Dear Editor,
Jamaica is indeed a land of promises mainly not kept. Yet we are focusing on Public Defender Earl Witter and his inability to produce a report that the Government should easily be able to assist him with.
The sticking point is the ballistic report which should reveal to us who killed whom.
The United States is an ally and has footage from the P3C Orion plane that assisted the security forces during the Tivoli operation. What would it take for our charming prime minister to request such a tape on behalf of our people, since this is such a critical matter? Or do we already have such footage?
We shouldn’t need a foreign journalist or Yale law students to take the US to court to demand such footage. Is it too embarrassing for us to have, since we have the Finsac report also due? We cannot bury both reports; the stink would be unbearable.
Mr Witter is simply following in the footsteps of our leaders who deem that “promise is a comfort to a fool”.
Remember Audley Shaw promising the Nurses Association of Jamaica an increase of twice their pay if the JLP came to office? Bruce Golding promised to put his political career on the line over the Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke extradition request; instead he fired poor Dorothy Lightbourne.
Phillip Paulwell promised the nation 140,000 information technology jobs; the current prime minister promised to complete the IMF agreement in two weeks and to review the Buggery Act, which saw thousands of gays, lesbians and transexuals running to vote for the present party. With such support they couldn’t lose.
Who has the moral authority to penalise Mr Witter for incompetence and unfulfilled promises? Which Public defender Earl Witter one of us will cast the first stone? Senator Malahoo-Forte said recently that we set up public institutions to undermine them. If Mr Witter is an embarrassment to his office, then so is the entire Cabinet, with few exceptions. Are we going to ask them to resign?
Mark Clarke
Siloah, St Elizabeth
mark_clarke9@yahoo.com
Jamaica is indeed a land of promises mainly not kept. Yet we are focusing on Public Defender Earl Witter and his inability to produce a report that the Government should easily be able to assist him with.
The sticking point is the ballistic report which should reveal to us who killed whom.
The United States is an ally and has footage from the P3C Orion plane that assisted the security forces during the Tivoli operation. What would it take for our charming prime minister to request such a tape on behalf of our people, since this is such a critical matter? Or do we already have such footage?
We shouldn’t need a foreign journalist or Yale law students to take the US to court to demand such footage. Is it too embarrassing for us to have, since we have the Finsac report also due? We cannot bury both reports; the stink would be unbearable.
Mr Witter is simply following in the footsteps of our leaders who deem that “promise is a comfort to a fool”.
Remember Audley Shaw promising the Nurses Association of Jamaica an increase of twice their pay if the JLP came to office? Bruce Golding promised to put his political career on the line over the Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke extradition request; instead he fired poor Dorothy Lightbourne.
Phillip Paulwell promised the nation 140,000 information technology jobs; the current prime minister promised to complete the IMF agreement in two weeks and to review the Buggery Act, which saw thousands of gays, lesbians and transexuals running to vote for the present party. With such support they couldn’t lose.
Who has the moral authority to penalise Mr Witter for incompetence and unfulfilled promises? Which Public defender Earl Witter one of us will cast the first stone? Senator Malahoo-Forte said recently that we set up public institutions to undermine them. If Mr Witter is an embarrassment to his office, then so is the entire Cabinet, with few exceptions. Are we going to ask them to resign?
Mark Clarke
Siloah, St Elizabeth
mark_clarke9@yahoo.com