawge a defend! You nuh hear say if Portia say jump him say how high?

Lazie like fe say dat Democracy without Education is useless but how you explain a man like Jawge? Nuh pure Differential Equations and C++ programming him talk bout?

[Jawge]

I guess you guys deal with the media on a daily basis hence the depth of knowledge.

[Jawge]

Cyaan tell when last mi talk bout differential eq.

[Don1]

don't aks mi aks di PNP

[Jawge]

BTW HL yuh neva hear Obama speak to an audience and put some slang or dialect into it?

[Don1]

In my opinion...Portia expressing her original opinion was fine...even needed.

However when the issue gets to a personalized kass kass...it is unseemly, unnecessary and unproductive for a PM to be in the middle of that.

She needs to withdraw from the fray and allow her underlings to represent her position. I would neither elevate the little fellow seeking audience with her nor the issue by agreeing to that meeting. He is NOT at her level.

She has a multitude of staff support...let them do that werk.

Enuff of this rubbish issue... Too much werk to be done to be consumed by these silly distractions

[Skeng DX]

only 2 times she talk bout it

1st......cricket association awards(she was guest speaker)


2nd.....a journalist asked her about it(at a press conference) and she answered


thats it

[Islandman]

But wait...it look like SkengD is Maudibs replacement inna dis yah New Dispensation?

[myYout]

Diffy Q, ah know him very well

[Skeng DX]

never did too get Laplaces Equation in 3-D

maybe one day one a unuh can show ME

[HL]

....the 'ooman was just (essentially) tracing off the folks on cricket board I'man.

It had that unstatesman-like delivery.

Not becoming for a PM (in my opinion).

Folks like Mosiah would be bigging her up!!!


HL..................................duck!!!

[Skeng DX]

Not Going To Tell A Lie To Defend Anything

[HL]

Yes...and to the delight of the audence when he does it; because it is so unusual to his style.

Portia (as well as lots of other Jamaican leaders) need to have and practice much better decorum.

Mi dun taaak.

[Peter R]

Don,I don't have a problem with your view, I think what I stated may not be much different. My comment regarding cricket as a "talking point" for many is coincidentally addressed here is today's Trinidad Guardian's editorial on the state of cricket in the West Indies:

HL, you might want to get up to speed on the issue... if you care.

West Indies cricket is far too important to the preservation and development of Caribbean identity for the peoples of this region to continue accepting the shameful mediocrity which passes for the squad that represents us in first class cricket.
While a rapid return to the halcyon days of the 15-year period in which West Indies cricket dominated every team in the world may not be on the cards, the least that the team’s cricket fans should be guaranteed is that the best 11 cricketers, who are fit and qualified to represent the region, are chosen at all times.
Last month, Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, speaking at the awards ceremony of that country’s cricket association, questioned the reasons for former West Indies captain Chris Gayle’s exclusion from the West Indies team and called on the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to resolve the impasse that has kept him from representing the region for more than a year.

As a regional leader who, no doubt, understands the importance of cricket to the Caribbean psyche, Prime Minister Simpson Miller’s comments were quite in order. The same cannot be said for the WICB’s response, in which it regretted her comments, expressed disappointment that she had not been properly briefed and then implored her to use her good office to urge Gayle to retract the statements he made in a radio interview.
At play here is the fact that the body that has been mandated to represent West Indies cricket issued a statement in which it publicly raked a regional Prime Minister over the coals for the suggestion that a problem should be speedily and sensibly resolved. It is shame on the WICB that it could have issued such a disrespectful and, frankly, disgracefully notorious statement without bothering to consult the relevant Jamaican cricket representatives.

The issuance of such an ill-advised and inappropriate statement instantly disqualified anyone who contributed to its drafting or approved its dissemination from membership on the WICB or as its employee.

But, regrettably, it is a shame on all West Indies cricket fans that they have not risen up and launched a campaign to purge those who now preside over what may be the last rites of the proud legacy that was bequeathed to the region by the likes of Clive Lloyd, Vivian Richards, Michael Holding, Malcolm Marshall, Gordon Greenidge, Desmond Haynes and Deryck Murray.

At the weekend, former Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister, Lester Bird, added a little fuel to the flickering flame of discontent and unease that is being felt throughout the region.

While some of Mr Bird’s language may have been intemperate, his urgent call for a “new structure to propel West Indies cricket forward” is well timed and well placed. Further, Mr Bird’s suggestion that Gayle was too important to the success of the regional side to be isolated and his call on the WICB to “take the lead” in finding a solution to the long-running impasse were certainly spot-on.

If the WICB does not feel that one of its main responsibilities is to ensure that the best team possible represents the West Indies at all times, then clearly it is not part of the solution. Instead of issuing a public statement whose only intention was to humiliate and denigrate the recently re-elected political leader of the country that is the largest constituent member of the regional cricket board, the WICB should have sought out a respected intermediary (like former Jamaican Prime Minister PJ Patterson) to mediate an end to this imbroglio, which has surely made the region the laughing stock of the cricketing world.

The board should have found some way to get Gayle to issue an acceptable apology for the comments he made. As it stands, we call on Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to join with her Caricom colleagues to produce the intervention that will rid the region of those who have brought its cricket to the lowest point possible.
Editorial http://www.guardian.co.tt/editorial/...-help-fix-wicb

[Exile]

Did she focus on it or just made a statement at the JCB function?...the news ran with it...I see no issue with her comments, they were indeed timely and put ssm pressure on the WIBC...we do make money in JA from cricket..when we hv a full house...hotels, transport etc...it IS AN ISSUE of importance!
HL doesn't seem to hv a clue about cricket....as many others...but as CLR James said.."its beyond the boundary".