Questionable Conduct: The Jamaican Political Reality

              Date: August 24, 2009 Time Early afternoon Place: Vale Royal Topic: The Extradition of Christopher “Dudus” Coke Participants: Prime Minister, Hon. Bruce Golding                      Chief Defence Staff, Major General Stewart Saunders                     Commissioner of Police, Rear Adm. Hardley Lewin Only PM and the CDS gave testimony at the Tivoli COE. No reason was given for the omission of the COP. A review of the verbatim notes reveal some very interesting anomalies which will have to be resolved in the Commission’s Report. For example: i) Duration: PM Golding testified that the meeting lasted “no more than five minutes" ; whereas the CDS said that “.. we spoke with the PM for about fifteen or twenty minutes”.  Lewin elsewhere has given the impression that the meeting was unexpectedly brief: “So the PM says”...

Questions Nobody Asked: Lewin What exactly was the response of the Minister of National Security to the information you relayed? You said on CVM TV words to the effect that the Minister "turned white". Could you please elaborate? How long did you observe that change in pigmentation? Did the Minister do or say anything during the duration of the shade change? How did you react when you observe these Ministerial changes? How did the Chief of Staff react? Did the Chief of Staff relay any information to the Minister during that meeting? Did the Minister of National Security say anything to the Chief of Staff? You have said that the Minister took about ten minutes to locate the PM by phone, did this seem unusual to you? Did the Minister indicate that he was experiencing a difficulty in making telephone contact with the PM? Can you say, with any degree of certainty, that the Minister of National Security only spoke to the PM via telephone in your presence? Can y...