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<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : JLP appeals to PNP ...nd (Gleaner)...</span>
'HOL EM, Portia!'That is the message from the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) to the president of the People's National Party (PNP), Portia Simpson Miller.The JLP, which now forms the Government, says PNP member and attorney at the Manatt-Dudus commission of enquiry, K.D. Knight, needs to be reined in and yesterday appealed to Simpson Miller to stop him from attacking Justice Minister Dorothy Lightbourne when she takes the witness stand.Lightbourne, who has been on the receiving end of many sharp barbs from Knight in the Senate, is due to give evidence at the commission.In his appeal to Simpson Miller yesterday, JLP General Secretary Aundré Franklin said: "I would ask her, beg her, beseech her to instructher counsel to be civil and to remember that regardless of the objective, he is to be respectful just as how he expects persons to be respectful of his office and the trade that he practises, that of being an attorney-at-law."Franklin said he was confident Lightbourne "is more than capable, but I would not want to be in a commission that a level of rudeness and disrespect is being flung at a female and there is nothing that any of us can do besides frown".He added: "I am just beseeching the People's National Party president, let Mr Knight come with all the questions he wants, nobody is trying to cramp his style because each attorney has their own style, but just tone down the level of rudeness ... get to the facts so that Jamaica can understand what happened."Contacted after the press conference, Knight said: "I don't respond to nitwits."In a release, the PNP dismissed the call to rein in Knight."The party wishes to affirm its full and total confidence in the legal team, led by K.D. Knight, and in their efforts to ferret out the truth about what took place in the extradition request for Christopher 'Dudus' Coke," the PNP statement read."Instead of seeking to curtail the cross-examination of its members by the PNP's legal counsel, the JLP should be mandating its members to speak the truth when they appear before the commission of enquiry," PNP Chairman Robert Pickersgill said in the release.Meanwhile, JLP Chairman Mike Henry said he was not worried about Lightbourne and Prime Minister Bruce Golding fielding questions from Knight, who he said deserves an Academy Award for role-playing at the commission."I am never fearful of anything politically. I could never be fearful for someone quite as capable as my colleague minister of justice, nor for the prime minister of this country," Henry said.
<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : JLP appeals to PNP ...nd (Gleaner)...</span>
'HOL EM, Portia!'That is the message from the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) to the president of the People's National Party (PNP), Portia Simpson Miller.The JLP, which now forms the Government, says PNP member and attorney at the Manatt-Dudus commission of enquiry, K.D. Knight, needs to be reined in and yesterday appealed to Simpson Miller to stop him from attacking Justice Minister Dorothy Lightbourne when she takes the witness stand.Lightbourne, who has been on the receiving end of many sharp barbs from Knight in the Senate, is due to give evidence at the commission.In his appeal to Simpson Miller yesterday, JLP General Secretary Aundré Franklin said: "I would ask her, beg her, beseech her to instructher counsel to be civil and to remember that regardless of the objective, he is to be respectful just as how he expects persons to be respectful of his office and the trade that he practises, that of being an attorney-at-law."Franklin said he was confident Lightbourne "is more than capable, but I would not want to be in a commission that a level of rudeness and disrespect is being flung at a female and there is nothing that any of us can do besides frown".He added: "I am just beseeching the People's National Party president, let Mr Knight come with all the questions he wants, nobody is trying to cramp his style because each attorney has their own style, but just tone down the level of rudeness ... get to the facts so that Jamaica can understand what happened."Contacted after the press conference, Knight said: "I don't respond to nitwits."In a release, the PNP dismissed the call to rein in Knight."The party wishes to affirm its full and total confidence in the legal team, led by K.D. Knight, and in their efforts to ferret out the truth about what took place in the extradition request for Christopher 'Dudus' Coke," the PNP statement read."Instead of seeking to curtail the cross-examination of its members by the PNP's legal counsel, the JLP should be mandating its members to speak the truth when they appear before the commission of enquiry," PNP Chairman Robert Pickersgill said in the release.Meanwhile, JLP Chairman Mike Henry said he was not worried about Lightbourne and Prime Minister Bruce Golding fielding questions from Knight, who he said deserves an Academy Award for role-playing at the commission."I am never fearful of anything politically. I could never be fearful for someone quite as capable as my colleague minister of justice, nor for the prime minister of this country," Henry said.