Rosemarie Shaw: Trying to take back seat for PNP

Published in the Jamaica Gleaner: Thursday | August 30, 2007

Forty-eight-year-old Rosemarie Shaw is the PNP's candidate for West St. Thomas. Ms. Shaw was a JLP Councillor in the 1990s and served as Mayor of Morant Bay.

Her fall out with the JLP began with the famous "Western 11" dissension, which led to the resignation of Bruce Golding on February 27, 1995, as chairman of the JLP. The group had called for the resignation of Mr. Seaga.

Ms. Shaw, who was then the Mayor of Morant Bay, had also signed the letter calling for Mr. Seaga's resignation. Months later, Ms. Shaw was ousted as mayor.

This was after a no-confidence vote was moved against her and supported by five of eight councillors who were at the council meeting.

Three months later she became a member of the PNP in January of 1996 and a sitting councillor for the Morant Bay Division since March 1998.

The Western St. Thomas seat since 1989 has been won by the JLP except in 1993 when Anthony Hylton whipped the JLP's Errol Anderson. The JLP's James Robertson brought the seat home in 2002.