Colonel Trevor MacMillan has resigned as National Security M

[evanovitch]

Colonel Trevor MacMillan has resigned as Minister of National Security.

Colonel MacMillan, a former commissioner of police, has been widely criticised for his handling of this portfolio, since taking office last year.

Last year was the second bloodiest in Jamaica’s history with 1,611 murders reported. Prime Minister Bruce Golding is expected to make a statement about the resignation of his national security minister later this afternoon.

MacMillan is the second person to be appointed since the Golding administration took power in September 2007. Derrick Smith was reassigned after he failed to rein in violent crime, a centrepiece of the Jamaica Labour Party’s election manifesto.

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Re: Colonel Trevor MacMillan has resigned as National Security M

ok .. dissapointed, but not surprised.
while personally mi spirit teck di Colonel. when me did a work wid him during the 97 elections, mi found him waay too fikkle fi public office.
aie sah.. a di dual citizenship mixup him resign ova?

[sistactry]

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dats a pity cause him did look well and qualified wid fe him track record,

now a who can tek fe him spot??

[RichD]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SistaCtry</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
now a who can tek fe him spot?? </div></div> Vaz

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SistaCtry</div><div class="ubbcode-body">dats a pity cause him did look well and qualified wid fe him track record,

now a who can tek fe him spot?? </div></div>He was manifestly incompetent at the job of MONS. Good riddance.
Next up someone with some sense of how to go about the Job.
I suggest Delroy Chuck or shift D. Chuck to Justice and put Ms. Lighbourne in the spot.
If not go get a young Jamaican below 45 years old that is a lawyer with Political Science and Constitutional Law as their major.

[sistactry]

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somebody say him look fickel, so if a so, good riddance is right~~

[evanovitch]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SistaCtry</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

somebody say him look fickel, so if a so, good riddance is right~~ </div></div>

some would seh him is of di ole school of Jcans who ha some moral conscience etc etc etc...hence him no fit een wid di wink an nod whe gwane fi leaders dese days....not as licky licky

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: evanovitch</div><div class="ubbcode-body">some would seh him is of di ole school of Jcans who ha some moral conscience etc etc etc...hence him no fit een wid di wink an nod whe gwane fi leaders dese days....not as licky licky </div></div>
He was not doing a good job period. There was rampant corruption in the force under him and the police force was busy killing Jamaicans like never before. I don't think his personal honesty was ever in question just his performance.

[Dr.Dudd]

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ther seem to be a revolving door in just about avery appointment in the givernment. whiever they put in that post will either be deemed imcompetent,either way. The country just cannot afford the decirity they need under the old colonial strategy they have been using.
security of the citizen start with the cotozen. If they start treating every law abiding Jamaican seciruty rqual,and allow them equal opportunity to secure their lives and property,they won't need such a large police force. they simply cannot afford the police force they need. Or they are probably want to go back to the 60's, when they had to states-of-emergency and curfew. it did nothing but to start the resentment towards the police that they have not been able to overcome. any jurusdiction with so mucg resentment towards the peace keeping force,is a powder keg waiting to explode.

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Dr.Dudd</div><div class="ubbcode-body">ther seem to be a revolving door in just about avery appointment in the givernment. </div></div>

You are talking horse manure. This is first Government of Jamaica in a long while that have made that many changes in one position. I say good, the Cabinet was badly constituted from jump street, but even with that said if you appoint a person and he or she is not doing well fire them and get new personnel.

[evanovitch]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: evanovitch</div><div class="ubbcode-body">some would seh him is of di ole school of Jcans who ha some moral conscience etc etc etc...hence him no fit een wid di wink an nod whe gwane fi leaders dese days....not as licky licky </div></div>
He was not doing a good job period. There was rampant corruption in the force under him and the police force was busy killing Jamaicans like never before.<span style="font-weight: bold"> I don't think his personal honesty was ever in question </span>just his performance. </div></div>

ah sah...let mi explain my thought process.....if u r too honourable in Ja , wen it come to fighting corruption, dose who dont ha di said sense of honour, will not not work in conjunction wid u but against u efforts.....the force is rife wid dose who r not willing to let go of tried an tru selfenriching practises....couple dat across the board an u can see why he would feel stymied

afta all, dem juss admitting dat 20 policemen were involved in the lottery scams etc...an dat is juss di blue collar crimes...the upper echelon crimes r a whole odda kettle of fish

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: evanovitch</div><div class="ubbcode-body">ah sah...let mi explain my thought process.....if u r too honourable in Ja , wen it come to fighting corruption, dose who dont ha di said sense of honour, will not not work in conjunction wid u but against u efforts.....the force is rife wid dose who r not willing to let go of tried an tru selfenriching practises....couple dat across the board an u can see why he would feel stymied

afta all, dem juss admitting dat 20 policemen were involved in the lottery scams etc...an dat is juss di blue collar crimes...the upper echelon crimes r a whole odda kettle of fish </div></div>

He wasn't doing a good job; he knew what he was facing when he took the job.
The Commissioner of Police should resign as well.
Jamaicans in the Diaspora should make their voices heard and words seen about the lack of competent persons in high places.

[Dr.Dudd]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: evanovitch</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: evanovitch</div><div class="ubbcode-body">some would seh him is of di ole school of Jcans who ha some moral conscience etc etc etc...hence him no fit een wid di wink an nod whe gwane fi leaders dese days....not as licky licky </div></div>
He was not doing a good job period. There was rampant corruption in the force under him and the police force was busy killing Jamaicans like never before.<span style="font-weight: bold"> I don't think his personal honesty was ever in question </span>just his performance. </div></div>

ah sah...let mi explain my thought process.....if u r too honourable in Ja , wen it come to fighting corruption, dose who dont ha di said sense of honour, will not not work in conjunction wid u but against u efforts.....the force is rife wid dose who r not willing to let go of tried an tru selfenriching practises....couple dat across the board an u can see why he would feel stymied

afta all, dem juss admitting dat 20 policemen were involved in the lottery scams etc...an dat is juss di blue collar crimes...the upper echelon crimes r a whole odda kettle of fish </div></div> As you talk about the 20 police. Did you notice that it was niot even the police that discover it?
Did you notince thatit was the boy they arrested decided to bus pan them,since they beat him up.
He was lucky enoigh to survive?? Anywher that any one group are given weapons will be currupted to the point where only civil war will undo that corruption. They have used others before and killed them blaming them for the crime. He is not the forst. The ,majoroty of the shakedown of the cutiuzens by driminals are run by police officers. They use criminals as front. But they kill them as soon as they get too hot. Or they give out the policemen names.

[evanovitch]

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yep mi a follow di drasma fi real....have u seen di pictures of Bruce dem been using to depict his statements re wage cut and di deficit in di upcoming budget...dem been using pictures showing him wiping him brow, holding him jaw and in general looking from bewildered to juss plain dumbstruck....guess reality a stawt set it as to di ole adage: <span style="font-weight: bold">be careful wat u wish fah</span>.....poor ting...look how long him wanted di wuk an now him get it it a buss him shut fi real...dang ...poor mi country fi real

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Dr.Dudd</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> As you talk about the 20 police. Did you notice that it was niot even the police that discover it?
Did you notince thatit was the boy they arrested decided to bus pan them,since they beat him up.</div></div>

Isn't this a manifest example of the MONS and ComPo being ineffective?