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JPS divestment
Unable to sustain the losses, the Government divested the JPS to foreign interests, retaining only a 20 per cent stake. Could the Government really have expected a private company to continue to subsidise political garrisons? Well, the Kelly Tomblin led-JPS has come to the end of its tether, and this week decided to take drastic (if illegal) action in response to long-standing and entrenched illegal theft of electricity.
Is this action by a private company going to precipitate the dismantling of the garrisons, or at least, the withdrawal of some of the perks? I am just as sceptical today as I was in 2010.
The JPS might be bawling, but the majority of the private sector has supported both political parties in their garrison activities. Do you think for one minute that if those who fund the political parties wanted an end to garrisons, the politicians could refuse to act?
Peter Espeut is a sociologist. Email feedback to columns@gleanerjm.com
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/2...cleisure3.html
Unable to sustain the losses, the Government divested the JPS to foreign interests, retaining only a 20 per cent stake. Could the Government really have expected a private company to continue to subsidise political garrisons? Well, the Kelly Tomblin led-JPS has come to the end of its tether, and this week decided to take drastic (if illegal) action in response to long-standing and entrenched illegal theft of electricity.
Is this action by a private company going to precipitate the dismantling of the garrisons, or at least, the withdrawal of some of the perks? I am just as sceptical today as I was in 2010.
The JPS might be bawling, but the majority of the private sector has supported both political parties in their garrison activities. Do you think for one minute that if those who fund the political parties wanted an end to garrisons, the politicians could refuse to act?
Peter Espeut is a sociologist. Email feedback to columns@gleanerjm.com
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/2...cleisure3.html