Aenon Town councillor Marjorie McLeod-McFarlane has died
CLARENDON, Jamaica – Observer Online understands that Councillor for the Aenon Town Division in Clarendon Northern, the Jamaica Labour Party’s Marjorie McLeod-McFarlane has died.
McLeod-McFarlane died at approximately 1:00 pm on Sunday.
Her death is sending shock waves throughout the governing party’s political machinery in the constituency which is represented in the House of Representatives by Dwight Sibblies.
Her cause of death is not immediately clear.
Preliminary information is that foul play is not suspected and McLeod-McFarlane died of natural causes.
McLeod-McFarlane won 1,403 (51.69 per cent) votes in the recent Local Government Election to defeat the PNP’s Delroy Dawson’s 1,311 votes (48.31 per cent), a shock win for the JLP in the division.
It was the first time a JLP representative won that division.
Her passing reduces the JLP’s 12 to 10 majority in the Clarendon Municipal Corporation to a razor thin 11-10 margin.
