Verbal sparring between Golding and Knight continues at Manatt/Dudus Enquiry

There were more heated exchanges between Prime Minister Bruce Golding and K.D. Knight, the lead counsel for the People’s National Party at the Manatt/Dudus Commission of Enquiry on Thursday.

There was a near collapse of the sitting after Mr. Golding refused to answer any more questions from the Queens Counsel.
This is after Mr. Knight accused him of withholding information from the Commission.

"You are a pathological, mendacious person. You have a pathological condition when it comes to telling the truth and I’m suggesting to you that you have misled, conspired and deceived the Parliament, the people of this country and this Commission, the Diaspora and every Jamaican and that you Prime Minister should pack your bags an go…," Mr. Knight stated.

Mr. Golding, in an angry response, declared that he would not answer any more questions from Mr. Knight.  

"I do not propose to answer any further questions from Mr. Knight. I will ignore every other question that he asks. I’m not going to sit here and be subjected to Mr. Knight’s abuse and cooperate with him in delivering that abuse on me and I’m prepared to pay the consequences," Mr. Golding said.

"Mr. Chairman, I had turned off my microphone and he saw it, so all this big talk is just like the big talk he gave with Dudus and deceived Dudus. Mr. Chairman I have no further questions of this witness," Mr. Knight replied.

During Thursday's hearing, the Prime Minister refused to again answer the question of who financed the engagement of United States-based law firm Manatt, Phelps and Phillips.