News that Jamaican Minister of Finance Dr. Nigel Clarke resigned from the esteemed office and as Member of Parliament to take up an offer to be one of four deputy directors of the International Monetary Fund hit the nation like a tonne of bricks.
Clarke was generally seen as a rising star in the Andrew Holness cabinet and one of the few who was not tarnished with the tainted brush of corruption. He was a squeaky-clean loyalist, from all appearances. Clarke was that friend who would stick closer than a brother and a man who heard and saw more than he perhaps bargained for, but never whispered a word, sounded any alarm, or pointed any fingers.
No one could accuse Clarke of being an astute politician, but he certainly wore the hat of the consummate professional very well. Jamaica took notice of Clarke when he entered the limelight as a Senator in the Upper House in 2013. Gingerly, he stepped further into the political fray in 2016 after he was appointed by his friend, the Prime Minister, to serve as Jamaica’s Ambassador-at-Large for Economic Affairs in his office. By 2018, Clarke was coerced to join the Lower House as Member of Parliament for North West St Andrew, replacing veteran politician Derrick Smith and immediately upending long-time stalwart Audley Shaw from the elevated position of finance minister. Based on where Clarke had been sitting since then, he would have full-blown knowledge of some of, if not all, the eight politicians who the Integrity Commission had been investigating for illicit enrichment. As a doctor of economics and financial runnings, he would understand the jagged red lines that prevented the Prime Minister’s statutory declarations from being certified by the Integrity Commission for three years running.
Things seem to have gotten really dicey in the Holness government when his closest ally and the most celebrated member of his cabinet, whom he handpicked for the top financial job, decided to pack his bags and go. Not even the drastic, unjust salary increase that parliamentarians awarded themselves could keep the finance minister in the much-coveted seat. Clarke knew that trouble was ahead, and clearly he had no intention of donning a ‘pickney shut’ or worse.
Clarke is not accustomed to failure, but under the persistent trajectory of the current regime, there is no other possible outcome. Nigel had inherited the Jamaican economy success story from Dr. Peter Phillips, the financial mastermind behind the debt management programme initiated by the previous regime. Clarke was given one clear mission, and that was to stay on the course set by his predecessor. While he stuck to the script, it would seem that the fight to prevent the corrupt from keeping their sticky fingers out of the public coffers and derailing the economic success plan was more than the best could bear.
Last week the Prime Minister boasted that other members of his government are being sought by noted international agencies because of their brilliance, so Jamaicans should not be surprised if more ministers follow in Nigel’s footsteps.
Perhaps the Prime Minister needs to be reminded that not all international agencies are anxiously seeking to engage members of his team, as the Commonwealth Secretariat only two years ago rejected Foreign Minister Kamina Johnson-Smith’s attempt to be its Secretary General. Perhaps things have changed since then.
But Jamaican politicians exiting a government that is steeped in corruption to join foreign agencies could mean more than what meets the eye.
International agencies are advancing the beast agenda and are deliberately recruiting the best and brightest from governments in resistant nations to join their fight.
Bolstering the beast with the brightest minds who are equipped with the knowledge of the wicked inner workings of the Jamaican political system is a major win for those who seek to conquer the island from distant shores.
The IMF is not short on experts and is well-positioned to attract the brightest minds from anywhere around the world, from the private or public sector, or academia. That the IMF is recruiting talent from struggling Jamaica to strengthen its operations is a very curious development.
Since the IMF has had to dispatch rescue missions to Jamaica on so many occasions since 1975, one would think that that agency would see someone like Nigel Clarke as vital to the continued resuscitation of the Jamaican economy. Without Clarke and his unsullied reputation, the Jamaican government is fully exposed. The harvesting of Clarke when Jamaica is knee-deep in corruption and faced with the paucity of professionals in government to fill his shoes suggests that the IMF’s agenda is not the same as ours.
What many people fail to understand is that these international agencies find corrupt leaders of shaky governments and dependent nations very useful. They are fodder to be blackmailed and are open to selling their souls and their countries for a dime and a dollar to deliberately or inadvertently facilitate the advance of the Satanic agenda.
Corrupt leaders hope to escape being brought to book if they cooperate with the directives handed down by international devils. However, their compromise will only be used to lock them into unrighteous agreements and ensure that they publicly support and implement changes that their nation may have been resisting for centuries.
When God judges a nation, He gives it the leadership it deserves. Rebellious nations are headed by corrupt governments that will take them to the unspeakable punishment they have earned. Nations that have rejected righteousness will ride the riotous rollercoaster to the hellbound finish.
These are the end times, and the beast has no buddies. Satan is the master deceiver, and his agenda is to conquer: steal, kill, and destroy. Corrupt and unrepentant nations will be rocked by turbulence shattering governments, industries, financial systems, and families.
Jamaica had better repent, pray, seek God’s face, turn away from Satan, and reject his wicked agenda. It is already too late. The judgement has intensified. The rollercoaster is keeling.