Dear Editor,
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller will have us believe that her decision to postpone the general election was borne out of concern for the over 37,000 newly enumerated people. Really?
Her decision comes more as a result of political expediency, rather than any principled stance or commitment to ensure that those 37,000 new electors were not disenfranchised. Why didn't we hear any reference to this before Sunday?
There is a clear and discernible pattern of political expediency in the People's National Party's (PNP) approach to governance. Too often the PNP opts to go the route of political expediency rather than good governance, or that which is considered the principled thing to do. The prime minister has a tendency of protecting her party and acting in her party's interests rather than in the interests of the whole country. Instead of relieving former health minister of his ministerial portfolio, she reassigned him to another ministry. While others would have prioritised acting in the nation's interest and seek to ensure the health and well-being of general public, our prime minister acted to protect the interest of the PNP.
When the nation lost thousands of producted man-hours due the massive Riverton fire that went on for two weeks in March of this year, Simpson Miller acted in defense of former executive director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority, Jennifer Edwards, that she wasn't there when the fire was started. How trite and contemptuous of the prime minister to have made such a suggestion?
Why didn't the prime minister express her commitment of facilitating the newly enumerated prior to the obvious determination she made that going to the polls at this time would be too risky?
Kimberly Rowe
kimberlyrowe3@gmail.com
Clear and discernible political expediency
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Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller will have us believe that her decision to postpone the general election was borne out of concern for the over 37,000 newly enumerated people. Really?
Her decision comes more as a result of political expediency, rather than any principled stance or commitment to ensure that those 37,000 new electors were not disenfranchised. Why didn't we hear any reference to this before Sunday?
There is a clear and discernible pattern of political expediency in the People's National Party's (PNP) approach to governance. Too often the PNP opts to go the route of political expediency rather than good governance, or that which is considered the principled thing to do. The prime minister has a tendency of protecting her party and acting in her party's interests rather than in the interests of the whole country. Instead of relieving former health minister of his ministerial portfolio, she reassigned him to another ministry. While others would have prioritised acting in the nation's interest and seek to ensure the health and well-being of general public, our prime minister acted to protect the interest of the PNP.
When the nation lost thousands of producted man-hours due the massive Riverton fire that went on for two weeks in March of this year, Simpson Miller acted in defense of former executive director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority, Jennifer Edwards, that she wasn't there when the fire was started. How trite and contemptuous of the prime minister to have made such a suggestion?
Why didn't the prime minister express her commitment of facilitating the newly enumerated prior to the obvious determination she made that going to the polls at this time would be too risky?
Kimberly Rowe
kimberlyrowe3@gmail.com
Clear and discernible political expediency
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