No wonder this flipping country will not move forward.

[Lazie]

JLP rejects Golding's decision to resign

Published:Sunday September 25, 2011 | 4:12 pm

Chairman of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Mike Henry this afternoon announced that the Central Executive of the JLP has unanimously voted to reject Bruce Golding's decision to step down.

The JLP chairman made the disclosure in a statement issued a short while ago.

It doesn't make any sense ... to prevent the Haitianization of Jamaica as Peter Phillips said, Bruce have to walk away as these idiots will put in Poppyshow Portia and her merrymen.

[Exile]

Cut the crap and sobbing and pretending to be hurt. Its bs of the highest order. His own people were trying to get him out earlier - didn't you know that? Maybe one of the reasons he's leaving now too...just hope it's not medical reasons.

[Exile]

A martyr in the making...politically that is...

[Lazie]

Cut the crap and sobbing and pretending to be hurt. Its bs of the highest order. His own people were trying to get him out earlier - didn't you know that? Maybe one of the reasons he's leaving now too...just hope it's not medical reasons.

Not certain what you're onto ....I deal with facts .... His own ppl wanted him out? Well not certain where you get your rumours from but it was reported the Central Exec rejected his resignation. Then when the next PM turn out to be a failure unuh tun round and lament.

[Exile]

I'm on to your hypocritical alligator tears. No one wants a Jamaican PM to turn out to be a failure...except at election time....

[Karl]

Obviously I'm missing something then. The Justice Minister, the SG, the DSG, constitutional lawyer Dr. Lloyd Barnett, Frank Phipps Q.C. among others ... the commissioners on the Enquiry which included 2 lawyers ...ALL AGREED the request was flawed, violating Dudus' rights. Now a PM who took an oath to uphold the constitution did something "politically unforgiveable" to unhold the very oath he took?

So what then, a request is sent for someone we know ... lets say Mosiah, and those in charge must just sen him off just suh? As for the hypocrite Mosiah, for years he had a problem with the arrangement especially after the storyteller morrison saga .... but all of a sudden he wanted this gov't to do something he was against for years?

Even Likle Brucie changed to doing the right thing - i.e. sending Dudus on his way!

Yet...you are here claiming his first position of standing behind Dudus was correct Aaaah bwoy

[Lazie]

I'm on to your hypocritical alligator tears. No one wants a Jamaican PM to turn out to be a failure...except at election time....

Clearly yuh pick and choose what to read around here. Consult Karl and Don1. You all can find a reason to condone failure, if yuh cyaan address the facts ... leave it alone.

[Lazie]

Even Likle Brucie changed to doing the right think - i.e. end Dudus on his way!

Yet...you are here claiming his first position of standing behind Dudus was correct Aaaah bwoy

" standing behind Dudus "

Karl ... if yuh going to fabricate stuff .... hold a seat.

[Exile]

Of course!!! No need to consult anyone. Karl and Don1 are quite capable independent posters.
Here's what an article in the AP said....it keeps getting thrown off tough...so I'll post below...

[Exile]

Jamaica's PM announces he will step down

By DAVID McFADDEN - Associated Press | AP – 1 hr 12 mins ago

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaica's governing party announced Sunday that Prime Minister Bruce Golding will step down as leader in the coming weeks, possibly averting a rebellion from ruling party members that could have led to his ouster.

Golding will resign once a new leader of the Jamaica Labor Party is elected. The party's leader automatically becomes the prime minister.

The announcement was made in a brief statement from the party, which said Golding informed its central executive committee of his decision at a quarterly meeting in the capital of Kingston. The 63-year-old Golding is a veteran lawmaker who was expected to lead his party into the 2012 general elections.

"(Golding) said the challenges of the last four years have taken their toll and it was appropriate now to make way for new leadership to continue the programmes of economic recovery and transformation while mobilizing the party for victory in the next general elections," the party statement said.

Dennis Meadows, a senator and member of the Jamaica Labor Party's executive committee, said there has been an "overwhelming response" for Golding to stay on as party leader.

"He feels the chances of the party winning the next elections are at a disadvantage with him at the head, but there's no questioning of his competence," Meadows said.

