Accompong Maroon Chief Richard Currie
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Richard Currie
Accompong Maroon Chief Richard Currie is claiming that he is being shunned by the Andrew Holness-led administration.
Chief Currie says he has been omitted from meetings in which other Maroon chiefs were invited.
He addressed the matter during an Instagram live session on Friday morning.
He revealed that the Maroon chiefs had previously met and decided to collectively prepare "working papers which we would be passing to the government to begin dialogue to have a diplomatic resolution to this cause".
He said at that meeting, it was disclosed that a government contact had reached out Colonel Sterling of the Moore Town Maroons to arrange a meeting, with the only condition being that "Chief Currie not be included".
Mr. Currie said it was later decided to include him in the talks.
However, he was disappointed to learn that the other three Maroon colonels had changed their positions, despite them agreeing to "unify our own communities and bodies towards the common cause".
"We all want this to be a peaceful and diplomatic resolution. I will not continue and join the nonsense that's being spurred in the media. We're not trying to create a divide; we're not creating a threat to the state. We’re not here trying to overthrow anybody. The Prime Minister has his job and I have mine," the Accompong Maroon chief insisted.
The leadership of the Maroons had requested discussions with the government after Prime Minister Andrew Holness said Jamaica is a unitary, sovereign state, with no other sovereign authority existing within its borders.
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