GOVERNMENT Senator Abka Fitz-Henley has blasted Opposition Leader Mark Golding for what he describes as the People’s National Party (PNP) president’s “habit of belittling Jamaicans”.

According to Fitz-Henley, Golding’s approach contrasts negatively with that of Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Leader Prime Minister Andrew Holness’s “respectful contribution to the political dialogue in Jamaica”.

“Whenever our party leader and prime minister speaks, you hear a deep regard and care for the Jamaican people, but on the next side, any time you hear the ‘British man’ talk, him have a vexatious spirit. Him call our beloved party chairman, ‘the little boy, Montague’ — bright and out of order! Him call Matthew Samuda ‘the little guy’; then the prime minister facilitated a lovely young lady getting a house and him diss her and call her ‘the little lady, Shaniel Francis’,” Fitz-Henley said in his address to the JLP’s St Andrew East Rural constituency conference on Sunday.

Fitz-Henley said he would not call on Golding to desist from referring to people as ‘little’ because it is important that Jamaicans, who are the ultimate judges of his ambition to lead the country, see his true colours.

He told Labourities that as the political rhetoric across the country gets hotter he wants Jamaicans to carefully assess the substance of actions and comments made by the leaders of Jamaica’s two major political parties.

“We have a prime minister and party leader who, any time you see Andrew Michael Holness out in the field he’s turning on water for Jamaicans who have been deprived for too long; he’s facilitating Jamaicans getting houses — that’s what our prime minister is about. And when he is not in the field, he is reviewing policies that can improve the lives of the Jamaican people. I never know that one man could work so hard,” declared Fitz-Henley.

“I want to assure you that there’s a stark difference, because when you look at the next side you see a British man who cannot make up his mind about whether he wants to choose Jamaica. When you see the [Golding] on TV, him talking about him have to meditate and pray about whether he must choose Jamaica and Jamaica only — a shame and disgrace,” added Fitz-Henley.

In his later address at the same conference Holness charged that his Administration has been the victim of lies, falsehoods, and misinformation spread by politically connected people.

Hinting the he has been the victim of some of the attacks, Holness declared that he has not engaged in any argument with his detractors.

“No matter how them write bad article, bad editorial, fake and false news, mi nuh answer them. It takes two to have an argument and mi nuh inna nuh argument with nobody,” declared Holness.

He said he has never entertained gutter politics, and warned those who engage in this to be wary of it coming back to them.