BY BALFORD HENRY Senior staff reporter balfordh@jamaicaobserver.com Monday, September 22, 2014
PRIME Minister Portia Simpson Miller told supporters at the National Arena yesterday that her governing People's National Party (PNP) will win next year's local government elections, as well as the 2016 General Election.
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| Portia Simpson-Miller at Arena |
The prime minister added that she was confident that the people of Jamaica know that the PNP is the best party to govern Jamaica.
"Comrades, are you ready?" the PNP leader asked the crowd at the party's 76th Annual Conference at the National Arena. The answer was an extended period of deafening vuvuzelas noisily echoing around the arena.
Disparaging comments by Opposition spokesman on finance and planning Audley Shaw that while the PNP Government may be passing the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) tests, it is failing the "people's test", Simpson Miller said:
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| Large Crowd |
"I tell you something more, we are going to pass the people's test again next year when local government elections are due. And then, we are going to pass the people's test again, when the big one comes around."
"Comrades, 2016 is not far away. We are not ready yet to step on the gas pedal, but we are tuning up the engine, we are cleaning up the carburettor, we are changing out the air filter, we are dressing up the vehicle: We are getting ready; we are getting ready," she repeated. more
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