GOLDING
OPPOSITION LEADER Bruce Golding left yesterday's swearing-in ceremony for Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller after discovering that seats reserved for himself and his wife Lorna had been given away.
This, Mr. Golding told The Gleaner, was despite him arriving at 4:34 p.m., three minutes ahead of the 4:37 p.m. time he was asked to be seated by. He said ushers were unable to find them alternative seating.
"I was invited by a letter signed by the Governor-General and I acknowledged that I would attend and I owed it to Portia to do so," he said.
Asked if he felt he was treated with disrespect, the Opposition Leader declined to comment. He said, however, that were the political fortunes of himself and the new Prime Minister reversed, he would ensure such a situation would not arise.
