More voices including some from among Jamaica’s ruling class are beseeching the Government to allow the Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke extradition request to be adjudicated by the Jamaican courts, in keeping with our Constitution and our Treaty obligations.
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The cry has become just too insistent. The reported numbers of suspect killings by the police since the beginning of the year too startling to be ignored any longer.
The dismissal and transfers of senior public servants, allegedly as a response to the Armadale Report produced by Mr. Justice Patrick Harrison, if that were all that were done would simply be to add one form of cruelty to another.
With recent happenings in Jamaica I find myself returning to childhood experiences in an attempt to run for cover and protection.
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Many years ago, I attended an international conference. At the end of the first day’s session, I was approached by the delegate from the Ukraine who was full of compliments about the way Jamaica takes care of its children.
Jamaica is among the most highly indebted nations in the world, if indebtedness is measured against the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Currently, our debt stands at somewhere in the order of 140 per cent of GDP.
One of the most compelling arguments for getting rid of Air Jamaica by any means is the distressing record of losses accumulated in excess of US $1.4 billion. This mountain of debt is the result of almost unbroken sequence of annual losses since its inception.
