Audley Shaw considering resignation

[Mosiah]

Audley Shaw considering resignation
2 hours 39 minutes ago

Opposition spokesperson on Finance Audley Shaw is now contemplating his position in the Jamaica Labour Party after he was excluded from an economic forum held at the Portmore Missionary Church in St. Catherine last night.

JLP sources indicate that Shaw felt slighted at the exclusion from the proceedings and is now considering his next move.

JLP leader Andrew Holness in recent weeks has denied rumors that there was is a plan to mount a challenge to his leadership during the party’s upcoming conference in November and he has called for focus on issues affecting Jamaica.

[Assasin]

Now why would he do that if he is challenging for leadership?

if he does it is oppurtunity for somebody else.

[MdmeX]

Perhaps - they all should resign and take Audley too. He is a weakling!! Does he feel so threatned that he excluded Shaw from the meeting?

Audley can't expect to have unison in the party he leads, if a suh him gwine behave.

Mo - nuh yuh one time drinking friend -- talk some sense into him head

[Lazie]

JLP sources!!!!

Okay....

[Assasin]

that if a even true, but anybody who want to resign should, they can be replaced. We need young blood. If him want run for leadership too he should step up and challenge.

And when contacted, what did Audley Shaw say? LOL

[Skeng DX]

Deputy leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Audley Shaw, says his party's failure to invite him to its second consultation on the economy on Sunday, could send a wrong signal by creating confusion in the minds of the public about his role as opposition spokesman on finance.

However, the party's chairman, Robert Montague, told The Gleaner at the forum that Shaw's absence was strategic.

Said Montague: ''We are having (this) meeting where Opposition Leader Andrew Holness is showing that he is ready for the country; there are meetings that members will be missing from. In fact, 'Man A Yaad' (Shaw) is vigorously preparing for the Budget Debate. This is a strategic move."

A seemingly peeved Shaw warned that the party should take greater care in how it organised these events.

"There is nothing wrong with the party having meetings and I am not there. The problem that arises is the way it was promoted in terms of the focus on the economy, it could create confusion in the minds of the public as to my role, or lack thereof, in such a forum," Shaw contended.

Asked by The Gleaner if he was invited to the consultation on the economy at the Power of Faith Church in Portmore, Shaw said: "No."

Questioned if he would have attended had he been invited, the opposition spokesman on finance asked, "Why not?"

Quizzed if the preparation of his budget presentation would have prevented him from attending the forum, Shaw said: "You arrive at your own conclusion."

Members of the JLP hierarchy who attended the consultation are Holness, Montague, deputy leader James Robertson, deputy general secretary Dr Andrew Wheatley and member of parliament for North East St Ann, Shahine Robinson.

Bemoaned state of economy

A flyer promoting the event had said the consultation would focus on the economy and was aimed at giving Jamaicans a chance to help guide the party's policies on the development of Jamaica.

During the meeting, senior JLP members bemoaned the state of the Jamaican economy and warned that the worst was yet to come.

In his comments, Holness told the gathering that the devaluation of the Jamaican dollar would seriously affect the country's debt.

"For each time the currency is devalued by one dollar we are 10 billion more in debt, that is how serious the problem is and we are needed to pull Jamaica out of the problem in which we find ourselves," Holness said.

The Opposition leader said the JLP was the viable alternative for the country which, he said, was plagued by crime, unemployment, corruption and other negatives.

- Rasbert Turner contributed to this story.

[Mosiah]

Said Montague: ''We are having (this) meeting where Opposition Leader Andrew Holness is showing that he is ready for the country; there are meetings that members will be missing from. In fact, 'Man A Yaad' (Shaw) is vigorously preparing for the Budget Debate. This is a strategic move."

[Willi]

LABARITE Portia speaks....

[Gamma]

Tactical. Gauging his support I think

[Gamma]

Pathetic

[Islandman]

So he is making a tactical move and dem making a strategic move. LOL!

[Skeng DX]

Bruce on unity in JLP -'not satisfied party is as unified as it ought to be' -> http://www.nationwideradiojm.com/listenlive.html

[Lazie]

Bruce on unity in JLP -'not satisfied party is as unified as it ought to be' -> http://www.nationwideradiojm.com/listenlive.html

.... and you see that as the most important thing he said in that interview?

[Skeng DX]

do you wwant me to add thingz unrelated to this thread?

[Mosiah]

snicker