Morgan accuses Golding of presiding over the worst Opposition party in Jamaica’s history
KINGSTON, Jamaica—Opposition Leader Mark Golding is presiding over the “worst Opposition party in the history of Jamaica”, according to parliamentary secretary in the Ministry of Education, Senator Marlon Morgan.
Morgan made the assertion Thursday evening as he addressed the annual West Kingston Constituency Conference at Tivoli Gardens High School in west Kingston.
The firebrand senator stopped just short of accusing Golding of lying, following from the fracas in Parliament on November 3 when Opposition Member of Parliament Mikael Phillips had to be physically restrained as he approached Kingston Western MP and Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie.
Phillips has apologised for hurling expletives at McKenzie, who he claimed told him about his deceased mother twice. Phillips has denied that he pushed Golding away as the Opposition leader tried to restrain him. Golding has also denied being pushed, but Morgan says the video tells a different story.
Morgan told the large gathering, “I don’t think you need to be a rocket scientist, I don’t think you need to go and study for any ‘boasy’ degree up at the university… in relation to this one. “To be clear, labourites, the Mark Golding-led Opposition is the worst parliamentary Opposition in the history of Jamaica.”
Morgan added that, “It is very clear that whoever is advising Mark Golding truly intends to replace Mark Golding”. The Government senator said whether a person wears glasses or has 20-20 vision, it is very obvious from the tape what occurred in Parliament, “and we see wha wi see wid wi own two eye”.
Said Morgan, “Mikael Phillips pitch such man out a di way an such man come back an tell wi now say he was not pushed. An pon top a dat Mikael Phillips himself tun roun an tell wi say him never push Mark Golding”.
Morgan then referenced a line from Ernie Smith’s popular 1970s hit ‘Duppy Gunman’, stating that the singer was very emphatic in song, “If Mikael Phillips never push Markie G, it must be a duppy or a gunman, I man nuh find out yet”.
—Lynford Simpson
