Jamaica's Prime Minister Denies Having Links to Drug Kingpin

Published November 17, 2014

Bruce Golding, the Prime Minister of Jamaica, has complained of an international conspiracy against his government after news reports suggesting that U.S. authorities consider him a “known criminal affiliate” of the fugitive drugs baron Christopher “Dudus” Coke.

More than 60 people have been killed since soldiers stormed Coke’s bastion in the barricaded Kingston slum of Tivoli Gardens in an unsuccessful bid to arrest him for extradition to the United States, where he faces drug-trafficking and gun-running charges.

Tivoli Gardens, Jamaica’s first public housing project, is in a part of West Kingston represented in Parliament by Golding, who has long resisted the extradition request for Coke.

Golding has faced mounting questions as to his own role since he was forced to admit two weeks ago that he had hired a U.S. law firm to help lobby against the U.S. extradition request.

The violence that has convulsed the Jamaican capital began on May 17, when Golding abruptly reversed his position and ordered Coke's arrest.

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