The PNP & Miss Hanna
Paul Burke, the general Secretary of the
PNP, said that with South East St Ann being a recognized constituency under the
party's constitution, the results of the delegates would weigh heavily in
determining who eventually represents the constituency in the next general
election. 468 votes to Richards' 10. Six
ballots were spoilt.Some 1,056 eligible delegates were on the voters' list for
the polls. This is evidence that here is a constituency divided and she has a
lot of work to do and fences to mend. This is also evidence that local power
brokers wanting to get rid of Ms Hanna is not as powerful as being led to
believe and being defied by delegates. Let us say taking all into consideration
democracy is alive and well despite possible flaws and material influences the
delegate process has been empowered in several constituencies and let us say
"delegates are right they speak for the majority" even though
sometimes misguidedly scoffed at by middle and upper class intellectuals and others.
Whatever the case Ms Hanna has to move swiftly to unify the constituency
bringing all detractors on board so that progress can
continue.28/09/15
Barell
Children?
People
cannot get jobs they migrate and send back money to the country helping foreign
reserves as in important earner then now some of those benefitting
are branding the children of those who make the sacrifice and in the
process sacrificing their children. These parents and their children are now
being branded with the children being now called " barrel
children". People like Norman Allen JTA president who knows
better should not perpetuate this negative branding of our children started by
Dr Crawford-Brown, in her publication Who Will Save Our Children but
do something to save those children. 25/09/15
Prickly
Pole Primary
Initial reports
suggested the child 11-year-old Akella Lewis of the Prickly Pole Primary School
in St Ann died while being ushered on to a bus with other students to
participate in a protest against South East St Ann Member of Parliament Lisa
Hanna, in Claremont in the parish. The Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) has
now indicated it was in full support of the termination of the appointment of
Vinnette Robb-Oddman by Education Minister Ronald Thwaites as chairman of the
board of the Prickly Pole Primary School in St Ann. “Robb-Oddman
and the child's mother, Andrea Jones, have since denied that the student was
involved in any way with the protest." Tell me where is justice, with no
proper hearing or investigation or are they just taking advantage of
another weak link of a poor rural based black woman not connected with the
intelligentsia or the upper and middle influential classes of
Kingston and St Andrew and the wider Jamaica. The demonstration against Ms
Hanna is democracy at work and people should not be muzzled or intimidated by
any minister or group of persons like the JTA.The major question that needs to
be answered is "would the child have been alive but for the occurrence of
the demonstration in which Ms Robb-Oddman and parents help to
organize and participated"? If the answer is yes then let the chips fall
where they may. Prickly Pole by the way is a district that adjoins or is close
to Nine Miles the home and birth place Reggae icon Robert Nesta “Bob” Marley
and would therefore be one of the places he would have trodden. I have heard
the students of this school entertain thousands of tourists and visitors alike
travelling to and or from visiting Bob Marley’s birth place with classic
renditions of Bob Marley and other songs that I urged them to make compact
discs of like renditions. This a small school has a lot of potential in the
midst of an agricultural heartland of great closely knit family of people in St
Ann the garden parish and should be developed as a centre of excellence. With
all this “good” publicity more help should be going their way soon
and very soon. 25/09/15
The JLP
The Jamaica Labour
Party has increased its call for an independent audit of the Tablets in Schools
Project by writing to the Auditor General of Jamaica asking for her office's
urgent intervention. Calling for audits of tablets is not an issue that
resonates with the masses of people all over the country focus on some more
serious issues affecting the Jamaican people especially rural people. Tablets
are mainly a Kingston and St Andrew issue. Why not call for national/rural
discounted internet accessibility, making libraries, post offices, police
stations and schools internet free zones in all parishes.21/09/15
Michael Spence
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