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Letters to the Editor
Kudos to new PM
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Dear Editor,
Politics and governance have similarities with relationships and marriages. The election campaign or electioneering is like the courtship, when all the nice things are said and done. The inauguration or swearing-in ceremony represents the wedding, and then the real deal (of governance /marriage) comes after.
Judging by the happiness or hype on most wedding days, divorces never seem like possibilities.
Mrs Portia Simpson Miller has truly demonstrated that views depend on vantage point. While in Opposition, she criticised Mr Bruce Golding for a large Cabinet of 18 ministers. It was called a "whatnot". Her Cabinet is even bigger, with 20 ministers! It has already been termed a breakfront.
But, kudos to the new prime minister. In her inaugural address she spoke of the need for a tight fiscal policy and the rationale given for her decision is the noble one of a cost-saving measure.
Daive R Facey
DR.Facey@gmail.com
 
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1/21/2012
This is real stuff... I can feel it in my bones, unlike the falsehood i have seen in others in high office, Keep it up Most Honourable PM and your days will be long.
1/19/2012
One thing with Comrade PSM ....she dresses well, i wish more Jamaican Women would take the time to present themselves as nice as she does all the time.
So Drew was a poor MOE? You mean the Comrades who were turning out illiterates by the score were better at the job over the 18 years they spent running Jamaica into the ground?
Wasn't it necessary at one time to offer remedial-English and Maths to Jamaican UWI entrants?
1/19/2012
I was stunned by the arrogance of Andrew Holness, the 48 day wonder, who never was elected Prime Minister, presuming to advise Portia Simpson-Miller.
The arrogance of this neonate is his most prominent characteristic; Jamaica is well quit of him.
If ever power had gone to anyone's head, enter Andrew Holness, a rather poor Minister of Education with a ego far beyond his value.
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