I FIRST presented the Develop Jamaica Initiative (DJI) in 2004 at a presentation to the Rotary Club of Downtown Kingston. The DJI, as in so many other instances, was never even given an audience by the JLP and PNP administrations, the latter.
"Hey gyal, yah informa?" bellowed a young man in a focus group towards a young woman he believed was spilling secrets.
This is why Uki Atkinson, research analyst at the National Council on Drug A.
Two years since a national consensus on crime was accepted by the Government and the Opposition, 14 primary deliverables are at risk of not being achieved by the September end timeline established.
BOTH the Government and Opposition are expected to sign off on an updated National Crime Consensus by the end of October.
This is at the instruction of the Crime Consensus Monitoring and Oversigh.