Dear Editor,
Isn't it interesting that fate has a way of throwing curve balls at us? Take the controversy about the dismissal of Professor Bain from his job as head of CHART and the scandal now engulfing the Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition (CVCC), Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) and some of our children's homes.
We all know about the claim by the CVCC and JFJ that Professor Bain's conflict of interest in respect of his association with that church group advocating the retention of Belize's buggery laws and his leadership of UWI's CHART programme prevented him from wearing two hats.
While I completely agreed with the position of the CVCC and JFJ in this respect, I can't understand why they now find it so hard to take their own advice.
The attempt to teach — or is it indoctrinate? — children about sexually explicit issues that were completely inap-propriate for them represents a clear conflict of interest for both the CVCC and JFJ.
Both of these organisations are supposed to be protecting the interest of vulnerable groups. One would have thought that children, and especially children in children's homes, would be among our most vulnerable groups. Giving a child the right to have his or her childhood should be the most important consideration.
What the CVCC and JFJ were doing, with these lessons, as far as I can see, is an attempt to speed up the maturity process of these vulnerable children. Why is it that the CVCC and JFJ were attempting to 'force-ripe' these children, thus harming them in the process? In my book, this is a crime.
Seeing that the CVCC and JFJ were so determined to remove Professor Bain on account of his conflict of interest problem, these organisations must now do the right and consistent thing and separate themselves from those within their ranks who clearly are in conflict with their stated interests.
The reputations of both the CVCC and JFJ have been severely damaged. This damage will only get worse the longer they fail to take corrective action.
The CVCC and JFJ must understand that the same knife that sticks sheep also sticks goat.
Michael A Dingwall
michael_a_dingwall@hotmail.com
CVCC and JFJ must resolve their own conflict of interest
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Isn't it interesting that fate has a way of throwing curve balls at us? Take the controversy about the dismissal of Professor Bain from his job as head of CHART and the scandal now engulfing the Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition (CVCC), Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) and some of our children's homes.
We all know about the claim by the CVCC and JFJ that Professor Bain's conflict of interest in respect of his association with that church group advocating the retention of Belize's buggery laws and his leadership of UWI's CHART programme prevented him from wearing two hats.
While I completely agreed with the position of the CVCC and JFJ in this respect, I can't understand why they now find it so hard to take their own advice.
The attempt to teach — or is it indoctrinate? — children about sexually explicit issues that were completely inap-propriate for them represents a clear conflict of interest for both the CVCC and JFJ.
Both of these organisations are supposed to be protecting the interest of vulnerable groups. One would have thought that children, and especially children in children's homes, would be among our most vulnerable groups. Giving a child the right to have his or her childhood should be the most important consideration.
What the CVCC and JFJ were doing, with these lessons, as far as I can see, is an attempt to speed up the maturity process of these vulnerable children. Why is it that the CVCC and JFJ were attempting to 'force-ripe' these children, thus harming them in the process? In my book, this is a crime.
Seeing that the CVCC and JFJ were so determined to remove Professor Bain on account of his conflict of interest problem, these organisations must now do the right and consistent thing and separate themselves from those within their ranks who clearly are in conflict with their stated interests.
The reputations of both the CVCC and JFJ have been severely damaged. This damage will only get worse the longer they fail to take corrective action.
The CVCC and JFJ must understand that the same knife that sticks sheep also sticks goat.
Michael A Dingwall
michael_a_dingwall@hotmail.com
CVCC and JFJ must resolve their own conflict of interest
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