Dear Editor,

I wish to express my deep sorrow and shame at what Prime Minister Golding has done. I have two children and once when one was 11, she got herself in trouble because she failed to tell the truth when she had the opportunity to do so. She was found out in front of other people and I was hurt, angry, upset and ashamed, but most of all I felt betrayed.

Again, I feel betrayed. My daughter was a minor and lied because she did something she had been warned repeatedly not to do, but Bruce Golding is in his 60s. My daughter was afraid she would have got a beating, but I guess Bruce’s fears are of greater magnitude. Bruce can’t do what an 11-year-old does and expect the same level of leniency. To this day, my daughter won’t lie, but she had the aptitude for reformation. Bruce doesn’t.

I understand (not condone) the loyalty (or fear) which has pushed Mr Golding to forget that he is not just prime minister to Labourites, but the entire country and the diaspora. Whatever motivated Mr Golding to bring this on the country has got to be more than dissembling.

For a country which warehouses what is perhaps the largest amount of machismo and male egotism, Mr Golding has to have a strong as yet unrevealed reason to allow himself to be so publicly humiliated by Dudus to risk his political life and history by his role in this sordid affair.

Mr Golding, you need to address your fear. The country is on the brink of civil war.

Jamaica has some of the most brilliant minds in the world. Use that JC and UWI education and do the right thing. Dissolve Parliament and let the other party deal with Dudus. That way you can save face and give yourself time to put a legal team in place to deal with your future indictment.

Marie Anderson

neeliewun@yahoo.com