Power 106 FM election news, Friday July 20
Written by JamaicaElections.com
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Blair reports Buchanan to PM
Political Ombudsman Bishop Herro Blair says he has written to People’s National Party (PNP) president Portia Simpson Miller following comments by the party’s general secretary Donald Buchanan.
Addressing PNP supporters at a meeting in Morant Bay, St. Thomas on Wednesday night, Mr. Buchanan said the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) account of Sunday’s shooting on its motorcade was false. Police are investigating the incident.
The reported exchange of gunfire lasted for several minutes in Brandon Hill during the JLP’s tour of the West Rural St. Andrew constituency.
But Mr. Buchanan said having viewed video footage of the incident, he is convinced that the motorcade was not shot at by gunmen.
Speaking on Perkins on Line on Power 106 FM this morning Bishop Blair said he is concerned about the levels of political violence.
Woodford Park Flare-up
JLP leader Bruce Golding has been leading a team in Woodford Park in the South East St. Andrew constituency where the manager of the party’s office in the community was shot last night and died in hospital this morning.
Mr. Golding urged residents not to retaliate.
The death of 27-year-old Sanjay Ebanks comes nearly four weeks after another supporter was killed in the constituency and after Bishop Blair and the candidates Maxine Henry-Wilson (PNP) and Joan Gordon Webley (JLP) led a peace walk in the community.
The police are yet to make any arrests following the shooting incidents.
Meanwhile Deputy Superintendent of Police in charge of crime for East Kingston, Michael Ellis says joint police-military teams are continuing random operations in the affected communities along Mountain View Avenue in the constituency.
At least four persons have been shot and injured in the Mountain View Avenue community this week.
And JLP Area Council One Chairman Desmond McKenzie says a meeting which was scheduled for 2 p.m. this afternoon with PNP Region 3 Chairman Phillip Paulwell was called off when the party hierarchy made their tour of Woodford Park.