Daily Gleaner election news, Tuesday July 17
Written by JamaicaElections.com
Code breached - Motorcades attacked, supporters intimidated - Party leaders denounce violent acts
The governing People’s National Party (PNP) and the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) are complaining about the behaviour of each other’s supporters including acts of political intimidation and other breaches of the Political Code of Conduct.
With 41 days to go before the national polls on August 27, both political parties have accused each other of breaching the Code of Conduct, the agreed guideline for peaceful elections.
Government of Jamaica makes latest move on education - Says students who are unable to pay should not be ‘questioned’, ‘embarrassed’
The political chess game deepened yesterday when the Portia Simpson Miller-led administration made the latest move in the education debate, telling Jamaicans that no child who could not afford the tuition fee should be “questioned or subjected to any form of embarrassment” by school administrators because his or her tuition fee has not been paid.
Leader of the Opposition, Bruce Golding, has put education on the agenda, as one of his party’s major planks in the upcoming election, promising to remove all tuition fees for secondary-level students at the start of the new academic year in September.
Nomination day happenings: Seaga’s ‘lamb to the slaughter’ to Manley’s ‘peace and love’
Nomination Day in Western Kingston for the General Election of 1962 had an African flavour. Three of the candidates used African themes in their campaigns. First was Dudley Thompson, the PNP. He had lived and worked in East Africa as a lawyer and was a close friend of Jomo Kenyetta of Kenya and Julius Nyerere of Tanzania. He adopted the nom de plume of ‘The Burning Spear’. He wore African robes and shirts and sometimes carried a fly whisk. And he interjected the roar of a lion in his speeches. He arrived at the nomination centre smoking a long cigar and wearing a leopard skinbelt.