Mr Golding Squandered a Grand Chance

Weekly Gleaner, The; North American ed. › June 22, 2010

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By now his leadership will have been fully endorsed by a riskaverse Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), which will have concluded that it has no alternative to Mr [Bruce Golding]. So, we can expect a seemingly chastened and humbled prime minister to apologise for having misled the country about what he knew - and when he knew it - of the hiring by the JLP of US lobbyists to soften America's demand for the extradition of Mr Coke.

There has also been the controversy over whether the US law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips was engaged on behalf of the Government - which Manatt insists was the case - to lobby the US authorities in the Coke affair. After months of claiming almost ignorance of the matter, Mr Golding has now admitted that he 'sanctioned' a deal with Manatt in his persona as leader of the JLP, but not as prime minister.

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Mr Golding Squandered a Grand Chance

OUR SUSPICION is that Prime Minister Bruce Golding, although badly battered and seriously compromised by the Christopher Coke extradition affair, is not going any...

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