Golding: Bear with me

Under pressure from critics who say he is defying convention and protocol by failing to give the nation a statement on his decision to step down as prime minister and leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Bruce Golding yesterday appealed for more time.
Golding said he would address the nation at the appropriate time, but he first needed to grieve the passing of his mother.
The prime minister, who will today lay his late mother, Enid Golding, to rest, said he would speak further on his reason for deciding to quit after the funeral.
“I have just come from the funeral home where I took the last ring off my mother, bear with me a little bit,” a jaded-looking Golding told journalists as he prepared to enter the chamber of the House of Representatives at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston.
Enid Golding’s funeral starts at 10 a.m. at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Old Harbour, St Catherine.
Golding’s encounter with the media at Parliament came hours after he faced a similar barrage of questions at Jamaica House where he was the main speaker at the launch ceremony of the National Identification System Project.
‘In due time’
During that ceremony he would not comment on claims he was chased out of the JLP by rowdy elements in the party who had supported his rise to power.
In his first words publicly on the issue, since he informed the Central Executive of the JLP that he would not seek re-election, Golding chuckled “in due time”, in response to queries about his timetable to speak directly to the people of Jamaica.
This continued to be his refrain as he hustled from the drove of journalists who descended on Jamaica House.