In reply to hubert

What will determine is how fed up with the JLP people are. Again anecdotal-one colleague who admits to NEVER voting says she has to vote him OUT-Andrew another says she's heading early to her parish to vote so she can vote AGAINST Andrew whatever the results may be and another-fmr Labourite says she WILL NEVER vote JLP as long as Andrew is leader. Too corrupt. Additionally, public sector wage negotiations are underway and NOBODY is happy given that they are offering ZERO percent in yr 1 & 7.5% over FOUR yrs and this is reminding everyone of the 300% increase they gave themselves. If you want better ideas about the landscape check Christine. She was spot on in 2011 and was unsure about 2016 & 2020. Jamaica has only given a party 3 terms ONCE and since 2007, there were two ONE term govts. This is the FIRST two term govt since. Are we back to what Carl Stone described as the two term syndrome. When Peter Espeut is calling for you to be voted OUT-those are interesting times.

In reply to michaelmax

Yes. Being fed up is a trump card(no pun) for the PNP. They need to ratchet up corruption and the lack
of integrity by the JLP. They should not ease up with this. I have read and heard and told about such sentiments especially from my
sources in my born Parish St. Mary.
That is not an easy Parish which once elected a totally illiterate person in the 40s.
But when Claude Stewart won in 1955 for the PNP, he did ok too and repeated. But people from that once prosperous Parish when Banana
was King and being shipped from Oracabessa and added to a coconut factory at nearby Jacks River that produced soap,oil and other things,
the people turned again and split seats became common thereafter sometime before the two seats became three constituencies.
But the mood I am getting there is positive. Not much as been done or accomplished well...the Junction road is sore point still
so when people are fed up, the button must be pushed hard,long and often.
I wish the PNP all the luck but it will be an uphill task...more than monkey money will be play and that sadly has become the bottom line .
Big turnout above high 50s per cent or much higher will work in PNP's favour.

In reply to michaelmax

This and listening to the folks in the street dem well fed up.

In reply to Chrissy

I figure this weekend will be the announcement, election will be first week of September before the school buses start breaking down!

In reply to michaelmax

What will determine is how fed up with the JLP people are


That sir is the answer. Jlp is in power so they have the money to buy election. With all the misuse of government funds, and integrity questions, people SHOULD be well fed up. But I am not sure they are. If they want change then they can’t be apathetic. You need a large turnout to change power.


SSL / Bolt money. Very quiet. Global tourism ambassador?

In reply to camos
Tomorrow night.


This is by far the most vulgar use of state resources by a government in a campaign.

How come no one mentions that Jamaica’s crime/murder rate is the lowest it’s been in many years? I’m apolitical and find the political tribalism silly, but that is the the biggest problem we face as a country. We can’t solve anything else without fixing this issue. The people I know in the force say the biggest difference is that they are working closer with the communities and are given license and resources to go after the gunmen, who know and fear this. Of course they are still corrupt but for a while there we were turning into Somalia. We have to start somewhere and this is a big win in my book. The JLP stays. No need to usher a more incompetent set of crooks who are going to lead to another downward spiral.

In reply to 1Desiabnu




The PNP is not half as crocked as JLP, and are far less flagrant in stealing!

In reply to camos

Even so, the fact that we have major crimes down is more important right now. Talk to anyone out there. We can’t solve everything overnight and it won’t help to change everything with another more incompetent set of politicians. Thats going to set us back another decade. We were in dire straits, so you have to take some bad with the good. The way Jamaica operates, I always thought it needs a strong visionary dictator to stamp out the evil and corruption but we all know that won’t happen. Anyway that’s neither here nor there. A lot of us feel safer now going there and doing business, which will benefit everyone. And if you really want to go there the other huge difference inflation, which tends to be much much worse under the pnp.

