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Responses to Prime Minister Bruce Golding's address to the nation on Monday.

The People's National Party Youth Organisation

The statement of apology that was given by the prime minister is not enough atonement for the transgressions he has committed against the people.

This obvious connection between politics and criminality cannot be facilitated if the country is to move forward. While we acknowledge that the link between politicians and criminals does not stop with the prime minister within his own garrison. However, politicians like the prime minister, who has been caught in a blatant attempt to subvert justice, must receive the full punishment.

The National Democratic Movement

Mr Golding's apology rings hollow, lacks sincerity and was an attempt to bamboozle the Jamaican people by telling the people what we wanted to hear.

The NDM is of the view that the full truth was still not revealed and that the issue of his own deception was still not addressed.

The movement is challenging the PM to show how sincere he is about dismantling the political garrisons by removing garrison MPs from Cabinet posts and to cease the award of government contracts to persons aligned to any criminals or gangs.

The People's National Party Women's Movement

Rather than solving the problem by telling the whole truth, the prime minister presented the nation with a carefully crafted public-relations statement.

The insincerity of the prime minister was manifested in the seamlessness with which he moved from what was supposed to be an apology and remorse for a wrong to a regurgitation of promises to fix every governance issue perceived to be of concern to the Jamaican people.

How can we trust a prime minister who has not only shown bad judgement in the handling of this matter, and who has consistently said the right thing, but consistently does the wrong thing?