Kingsley Thomas says Jamaica lacks leadership to make U-turn after taking wrong road
Jul 3rd, 2022 | Category: GLEANER PREMIUM | 25:38#JamaicaGleaner #EmancipationPark #NewKingston #NHT #Highway2000 #Jamaica JULY 3, 2022: Kingsley Thomas may have left the public service, but his mind has not retired. Known as someone who shoots from the hip, his contemporaries still describe him with superlatives such as visionary, passionate, bold and fearless, many quick to admit he is the smartest person they know. On a beautiful summer morning last week at Emancipation Park – the oasis he conceptualised and delivered 20 years ago in the bustling New Kingston business district – he rapped past and current political administrations for being weak, pandering to the pavilion, lacking ideological direction and conducting the affairs of government like transactions which will not benefit the masses.
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