ST ANDREW, Jamaica — South West St Elizabeth candidate Floyd Green is calling on young people to hit the polling stations early on Thursday and cast their votes for change.

Noting that it will take all hands on deck, Green said for too long young people have allowed how they vote to be determined by family tradition instead of what is good for them.

“It will take all hands on deck, so young people vote for who will secure your future, ” he said, adding that this election is about Jamaica’s future.

“Join with us, we have the team and the vision in the leader Andrew Holness who will lead the change. Don’t stay home on election day. Come out and vote early,” he urged.

Jamaica, he said, has not achieved its potential because of poor leadership “who only come around during election time while being arrogant and disrespectful thereafter”.

“This government does not understand the change. You ask them what they have done and dem sey ‘look pon Andrew house’; you ask them what they plan to do and them sey ‘look pon Andrew house’; you ask them why people so poor, dem say ‘look pon Andrew house’,” he said.

Green said the JLP is the party that wants every Jamaican to own their own house.

“If you have one room you build another and another.  That is why we have a plan for you to own your own house, that’s why we will use the National Housing Trust to ensure you can own your own home,” he said.

“Every Jamaican must own a piece of this rock,” he added.

Meanwhile, the first-time candidate said he got involved in politics because of his belief that the political system is broken.

“Too much you hear about politician who take away people money; labour party is going to fix that through impeachment,” he said.

He told jubilant supporters that St Elizabeth gone green because it is prosperity time.

“We have to get rid of this sort of leadership. The arrogant ones who don’t know to talk to people and is disrespectful.”

Ingrid Brown