If the Shanique Myrie incident had occurred under his watch, it would not even have gone to court, says former Prime Minister Owen Arthur.
“If a Barbados Labour Party administration had been in Government when the matter happened, I would’ve called Portia Simpson-Miller [prime minister of Jamaica] . . . .
“Perhaps I would not have needed to because I had the best foreign minister in the Commonwealth, Billie Miller, and Billie knows that quiet diplomacy among friends, rather than hot-mouthed tirades of a vitriolic nature . . . is all that is necessary,” he told those attending the first Independence public lecture of the School Of Politics at the Cricket Legends auditorium yesterday.
Saying that Jamaica and Barbados had enjoyed a warm and friendly relationship over the past two decades, Arthur said he and former Jamaica prime minister P.J. Patterson had worked “very closely” and “if ever there was an issue, we got together and dealt with it”. (RJ)
