Yardy: I'm assuming it's Portia's choice to be silent and allow others to speak for her. My impression is she was set to go before the PSOJ but ketch her fraid when she got wind that they were setting "trap" for her. The trap being instead of her just giving a presentation, she'd be grilled by the group which is allegedly not friendly to her. If this is so, she's not ready to be PM at all. If she is afraid of an unfriendly local group, how will she handle the world stage where she is bound to run into uncomfortable questions. One of those questions that is being spotlighted is Jamaica's murder rate. There was a small article in the NY Daily News this past Saturday. This issue no doubt will be appearing in the foreign press more and more and eventually on CNN, etc. All of these pols better be prepared to deal with it.

www.nydailynews.com/news/...4063c.html