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<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : Pressure is mounting ...ion ( RJR )...</span>
More calls are mounting on Tuesday morning for the Golding administration to 'bare all' following last week's release of embarrassing contents of diplomatic cables unveiled by Wikileaks.Controversial communications between Jamaican and Washington appear to have embroiled the Prime Minister's wife, Lorna Golding and Kingston's Mayor Desmond McKenzie, and have apparently caught the government in an embarrassing position.Wikileaks cables have alleged that Mrs. Golding tried to present the extradition request for Christopher 'Dudus' Coke as a conspiracy against her husband and his Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) administration. Mrs. Golding was reported to have done so during a meeting at her house with a United States Embassy official in Kingston last December.Up to late last week the government was tight-lipped on the latest revelations.However political commentator Lloyd B Smith says the Golding administration should break its silence in a bid to prevent any further embarrassments for the government."Nothing is more terrible than to leave persons speculating therefore leading to all kinds of ideas as to what may or may not have been said or done and in politics perception can be more dangerous than reality,""I do believe that the government having set a record so far of being evasive and sometimes we have seen where lies have been told and there has been a great deal of deception, I do believe that the Wikileaks disclosures should be addressed in a very definitive way," he said.In addition, Mr. Smith says any response from the government should be forthcoming with a full explanation from Mrs. Golding herself. "In the case of Mrs. Golding, notwithstanding the fact that she is not a member of the administration, the fact is that she is the Prime Minister's wife...she should come forth with some kind of clarification and if she can't do so appoint someone to speak on her behalf. We need to know exactly what went down," Mr. Smith said.
<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : Pressure is mounting ...ion ( RJR )...</span>
More calls are mounting on Tuesday morning for the Golding administration to 'bare all' following last week's release of embarrassing contents of diplomatic cables unveiled by Wikileaks.Controversial communications between Jamaican and Washington appear to have embroiled the Prime Minister's wife, Lorna Golding and Kingston's Mayor Desmond McKenzie, and have apparently caught the government in an embarrassing position.Wikileaks cables have alleged that Mrs. Golding tried to present the extradition request for Christopher 'Dudus' Coke as a conspiracy against her husband and his Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) administration. Mrs. Golding was reported to have done so during a meeting at her house with a United States Embassy official in Kingston last December.Up to late last week the government was tight-lipped on the latest revelations.However political commentator Lloyd B Smith says the Golding administration should break its silence in a bid to prevent any further embarrassments for the government."Nothing is more terrible than to leave persons speculating therefore leading to all kinds of ideas as to what may or may not have been said or done and in politics perception can be more dangerous than reality,""I do believe that the government having set a record so far of being evasive and sometimes we have seen where lies have been told and there has been a great deal of deception, I do believe that the Wikileaks disclosures should be addressed in a very definitive way," he said.In addition, Mr. Smith says any response from the government should be forthcoming with a full explanation from Mrs. Golding herself. "In the case of Mrs. Golding, notwithstanding the fact that she is not a member of the administration, the fact is that she is the Prime Minister's wife...she should come forth with some kind of clarification and if she can't do so appoint someone to speak on her behalf. We need to know exactly what went down," Mr. Smith said.