Phillips assures Food For the Poor of PNP support
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Leader of the Opposition, Dr Peter Phillips is assuring charity organisation Food For the Poor (FFP) that the People’s National Party (PNP) remains supportive of its work.
The party, in a statement today, said that during a recent meeting with the FFP’s chairman Andrew Mahfood and vice chairman Christopher Bicknell at the Office of The Leader of the Opposition, Phillips commended the organisation for its longstanding assistance to the poor and neediest people in the society.The PNP said Phillips commended the FFP for their more recent contribution to the special housing programme, a joint partnership entered into with the previous government, which utilised resources from the Jamaica Emergency Employment Programme.Phillips, according to the PNP statement, expressed satisfaction that the current administration had now decided to extend this programme.Prime Minister Andrew Holness recently slammed Members of Parliament from both his Jamaica Labour Party and the PNP for what they claimed were poor quality houses being built by the FFP for less fortunate Jamaicans under a partnership with the Government.Meanwhile Phillips, in today’s statement urged FFP to ensure that “the standards of transparency and openness, that are typical of their administration of the current programme, continue”.