Commentary

It was an unflattering display on the part of Jamaica's leader of government in Gordon House last Tuesday evening. Of course, he had resolutely placed himself in a thoroughly awkward position - certainly in matters of extradition - astride two horses at the same time, that of party leader and that of prime minister.

Plato's famous image of governance as the honourable command of the ship of state has absolutely no currency in Jamaica today. Thanks to the self-styled 'driver', Bruce Golding, the Jamaican state is now a crashed minibus. And all of us are accident victims.

The proverb, 'It takes a village to raise a child', is rooted in the worldview of many cultural groups on the African continent. The Igbo and Yoruba peoples of Nigeria are reputed to have translated this belief in their communal approach to child rearing. In 1996, Hilary Clinton used this proverb to be the title of her book on the communal responsibility in the important pursuit of raising our children.

It was about 4 o'clock on the morning of December 14, 1960. I was sound asleep having read a 'Biggles' book until midnight. My father kept shaking me and I eventually tumbled out of bed, rubbing my eyes and complaining, "What happen? Thief come? The house burning down?" It was nothing as drastic as that but something much more momentous.

The recent revelations in Parliament by Prime Minister Bruce Golding that he sanctioned the proposal to engage Manatt, Phelps & Phillips to negotiate with the United States State Department in the Christopher 'Dudus' Coke extradition matter is cause for serious concern and has left the Government and people of Jamaica in a very compromising position.

Supporters of the People's National Party (PNP) taste blood and are moving in for the kill! The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) hacks are turning up the volume in support of their compromised leader and party.

The decision of the editor-in-chief of The Gleaner to publish boldly the daily crime statistics on the front has got tongues wagging.This activist role of The Gleaner has not gone down well with some people.

Prime Minister Bruce Golding, we conclude, knowingly and deliberately, misled Jamaica about his, and his government's involvement in the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips affair.

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