THE international media swooped on Kingston shortly after May 17, 2010 when Prime Minister Bruce Golding announced in Parliament that he would instruct Attorney General Dorothy Lightbourne to authorise extradition of west Kingston Don, Christopher “Dudus” Coke, to the United States.
His decision sparked bloody fighting between security forces and gunmen loyal to Coke in west Kingston, for which Golding was Member of Parliament.
He reflected on a knotty situation that ended in Coke's capture one month after the fighting, and which forced Golding to resign one year later.
He believes Golding's stance that the US was encroaching on Jamaica's rights as a sovereign nation by demanding Coke's extradition, was baseless.
What is most astounding is that as the prime minister of Jamaica he went to Gordon House and defended Dudus Coke's inalienable constitutional rights against a foreign power which Jamaica has an extradition treaty with for over a quarter century.
