The Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) yesterday called for the resignation of attorney Harold Brady from all state boards, until the party gets a satisfactory explanation from the Government regarding his involvement with the American law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips.

“We are demanding, until then, that Mr Brady be relieved of all his responsibilities and from membership of all boards,” PNP president Portia Simpson Miller said.

At the same time, she said, the party was calling on the General Legal Counsel to investigate and to determinate whether Mr Brady’s actions constituted a breach of ethics of the legal profession warranting disciplinary action.

Simpson Miller, who was speaking at a meeting of the party’s National Executive Council (NEC) at the Wexford Hotel in Montego Bay, said the Government was yet to “come clean” on Brady’s involvement with the law firm.

Opposition member Dr Peter Phillips had raised questions in the House of Parliament about whether the Government had engaged the services of the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips to deal with extradition or other matters between the US and Jamaica.

But Prime Minister Bruce Golding has maintained that the Government has no arrangement with the US law firm.

And Brady has denied that he acted on behalf of Government in dealings with the company.

But at a press conference last Wednesday, the Opposition asked the Government a raft of questions regarding its dealings with the firm.

Among them was: On what basis did the solicitor general (Douglas Leys) believe it was appropriate for private foreign citizens — in the persons of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips — to be involved in a meeting between the Government of Jamaica and the Government of the United States discussing sensitive and confidential matters?

Yesterday, Simpson Miller told the NEC that since the issue was raised by the PNP, explanations on the matter had been “found wanting”, while the prime minister’s intervention lacked credibility, and raised “more questions than answers”.

She added that the solicitor general’s “position” had been “seriously compromised” since he allowed representatives of the law firm to sit in on the discussions with the United States State Department.

“We are therefore demanding that the country be clearly and truthfully told the position on the matter, and that the Government comes clean. The people are demanding that,” Simpson Miller told the cheering NEC members.