BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth — Opposition Leader and People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding has accused the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Government of being a “trickster” with its campaign promises.

“We have a Government that clearly doesn’t realise that the wind of change is blowing in this country and that the tables have turned on them. I don’t think they realise what was happening. They never rate we none at all, but dem haffi rate we now, because dem see wah gwan all over Jamaica and dem start fret,” Golding said during a political rally in Black River on Monday night.

He criticised Prime Minister Andrew Holness over the JLP leader’s campaign promise last Saturday of urban development for Clark’s Town in Trelawny.“It is too late for them, Comrades. They are promising everything under the sun. Every day is more promise. Me hear seh dem waan turn Clark’s Town [in Trelawny] into a ‘city’. Well, don’t hold your breath with that, Comrades. They are good at promising and they are bad at delivering. They are full of tricksters,” he said, while also accusing the Government of corruption.“They are not for good governance, that is why the people of Jamaica want to vote dem out,” Golding told PNP supporters in St Elizabeth South Western.

He said the constituency, which is considered to be weathervane, is vital to the PNP.

“South West is a critical constituency to the fortunes of any Government. We need South West in the column of the PNP,” he said.

“Whether it be at the local, which is the 26th, and the general, whenever that is… and I believe it will be soon, because we are in the fourth year of the second term of this Government. Whatever it is, local or general. We need the PNP back in power stronger than ever doing the work of the people,” added Golding.

On Monday, Golding toured the four divisions in St Elizabeth South Western with the PNP representative Miranda Wellington and four councillor candidates – Kevar Bennett (Mountainside Division), Oniel Buchanan (Brompton Division), Gary Coke (Pedro Plains Division) and incumbent Dwight Salmon (Black River Division).

Wellington, an educator, called on public sector workers to support the PNP in the upcoming local government elections on February 26.

“I want to make a special appeal to the teachers, nurses and the police. Give the People’s National Party a chance to make things right,” she said.