Dear Editor,

Our politicians, both PNP and JLP, are shameless. Prime Minister Bruce Golding seemed to feel no shame or compunction that he was less than forthcoming to the Jamaican people re the Manatt, Phelps and Phillips story. After months of denial, he finally confessed that “he had sanctioned” persons in the JLP to approach Manatt, Phelps and Phillips to lobby the United States administration to drop its extradition request for Christopher “Dudus” Coke.

This confession is a clear indication that the prime minister and the JLP government were using the solicitor general to lobby the US government on behalf of partisan interests and not on behalf of the people of Jamaica. Isn’t that a conflict of interest? It is becoming clearer every day that criminal interest groups are running Jamaica and not PM Golding and his JLP government.

The chatting class and other interest groups, in calling for the government to “do something about crime and corruption”, should demand that Mr Golding resign because his conduct and his tangled web shows that he and the JLP are leading the nation further into a deeper hole than when the PNP left it. What disappointment! Edward Seaga, you are a prophet!

Authnel Reid

authnelreid@optonline.net