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Why Mannatt, Phelps and Phillips won’t die….yet!
The government has started to show a lot of impatience, maybe even anxiety that the Mannatt, Phelps and Phillips matter just won’t go away. There are many reasons why.
Minor parts of the set of reasons include the opposition People’s National Party, PNP, not letting it go. Some parts are even attributable to the way the government is in frenzy and hyperventilates that it is behind us, hoping that everyone is confident of that while they panic. Some of the reasons even have to do with the fact that the Prime Minister is prepared to travel around the country and tell people his story on MPP, hoping that this trek help people forgive and forget.
But these are the minor reasons why the issue will not die…yet! Here are bigger ones.
1.
When Attorney at Law Harold Brady cautioned Information Minister Daryl Vaz over what they both knew but were not telling – what was that? Do we know yet or is there something we still don’t know?
2.
If it is that Mr. Brady misrepresented his status and also signed an agreement on behalf of the government of Jamaica when he had no such authority – why hasn’t there been any disciplinary action against him?
3.
When the Prime Minister told Parliament that the government did not have an agreement with MPP, which party formed the government? The JLP? Led by which political leader? And does Mr. Golding know and relate to that leader?
4.
Since the Prime Minister and the JLP make the point that neither the Prime Minister nor the JLP leader lied to parliament, what is the penalty for not “…telling the whole truth and nothing but the truth?” Nothing? So why do we swear to do that when the court of law wants to dispense justice?
5.
If the Solicitor General did nothing wrong, who is to take responsibility for sending the government’s brief to a private firm with which the government had no relationship? Who is to take responsibility for the country’s solicitor general sitting in a meeting of two sovereign states with this uninvited representative, discussing the affairs of Jamaica? Who is to take responsibility for our Solicitor General reviewing press releases with the rep of the law firm and also planning strategy with the law firm on how to offer one release and if it is challenged to offer the real one that was intended?
6.
When the Attorney General knows nothing about this matter, but takes no action when she finds out how the country has been embarrassed by these activities, is the Attorney General now accountable and responsible?
7.
And when the Attorney General defended the position of not signing the documents to allow the issuing of an extradition warrant for over six months, and then with no new or additional evidence {we understand} turns and signs it – who is accountable for the delay or the improper signing – someone other than the Attorney General?
8.
When the Attorney General embroils the head of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica and the Leader of the Opposition in a lawsuit on this matter, but the matter cannot proceed because the address of the subject of the extradition issue is unknown and the documents could not be served, who is accountable – especially when the government has several business contracts with the man’s company (ies), who is to be accountable?
9.
When the Prime Minister fails to consult the JLP Leader about sending the Minister of Industry and Commerce to investigate what happened in this matter without consulting the Party General Secretary – who is responsible and should be held accountable for so embarrassing the PM?
It is this set of intriguing issues why the Jamaican curiosity won’t let Mannatt, Phelps and Phillips die….not yet.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/editorials/...ie%E2%80%A6yet
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