Relaxed Golding emerges from meeting

[Lazie]

By PAUL HENRY
Sunday, May 16, 2010

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A relaxed looking Prime Minister Bruce Golding emerged from a five hour Central Executive Committee meeting in Ocho Rios this afternoon, chatting with Deputy Prime Minister Ken Baugh and Youth Minister Olivia Grange on a balcony at the Sandals Grande Hotel.
After a few minutes chatting, the three huddled together, and started an animated discussion while reading a copy of the Sunday Observer.
Party officials told the Observer that Golding would not be the one addressing the media tonight.
Local media persons have been camped out at the hotel all day, as it is expected that an announcement will be made about whether Golding will resign from office.
The executive members took a break at 3:00 pm for lunch, after meeting since 11:00 am.
There was an air of tense calm when the members emerged.
The Central Executive is expected to vote on whether Golding should resign.
Golding admitted in Parliament last Tuesday to sanctioning an effort to engage US law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips to assist in lobbying the US in the extradition case involving Tivoli don Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.
He has been under pressure to step down since the disclosure.

[Lazie]

No resignation!

BRUCE Golding will not resign as prime minister of Jamaica.
Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) General Secretary Karl Samuda said Golding's actions in the Manatt Phelps and Phillips affair do not “rise to the level that warrants a resignation”.
Samuda said the prime minister has not lied to the country. He said he, Samuda, knew all along that the prime minister had been the one to sanction the Manatt deal, but had not revealed this in the report he gave to Jamaicans weeks ago. He refused to say why.
“If we were in the position to do it again, we would adopt a different strategy,” Samuda said, addressing reporters in Ocho Rios today.
He said Government was challenging people to bring evidence that the Government and not the JLP hired the law firm to lobby the United States on the extradition matter involving Tivoli Gardens don Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.
Original story posted at 4:12 pm.

[Assasin]

welcome to Jamaica

[Mosiah]

bruce has chosen to have the govt just go thru the motions, because he will not be able to move jamaica forward.

[Mosiah]

Samuda said the prime minister has not lied to the country. He said he, Samuda, knew all along that the prime minister had been the one to sanction the Manatt deal, but had not revealed this in the report he gave to Jamaicans weeks ago. He refused to say why.

That's the kind of contempt the JLP has for the people of Jamaica.