BY HG HELPS Editor-at-Large helpsh@jamaicaobserver.com Sunday, March 01, 2015
EMBATTLED leader of the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Andrew Holness is involved in another fight -- this time to attract financial support to his political organisation, the Jamaica Observer has been told.
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| HOLNESS... under pressure from inside and outside his party |
Some leading members of Holness's JLP have informed the Sunday Observer that a number of business organisations and individuals in Jamaica have communicated to members of the party's hierarchy that they will withhold monetary contributions if Holness remains the organisation's leader.
"The matter is a delicate one, but, yes, some of our strong contributors over the years have told us that we need to replace Holness as leader, or else the party will not get any more money," one high-ranking JLP member told the Sunday Observer on Wednesday.
Two days later, similar sentiments were expressed by an even higher positioned member of the party's powerful Standing Committee, who insisted that some of Jamaica's leading businessmen were adamant that the JLP was unattractive with Holness at the helm, and to support the party in its efforts at acquiring State power would be tantamount to putting water into a leaking bucket.
Business people have been known to give political parties huge financial support, particularly leading up to elections. While no general election is due until the end of 2016, a local government poll is scheduled to be held by June of this year, having been postponed from its originally intended March date. more
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