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Twn Hospital on JLP agenda
JAMAICA LABOUR Party (JLP) Leader Edward Sea-ga has committed
a JLP Government to the redevelopment and rebuilding of the
Spanish Town Hospital in St. Catherine.
He
gave the undertaking while addressing a party mass meeting
in the old capital.
Mr.
Seaga said the Spanish Town Hospital was the only major facility
that had been left out of the hospital rebuilding programme,
undertaken some years ago, and he intended to see the situation
corrected under a JLP Government.
He
said the Spanish Town Hospital was in a deplorable state,
but had not been included because of its location, in the
heart of a JLP constituency.
"Anything
that is going on, they leave out West Kingston and they leave
out Central St. Catherine," he said of the Govern-ment's
policies.
A
VERY SPECIAL
MEASURE OF HEALTH
However,
he said that under a JLP administration, the St. Catherine
capital would be in line for "a very special measure
of health" in that "Spanish Town... is due to become
a first class hospital for the people of the area."
Mr.
Seaga also highlighted the qualities of his St. Catherine
team of candidates. He noted that of the nine members, four
were doctors, one was on the way to similar qualification,
two were lawyers, one was a grandson of Marcus Garvey and
the other was "a noble daughter of Jamaica Babsy
Grange".
The
JLP Leader said he was proud to have such a team, which was
unmatched by the PNP across St. Catherine or any other parish
islandwide.
Deputy
General Secre-tary and candidate for Southeast St. Catherine,
Arthur Williams, said the People's National Party (PNP) leadership
had been avoiding the real issues along the campaign trail
and the electorate had been catching on.
"Every
time you see them on the platform, all you hear is, 'My horse
dis and my horse dat'. That is not what Jamaica's future is
about. We have to get rid of this foolishness and get to the
real business of the nation," he said.
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