The Jamaica Observer is reporting that Investment and Commerce Minister and members of the press and the JEA waiting for 40 mins, as he wherever he was so he could watch Bolt run at the Gran Prix meeting in Zurich.
The lack of respect for people, that is on display by members of the PNP administration is unprecedented and yet people take it with a smile like ” it never happened”.
They refuse to speak to the media, they refuse to take tough question, they chase journalist like dogs from meetings, then apologize kiss up and invite them to a another meeting to make up the gross disrespect shown the previous day.
So in 2013 we have a PNP Government minister who considers it’s prudent to have everyone wait, while he does as he pleases. I guess someone needs to tell Minister that there is always youtube and the Government business comes first.
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Jay as usual, cannot see GREEN and chose to major in the minors, while ignoring his scamming by his party affiliates. Why Jay, how could your compatriots be double dipping, while “poor people” cannot buy chicken back?
Two More JLP Councillors Being Investigated In Double Salary Probe
The Financial Investigation Division (FID) has reportedly widened its probe into a double salary discrepancy at the Clarendon Parish Council with two more Jamaica Labour Party councillors now being investigated.
The probe began after it was revealed that a female councillor was employed to the Ministry of Labour and Social Security while illegally collecting a salary from the Clarendon Parish Council.
Under Government guidelines, a civil servant cannot collect two salaries from the State.
The name of the councillor has not been revealed, but it is understood that between 2007 and 2012 she collected about $14.5 million in salaries and emoluments from the Clarendon Parish Council and the Ministry of Labour and Social Security.
According to a source at the Clarendon Parish Council, the two other JLP affiliated councillors were employed to the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Transport and Works while still collecting salaries from the Clarendon Parish Council in the last JLP government.
The FID has reportedly requisitioned the parish council to furnish it with the National Insurance Scheme and Taxpayer Registration numbers of the councillors as soon as possible to assist with the ongoing investigation.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/latest/article.php?id=47633
It was reported some years ago that a number of pnp councillors were implicated in a fraud. Furthermore, it is not the duty of Jay to highlight everything, this blog is not a political blog. You like to major in the minor and I am really annoyed by people like yourself who have no problem with this inept administration. Jay highlighted this matter a long time ago
I don’t know what your definition of a “political blog” is, but if the content of a blog is overrun with political threads (>90%), especially targeted at a specific party, then by default IT IS a political blog. Yes?
Tell you what; I’m going to do you a favor by prefacing all by comments with a warning directed at YOU, that my comments are not meant to be read by fainthearted labourites like yourself, who are incapable of exercising self-control. You do have the option of not reading my comments if you are sooooo annoyed by them. I think it is called liberum arbitrium. Yes?
Maybe you might want to read over your statements before hitting the submit button, so as to avoid appearing silly to the readership. Maybe what is annoying you is the content which seeks to expose the follies and selective nature of what is generated by the blog administrator. You, in particular, tend to get your knickers in a twist when labourites are outed for their misdeeds. In this particular case, I didn’t even “touch” your divine one…..won’t be that measured in my approach in the future!
I am not a fainthearted labourite. I like to analyse the issues before, I support a position. Unlike you, I am interested in transparency. You are not interested in transparency, politiking and defending the pnp is your only aim. Furthermore, if the pnp is doing something wrong and the jlp did it, it is quite asinine to say that nothing is wrong with the act because the jlp did it before. Test, you need to engage in a debate which is beyond gutter politics. When you were absent from the blog, I posted a number of letters which I wrote to the editor, but you didn’t read them because you are not interested in anything which goes beyond simplistic rhetoric. Test, I am going to write some posts which have nothing to do with Jamaica and I want you to respond to them
THE EDITOR, Sir:
WILL CHINA BE THE NEXT SUPERPOWER?
There has been much debate in academia and business about China’s future as the world’s new superpower. However, commentators tend to downplay the numerous challenges which China faces. These problems include: (1) an ageing population; (2) pollution; (3) an inefficient growth strategy. China’s population is ageing; by 2050 a quarter of the population will be over 65 years. This demographic problem will create several challenges for China. Currently, there are over 180 million Chinese aged over 60, just over 13 percent of the population; within twenty years this number will become 360 million. This situation will not only result in a drop in savings or an increase in unfunded liabilities but also a shrinking labour force; hence growth will be reduced in China and the Asian Tiger will no longer be the factory of the world. There are 980 million persons in the active labour force in China; however based on the analysis of Professor Zhen Binwen of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences this number will reach its peak in 2015; but after the boom it will decline drastically. Professor Cai Fang, Director of the Institute of Population and Labor Economics estimates that the declining labour force will lower China’s annual growth rate by 1.5 percentage points from now to 2015 and it will decrease by a further percentage point during 2016-2020. Due, to China’s ageing population there is no longer a glut of labourers, therefore wages in China have increased by over 15 percent during the last six years. China is no longer the land of cheap labour; manufacturers are now heading to Mexico and Southeast Asian. Environmental degradation is also another hurdle for China. Air and water pollution kills over 750,000 individuals annually in China. The top cities with the worst air quality are located in China. According to TIME Magazine, the world’s most polluted cities Linfen and Tianying are also located in China. Pollution will affect the health of Chinese workers and unhealthy labourers cannot be productive. Further, health costs of air and water pollution amount to 8 percent of China’s GDP. Sustainable development was not pursued by China’s leaders and the nation is now reaping the dire consequences. Additionally, China has pursued an unsustainable investment led growth strategy; investments accounts for 50 percent of China’s GDP. China has followed the Asian development model created by Japan. According to Alice Amsden this policy is known as “getting prices wrong”. In order to achieve high levels of investments to spur growth the state subsidizes strategic sectors to make them appear lucrative and less risky. Furthermore, the government creates distortions in the market by manipulating foreign exchange rates and interest rates, thereby making a surplus of capital available for investments. This policy is unstable because by manipulating rates; distortions are created in the market, excess capacity is generated and money is wasted. Funds are also invested in inefficient subsidized companies, therefore the debt level rises, bad loans are created and a financial crisis will emerge. Even, China’s premier Wen Jiabao described the economy as unstable, unbalanced, uncoordinated and ultimately unsustainable”. China will only become a superpower when its political and economic systems are reformed and the rule of law is strengthened. Xi Jinping has highlighted the need to modernize China’s economy and interest rates will now be determined by the market, but the question should be, can China survive this transition without undermining its political system?
Lipton Matthews