In reply to rudebway

What is large? In 2020, 21% of the voting population showed up and it's COVID. 21% only of the population coming out ain't happening. The PNP has been out of power 8yrs and THEIR base and even some well thinking Labourites are FED UP with the thieving. The ENTIRE public sector is unhappy. Heck even taxi drivers who are often a strong Labour group are fed up. PNP has DELIBERATEDLY targetted them by going to taxi stands and holding a reasoning with them. Just like the held an Education forum earlier in the year, had youth fora and a youth rally and had meetings with the disabled community. This along with the typical house to house & mass rally. The policies they have proposed& expressed seem microtargeted with each policy focused on a different subset of the population.The JLP will always have money but the PNP doesn't seem short. Mark went on a few overseas trips to fundraise from PNP diaspora. They are running radio & tv spots which they weren't doing this early in 2020. The campaign strategy is very different from what I'm used to seeing. It's the typical house to house & mass meetings but it's also holding town halls, forums and reasonings and using social media to mobilise, drop snippets reminding ppl about policy plans. They are using Twitter, IG, TikTok. They are also using SM to talk about legacy-PJ, Portia, Michael, Daddy Manley. The JLP has attacked Mark on race, British citizenship-the latest is that his shirt doesn't have enough green and that he is allergic to green- oh alleging that he was involved with his wife while he was an adult & she a child- what do you know about the JLP and in what types of situations do they get this nasty hmm? Oh the PM calling PNP supporters in Central Kingston deplorables after they created a situation to allege the MP got shot at.

In reply to 1Desiabnu

The PNP is the ONLY party that has PROGRESSED Jamaica and the JLP has ALWAYS been the drag. See Busta and the Federation. See Shearer, Walter Rodney and the Black Power movement. See Seaga and guns in Jamaica. See Seaga and the JLP and their collusion with foreign entities to destabilise the country in the 70s. We have YET to recover. Jamaica Social Welfare now SDC, allowing Black children to access primary school, land lease to farmers, free education, free health, the Independence Park complex, the NHT, the National Investment Fund, PATH, JADEP, NHF, JSIF, multiple schools, hospitals, Highway 2000, Portmore, Spanish hotel investment record FDI flows yrly up to 2007, 9.9% poverty rate by 2007, 3% growth by 2007, banking sector collapse but most depositors money saved, creating JDIC, FSC, expansion of the Port of Kingston, plans for Jamaica logistics hub, liberalisation of telecommunications & creation of the call centre industry, pushing animation under Julian Robinson, creating the Sports Development Foundation, Citizen Justice Programme which included helping young ppl to find work, Unite for Change( stopped by Labour- Chang wants to bring it back), helping fund the Reggae Boyz to France 98, creating the Jamaica Social Investment Fund(JSIF), expanding HEART to become the National Training Agency then known as HEART/NTA, creating the National Youth Service, creating the National Forensic Lab, investment in police vehicles & police telecommunications, purchase of Bell 412 EP helos which was then criticised but after one of those helos rescued stranded & hurt Blue Mountain hiker, bought the FIRST set of Bushmaster PMVs, bought the FIRST set of Damen Stan patrol vessels used by the Coast Guard among others. The PNP isn't perfect but I am NOT going to have ppl PRETEND the PNP has done nothing for Jamaica. In 2010, the JLP ABANDONED the IMF agreement and Jamaica was BROKE. In 2012 Portia Simpson-Miller went to the Congressional Black Caucus led by Maxine Waters to ask for their intervention with the IMF who were going to walk AWAY. THEY went to Lagarde. Dr. Peter David Phillips set about RESTORING Jamaica which he did with his team. This was ACKNOWLEDGED by the IMF, local private sector, the local & int'l financial press such that Phillips was Gleaner's man of the year in 2015 and we had the WORLD's BEST PERFORMING stock market. The work by Dr. Phillips was ACKNOWLEDGED by Dr. Nigel Clarke. Phillips ran Jamaica through a DIFFICULT IMF programme WITHOUT laying off a single public sector worker. All things JLP crowing about- the PNP LAID THE WICKET. Oh and did I mention that Percival Noel James Patterson PAID OFF the IMF and LEFT. We went back because Audley SCREWED UP not properly planning for the FALLOUT from the 2008 recession. No again, YOU not about to sweep PNP's successes and legacy under the rug.

In reply to 1Desiabnu

RUBBISH. Inflation since COVID has been higher and the ONE thing the JLP has shown since 2007 that the ONLY thing which grows under their watch is CORRUPTION.

Voters tend to remove underperforming government, rather than electing an opposition.

In reply to michaelmax

Again, I don’t care about either party, but the fact remains that crime is trending down a lot and that matters the most. Pnp accomplishments from 40 and 50 years ago are irrelevant.

https://iriefm.net/pnp-president-golding-wants-more-persons-with-disabilities-participating-on-public-boards-so-their-voices-can-be-heard-on-issues-that-affect-them/

Just thought I'd share.