The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) hierarchy has revealed that the Prime Minister Bruce Golding has offered to resign over the controversial Manatt, Phelps and Phillips issue.
But the JLP chairman Dr Ken Baugh says the party is not accepting Mr Golding’s offer to resign.
Dr Baugh made the revelation at a press conference in Ocho Rios, St Ann, this afternoon during a break from a JLP Central Executive meeting.
Since Friday, the Prime Minister has been engaged in a series of talks with various JLP groups as calls mount for his resignation.
At the press conference this afternoon the Dr Baugh revealed that throughout the consultations, the Prime Minister has maintained that he would step down.
According to Dr Baugh, although the Prime Minister does not want to resign, Mr Golding believes it is the appropriate thing to do.
But Dr Baugh says the JLP will not accept Golding’s offer to resign because it does not believe the Prime Minister has done anything wrong in the Manatt matter.
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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.
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