Clovis, Jamaica Observer, Tuesday, November 3 2009
Well, you might say the country is resigned to it. We have resigned ourselves to the fact that the economy will continue to decline while the crime rate continues to spiral. The mood of resignation even influenced some influential people into resigning over the weekend. On Friday the 30th of October the Governor of the BOJ resigned. On Sunday the first of November the Police Commissioner resigned (Hardley Lewin), incidentally just a few hours after I wrote about the pressure on him to resign (see below).
Derick Lattibeaudiere had been Governor of the BOJ since 1996 and was no stranger to the public sphere where his unorthodox expense accounts had come under scrutiny. He was not however one to profile with the Page Two class and seemed to share a sense of privacy almost as comprehensive as Christopher 'Dudus' Coke's. Like the latter he was said to rule with an iron hand, and shunned rather than courted media attention. In fact when contacted by Cliff Hughes (Nationwide radio) for an explanation of his sudden resignation, his forthright rebuff seemed to suggest that it gave him no end of pleasure to turn Hughes down because for once he didn't HAVE to answer a journalist's questions; he was no longer a public servant obliged to account to the media for his actions. When the pugnacious Hughes persisted, Latty, as he's fondly known, essentially terminated the interview by exhorting the media whiz to avoid vulture-like behaviour.
You have to remember that both these resignations have taken place while an IMF team is here negotiating terms with the Finance Minister (or explaining whatever new method of lassoing us it has developed) for a loan. I would have to conclude then that these two resignations had the approval of the IMF, if not actually coming at their instigation. Someone like Latty would have been a prime candidate for an IMF-recommended chop. He was hired in the 90s when neoliberalism reigned supreme and fatcat salaries were the order of the day "because if the public sector wanted the best they had to pay private sector salaries and perks."
Clovis, Jamaica Observer, Nov. 2, 2009
Whereas fatcat CEOs have fallen or been taken down in the US as a fallout of the failure of their banking and investment system we haven't gone through such a process here. Maybe this is the beginning?
By the way there were some interesting responses on Twitter and Facebook to the Police Commissioner's resignation:
bigblackbarry Since mostly clowns get the work I wonder if dem going to give Hell A Lewis the commish job??
Winsome (Fbook)
Strait! Me go start a campaign dis week fi Hell A! Plus e ave nuff nuff button pon him clothes already!
@Fledgist: Dem a go mek Dudus di commish.
and echoing that this last one from the comments on the Observer website is priceless:
kgn 13 yute
Christopher Coke is the man for the job. If all the JLP enclaves are under one order and the prezi gives the orders, he most certainly can handle the job
Ask some police officers, they are already under the order.
I will wait sit here in the US and be the first to nominate Mr. Coke.
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Dudus don't need the job; he already has the cherished position of "consultant", and we know there are no limits to what he can do from that position. They'll probably recycle somebody - my guess is Adams. They really do take this thing as a joke.
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