B. Singh recently voiced his discontent with what he says is a disturbing level of disunity with Jamaican lawmakers. Singh is the father of the recently titled Miss World, Miss Jamaica Toni-Ann Singh. Her father, a former educator, says he has high hopes for Jamaica and wants to see leaders and stakeholders come together to promote peace.
Singh himself has worked in high-risk Jamaican communities and has been previously dubbed the 'Peace Man' for his efforts.
Right now, he says that lawmaking institutions on the island are not united, and until they are united there will be no peace.
But all of those individuals that make up the government have different agendas that they will always be looking to pursue and protect, even if that were only to fulfill what they think represents the will of those who voted for them. It's safe to assume that it would be difficult to get 2 million people on the same page, or even their dozens of representatives at least.
The highest hope is that people would voluntarily seek to move forward, and not have the government made up of a few, be the ones to choose an agenda to be forced onto the rest.
"Moving forward" doesn't have to include the group being forced to move as one, but each individual actor moving forward according to their own hopes, vision, goals, abilities.
Singh admits that he believes that establishing peace in Jamaica will require the collaboration of "every stakeholder" and if they were all working toward one cause then they would be able to accomplish it in no time.
Valuing peace is a commendable preference, but a goal being pursued in a forced fashion through government leaders is a goal that isn't worth pursuing at all.
Moving forward to one might look drastically different to another, and though there might be virtue in pursuing peace, that doesn't mean using government to achieve it is ever the right path to take. Since statism itself breeds conflict and encourages one to try and use force to take from another, there is no surprise that we might look to the political landscape today or at any time in history and see general disagreement with those members who are involved in operating the machine, or among those living under it.
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I agree, you can't depended on the few in charge to bring peace. It is on everyone. Interesting that Miss world's Dad was a teacher/peacemaker. Maybe he will use his daughter's stage to bring across the message even more in 2020.
Seems like unity just means compliance and obedience.
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The problem with our current political climate is that we have two groups, the thinkers and the feelers arguing over stuff that makes no difference.
The ways forward are to eliminate corruption and rent seeking.
BUT!! That is exactly what politicians got into politics for, so every one of them fights with everything they got to prevent their gold bricking schemes from going away.
Our voting is shtupid!
What on earth makes anyone believe that 51% should be able to tell the 49% what they can or can't do?
Laws should be passed by 90%
and funding allocations should be chosen by those paying.