Deputy Mayor of Sav ousted from office
WESTMORELAND, Jamaica — Councillor for the Bethel Town Division, the People’s National Party’s Danree Delancy has been removed as the deputy mayor of Savanna-la-Mar.
He was ousted following the moving of a contentious motion.
The motion resulted in a long debate and verbal barbs being hurled across the floor as the councillors discussed the bylaws of the council and the Municipal Corporation Act of 2016.
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Some councillors elected on a PNP ticket insisted that the bylaws were not rescinded to make way for the new law.
However, Mayor Bertel Moore, who insisted that he would need legal advice, later accepted that the 2016 Act supersedes the bylaws.
A vote of seven for and four against then followed, to remove Delancy.
A vote of seven for and four against later followed for councillor of the Little London Division, Ian Myles, to be the new deputy mayor of Savanna-la-Mar. Myles was one of three councillors who resigned from the PNP on Monday, shifting the balance of power in the corporation to five members of the PNP, four members of the JLP and three independents.
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The meeting was observed by Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie and three Members of Parliament for Westmoreland. They are MPs for Westmoreland Western Morland Wilson, Westmoreland Eastern, Daniel Lawrence and Westmoreland Central George Wright. Wilson and Lawrence, like McKenzie, were elected on a JLP ticket. So was Wright who later became an independent.
– Anthony Lewis.