When the PNP is finished with Jamaica ….

Given the current trend and strategies adopted by this present administration, I am not sure much will be left of Jamaica by the time the PNP completes its 5 yr term in Office. I shudder to think what would have become of Jamaica in 2013 had the PNP been re-elected to run(ruin) the country between 2007 & 2011.

The PNP has demonstrated (for years) that it is not a party that governs properly even in the good times, so it befuddles the mind that we could think they could do any better in a time of worldwide economic crises.

The Government recently issued a directive to ALL state agencies that told them to turn over ALL surplus they may have, into the consolidated fund.  This means that should any of these agencies hit a bump in the road, they have absolutely NOTHING to draw on because the Government has taken everything.

Some bright person will ask ” what options does the government has” ?

I say let’s go to the much heralded Progressive Agenda. In addition I would say let’s re-look the party manifesto and then let’s do  gap analysis. ( Don’t tell he these are irrelevant already,  after all ,they took a long time to develop and were carefully crafted after much analysis  )

The economic situation worldwide has not changed much between 2011 and today and if the ideas which were being championed in the Progressive Agenda and the party manifesto are miles from today’s reality, it really shows how bad the PNP technocrats were in assessing the Jamaican situation vis a vis the global economy and then creating a plan which would be based on that assessment, which would n0 doubt give you very poor results.

If the party is expected to plan for 5 yrs and misread the economic variables so much in just one year, can someone please tell me what kind of plan can the PNP create, while they are in the middle of fire fighting.

Its a known fact that its very difficult if not impossible to create any sensible plan while you are fighting many fires and it most cases the focus is on how to get these fires out now and then plan later how to prevent more from starting.

To the PNP credit, they have had 5 retreats, which were  supposed to be those sessions, where the party takes a look at the current situation, takes a look at their original plan, determine the gaps that may exist and revise their plans given the changing dynamic that they may have wrongly forecasted given their evidence based and data driven approach. ( Bold for emphasis and taken directly from the front page of the progressive (more like regressive) agenda.

Alas, if any such realignment in strategies were arrived at and/or developed  the general public and the business sector are still in the dark on what those are.

What is interesting is the PNP raid on public sector bodies, is the provision they are using to facilitate such raid, was conceptualized and passed by the wicked and uncaring JLP Government.

Sister Poor-sha,  your simply the best, better than all the rest.

See both documents below.

ProgressiveAgenda PNP

pnp_manifesto_2011

As many commentators on this blog would say ” We ( Jamaica)  are not really short on plans,  in fact we have some very good policy documents. We are  however PISS POOR  on EXECUTION and this is soley because WE JAMAICANS don’t hold OUR government accountable”

We instead choose to focus on party vs looking at governance in a holistic manner. Until Jamaicans are able to separate party from actual governance from a total country perspective , we truly will get were we are currently heading in a hurry.

Bless.