JAMAICA
Jamaica Observer
BY Judie O’Sullivan
Thursday, February 02, 2017
I take this opportunity to respond to a column written by the former Minister of Foreign Affairs A J Nicholson that was published in the Sunday Observer on January 15, 2017. In his piece, the former minister essentially questioned the moral grounds of the Government’s strong response to the case of Heather Murray, the principal of Hampton School, who is now embroiled in a moral dilemma, and who has been asked to answer questions by the Ministry of Education stemming from her appearance at the court hearing of a Moravian pastor accused of molesting a minor.
The premise of the former minister’s cynicism is that hardly anyone showed any such strong moral concern for the victim in the case involving the Jamaican pilot who served a five-year sentence in Qatar for sexually abusing a minor.
I categorically reject the former minister’s assertion, and I would urge him to desist from comparing situations that bear little similarities and to provide an objective and accurate assessment of both scenarios.
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