Basil Thompson, the Jamaica Labour Party candidate for the Grange Hill Division in Westmoreland Western, says the party is pulling out all the stops to secure victory. Thompson, who is contesting his second local government election, says he was.
The electoral muscles of the two major political parties were on full display on Thursday as die-hards turned out in their numbers to support their candidates who were nominated to contest the February 26 local government elections. In an apparent.
The People's National Party (PNP) has expelled three more of its members after they were nominated to run as independent candidates in the upcoming local government elections. It was reported earlier that Uphel Purcell, who was nominated.
Lawton McKenzie, the incumbent councillor for the Grange Hill Division in Westmoreland who resigned from the People's National Party twice within the last six months, was the first to be nominated from a list of 11 people expected to.
WESTMORELAND, Jamaica - Incumbent candidate for the Grange Hill Division in Westmoreland, Lawton McKenzie, who will be contesting the local government election as an independent, says he expects to retain his seat come February 26. Speaking with Observer Online on Nomination Day on Thursday, McKenzie, who won the 2016 election on a People's National Party (PNP) ticket, says he expects to seal his victory at the upcoming polls in "fine.