Golding urges voters not to be swayed by promises from the JLP

President of the People's National Party (PNP) and Opposition Leader Mark Golding is urging Jamaicans not be swayed by promises from the Government, arguing that the Andrew Holness-led administration already had two terms to implement initiates to better the lives of citizens.

Addressing PNP supporters at a meeting in Port Antonio, Portland, on Sunday night Golding said his party is ready for a general election and dared Holness to set the date.

"We ready and I say to Andrew call it, call it, call di election if you feel you can win it. Call it caah we ready fi tek back this thing and move the country forward," Golding told the gathering.

He continued: "And listen man a don't want dem mek one promise, because after nine years, anything dem don't do aready dem nah go do it again. So any promise that you get would be a comfort to a fool, and mi know say unno a nuh no fool. 

"So whatever dem come wid, a want unno stand firm in a yuh mind and inna yuh body. And whenever the trumpet sound and its time to put your X a want you come out in unno numbers."

In a hotly contested by-election in 2019, the PNP's Damion Crawford polled the highest number of votes by a PNP candidate in the history of Eastern Portland, 9,611, but lost to Ann-Marie Vaz of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party, who polled 9,917 votes.

The PNP will be represented by attorney Isat Buchanan in the next election.

A general election is constitutionally due by September next year. 

- Gareth Davis

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