PHILLIPS - FILE
NATIONAL SECURITY Minister Dr. Peter Phillips on Monday blasted what he says are malicious attacks against the legacy of Prime Minister P.J. Patterson and warned detractors that the People's National Party (PNP) would not allow the legacy to crumble.
Speaking at a function in Portmore, St. Catherine, on Emancipation Day, the Security Minister warned detractors that Mr. Patterson's reputation could only be tarnished over a dead PNP, and that will not be allowed to happen.
WILL BE JUDGED POSITIVELY BY HISTORY
"I notice that there are those who in the most vicious manner, are trying to attack the legacy of comrade P.J. Patterson, but mek mi say this:
"For today and for posterity, as long as the People's National Party is alive, as long as the comrades of this party have energy, the legacy of P.J. Patterson is safe and secure and he will be judged positively by history."
Prime Minister Patterson lashed out at a report carried in The Sunday Gleaner which revealed that he spent more than $21 million in four years while travelling on official overseas business. Mr. Patterson pointed out, while at the Denbigh Agricultural and Industrial Show, that "we are an independent country and we have to negotiate with other independent countries and I can't do it from Kingston."
He added: "Nothing they write or nothing they say is going to cause me to go one day earlier than I plan to go or stay one day longer than I plan to stay. There is work to be done and as long I am captain of this ship, I want to sail Jamaica into safe waters."
