Drink Milk Now !! Thou good and faithful servant !

[Muadib]

sorry Missa Rowe.. suh it guh.. good luck with Butch and PJ !

lol !

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...-new-UDC-board

Sheriff has arrived !

Lambert Brown.. come on down !

Ralston Hyman.. come in !!

All di 'analyst dem' !

lol ! woiee !

[Lazie]

Shalman Scott!!!!! Wait only Dickie Crawford leff.

[Mosiah]

I hope Ralph continues to write his excellent articles!

Congrats!

[Mosiah]

Unu tek time! Memba, is PNP country!

[Peter R]

...with Exile as editor... and is that the usual size of the board? where do they meet? the stadium? seems a a rather large group...

[Islandman]

Rhatid is one so-so board dat? All dem people couldn't meet one time?

[Islandman]

LOL. Maybe down a the Trelawny one? At least dat would put it to some use.

[Assasin]

and to know these are the same people who complained about "big government".

[Mosiah]

How big was the previous board, Assasin?

[Assasin]

Certainly not that big Mosiah. And if you complain about big government one expect yours to be smaller. In almost every department this governmet is BIGGER.

[Assasin]

sometimes you need fi just relax and realise that the answer not far away.

Now what is your point?????

UDC gets new board
published: Friday | November 7, 2008


( L - R ) Chen, Marks, Ammar jr

( L - R ) Harding, Porteous, Russell, Templer
Three well-known government supporters have been named to a 14-member board of the Urban Development Corporation (UDC), despite repeated criticisms about the number of [COLOR=orange !important][COLOR=orange !important]Jamaica[/COLOR][/COLOR] Labour Party (JLP) backers being appointed to state entities.
A key confidant of Prime Minister Bruce [COLOR=orange !important][COLOR=orange !important]Golding[/COLOR][/COLOR], businessman and former National Democratic Movement (NDM) member, [COLOR=orange !important][COLOR=orange !important]Wayne [COLOR=orange !important]Chen[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR], had already been named to head the UDC board.
Chen is joined by Government Senator Tom Tavares-Finson, JLP councillor Sally Porteous and former NDM executive, Robert Russell.
Three other persons are expected to be named to the board which also includes Sancia Templer, chief technical director in charge of development and planning in the Office of the Prime Minister.
Wednesday, Dwight Nelson, minister without portfolio in the finance ministry, defended the composition of the board in the face of more questions about the appointment of the government supporters to the board of state entities.
"The minister responsible for the UDC, the prime minister, has named the board based on their competence and expertise," Nelson told journalists at the weekly post-Cabinet media briefing.
Appointments defended
Nelson also defended the appointment of Chen who helped Golding to launch the NDM.
"He (Chen) brings to the board his awareness and his concern for the development of Jamaica based on his exposure to the needs of the Jamaican people and certainly being a trained attorney he brings his legal skills," Nelson added.
Nelson's defence of the new UDC board comes less than a week after Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller blasted the Golding administration over its appointment to state boards.
"If you check the boards of the present government, most of the people, and it is not only board, but also important agencies, the people appointed are either JLP supporters or people who made significant contributions or worked behind the scene for the JLP," Simpson Miller charged.
The UDC board was dissolved almost four weeks ago after the prime minister demanded its resignation.
In Parliament on Tuesday, Golding argued that his action was necessary based on the deep divisions that had developed among the members.
Ten members of the 17-member, Louis William-led board had written to the prime minister indicating that they were no longer willing to work with Williams.
UDC board
Wayne Chen — chairman
Audrey Marks — deputy chairman
Michael Ammar Jr
Lennox Elvy
Daniella Gentles
Zackary Harding
Patsy Kelly
Sally Porteous
Robert Russell
Michael Subratie
Tom Tavares-Finson
Dr Cleo Taylor
Sancia Templer
Desmond Young The UDC board was dissolved nearly four weeks ago after the prime minister demanded its resignation.

[Mosiah]

Name the previous board members, please. Or simply give me the size.

Thanks!

[Assasin]

just in case you miss it the answer is down below.

[Muadib]

since when Mosiah have a point in these matters ???

[Mosiah]

Tough!