Dear Editor,
This must be the greatest of ironies. While senator and former government minister, K D Knight, was dragging Gordon 'Butch' Stewart's name through the mud in Jamaica this week, the Caribbean was honouring the Sandals chairman and outstanding son of Jamaica in New York for his personal work that has provided a productive life for thousands of Caribbean people and their families.
What has Knight achieved for Jamaica, other than the nickname Star Boy for his very rude and disrespectful treatment of former prime minister, Bruce Golding during the Manatt/Tivoli commission? Maybe his greatest achievement is that pyrrhic victory in getting Kern Spencer, his political colleague, off the corruption charges related to the Cuban light bulb scandal?
It is clear from Knight's extremely venomous remarks that he has up Mr Stewart in his 'craw'. But he would appear less cowardly if he just came out and said what is his problem. Lawyers have to represent clients all the time. You don't see them behaving as if the cases are personal. If that were the case, every lawyer who represents a murderer in court would be supportive of the murderer's cause.
Which leads me to ask whether Knight is now using his client's cause from the ATL pension fraud trial to attack Stewart for personal reasons.
Chester H Lynch
cheslynch@gmail.com
Irony of ironies; only in Jamaica
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This must be the greatest of ironies. While senator and former government minister, K D Knight, was dragging Gordon 'Butch' Stewart's name through the mud in Jamaica this week, the Caribbean was honouring the Sandals chairman and outstanding son of Jamaica in New York for his personal work that has provided a productive life for thousands of Caribbean people and their families.
What has Knight achieved for Jamaica, other than the nickname Star Boy for his very rude and disrespectful treatment of former prime minister, Bruce Golding during the Manatt/Tivoli commission? Maybe his greatest achievement is that pyrrhic victory in getting Kern Spencer, his political colleague, off the corruption charges related to the Cuban light bulb scandal?
It is clear from Knight's extremely venomous remarks that he has up Mr Stewart in his 'craw'. But he would appear less cowardly if he just came out and said what is his problem. Lawyers have to represent clients all the time. You don't see them behaving as if the cases are personal. If that were the case, every lawyer who represents a murderer in court would be supportive of the murderer's cause.
Which leads me to ask whether Knight is now using his client's cause from the ATL pension fraud trial to attack Stewart for personal reasons.
Chester H Lynch
cheslynch@gmail.com
Irony of ironies; only in Jamaica
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