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Doran Dixon wins
Controversial candidate grabs more than 61% of votes
Wednesday, July 03, 2013
EMBATTLED Doran Dixon is the new president-elect of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) after amassing just over 61 per cent of the more than 14,000 votes cast in the June 17 - 21 ballot.
Preliminary results, released by the JTA last night, showed that Dixon — whose candidacy was withdrawn in early June but later reinstated — received 9,051 of the 14,716 votes. The ballots were counted at a special meeting of the Central Executive of the JTA at the Sunset Jamaica Grande Resort and Spa, in Ocho Rios, St Ann.
DIXON... will be officially proclaimed president-elect of the JTA next month
The final results will be announced at the official opening session of the JTA's 49th annual conference at Jamaica Grande next month, at which Dixon will be "officially proclaimed as president-elect of the 2013-2014 conference year", the JTA said in a release last night.
The other candidates in the race were Francis Malcolm, Stevie Williams, Winnie Anderson-Brown and Anne Geddes-Nelson. There, however, was no word from the JTA as to how many votes each polled.
Dixon was temporarily barred from the race in early June after expressing an analogy likening the dispute between Education Minister Ronald Thwaites and the JTA as a stand-off between a "mongrel dog" and a "lion-hearted cat". The comparison was made as he addressed teachers at a meeting at which he sought their support for the JTA presidency.
The statement — which came after Thwaites' announcement in Parliament about the cut in teacher benefits — elicited applauses and shouts of approval from his colleagues at the meeting.
However, it drew harsh criticisms from the public and numerous calls for Dixon to apologise to the minister.
A defiant Dixon refused and was axed from the presidential race by the JTA's Credentials Committee. However, he threatened to take legal action amidst questions as to whether the committee's action was lawful.
He was later reinstated, despite a declaration from the JTA that the reinstatement had nothing to do with the threat of court action.
Dixon, who heads the Social Sciences Department at the Mico University College, previously served as JTA president from 2008 to 2009.
Last night efforts to contact the JTA president-elect for a comment were unsuccessful.
The current president of the JTA is Spanish Town High School Principal Clayton Hall. And the 2012-2013 president-elect is Dr Mark Nicely, principal of William Knibb Memorial High School.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz2Y43QCugQ
Controversial candidate grabs more than 61% of votes
Wednesday, July 03, 2013
EMBATTLED Doran Dixon is the new president-elect of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) after amassing just over 61 per cent of the more than 14,000 votes cast in the June 17 - 21 ballot.
Preliminary results, released by the JTA last night, showed that Dixon — whose candidacy was withdrawn in early June but later reinstated — received 9,051 of the 14,716 votes. The ballots were counted at a special meeting of the Central Executive of the JTA at the Sunset Jamaica Grande Resort and Spa, in Ocho Rios, St Ann.
DIXON... will be officially proclaimed president-elect of the JTA next month
The final results will be announced at the official opening session of the JTA's 49th annual conference at Jamaica Grande next month, at which Dixon will be "officially proclaimed as president-elect of the 2013-2014 conference year", the JTA said in a release last night.
The other candidates in the race were Francis Malcolm, Stevie Williams, Winnie Anderson-Brown and Anne Geddes-Nelson. There, however, was no word from the JTA as to how many votes each polled.
Dixon was temporarily barred from the race in early June after expressing an analogy likening the dispute between Education Minister Ronald Thwaites and the JTA as a stand-off between a "mongrel dog" and a "lion-hearted cat". The comparison was made as he addressed teachers at a meeting at which he sought their support for the JTA presidency.
The statement — which came after Thwaites' announcement in Parliament about the cut in teacher benefits — elicited applauses and shouts of approval from his colleagues at the meeting.
However, it drew harsh criticisms from the public and numerous calls for Dixon to apologise to the minister.
A defiant Dixon refused and was axed from the presidential race by the JTA's Credentials Committee. However, he threatened to take legal action amidst questions as to whether the committee's action was lawful.
He was later reinstated, despite a declaration from the JTA that the reinstatement had nothing to do with the threat of court action.
Dixon, who heads the Social Sciences Department at the Mico University College, previously served as JTA president from 2008 to 2009.
Last night efforts to contact the JTA president-elect for a comment were unsuccessful.
The current president of the JTA is Spanish Town High School Principal Clayton Hall. And the 2012-2013 president-elect is Dr Mark Nicely, principal of William Knibb Memorial High School.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz2Y43QCugQ
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