COSTA RICA NEWS – Jamaica has agreed to assist Costa Rica to establish a local government system, according to the Jamaica Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) in a release last week.
As part of the agreement, the Jamaica will facilitate visits by Costa Rican government officials to familiarize themselves with the parish council and municipal system that country.
The issues were raised during bilateral talks between Jamaica’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and the President Luis Guillermo Solis Rivera in San José, during the Third Summit of Heads of Government of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) January 28- 29.
President Solis noted that Costa Rica lagged behind many other countries in terms of the absence of a strong Local Government system and, according to the release, said Jamaica was seen as a country with a strong track record in this area. He also pointed to Prime Minister Simpson Miller’s reputation as a leader in Local Government, the OPM noted.
Via Jamaicaobserver.com
This is incomprensible. Jamaica as a model of government of any kind? Someone is smoking some primo weed.
From the UK Daily Mail Online 30 June 2011:
“Most Jamaicans believed they would be better off if they were still ruled by Britain, a poll shows. The Gleaner – Jamaica’s biggest newspaper – said its 2011 poll showed how much people had become ‘disillusioned’ with
the violent and corrupt political gangs running the island.
These realities, it added, include living in a country ‘where, for more than a generation, economic growth
has averaged below 2 per cent per annum and its homicide rate is among the highest in the world’.
The newspaper also highlighted Jamaica’s ‘creaky’ justice system, ‘patchy’ law and order, ‘indifferent’
education system and the widespread public perception of ‘overwhelming’ corruption.”
Does the part about “‘creaky’ justice system, ‘patchy’ law and order, ‘indifferent’
education system and the widespread public perception of ‘overwhelming’
corruption” sound familiar?