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News programming that Zeeks and Duddus were the main contractors at the same time for the refurbishment of the KPH
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LOL..that's not news. Both of them got almost every important Downtown contracts in the 90s.Originally posted by Wahalla View Post -
wah dem refurbish ? the morgue ???Comment
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I honesty had heard the roumors...but never have I heard it articulated by journalists.. I know u have written on here indicating that this was the case...I operate that it is true if confirmed by an idependent source... so yes... this is the confirmation !Originally posted by Tuff Gong View PostLast edited by Wahalla; 09-14-2015, 08:42 AM.Comment
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interestingly after last week i was commenting on the JLP was breaking apart... repeatedly there has been alot of challenges to sitting PNP MP's.. NE ST Elizabeth Raymond Price being challenged, with the usual block roads and bad behaviour.....while in St James Lloyd B Smith.. Even the Beauty Queen was challenged and DK Duncan stepped down rather than face a challenge from another beauty queen..
It seems the PNP think they will win the next election and their supporters are aiming to claim the spoils of office...
Thjis is Norman Manley legasy... He and the old heads put this hyper democratic process in place....But I have never seen this happen to this extent before....
Just maybe we get rid of the village idiot among that lot!Last edited by Wahalla; 09-14-2015, 08:44 AM.Comment
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None of the Parties are breaking apart.Originally posted by Wahalla View Post
Obviously is not normal the high rate of turn over, but that was proceeded a lot of retirements, deaths and a couple of bruising Leadership races in both Parties.
All that happened is, opportunists such as (but not limited to), Ms. Pryce on one side and Ms Joan Gordon on the other, entered in the breach. They could not fulfil the demands "scarce goods and spoils" Jamaica Politics and are now being rejected.
I doubt that. PSM is still in her Party and at the Head and I am sure the Labourites have their own Clowns too!Originally posted by Wahalla View PostComment
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The plan i heard she wins the election and then retires..... She would have been such a great Governor General! The roumour is she has not interested in anything in terms of party discpline or governmace and is in love with the title of PM...But there is a senior comradde postion his Loyalists at each one of these contests.... I never beleive i would say this but i have missed PJ....Originally posted by Tuff Gong View Post
I didt mean her... the village idiot is the dread...
- He doesnt want police over sight.. He wrote a rambling justification in the gleaner....
- He wants stop the noise abatement act....
Andrew is not seen as prime ministerial even to his party loyalists .. not after the debacle with the senators illegal resignations....Last edited by Wahalla; 09-16-2015, 11:06 AM.Comment
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This is a more complete summary of the challenges.... and the cause...
Rat Race In PNP Implosion
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Published:Wednesday | September 16, 2015
Gary Spaulding
There are few lessons to be learnt and a plethora of observations made from the unprecedented number of challenges to incumbent members of parliament in the People's National Party (PNP).
Despite the yarns being spun by party gurus, including PNP President Portia Simpson Miller, Chairman Robert Pickersgill, and General Secretary Paul Burke, the challenges are too many for comfort.
A foremost observation is that MP for South East St Ann Lisa Hanna, a Cabinet member with an enviable national profile, is being challenged by a mere councillor from her constituency.
It is noteworthy that the jostling for a leadership position cannot be ignored in the battle for supremacy.
Hanna's name is among those being bandied about as a likely successor to President Simpson Miller. So, too, are the MPs for Central Manchester, Peter Bunting's, and East Kingston and Port Royal, Phillip Paulwell's.
Both men attended Hanna's constituency conference, but tangible support is still to be detected as Hanna struggles on, seemingly on her own.
Attorney General Patrick Atkinson, the MP for North Trelawny, is also engaged in the battle of his political life.
It is quite an abnormal occurrence for an MP who is a Cabinet member to be challenged by a neophyte or political minion. That there are two cases is extraordinary.
While the head of the organisation trumpets the values of democracy, there are those in the underbelly who are proclaiming that no Cabinet member should lose in a constituency election.
For them, this sends the wrong signal.
Damion Crawford, the charismatic MP for East Rural St Andrew, is a junior minister. After a turbulent four years in the constituency, the 'mystical' approach of the dreadlocked MP has employed a "trick" to call a contest on to himself.
Raymond Pryce, the troubled MP for North East St Elizabeth, is an officer of the party. He is one of four deputy general secretaries of the PNP.
Pryce, on the face of it, was thrown to the wolves in a bid to give him a place in Parliament. But he was too arrogant to realise this.
It's an open secret that from 2013, or before, constituents warned that if Simpson Miller didn't withdraw Pryce, they were going to send him back to her.
Lloyd B. Smith, the deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, in the absence of a challenger, failed to garner the two-thirds delegate support in Central St James to guarantee a place on the party's candidate slate.
As the big guns await their fate, backbencher Hugh Buchanan, son of the late Comrade Donald Buchanan, escaped the guillotine after a fierce challenge in South West St Catherine. Not so for Buchanan's colleague backbencher and first-term MP Lynvale Bloomfield, who collapsed under the pressure of Andrea Moore.
Challengers are demonstrating that they are no respecters of persons with portfolios and titles in the PNP.
The spate of challenges is not being taken too kindly by the challenged. The inevitable upheavals are deafening in a party that brags about its cerebral propensities.
Such is the strain that is being brought to bear on some Comrades in an organisation that brags about its democratic proclivities.
Another observation is that many who are being challenged did not receive the blessings of the constituents. There is some amount of bad blood because some Comrades believed Simpson Miller foisted the likes of Hanna, Pryce, and Atkinson, among others, on the people without their say.
