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By Arvel Grant, Political and Current Affairs Analyst<\/p>

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(Read more of Arvel’s analytical pieces on\u00a0arvelgrant.com<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0arvelgranttoday@facebook.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n

When\u00a0 Baroness Scotland\u00a0 was elected to her first term as Commonwealth Secretary-General, few would have predicted such strident disagreements,\u00a0 over the usually routine renewal of a second term for an incumbent. Allegations began surfacing: Hiring of illegal immigrant, award of consultancy contract; budget over-runs to refurbish official mansion, and waver of procurement rules. Now it appears that those allegations are subjects of negative audit findings.<\/p>

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One expects that such allegations should resonate within the corridors of the\u00a0 commonwealth, which aspires to uphold: Democracy, Good Governance, Sustainable Development, Human Rights, and Gender Equity. Furthermore, successive Commonwealth declarations,\u00a0 seem uncompromising, on the inseparability of the twin values of good governance and sustainable development. On this latter point, the tendencies toward governance reform,\u00a0\u00a0 by\u00a0 Prime Ministers Browne and Holness, could have symmetries that they may\u00a0\u00a0 yet recognize.<\/p>\n

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As a student of public affairs over the past 40 or so years, I know well how skillfully placed whispering campaigns can be used to muddy the career path of public officials. So, any allegations against the Baroness may have been started as highly placed whispering campaigns, \u00a0planted by her personal or ideological enemies. Needless to say, if\u00a0 such whispers attain the status of credible audit findings and criticisms, they become loud shouts in the public interest.<\/p>\n

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As incumbent Secretary-General, The Baroness (and her supporters) \u00a0should not\u00a0 be impervious to any such\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 audit findings and recommendations, whether\u00a0 the auditors are:\u00a0 Unimpeachable professionals or well-placed conservative \u201cTrojan horses\u201d. Ultimately, the last thing the Baroness should want, is the appearance of an entitlement syndrome.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBaroness Brazen or not \u201cI have no difficulty counting myself as an admirer of Patricia Scotland. Born of Antiguan and Dominican parentage; having migrated to the United Kingdom as a toddler,\u00a0 she\u00a0\u00a0 was able to navigate the legendary racial and ethnic obstacles in British society. To \u00a0have become one of the most influential politicians and decorated members of the British Establishment,\u00a0 is astonishing, if not miraculous. Now she needs to\u00a0 manage her legacy to avoid unforced errors.<\/p>\n

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Which takes me to the unenviable positions in which Prime Ministers Browne and Skerrith (on the one hand) and Holness (on the other) find themselves? To accumulate and preserve trust: at home, across the Caribbean, and around the world, our leaders must be bounded by their verbal commitments as much as they would be bounded by their signatures on the \u201cdotted lines\u201c. So, one understands the strident defense of the Secretary General\u2019s candidacy for a second 5-year term, by some Governments which supported her first term bid.<\/p>\n

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In the context of\u00a0\u00a0 Commonwealth commitment to the twin doctrines of good governance and sustainable development; Andrew Holness has signaled intent to clean up Government and governance in Jamaica. So much so that he could\u00a0\u00a0 come across (to some)\u00a0 as the \u201choly man\u201d of transparency in Government. Some of his officials (including senior ones)\u00a0 have been on a steady stream out of the cabinet and parliamentary caucus,\u00a0\u00a0 when\u00a0 their actions are deemed to\u00a0 compromise the high probity required of a parliamentary or cabinet official.<\/p>\n

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In such circumstances, it is a tough ask of Andrew Holness to support a second-term\u00a0 candidate for the position of Commonwealth Secretary-General, Whose first term stewardship appears to be, the subject\u00a0\u00a0 of critical audit\u00a0 findings,\u00a0 which none of his ministers could survive, if pronounced upon by Jamaica\u2019s Auditor General.<\/p>\n

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His\u00a0\u00a0 commitment\u00a0 to integrity and probity in government aside, PM Holness might have mitigated much of the vitriol which followed\u00a0\u00a0 declaration\u00a0 of Honorable Johnson-Smith\u2019s\u00a0 candidacy, if the announcement was\u00a0 heralded by a carefully\u00a0 worded, diplomatic note to heads.<\/p>\n

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At the same time, the spectacle of busy Caribbean Prime Ministers and their staff,\u00a0 pushing and shoving at each other for\u00a0 or against the candidacy of Baroness Scotland (and dragging the CARICOM Secretariat behind them), is an ugly one; bereft of any immediate and obvious tangible benefits to the many thousands of poor, if not impoverished, infants and toddlers (in the Caribbean civilization) who will not be migrated to \u201cmother England\u201d to try for a better life and chance their hand at becoming an entrenched part of that venerable British Establishment.<\/p>\n

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Furthermore, Caribbean Prime Ministers have to pound the streets and beat the airwaves in \u201cbegging\u201d their constituents for a chance to lead. They must, therefore, know that political capital available for investment in arguing the case for or against \u00a0the Baroness, is burning on a very short fuse. Furthermore,\u00a0 the image of Right Honourable Prime Ministers, risking the appearance of \u201cwater-boys\u201d (fetching for an undisputed member of the British Establishment),\u00a0 must be cutting the wrong way, especially in the Caribbean, where many seem headed for the once impregnable \u201croyal exit\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Whether the next Commonwealth Secretary-General is Baroness Patricia\u00a0 Scotland or Honorable Carmena Johnson-Smith, CARICOM Heads must uphold: Integrity, probity, openness, and transparency; Reinforcing Commonwealth values of good governance and sustainable\u00a0 development.<\/p>\n

Walk good until next time\u00a0 – Arvel Grant, Political and Current Affairs Analyst.<\/p>\n

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