Former Jamaica PM Bruce Golding says Caribbean states must tread carefully under US pressure—a hand in the mouth of an angry lion.
Diplomacy: Caribbean
Key Facts
—Who. Bruce Golding, Jamaica’s prime minister from 2007 to 2011, spoke as an elder statesman rather than a sitting official.
—Message. He defended Caribbean governments’ cautious approach to the Trump administration, likening it to keeping a hand in the mouth of an angry lion.
—Setting. Golding spoke on 1 August at a Team Jamaica Bickle gala in Philadelphia marking Jamaica’s 64th year of independence.
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