It is left to be seen how the party president's obvious face-saving antics in parading the beleaguered incumbents on the platform of her South West St Andrew constituency conference will pan out.
Surely, the experience of Simpson Miller, who secured a seat that was once a JLP stronghold, nearly 40 years ago, would have detected the uprising on the horizon.
It must be recalled that about six months ago, Simpson Miller summoned first-term MPs in marginal seats to meet with her to work their magic. Despite that, the fireworks cannot be contained.
For many, if Portia was more proactive, things would not have got to this stage.
The arrogance in the PNP may be playing out in the unseemly conduct of young Comrades, who have made it into what is purported to be a democratic environment but are unwilling to accept defeat.
Indeed, the question has been asked by some Comrades: Can the JLP defeat a weakened PNP? Implicit in this query is the conceited proposition that there is no way that the JLP can defeat a PNP at full strength.
Is this why there are so many challenges? The opportunists are crawling out of the woodwork because the PNP cannot lose an election?
- Gary Spaulding is a parliamentary and political affairs reporter. Email feedback to[email protected] and [email protected].
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But look at ones getting challenged? They are all (except, Buchanan and Lisa Hanna [which is a special case, because they fear she will wear the crown]just come Comrades who grabbed unto PSM frocktail the right time and long enough to get stuffed into seat, in the wake of the JLP committing suicide.
It is little wonder, in a time when there is little or no eat-a-food to go around, they have fallen from grace and not even Queen Lucretia can save them!Comment
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Tears Of A Different Kind For Pryce
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Published:Wednesday | September 16, 2015
Ian Allen
Raymond Pryce is overcome with emotion as he and PNP President Portia Simpson Miller celebrate victory for the Comrades in the December 2011 general election. Now, he’s crying tears of sorrow after being chucked out by the party hierarchy.
And so we prepare to say goodbye, at least for now, to one of the sharpest MPs in the House of Representatives over the past three years and more.
That Raymond Pryce has been rejected by his constituents in the PNP heartland of North East St Elizabeth is not a surprise. Not when one considers the difference in philosophy that he shared with many of his constituents, especially those wielding influence in the various divisions and communities that comprise the whole.
Indeed, it can be argued that the fact that he had a philosophy, in a seat where practical reasoning on strict parochial matters is the expectation, Pryce was hiding nothing in his quest to connect and identify with a group of people who, from the start, found it difficult to accept him mere weeks before the December 2011 election.
No one can say the people of North East St Elizabeth got it wrong. They know what they want. And the kind of MP they want it from. They never really liked him and were quick to question his perceived sense of entitlement, given that he was only in the constituency because two golden boys, Basil Waite and former MP Kern Spencer, had basically sh*t on their own dinner plates.
Yes, they sent him to Gordon House with a bigger majority than they gave Kern in 2007. But that was after their boss, Portia, had demanded that they set aside their misgivings and electrify the ballot with the true Comrade spirit in the constituency.
Despite the fact that they never loved him, it's difficult to grasp how a constituency, which gave him 4,068 more votes than his JLP rival in the 2011 election could, after nearly four years, decide that Raymond Pryce should be washed down the cistern like a pint of milk that has passed its sell-by date.
So after one of his supporters allegedly took the PNP to court, in an attempt to prevent him losing to Evon Redman in a selection exercise in the constituency, Pryce's annus horribilis was complete when he was dumped as a deputy general secretary at a stormy meeting of the party on Monday night.
Only those with the coldest heart will smile at what has befallen this proud, intelligent man. More than a year before the tragic death of Mario Deane, who. we recall, found himself in jail for a ganja spliff, Raymond Pryce asked his fellow legislators to support radical changes to the ganja laws. Pryce gave notice of his private member's motion on the subject on January 29, 2013.
As was expected of him, his motion was crisp, sensible and benefited from his sharp intellect as he fended off the objections of those who wished to continue criminalising young men and keeping the country in the Dark Ages. His will go down as a significant intervention in the move to decriminalise and, ultimately, legalise marijuana use and cultivation in this country.
His private member's motion about registration requirements for civil-society entities is perhaps more controversial, but, as is typical of him, has caused the nation to think and act on a very important matter.
Raymond Pryce, the legislator, has done far more in his three years in the House than so many of his colleagues on the government benches in this cycle and even those who've been there long before him. Apart from that fishy exchange with JLP veteran J.C. Hutchinson on July 3, 2012, he has conducted himself with credit. His absence from the House, unless he gets another seat, will diminish the intellectual capacity of the chamber, a depressing reality for a space that's already desperately short of quality.
So there goes Raymond Pryce, a highly intelligent lawmaker, who can point to the impact he's made as part of the legislature. That he could not find sanctuary in his constituency is, indeed, sad, but if it's the will of the people, so be it.
Alan Rickman's character in the 1990 Australian western Quigley Down Underremarked that while some men were born in the wrong century, he was born on the wrong continent. Clearly, Raymond was sent to the wrong constituency.
Selah.
- George Davis is a news editor and broadcaster at Nationwide News Network. Email feedback to [email protected] and [email protected].
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No tears for that clown.Originally posted by Wahalla View Post
He is/was nothing but a Comrade Fish-Wife, wrapped up in a suit.
The registration of Civil Society Groups is one of the most backward and anti-human rights Legislation ever put forward in Jamaica.
Of course he supported weed-smoking, what better way to ingratiate himself with the already brainless hangers on, who are in the vanguard of the Politicians who fear scrutiny?Comment
Gen, yuh kill mi!
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