Stop withholding critical information from public, PNP general secretary tells gov’t

The Andrew Holness-led Administration has been branded a Government of gag orders, a move which the Opposition People's National (PNP) says is a threat to democracy.

PNP general secretary Dr Dayton Campbell, in an emotionally-charged address at the party's 86th annual conference today at the National Arena, emphasised the party's discomfort with the leadership of Government while charging that "it's time for all of dem to pack their bags and go."

The firebrand politician asserted Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica contracts, the parliamentarians who are under investigation by the Integrity Commission as well as contracts handed out by the National Housing Trust to developers as issues for which there have a gag on information.

"We are registering what is going on with the administration that is in place, we see what is going in the society but we shall overcome.

"Only 18 percent passes including Maths and English, but we shall overcome, sick people a sleep pon cardboard but we shall overcome, food prices gone through the roof but we shall overcome, crime and violence out of control but we shall overcome," he declared amid loud cheers and the sounds of vuvuzuela.

Campbell expressed confidence in the country rising above its many challenges and succeeding.

"We shall overcome because we have a set of leaders whose integrity is in tack and who are here to serve and not to scrape," he continued.

While predicting that the PNP will form the next Government, he promised that farmers will be given access to arable lands to do more farming and exposure to international markets.

He said they will also be given farm roads and not donkeys.

Campbell also called for unity among persons of all classes while appealing for persons to join the PNP in its fight for creating a level playing field for all.

- Tanesha Mundle

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