Education Minister Andrew Holness, also from the Labor Party, dominated a poll conducted earlier this year asking islanders who should lead the Caribbean country if Golding were to step down.


Golding's career has been in jeopardy since 2009 because of his handling of the extradition of Jamaican drug kingpin Christopher "Dudus" Coke to the United States. Critics have slammed Golding for allowing the contracting of a law firm to lobby Washington to drop their request for extradition.

Golding resisted Coke's extradition for nine months, arguing the U.S. indictment on gun and drug trafficking charges relied on illegal wiretap evidence. Golding's Parliament district included Coke's West Kingston slum stronghold.

The stance strained relations with Washington, which questioned Jamaica's reliability as an ally in the fight against drug trafficking.

When Golding finally agreed to send Coke to the U.S., a hunt for the fugitive led to days of fighting in May 2010 that killed at least 73 civilians and three security officers. Coke was captured about a month later and extradicted.

Last month, Coke pleaded guilty to racketeering and assault charges, admitting his leadership of the brutal Shower Posse gang. He is due to be sentenced in December.

The Coke controversy prompted Golding to offer his resignation last year, but it was rejected by his party.

Peter Phillips, a spokesman for the main opposition People's National Party, asserted that the ruling party's announcement was brought on by the Coke saga, one of the bloodiest episodes in Jamaica's recent history, and the government's inability to fix the island's poor economy.

"I think it is reflective of the low standing the prime minister has amongst the Jamaican people. His credibility was destroyed in the Christopher Coke fiasco," Phillips said during a Sunday phone interview.

From its national executive council gathering in the northern city of Montego Bay, the People's National Party called on Golding to immediately call general elections "to resolve the crisis of governance in the country."

The opposition party said the entire government's immediate resignation was needed since Golding's announcement "will not restore the country's stability nor salvage the reputation of the (Jamaica Labor Party) with respect to the poor quality of governance."

Golding, the son of a successful businessman who also served in Parliament, returned his party to power in 2007 after 18 years in opposition. When he was elected as prime minister, he pledged to create jobs and improve basic services, including fighting crime and repairing streets.

Last year, he vowed to crush street gangs and replace their strong-armed rule with social programs for the poor. While security forces have since launched a sustained crackdown on gangs that has resulted in decreases in homicides and other crimes, Jamaica's sprawling underclass is still struggling.

Golding has repeatedly denied any ties to Coke, and even resigned from the Labor Party in the mid-1990s to form a new party that would be free of gang links. He rejoined Labor in 2002.

Political observers say Golding could not have been elected to his parliament seat without the support of Coke, the former don of Tivoli Gardens, which has a long-standing reputation as a vote-rich stronghold for the Jamaica Labor Party. Coke also thrived under the opposition People's National Party, which led the island for nearly two decades before Labor's 2007 win.
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Associated Press writer Howard Campbell contributed to this story.

[Lazie]

Of course!!! No need to consult anyone. Karl and Don1 are quite capable independent posters.
Here's what an article in the AP said....it keeps getting thrown off tough...so I'll post below...

Karl and Don1 are quite capable independent posters

Sunday comedy?

[Sickko]

Dont jump off the ledge yet...Blinds say it is a power play to see who are his side...bluffing

Not the first time Bruised has threatened to jump ship....mek him gwaan this time

Den again where him going to do, former PMs get pension now?

[Exile]

...meaning they don't have to CONSULT with NOBADDY or need a letterhead to post. Keep it real Lazie!

[Baddaz]

which decent people leff inna dat party... they have all made themselves indecent when they all supported bruce's corrupt action... not one had a problem with his actions to support a known criminal... not one took issue with his decision to hire mannat, phelps & phillips to defend the known criminal... not one took issue with the source of the funding for the said defense... how decent could they be... not one took issue with his decision to lie to parliament and the people of jamaica... not one degeh degeh one... they are all corrupt and lacking ethics and morals...

[Baddaz]

if, and only if the economy is the only means to determine success of a pm... what about the other requisite components for the growth and develop a nation... education, healthcare, housing, infrastructure development...