Dear Editor,
Minister Peter Bunting erred in two major ways with regard to the recent aired A&E documentary entitled American Gangster:
1. In being a participant
2. Believing that only the former Prime Minister Bruce Golding and his Cabinet would have been negatively affected.
From the minister's statements one can conclude that he implicated:
1. the Government of the 1990s, led by former Prime Minister P.J Patterson, since Christopher Coke came to prominence in 1990.
2. the current Government led by Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller. The annual corruption index published by Transparency International is 3.3. It has being the same since 2010.
3. all Jamaicans locally and those residing overseas.
Washing your dirty linen in public, especially internationally, is not an activity that our leaders, especially a senior member, should be doing, be it JLP or PNP. It is tantamount to the saying "cutting off your nose to spite your face".
Investors worldwide know that Jamaica is suffering from a high level of corruption, crime and violence, but for a leading member of Parliament, one who has the portfolio responsibility for life and death of Jamaicans, to come out smiling then tell the world that one of Jamaica's important institutions was under the control of a known don is extremely unfortunate. If I was a potential investor, I would be saying to myself, "if shark come from the seabed and tell me that there is a volcanic eruption down there, it must be true."
Jamaica will suffer financially since investors are rational. Many of them may be at this time erasing Jamaica from their lists as a potential location for their investments. The recent Transparency International Report, which measures the level of corruption that exists within a country, gave Jamaica a 3.3 rating, same as 2010 and 2011. This report indicates that nothing effective has been done to reduce the practice of corrupt activities within the public sector. In a recent Latin American study, Jamaica is seen as one of the most corrupt countries in the Western Hemisphere. The leaders of this country must focus on removing this monster from all our institutions by legislating and enforcing appropriate laws. If they fail to do so, we will never achieve economic growth rate above 0.5 in the best of times and negative growth rates in the worst of times.
Kirkland Anderson
kranderson@ncu.edu.jm
Bunting's mistake will hurt us big time
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Minister Peter Bunting erred in two major ways with regard to the recent aired A&E documentary entitled American Gangster:
1. In being a participant
2. Believing that only the former Prime Minister Bruce Golding and his Cabinet would have been negatively affected.
From the minister's statements one can conclude that he implicated:
1. the Government of the 1990s, led by former Prime Minister P.J Patterson, since Christopher Coke came to prominence in 1990.
2. the current Government led by Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller. The annual corruption index published by Transparency International is 3.3. It has being the same since 2010.
3. all Jamaicans locally and those residing overseas.
Washing your dirty linen in public, especially internationally, is not an activity that our leaders, especially a senior member, should be doing, be it JLP or PNP. It is tantamount to the saying "cutting off your nose to spite your face".
Investors worldwide know that Jamaica is suffering from a high level of corruption, crime and violence, but for a leading member of Parliament, one who has the portfolio responsibility for life and death of Jamaicans, to come out smiling then tell the world that one of Jamaica's important institutions was under the control of a known don is extremely unfortunate. If I was a potential investor, I would be saying to myself, "if shark come from the seabed and tell me that there is a volcanic eruption down there, it must be true."
Jamaica will suffer financially since investors are rational. Many of them may be at this time erasing Jamaica from their lists as a potential location for their investments. The recent Transparency International Report, which measures the level of corruption that exists within a country, gave Jamaica a 3.3 rating, same as 2010 and 2011. This report indicates that nothing effective has been done to reduce the practice of corrupt activities within the public sector. In a recent Latin American study, Jamaica is seen as one of the most corrupt countries in the Western Hemisphere. The leaders of this country must focus on removing this monster from all our institutions by legislating and enforcing appropriate laws. If they fail to do so, we will never achieve economic growth rate above 0.5 in the best of times and negative growth rates in the worst of times.
Kirkland Anderson
kranderson@ncu.edu.jm
Bunting's mistake will hurt us big time
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