In reply to Chrissy,FanAttick and michaelmax
I have listened,heard and watched and read a lot in last few days and I can't help but feel enthused
and a bit hopeful that the Party I have followed and 'born' into have an outstanding chance of getting home
on Wednesday. That same day a female surgeon will be performing on me as I need to have some
surgery on my a toe. I am more confident of success here however than with a PNP win.
Three sources on the ground in the Yard have given me varying outcome.
On in St. Mary sees a sweep of three there and a PNP overall 43 -20.
St. Catherine source see it 28 PNP 35 green and the Hanover told me yesterday it will be 33-30 for Green,and looking at
the bumper crowd in Sam Sharpe Square tonite, I am reminded of Joshua's massive crowd which looks larger than tonite's at the same place when he called it,
I felt wary as history could repeat.
That said ,I also felt after looking at the PNP campaign,I am enthused and that march march song is gonna become iconic and a gold record as
it beats anything I have heard going back to the 50s when I was close to party politics as a youth who worked as agent,enumerator,clerk and presiding
officer starting at 15 years and all before I could vote as well,21 being the qualification.
Crawford remains a star for the PNP and I was impressed with others too including Golding and presentations were very good.
However I am still concerned that even though enthusiasm is high,the electorate must reach high 50s inclusive of many new young voters to favour
a PNP win. The age group of concern the 18-25 should be crucial but that group is low on interest by all polls, a major concern not only for the PNP
but the country's democracy.
I am a bit disappointed to that I have not heard much of the Bolt saga..both his money and a Stadium bearing his name in BARBADOS all under the
watch of the Holness administration (What can go so ???)
Also in being reactionary to the number of houses to be built by Holness, I would have been pleased to hear that the PNP would build better
by building less in the first two years but with all NEW houses in the country being equipped with solar which should be capable of providing upwards of 75 per cent of needs
electrically . This I believe would have played well with prospective new owners and young professionals and others who would benefit immensely.
There are other things I would have loved to hear..but being in foreign shores and no longer a Jamaican ,although my navel string was cut there,
I will leave for another time.
Thanks to Holness the idiot ,I am no longer a Jamaica so if he gets re-elected this man and his party it will only go to show that the country has not made progress in
education and otherwise as it was his Party's founder Bustamante who declared long ago that salf fish was more important than Education.
That was when Jamaica had an illiteracy rate of near 80 percent . Don't tell me that this more nuanced and supposedly better educated people
have not changed.
I see a JLP win at 33-30 but if the worm has turned with a 60 per cent voting electorate then is could be PNP 40 JLP 23.
Good luck and I end with advice of the old Chicago Democratic machine ,vote early and often