So it was reported that the CG has questioned three government ministers about this bush-clearing project. In fact, as I understand it, the very definition of pre-state tribal politics is one where a 'Big Man' dispenses with benefits to his henchmen and supporters. It's how we've sat near the border but never really bothered to enter the modern world. They're not wrong.Įxhibit A in how dem mash up Jamaica by politicising every street and lane is the elaborate system of patronage that is such a rich feature of political life. If you ask people - ordinary, non-biased, non-political people - about the root cause of the deconstruction of this country and the precipitous social decline, they will most often point to the political process and the mayhem released by many Most Honourable mental midgets. And that's why I'm cool with the CG sounding like Erykah Badu talking to the Government and wailing, "Ya better call Tyrooooooone! And tell him I'm getting tired of your ish." Because Jamaica is being strangulated by weeds planted a long time ago and nourished continually throughout the years. Still, there is a connection to the ever-surging crime and what we're talking about here. Is it true that 136 people were murdered in May alone? Saying that Tyrone is lost isn't to make light of the horrific rampage of violence across Jamaica that is frightening everyone, not least because it is apparent that the country's political leadership has no answer to it. Just uptown misbehaviour against downtown misbehaviour.īut let me get back on track (and stop getting lost in the bushes). Accusation: "Why yuh planting seed where yuh not supposed to?" Answer: "Is not me, enuh! Dem did ah fling it pon mi an' dem insist! How can any man resist?" This same sentiment was properly memorialised by Kartel in Love Dem: "De gyal dem a run dung de Gaza yute! Weh yuh expec' mi fi do?" Same ting. Now, it occurs to me that Samuda is making the everlasting excuse. Speaking of which, I hadn't rushed into the calls for Karl Samuda's axing because I felt that surely, there must be an explanation for the veniality of expending the public resource on his own farm.
By now, those words have been pretty comprehensively flooded out. I would also add that Mr Holness spoke some splendid words at his inauguration about anti-corruption.
Now, the proof of the drain-cleaning is in the raining, and in view of the results of the last major rains we had, you can determine if the country got value for money. But who's counting? Minister Chang said the timing was "coincidental", as it appears was the planning for the amount of money to be spent. So what was first described as a $548m programme turned into a $600m one, which then spiked to $800m.
Naturally, because there was a hurry to get the moola into the right hands in the right political divisions, it seems that things got a bit chaotic.
#ERYKAH BADU TYRONE CLEAN FULL#
Cabinet, with full knowledge that the local government elections were a few days away, authorised the NWA to enact "emergency contracting procedures" to push nearly a billion dollars on to the road. Everyone has a pretty good idea of what happened here. I put 'controversial' in scare quotes because it really isn't that controversial after all. Sign up for The Gleaner’s morning and evening newsletters. And it's not like Tyrone did 'tek bush' because there isn't any bush left in Jamaica to hide in, and it's precisely the 'work' bush-clearing and drain-cleaning programme that Tyrone seems to know something about. But when the CG comes out making public appeals for Tyrone Robinson, who is chairman of the North East Regional Health Authority, we have to realise that this missing person thing is getting completely outta hand. I know we're losing people on rapid, what with all the crime and such. Let me come at it from a different angle. If I told you that I was reading the Contractor General Act this past weekend and realised that Parliament has the right to call the CG to report on any ongoing investigation, what's your first thought? I mean your second thought, since your first one is going to be: "Dis yute needs to improve his social life if he's reading the Contractor General Act on the weekend." I'm working on the social life.Īnyway, why doesn't it ever happen? Maybe Parliament doesn't really want to hear about what's going on, particularly because so many parliamentarians seem to be enmeshed in the events that the CG is investigating.
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