The young comrades nuh know how fi hole dem keyboards

[RichD]

Too badmind’: PNP councillors at war as Outameni saga continues

26/11/2014 (13:17) 4379 9

Kari Douglas

Councillor Kari Douglas, the daughter of Easton Douglas, embattled chairman of the National Housing Trust (NHT), has gone into attack mode, promising to fight to the death to protect her family name.
The Easton Douglas-chaired board has found itself on the wrong end of public opinion after it was revealed that the NHT purchased the Outameni property at Orange Grove, Trelawny for $180 million and intended to operate the facility which had failed under private ownership. Easton Douglas has defended the purpose, and even as Simpson Miller and her cabinet huddled Monday to discuss the Board’s fate, a press conference was held at which he stressed that he would not resign.
Taking her battle to Facebook, the same platform on which fellow People’s National Party (PNP) councillors Venesha Phillips and Angela Brown Burke expressed their dismay about the Outameni saga, Kari said “as long as an attack is launched against me or my family I’m fighting to the death of me.”

Venesha Phillips

Kari, a first time councillor in the PNP-controlled Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC), represents the Trafalgar division in Julian Robinson’s South East St Andrew constituency. Easton Douglas was MP for the constituency between 1989 and 2002.
Venesha Phillips, a councillor for the Papine Division of the KSAC, said the matter has been badly handled and charged that Easton Douglas, by his tone, demonstrated “contempt for the people of this country”.
“I am a Comrade to my core, and for that very reason, balance is not beyond me. The interest of the people is at the centre for me. We can differ as to whether this was in the interest of the people,” Phillips said on Facebook.

Angela Brown-Burke

At the same time, Angela Brown Burke, chairman of the KSAC and vice president of the PNP, appeared to have been disgusted by the board’ behaviour.
“I wish the NHT board had just shut up,” she too wrote on Facebook.
“We need people in public service who really care about the public, especially when the public hasn’t caught your informed visionary approach to development,” Brown Burke said, in a post in which she included the hash tag ‘humility”.
Kari Douglas branded her colleagues as ” badmind”, adding they are “useless and by extension hopeless!”
“They should have never! None of them have any moral authority to be passing negative remarks about anyone… Who tell dem fi trouble mi?!!”
Another PNP councillor, Otis Hamilton of the Red Hills division in West Rural St Andrew, told Kari Douglas to be mindful of the medium of which her comments are being made.
“Kari Douglas, you have to know what’s best for you. By now you should realise I try avoid all drama in that place but you are a very promising young leader. I don’t want you do or say things that will hurt you later. By the way, I am talking to you because I consider you my friend,” Hamilton wrote.
But that did not dissuade Kari, who kept up the offensive.
“Tell your badmind councillor fren dem dat and low mi nuh man… if i were like that for a start, nuff nuff tings woulda deh a road longggg time.. not that its too late but low mi. Stay outta this,” the Trafalgar Division councillor said.
Interestingly, Phillips recently supported a motion at the KSAC for a road in Nannyville in South East St Andrew to be named in honour of Easton Douglas.
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“They should have never! None of them have any moral authority to be passing negative remarks about anyone… Who tell dem fi trouble mi?!!

It is true but I guess the offence is so egregious that even ones who have been on the side of wrong so long, cannot but speak up.

[Gen]

why some jamaican people can't stop throw round the term "badmind"

chrrps

[RichD]

PM cautions party members to refrain from anti-NHT utterances
Gary Spaulding, Senior Gleaner Writer
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has reportedly taken members of her own political party to task for criticisms levelled at the Government and the board of the National Housing Trust (NHT) over the controversial Outameni deal.
The Gleaner understands that yesterday, Simpson Miller signalled she was not amused at the outspokenness of some party faithful, by issuing a stern warning during a meeting of the National Executive Council (NEC) of the People's National Party (PNP) in Montego Bay, St James.
The prime minister veered from the celebratory mode of the meeting, a day after her 69th birthday, to warn Comrades to desist from being critical of the party in the public domain.
"The party leader was quite general, but there was no mistaking as she highlighted the dangers of criticising the NHT matter publicly," said an NEC member who was present at the meeting but did not wish to be named.
"All of the known persons who have taken to social media were at the meeting, and she spoke specifically to that."
Making her presentation as PNP president to the second most powerful organ of the party, behind its annual conference, Simpson Miller opted not to state what consequences were likely to emanate from continued public criticisms by members of her Government.
She was, however, quite pointed in making reference to the temptation of resorting to social networks such as Facebook to vent or criticise the Government.
The prime minister characterised such conduct as unbecoming and likened it to conduct of members of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) who have been relentless in their criticism of the Government and have called for the NHT board to resign or be axed.
Last month, amid the controversy over the $180-million purchase of the Trelawny property on which Outameni sits, inconsistencies between statements from the NHT board and the prime minister's answers to questions posed by the parliamentary opposition exposed the administration to growing scorn.
"I wished the NHT board had just shut up. We need people in public service who really care about the public, especially when the public hasn't caught your informed, visionary approach to development. #humility #tolerance #selflessness," Angela Brown Burke, a PNP vice-president and wife of party general secretary Paul Burke, posted on Facebook last month.
Brown-Burke is also an avowed loyalist to Simpson Miller.
At the same, time another PNP councillor, Venesha Phillips, of the Papine division of the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation, described as a slap in the face of Jamaicans the decision of the Simpson Miller-led Cabinet to leave the current members of the NHT board in place.
She said the NHT board chair, Easton Douglas, handled the matter badly.
Phillips also charged that Douglas, by his tone, demonstrated "contempt for the people of this country".
She said on Facebook: "I am a Comrade to my core, and for that very reason, balance is not beyond me. The interest of the people is at the centre for me. We can differ as to whether this was in the interest of the people."
An upset Phillips said her rebuke of the Government's actions was "not about giving ammunition to a dim-witted, politically blind and tribal JLP".
She said: "They are idiots who are making noise for the sake of it and Jamaicans know this. This is about a questionable decision by the NHT board and the fact that the board decided that the people of Jamaica had no authority to question its decision or motive and decided to blow the people off."

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An upset Phillips said her rebuke of the Government's actions was "not about giving ammunition to a dim-witted, politically blind and tribal JLP".
She said: "They are idiots who are making noise for the sake of it and Jamaicans know this. This is about a questionable decision by the NHT board and the fact that the board decided that the people of Jamaica had no authority to question its decision or motive and decided to blow the people off."

Comrades ......think anyone who is not (even in the Party), are fools.....Remind me so much of religious folks.