Online feedback

Below are edited excerpts from comments posted online at www.jamaica-gleaner.com by readers to yesterday's lead story 'Lawsuit on hold'.

Discipline Mr Brady

This should not be allowed to die without punishment. The General Legal Council should go ahead and discipline Mr Brady if the prime minister is truthful. It cannot be seen as if the entire country is so corrupt, or that it is just a 'friend thing' and they are all in it together (lawyers, judges, business leaders, politicians, church and the media). The country needs a revolution.

- Nolongerproudtobejamaican

Put the matter to rest

It seems this saga will not go away for the Jamaica Labour Party and Mr Bruce Golding! Surely, there must be some sort of independent public enquiry regarding this matter so the public can finally know what really happened, and then punish those who are found accountable. This would put the whole sorry mess to bed once and for all, so we can return to the real issue of getting the island back on track! This is now becoming a he-said-she-said saga!

- Trevel

Case study

I'm not surprised by this development and neither should anyone else. The last thing Golding and the Jamaica Labour Party hierarchy want is the truth about Coke/Manatt, Phelps & Phillips (Coke/MPP) to see the light of day in a court trial. The ensuing bangarang would be off the Richter scale. Mr Brady and his attorneys, being as smart as they are, have not dropped their lawsuit against the prime minister, so we know that Bruce Golding and company have an incentive, perverse as it might seem, to arrive at a resolution all parties can live with.

In the end, this could have all been avoided if Golding had been straight-forward with Jamaicans from the outset. This whole episode of Coke/MPP should be taught as a case study in all Jamaican colleges and universities as part of any ethics, poli-tical science as well as crisis manage-ment courses. In all these cases and classes, it should be emphasised what not to do and the remedies.

- TrevDiMan

Samuda hush-hush

The usually vocal Karl Samuda has become somewhat hush-hush these days. Looks like he 'smells a rat'. We all know that's not a pleasant scent to bear. Let's see how this one plays out. There are a lot of 'heavyweights' involved here.

- Harry

Who will pay for settlement?

I wonder how much this 'settlement' is going to cost us? Well, if Mr Golding was acting for the Jamaica Labour Party, then it should pay, not taxpayers.

- Vergil