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So Easton Douglas is a rough neck
Easton Douglas - as full of it now as he was in the '90s. - Norman Grindley/Chief Photographer
Towards the end of 1999, I had a public run-in with then minister of housing, Easton Douglas. He announced his scheme to build a housing complex - the 172-unit Hope Country Club - in partnership with a private developer, on the Hope Gardens compound, next to the zoo. Public lands (including the bandstand) used for recreation - largely by the poor - were to be converted into upper middle-class residences.
For four weeks running, I used this column to challenge the travesty the honourable gentleman proposed and, when he eventually replied in the press, instead of sticking to the issues, and blowing away my arguments with logic, he did not miss the opportunity to be abusive.
He called my commentary "malicious, specious and riddled with conjecture - misleading information and half-truths". I had allowed "reason and intelligence to be replaced by tittering vacuity". My column was "political propaganda", and "spurious commentary". I was "pursuing a malicious and myopic agenda". Even then he was full of arrogant bombast!
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/2...cleisure2.html
Easton Douglas - as full of it now as he was in the '90s. - Norman Grindley/Chief Photographer
Towards the end of 1999, I had a public run-in with then minister of housing, Easton Douglas. He announced his scheme to build a housing complex - the 172-unit Hope Country Club - in partnership with a private developer, on the Hope Gardens compound, next to the zoo. Public lands (including the bandstand) used for recreation - largely by the poor - were to be converted into upper middle-class residences.
For four weeks running, I used this column to challenge the travesty the honourable gentleman proposed and, when he eventually replied in the press, instead of sticking to the issues, and blowing away my arguments with logic, he did not miss the opportunity to be abusive.
He called my commentary "malicious, specious and riddled with conjecture - misleading information and half-truths". I had allowed "reason and intelligence to be replaced by tittering vacuity". My column was "political propaganda", and "spurious commentary". I was "pursuing a malicious and myopic agenda". Even then he was full of arrogant bombast!
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/2...cleisure2.html