Dear Editor,
What is going on at the Jamaica Observer? I have noticed in some of your recent editions where one of your senior staff, Desmond Allen, has spent a lot of time and news print trying to defend Richard Azan.
How can the Observer waste precious time and newsprint trying to defend the indefensible?
Allen, in one of his articles defending Azan, stated that the Clarendon Parish Council knew about the arrangements with Azan and his contractor to build the shops on the market grounds. The Parish Council, at the outset, said it was not aware that the shops were being built.
Minister of Local Government Noel Arscott said on TV that it was wrong for the shops to be built on the Council's lands without its prior approval. Mr Azan himself said permission had not been received from the Parish Council.
How then can Mr Allen justify the action of Mr Azan and in the same breath excuse the prime minister for ignoring the voice of civil society who called on her to ask Mr Azan to step down from his ministerial position until the inquiry is completed?
What is so earth shattering about such a decision? This is the normal practice in situations like the current one in question.
Mr Kern Spencer stepped aside when he was accused of wrongdoing; Mr Joseph Hibbert stepped aside when he was accused of wrongdoing; so why can't Mr Azan?
Mr Desmond Allen also wrote in the article that JLP supporters got most of the shops that were built on the market grounds by the contractor. The big question is: Why is Desmond Allen reducing this matter to JLP and PNP supporters? Why is he politicising and trivialising such a serious matter?
Editor,I would like to know why Mr Azan's contractor would give most of the shops to JLP supporters and not his supporters? Does this make any sense to you? Certainly not to me.
Why did you publish these foolish and nonsensical articles by Mr Allen?
Mr Desmond Allen, as a senior member of your staff, must stop trying to fool Jamaicans. Some of us are not fools, we have brains and yes, we do think and analyse and come to conclusions.
This certainly was not Mr Azan's or Mr Allen's finest hour.
Roy Wilson
royhwilson876@gmail.com
Desmond Allen's defence of Richard Azan in Spalding shops matter
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What is going on at the Jamaica Observer? I have noticed in some of your recent editions where one of your senior staff, Desmond Allen, has spent a lot of time and news print trying to defend Richard Azan.
How can the Observer waste precious time and newsprint trying to defend the indefensible?
Allen, in one of his articles defending Azan, stated that the Clarendon Parish Council knew about the arrangements with Azan and his contractor to build the shops on the market grounds. The Parish Council, at the outset, said it was not aware that the shops were being built.
Minister of Local Government Noel Arscott said on TV that it was wrong for the shops to be built on the Council's lands without its prior approval. Mr Azan himself said permission had not been received from the Parish Council.
How then can Mr Allen justify the action of Mr Azan and in the same breath excuse the prime minister for ignoring the voice of civil society who called on her to ask Mr Azan to step down from his ministerial position until the inquiry is completed?
What is so earth shattering about such a decision? This is the normal practice in situations like the current one in question.
Mr Kern Spencer stepped aside when he was accused of wrongdoing; Mr Joseph Hibbert stepped aside when he was accused of wrongdoing; so why can't Mr Azan?
Mr Desmond Allen also wrote in the article that JLP supporters got most of the shops that were built on the market grounds by the contractor. The big question is: Why is Desmond Allen reducing this matter to JLP and PNP supporters? Why is he politicising and trivialising such a serious matter?
Editor,I would like to know why Mr Azan's contractor would give most of the shops to JLP supporters and not his supporters? Does this make any sense to you? Certainly not to me.
Why did you publish these foolish and nonsensical articles by Mr Allen?
Mr Desmond Allen, as a senior member of your staff, must stop trying to fool Jamaicans. Some of us are not fools, we have brains and yes, we do think and analyse and come to conclusions.
This certainly was not Mr Azan's or Mr Allen's finest hour.
Roy Wilson
royhwilson876@gmail.com
Desmond Allen's defence of Richard Azan in Spalding shops matter
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