I imagine that the season on scapegoats is never closed but before we endorse the condemnation on the former head of the Child Development Agency Mrs. Allison Anderson-McLean who somehow has been labeled a casualty of the Armadale fallout – let me enlighten the public on a few salient points.

1.    So uninvolved was the Child Development Agency in the Armadale tragedy that no one from that agency was required, or invited to attend that hearing, not to mention Mrs. Anderson-McLean herself.

2.    That agency was not required, or invited, to provide any written information for the enquiry’s consideration, and

3.    The learned commissioner in the 132-page-report made only one “observation” against the Child Development Agency, to which no opportunity was afforded for clarification.

It is therefore totally incorrect and unkind for Mrs. Allison Anderson-McLean to be classed among the casualties of the Armadale disaster.

Howard Hamilton Q.C.
26 Duke Street
Kingston