Member of Parliament for Clarendon South East Rudyard Spencer is confident of a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) sweep of the four divisions in his constituency come the local gonernment elections on November 28.

“We have just nominated our four candidates for the four divisions in South East Clarendon; we intend to beat the PNP in all divisions. We are going to give the PNP the biggest ‘backsiding’, in the Palmers Cross Division. We have Carleen Benjamin; she is little, but she is tallawah. In the Mineral Heights Division we are standing on gold mine; we are standing in this division in Mineral Heights and I tell you that we shall not failed in this division,” Spencer said.

Spencer, who accompanied councillor candidates Winston Maragh (Rocky Point), Benjamin (Palmers Cross), Milton Brown (Mineral Heights Division) and Seranford Gallimore (Hayes Division) at the office of the returning officer on Sulphur Close, Mineral Heights, where they were nominated after midday Friday, maintained that all four candidates would become councillors.

Meanwhile, PNP councillor candidates vying for the Clarendon South Western divisions were greeted by a lengthy convoy of supporters who lined the roadway, causing a pile up of traffic outside the Osbourne Store Primary and Junior High School.

Councillor candidates Godfrey Knight (Toll Gate), Uphel Purcell (York Town), Carlton Bailey (Milk River) and Donnatte Donaldson (Race Course) were accompanied by Member of Parliament for Clarendon South Western Noel Arscott, along with 10 individuals who had nominated each of them.

Arscott, who is as confident as Spencer, said that in the coming days the PNP will intensify their campaign ahead of the election.

“We have four candidates who were nominated today. I am happy with the turnout. The persons are enthusiastic and are prepared now to go to the field to do the work to secure victory. I am confident that we will win by a good margin,” Arscott told the Jamaica Observer Central.

“We are going to leave no stones unturned. Politics is politics and we have to ensure that we win,” Arscott added.

— Racquel Porter