Dear Editor,
I completely agree with the opinion of columnist Lance Neita in his Sunday Observer piece on September 14, 2014 on how to select ministers of government in order to get the best persons for the job.
I also see that a reduction needs to happen in the number of ministries, and this list should be defined and protected by the Jamaica Constitution.
I often thought that these ideas were purely my own idealism, but it is good to know that there is at least one other that shares that opinion.
Having written this opinion, it would be great to get the discussion started for a time line and process to enable this change to make ministers of government be chosen from the best in their fields and not political persons, who often are not educated in the field or who are insufficiently educated in either management or any particular discipline.
Hugh Dunbar
hmdenergy@gmail.com
Take ministers from outside the pool of MPs
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I completely agree with the opinion of columnist Lance Neita in his Sunday Observer piece on September 14, 2014 on how to select ministers of government in order to get the best persons for the job.
I also see that a reduction needs to happen in the number of ministries, and this list should be defined and protected by the Jamaica Constitution.
I often thought that these ideas were purely my own idealism, but it is good to know that there is at least one other that shares that opinion.
Having written this opinion, it would be great to get the discussion started for a time line and process to enable this change to make ministers of government be chosen from the best in their fields and not political persons, who often are not educated in the field or who are insufficiently educated in either management or any particular discipline.
Hugh Dunbar
hmdenergy@gmail.com
Take ministers from outside the pool of MPs
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