Dear Editor,
The current debate concerning the development of the logistics hub and the monetary investment by China is due to the failure of the Portia Simpson Miller-led Administration to fulfil its promise for transparency, accountability and to have confidence in the Jamaican people.
The undue delay to hold a press conference to share with the nation the outcome of her recent visit to China, like the visit of Ethiopia, are not actions of accountability. To give interviews to foreign media, while ignoring the local Jamaican media is not accountability.
Did the Honourable Robert Pickersgill not know that when he sneezed ''Goat Islands'' in China, Jamaicans would have caught an environmental flu some 8,721.28 miles away in Kingston?
Why did Omar Davies encourage the negative firestorm over the environment by failing to disclose to Jamaicans that he had asked the Port Authority to conduct a study concerning the viability of the Portland Bight Protected Area (PBPA)? Why has he hired consultants to provide information that already exists on the websites of the agricultural and fisheries and environment ministries?
Easton Douglas, who was minister of environment in a former People's National Party's administration, signed the order to declare the body of water between the Hellshire Hills and Portland ridge as the PBPA on April 22, 1999. It consists of 4.7 per cent of Jamaica's land area and 47.6 per cent of the island shelf. Apparently the transport minister, who was the minister of finance in 1999, has no idea what the former P J Patterson-led administration had done this.
It is such actions of the prime minister and of her Cabinet that keep causing the negative discussions, suspicions of extravagance and corruption in an information-driven age.
Dudley C McLean II
Mandeville, Manchester
dcmduart@yahoo.com
Sneeze 'Goat Islands'
in China, Jamaicans catch flu
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The current debate concerning the development of the logistics hub and the monetary investment by China is due to the failure of the Portia Simpson Miller-led Administration to fulfil its promise for transparency, accountability and to have confidence in the Jamaican people.
The undue delay to hold a press conference to share with the nation the outcome of her recent visit to China, like the visit of Ethiopia, are not actions of accountability. To give interviews to foreign media, while ignoring the local Jamaican media is not accountability.
Did the Honourable Robert Pickersgill not know that when he sneezed ''Goat Islands'' in China, Jamaicans would have caught an environmental flu some 8,721.28 miles away in Kingston?
Why did Omar Davies encourage the negative firestorm over the environment by failing to disclose to Jamaicans that he had asked the Port Authority to conduct a study concerning the viability of the Portland Bight Protected Area (PBPA)? Why has he hired consultants to provide information that already exists on the websites of the agricultural and fisheries and environment ministries?
Easton Douglas, who was minister of environment in a former People's National Party's administration, signed the order to declare the body of water between the Hellshire Hills and Portland ridge as the PBPA on April 22, 1999. It consists of 4.7 per cent of Jamaica's land area and 47.6 per cent of the island shelf. Apparently the transport minister, who was the minister of finance in 1999, has no idea what the former P J Patterson-led administration had done this.
It is such actions of the prime minister and of her Cabinet that keep causing the negative discussions, suspicions of extravagance and corruption in an information-driven age.
Dudley C McLean II
Mandeville, Manchester
dcmduart@yahoo.com
Sneeze 'Goat Islands'
in China, Jamaicans catch flu
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