WE can’t understand how, for a man who used to be, and to some extent still is, a radio talk-show host, Prime Minister Bruce Golding can be racking up so many zeroes in the communication department.

Is he really so far gone on the road to perdition that he can’t see how far short of our expectations he is falling as a leader?

Or does he not take the hell fire that is being threatened by the constituents of his West Kingston garrison, Tivoli Gardens, seriously?

Surely, he can’t think that he has, by the brief statement he released to the press Friday, taken responsibility for broadcasting his administration’s intention to greenlight the extradition proceedings for Mr Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke.

The rather tame statement, published in yesterday’s edition of our newspaper, could barely be heard above the roar of former police commissioner Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin.

According to Mr Lewin, who resigned as police commissioner last November, the policeman who acquired the evidence against Mr Coke broke no laws.

“(He) did his job with the full knowledge and approval of his chain of command. I am satisfied that all actions taken were in conformance with Jamaican law and protocols and I stand by and defend those actions,” he said.

The implications of Mr Lewin’s statements are frightening.

Because if what Mr Lewin is saying is true, then Mr Golding doesn’t have a leg to stand on regarding his attempts to stand by Mr Coke, who is wanted by the US to answer charges of drug- and gun-running.

And we would have to, as responsible people, stop and reconsider all intentions to forgive and forget what Mr Golding has done, especially since he has, to date, ignored every urging to come clean on this matter.

If what Mr Lewin is saying is true, where does that leave the 13 senators — 12, considering the resignation of Dr Ronald Robinson — who vouched for Mr Golding’s virtue via a joint statement less than 48 hours before he was forced to admit to some of his wrongdoing in the matter?

Unlike Mr Golding, they’ve not seen fit to apologise.

Are we to take that to mean that they’re standing by the actions for which he has repented?

If what Mr Lewin is saying is true, what are we to make of the rest of the government members who — barring two anonymous MPs — have yet to declare where they stand in all of this?

If what Mr Lewin is saying is true, where does that leave poor us, the people — who unlike the residents of Tivoli — do not relish the thought of going down with ‘Dudus’?

Mercy!