NEWS BRIEFS

Hanna scored majority of SESA delegate votes, says councillor

Councillor for the Beecher Town division in St Ann South East, Ian Bell, is insisting that the vast majority of delegates from the constituency voted for Member of Parliament Lisa Hanna in Saturday’s PNP presidential elections.

Bell, Hanna’s staunchest supporter at the local level, said he believes that only two of the 69 delegates from the constituency might not have voted for Hanna.

“I am confident that the majority of South East supported their member of parliament,” Bell told The Gleaner after it was announced that Mark Golding was elected PNP president ahead of Hanna.

Golding tallied 1,740 votes to Hanna’s 1,444 overall. Hanna also lost the parish of St Ann to Golding 88-124.

“We just have to accept the wishes of the delegates, accept the results of the poll. We need to wheel and come again, reunite, meet with the leader, sit down and plan the way forward for the People’s National Party, as the party is bigger than all of us,” he said.

Bell also hailed the move by Golding to extend the olive branch to Hanna and committed to give 110 per cent support to whoever leads the party.

Wrong choice, but we’ll work with it – delegate

A delegate from Lisa Hanna’s St Ann South East constituency believes that voters made the wrong choice when they elected Mark Golding as People’s National Party president.

Marvin Matthews of the Beecher Town division is, however, willing to work with the new leader who vanquished Hanna 1,740 to 1,444.

“She didn’t win, but I think the delegates made the wrong choice, but at the end of the day, we are a part of the People’s National Party and we stand by what decision the delegates have made,” Matthews told The Gleaner.

“... We hope that Comrade Mark Golding can move the process of the People’s National Party forward because at the end of the day, we are one PNP,” he added.

Final goodbye from Jeopardy!’s Alex Trebek

LOS ANGELES (AP):

Alex Trebek, who presided over the beloved quiz show Jeopardy! for more than 30 years with dapper charm and a touch of schoolmaster strictness, died Sunday. He was 80.

Trebek, who announced in 2019 that he had advanced pancreatic cancer, died at his Los Angeles home, surrounded by family and friends, Jeopardy! studio Sony said.

The Canada-born host, who made a point of informing fans about his health directly, spoke in a calm, even tone as he revealed his illness and hope for a cure in a video posted March 6, 2019.

Trebek said he intended to fight it and keep working, even joking that he needed to beat the disease because his Jeopardy! contract ran for three more years.

Messages of grief and respect from former contestants, celebrities and the wider public quickly followed news of his loss.