FORMER state minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Ronald Robinson continued to contradict statements made by Prime Minister Bruce Golding regarding issues surrounding the Manatt Phelps & Phillips engagement when the commission of enquiry resumed this morning.

Robinson denied that he had met with former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani to ask him for assistance with the extradition matter. He said he had met with Giuliani regarding Air Jamaica matters. He also denied that Golding had advised him that he was acting on behalf in the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP).

According to Golding in his statement read by attorney for the People's National Party (PNP) KD Knight, the prime minister said he had advised the junior minister that contact should be initiated as a party initiative.

Golding also said that Robinson, after the New York visit, said he had met with the former mayor and that the mayor had not given him any concrete offer of assistance.

Meanwhile, Cabinet minister Karl Samuda took the witness stand earlier but was quickly instructed to end his testimony after the attorneys for the JLP objected to him being cross examined without giving a formal statement.

Before his exit, Samuda was asked briefly about the investigation he carried out regarding Manatt.

He said he was told that persons in the JLP had approached the law firm but he was unable to say whom they were.

The enquiry is being held at the Jamaica Conference Centre, downtown Kingston.

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