The buck stops with you, Bruce

The Editor, Sir:

In your editorial 'Make it an inquiry of truth', published on Thursday, October 14, you suggested seven questions that ought to be answered in the proposed Manatt, Phelps & Phillips Commission of Enquiry.

As much as I would be interested in knowing the answers, we do not need another expensive commission of enquiry to get them. Every question can be answered by Mr Golding or by someone who reports to him at Jamaica House or Belmont Road. He only needs to ask these persons and then advise the public.

If he asks and doesn't believe that he is being told the truth, then, as a leader, he must take action himself to correct the situation. Instead, Mr Golding has declared that the hiring of Manatt was a Jamaica Labour Party initiative and is now trying to force taxpayers to pay to find out what went wrong!

what if ... ?

What will happen if the commissioners (who have the powers of Supreme Court judges) ask Daryl Vaz to disclose the name of the person who paid Manatt's bill? What if they ask Harold Brady to reveal his attorney-client privileged instructions? What will happen, I wonder, if the commission finds that Manatt was hired by the Government? Will that open the door for Greg Christie to investigate it as a government contract?

But if the whole purpose of this commission of enquiry is to find out where the buck stops, then we can all answer that question, can't we?

I am, etc.,

GARY EDWARDS

Jamaica