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Vaz not on the outs with the JLP
Friday, 09 April 2010
The political secretariat of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has moved to put to rest reports that Daryl Vaz, Information Minister, is taking intense heat for his handling of the Manatt, Phelps and Phillips affair.
Karl Samuda, JLP General Secretary and senior Cabinet minister, who has been assigned special responsibility of handling the issue in the public domain, on Friday afternoon told RJR News that the Information Minister still enjoys the confidence of the party.
In attempting to stem reports of Mr. Vaz coming under fire from inside the party, Mr. Samuda said the controversial Manatt, Phelps and Phillips matter is being aggressively examined by the party.
He told RJR News the matter will be coming up for discussion when the JLP's Standing Finance Committee meets next Monday.
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On Thursday, attorney
-at-law- Harold Brady, the man at the centre of the deepening saga, suggested that he and Information Minister knew more than they were letting on.
The attorney had been asked to submit documents making it clear that he was not acting on the Government of Jamaica's (GOJ) s behalf when he hired the law firm.
Brady issues challenge
This was what Mr. Vaz had to say on Wednesday on Mr. Brady's role in the controversy involving Manatt, Phelps and Phillips.
"As a result of that and the letter (from Senator Dorothy Lightbourne, Attorney General asking Manatt, Phelps and Phillips to say the law firm was not contracted by the GOJ on extradition issues) going, Mr. Samuda has been mandated wearing two hats, as senior minister and general secretary, to handle the proceedings, as this matter has implication both ways," Mr. Vaz said at the Wednesday's Post Cabinet press briefing.
Talk of possible censure by the governing party saw the attorney fighting back when he was interviewed on Nationwide Radio on Thursday.
He issued a challenge to Mr. Vaz, which seemed to suggest that both he and Information Minister knew more about the issue than has been revealed to the public.
His comment also seemed to suggest that the information, if revealed, would be damaging to Mr. Vaz.
Friday, 09 April 2010
The political secretariat of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has moved to put to rest reports that Daryl Vaz, Information Minister, is taking intense heat for his handling of the Manatt, Phelps and Phillips affair.
Karl Samuda, JLP General Secretary and senior Cabinet minister, who has been assigned special responsibility of handling the issue in the public domain, on Friday afternoon told RJR News that the Information Minister still enjoys the confidence of the party.
In attempting to stem reports of Mr. Vaz coming under fire from inside the party, Mr. Samuda said the controversial Manatt, Phelps and Phillips matter is being aggressively examined by the party.
He told RJR News the matter will be coming up for discussion when the JLP's Standing Finance Committee meets next Monday.
.
On Thursday, attorney
-at-law- Harold Brady, the man at the centre of the deepening saga, suggested that he and Information Minister knew more than they were letting on.
The attorney had been asked to submit documents making it clear that he was not acting on the Government of Jamaica's (GOJ) s behalf when he hired the law firm.
Brady issues challenge
This was what Mr. Vaz had to say on Wednesday on Mr. Brady's role in the controversy involving Manatt, Phelps and Phillips.
"As a result of that and the letter (from Senator Dorothy Lightbourne, Attorney General asking Manatt, Phelps and Phillips to say the law firm was not contracted by the GOJ on extradition issues) going, Mr. Samuda has been mandated wearing two hats, as senior minister and general secretary, to handle the proceedings, as this matter has implication both ways," Mr. Vaz said at the Wednesday's Post Cabinet press briefing.
Talk of possible censure by the governing party saw the attorney fighting back when he was interviewed on Nationwide Radio on Thursday.
He issued a challenge to Mr. Vaz, which seemed to suggest that both he and Information Minister knew more about the issue than has been revealed to the public.
His comment also seemed to suggest that the information, if revealed, would be damaging to Mr. Vaz.
