WESTERN BUREAU: On the face of it, it was a case of ‘as you were’ after this week’s local government elections in western Jamaica as the major parties ended up with control over the same municipalities they held going into Monday – a 3-2 split in.
WESTERN BUREAU: WHILE SUPPORTERS of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the People’s National Party (PNP) in St Elizabeth were in high spirits yesterday, the situation was different at the leadership level, where the optimism of recent weeks was.
WESTERN BUREAU: Party loyalty and apathy are upstaging issues in western Jamaica as campaigning for Monday’s local government elections enters the final stretch. Electors in Trelawny, St James, Hanover, Westmoreland, and St Elizabeth readily point.
WHEN HE contested and won the Ipswich division in St Elizabeth for the People’s National Party (PNP) in 2016, he did so under the name Prince Mugabe Waite. But come February 26, he will be contesting the 2024 local government election in the same.