nowhere for George Wright to run, or hide
It is a failing of Prime Minister Andrew Holness that he has not whispered into the left ear of on-leave-with-pay Member of Parliament George Wright, that the Speaker of the House of Representatives is awaiting his letter of resignation.
This hypocrisy has continued for too long. People are watching and taking note.
Surely, what we are seeing now could not have continued under Jamaica’s real leaders of the past.
Michael Manley would have called him the same day and told him to make sure that his letter of resignation reaches the Speaker of the House of Representatives before he gets back into his car; Eddie Seaga would invite him to Jamaica House and say “Tell me something, what did you think you were doing? A want you resignation now”; while PJ Patterson would be a bit warmer, invite him to his house in Norbrook and say, “There is pen and paper in the living room, and you may want to telephone your wife while you are at it.”
Even if there is a protestation with George saying, like a former minister told PJ when he was being shifted to another ministry against his will, that he has unfinished business, PJ would simply look over his spectacles and say, “George, we all have unfinished business.”
Even Hugh Shearer, in my estimation Jamaica’s most downto-earth prime minister, would invite Wright to Rocky Point in Clarendon, order a steamed fish for him and in the middle of its consumption say, “Wrighty, boy, a so it go, you nuh, but you caa stay ina di House.”
The problem with Prime
Minister Holness is that he quite often does not listen to the people of the land. It is they who put him where he is and it is they who can remove him faster than he can imagine. Being armed with 48 seats in a House of Representatives that accommodates 63 is no comfort zone. Real leaders must act, just like Michael Manley, Eddie Seaga, PJ Patterson and Hugh Shearer would.
So, Mr Wright has been wrongfully sent on two months’ vacation, with full benefits, by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. That’s what you call real poppy show, and it pains me to see how someone like Justice Minister Delroy Chuck and others are supporting the foolishness. There is yet no justice in this one. Wright must walk.