PM mentions PSC issue during his budget presentation

For reasons best known to the Prime Minister, he elected to mention the controversial replacement of the PSC. I understand that he quoted from some 1976 correspondence by previous Public Service Commissioners. I gather he was attempting to establish that previous Public Service Commissioners had resigned at the request of former PM Michael Manley. Here is the relevant extract from Golding's presentation:




Public Service Commission

The Leader of the Opposition has made some trenchant statements about the replacement of the PSC. That matter is the subject of a challenge in the Supreme Court and, therefore, I will refrain from commenting on the specific charges she has made.
But it may be of interest for me to quote from two letters written to a former Governor-General by members of previous Public Service Commissions.

The actual quotes from the letters are not included in the written presentation, but I am hoping that they are available in the daily newspapers tomorrow.

The Prime Minister appears to be echoing some of his 'surrogates' like Ken Jones and Ken Chaplin, who have previously cited the supposed resignation of previous Public Service Commissioners (at the request of a PM) as if this somehow is relevant to, or supportive of PM Golding's dismissal of the Daisy Coke PSC. Golding never asked the PSC to resign, and indeed initially expressed confidence in the PSC. Why is it that PM chose to mention this issue in the context of a budget debate when the matter is before the courts, as he himself acknowledged?

More anon.