PNP will sweep Region Six, says Buchanan
MONTEGO BAY, St James – People’s National Party (PNP) general-secretary Donald Buchanan yesterday expressed optimism that the party will make a clean sweep of all nine constituencies in Region Six when the next general election is called.
“We are very confident that whenever the time comes and Prime Minister Simpson Miller exercises her option of going to the people (for a national mandate) that all nine constituencies in this region will be returning to the PNP – the five that we now have, as well as the four which we lost in 2002,” Buchanan told journalists after the ruling party’s Regional Executive Committee (REC) meeting in Montego Bay.
Region Six spans the parishes of St James, Hanover and Westmoreland.
Buchanan, who was recently sworn in as information and development minister, said his prediction is based on satisfactory feedback of strong organisational groundwork being carried out by comrades in the region.
The former water and housing minister also noted that the party was charged by the party president, Simpson Miller, to be in a state of readiness to go to the polls and said that the party machinery was ready to contest the upcoming general election.
“We are ready for any eventuality our party president may wish to exercise,” he said.
Buchanan said, too, that by month-end a final decision will be made on the 10 seats that are currently under close scrutiny by the party hierarchy.