But in the interim, Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister AJ Nicholson has brushed aside reported remarks that Mugabe described Jamaica, which observed its 50th anniversary of political independence from Britain last month, as “a country of marijuana smokers where women are now taking charge since men are always sloshed”.
The Zimbabwean president was quoted further as saying that while marijuana is illegal in Jamaica, citizens are free to smoke and that men are always drunk, while universities were full of women.
Nicholas said that Kingston is seeking to verify the statement before Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller responds fully, but in the meantime he would remind Mugabe that Jamaica is a nation characterized by adherence to democratic principles and the rule of law”