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THE National Democratic Movement (NDM) is calling for the immediate resignation of Prime Minister Bruce Golding.
Golding yesterday admitted in parliament that he sanctioned the engagement of United States law firm Manatt Phelps and Phillips on behalf of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and not the Jamaican government. The NDM has blasted his admission as shameless and disgraceful.
In a release to the media this morning NDM President Earle deLisser expressed his disappointment with Golding, the party's founding president.
"The NDM finds it unbelievable that Mr Golding, after promising the people of Jamaica honest leadership and good governance at his inauguration, after eighteen and a half years of corruption and mismanagement, could renege on that promise and in the process has disappointed millions of Jamaicans at home and abroad who were hoping for positive and transformative leadership from him," deLisser said.
Golding joined the NDM and was installed as it first president just before the 2002 general elections but according to party general secretary Michael Williams as soon as he settled in it was clear that his intentions were not honourable.
"We saw the writing on the wall. People inside the organisation recognised the person he was. He joined the organisation to spite the the people in the JLP. He was not committed to the ideals of the NDM," Williams told the Observer, "From when he left he lost credibility and he committed the cardinal sin when he crept back into the JLP and represented the constituency of Edward Seaga, the father of all garrissons. That was political hypocrisy and expediency at the highest level."
The NDM is calling on Golding to disclose the source of the US $50,000 which was paid to the law firm and if the funds were 'dirty money'. The party also advised members of the Cabinet to distance themselves from the Golding administration in order to preserve their integrity
Golding yesterday admitted in parliament that he sanctioned the engagement of United States law firm Manatt Phelps and Phillips on behalf of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and not the Jamaican government. The NDM has blasted his admission as shameless and disgraceful.
In a release to the media this morning NDM President Earle deLisser expressed his disappointment with Golding, the party's founding president.
"The NDM finds it unbelievable that Mr Golding, after promising the people of Jamaica honest leadership and good governance at his inauguration, after eighteen and a half years of corruption and mismanagement, could renege on that promise and in the process has disappointed millions of Jamaicans at home and abroad who were hoping for positive and transformative leadership from him," deLisser said.
Golding joined the NDM and was installed as it first president just before the 2002 general elections but according to party general secretary Michael Williams as soon as he settled in it was clear that his intentions were not honourable.
"We saw the writing on the wall. People inside the organisation recognised the person he was. He joined the organisation to spite the the people in the JLP. He was not committed to the ideals of the NDM," Williams told the Observer, "From when he left he lost credibility and he committed the cardinal sin when he crept back into the JLP and represented the constituency of Edward Seaga, the father of all garrissons. That was political hypocrisy and expediency at the highest level."
The NDM is calling on Golding to disclose the source of the US $50,000 which was paid to the law firm and if the funds were 'dirty money'. The party also advised members of the Cabinet to distance themselves from the Golding administration in order to preserve their integrity
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