I just came across a letter by D.S. Morgan that was published in the Observer yesterday (April 28, 2008) that challenges Ken Chaplin's unfounded claim that there are PNP activists in the Attorney General's Department. The letter was in response to Ken Chaplin's column of April 22, 2008 entitled Budget debate: Davies challenging, Portia emotional.
D.S. Morgan's letter was in relation to the following excerpt of Chaplin's column:
Mrs Simpson Miller spoke strongly about the level of blatant political interference that has taken place with regards to the Public Service Commission, Attorney General's Department and the Solid Waste Management Authority. This position, I believe, presupposes that those who administer these agencies were independent and non-political, but they were not.
The commission, for example, is appointed by the governor general on the recommendation of the prime minister. Four of the five members of the commission were staunch supporters of the PNP, one of whom actively campaigned for the party for the September general election. The commission appointed many of the lawyers who are PNP supporters to the Attorney General's Department. Here she was on weak grounds. Unless there is a breakaway from this contrived political circle in the public service, the country will be in serious trouble.
In a previous post, I had adverted to Chaplin's predisposition for intellectual dishonesty. Again, he baldly asserts that four of the five fired PSC members were PNP supported who appointed PNP lawyers to the AG's Chambers. Ken has unashamedly become a mouthpiece for the JLP, in the process surrendering whatever journalistic integrity might once have been attributed to him. It is curious that Ken Chaplin completely ignores the blatant political interference of the JLP government a few weeks ago in the matter of the acting appointments of Nicole Foster-Pusey and Lackston Robinson.
D.S. Morgan was much kinder to Ken Chaplin than I would've been. Neverless,I entirely agree with his sentiments which I reproduce below:
Monday, April 28, 2008
Dear Editor,
I see that columnist Ken Chaplin persists in his view that there are PNP activists in the Attorney General's Department. It would be good if he would let us know who they are, as well as his evidence for viewing them as activists.
If Mr Chaplin can show that someone is indeed an activist, maybe he can enlighten us further as to the ways in which the "activism" has affected their professional performance, since that is implicit in his criticism of the Public Service Commission for making the appointments.
DS Morgan
Kingston 8
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
D.S. Morgan raps Ken Chaplin
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Frankly, it's time for Ken Chaplin to be retired in the public interest. He is rambling, something he has been doing for the last 6-7 years, since I last dealt with him, and his writing displays a complete lack of intellectual rigour or depth. He is a hopeless attempt at a journalist, a poor facsimile. I wonder how much of a paycheck he receives from the Govt for parrotting the standard JLP/Lightbourne/Bruce line re the PSC. Bloody idiot. The sooner he stops writing the better we will all be. Then there is Ken Jones, who is an unapologetic JLP mouthpiece. Steups...a plague on both their houses.
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