Questionable Conduct: The Jamaican Political Reality

The rub of the Horne Report is the debt collection; that it is somehow critical that " all of the Comrades who collected funds from private sector and other entities, to make a full, transparent, and confidential account of all of the funds  received to the Treasury and the Officers of the Party" Given the lack of trust in both the Treasurer and the General Secretary, as noted by party historian Arnold "Scree" Bertram , there is no chance that the call would have been heeded. Furthermore, Horne stated that senior members were involved in the diversion of funds intended for the Party, then it would be safe to assume that some of those implicated would be part of the officer core. What would be the sanctions or incentives to those implicated to turn over the funds in a "full, transparent, and confidential account"? Is there an inherent conflict/tension between "transparency" and "confidentiality"? The stated purpose of this exerc...

 PNP Treasurer, Norman Washington Horne, made a report to the party's NEC which was "leaked" to the media. Horne's report identified challenges faced by the treasury which in his view played a critical role in the  2016 election defeat. These were: Fragmented political leadership, multiple non-cohesive and disjointed campaigns being run by distinct groupings and individual members of the party; Senior members in the government were actively sourcing funds from the private sector for the sole benefit of their personal campaigns; Contributions earmarked for the Treasury were made to senior party members who neither reported or accounted in full, or even in part, for receipt of those donations; The decision not to debate exacerbated the difficulty in raising funds resulting in "a last minute cash investment and infusion into the JLP."  In sum "there was not one central bank but several  banks; some of which had more resources than the Treasury....