During a BBC interview which took place on television this morning, the reporter noted that the Portia Simpson Miller led administration had failed to act against state minister Richard Azan for the better part of 6 months, despite the howls of protest from civil society. The report went unto note that Portia Simpson Miller said she would not act until she had received a report from the OCG and despite getting that report, she has still refused to act.
The BBC reporter then went unto question the sincerity of the Jamaican Prime Minister, who has been on record time and time again, to say she will act decisively against any member of her cabinet if even a whiff of corruption is detected.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGa56uOe5b0&feature=youtu.be
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Warren's Blog 
I’m sorry, but as much as I am for Azan resigning, it irritates me to no end that a BBC journalist’s remarks are being given so much attention and credence. It seems we have not yet shaken the colonial and slave mentality. A BBC journalist has neither the knowledge nor the standing to “chide” the Jamaica prime minister on this matter. Do you think equivalent comments by Cliff Hughes or Dionne Jackson Miller about David Cameron would make news in the U.K.??? But no, we are so “foreign minded” and have such an inferiority complex that anything that is said about us in Newsweek or on CNN or the BBC is instantly more important than anything anyone has said locally, even if, as far as we know, their reseach was done by a green intern collecting secondhand info that we know inside out FIRSThand.
It is seen as important to the “politrixters” as these are the Countries they go “cap in hand” to. It is only when they are exposed internationally they respond. They have scant regard and respect for the Jamaican populace as they have been allowed to plunder our Country without been held accountable.
Unfortunately this is the reality in Jamaica. From April civil society, media and opposition were calling for Mr. Azan’s resignation and he nor the PM budged. But one day after the BBC report he resigned. What does that tells you?