'Subculture of indiscipline cripples country'

published: Monday | October 13, 2008 Allan Rickards ... wants 75 per cent property tax derating on agricultural lands. - Rudolph Brown/Chief Photographer Allan Rickards, chairman of the Jamaica Sugar Cane Growers' Association (JSCGA), recently cited indiscipline as the main cause for the delay of the divestment of the Sugar Company of Jamaica. Addressing a Rotary Club of Kingston meeting at The Jamaica Pegasus, New Kingston, Rickards said a subculture of indiscipline which exists in the nation was crippling development in the country as well as the sugar industry. "Even the signing that should have taken place recently, that did not, is founded in that lack of discipline that besets our organisations and agencies. Work that should have been done was not done, or was not done on a timely basis," he said. The... [read full story]