Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) candidate for Trelawny Northern Dennis Meadows (left) interacts with a vendor at the Falmouth Municipal Market last Saturday during a tour of the facility with Opposition spokesman on finance, Audley Shaw.Â
February 23, 2016
On the campaign trail
Since Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller announced the February 25 election date supporters of both the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the People’s National Party (PNP) have been attending various mass rallies across the western parishes of Hanover, Trelawny, St James and Westmoreland.
The Jamaica Observer West photographers have been covering these events and today, Election Day, we share some of those images.
People’s National Party (PNP) candidate for St James Central Ashley-Ann Foster (centre) is flanked by PNP President Portia Simpson Miller (left) and former PNP president and former Prime Minister PJ Patterson during a mass rally at the Montego Bay Sports Complex in Catherine Hall on Sunday. Foster will face the Jamaica Labour Party’s Heroy Clarke.Â
Jubilant JLP supporters of the St James East Central constituency walk along a section of the Adelphi main road in the parish on February 9 shortly before their candidate, Ed Bartlett, was nominated to contest the seat against the PNP’s Noel Donaldson.Â
Derrick Kellier (centre) the People’s National Party’s candidate for St James Southern Derrik Kellier who is today seeking his seventh consecutive term as member of parliament for that constituency, is flanked by supporters during a mass rally at the Montego Bay Sports Complex in Catherine Hall on Sunday. Kellier is being challenged by the JLP’s Homer Davis and National Democratic Movement’s Astor Black.
Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) candidate for Westmoreland Central George Wright (in glasses, back, centre) is surrounded by party supporters after he was nominated to contest the seat against the People’s National Party’s Dwayne Vaz and independent Toraino Beckford on February 9.Â
This man (left) did a thriving business in the run-up to today’s general election selling vuvuzelas at both PNP and JLP meetings. Here he is seen selling one in the Adelphi Square on nomination day.  Â
