WESTMORELAND:

THE GOVERNING People's National Party (PNP) in its bid to win as many seats as possible in Westmoreland and Hanover in the upcoming Local Government election slated for June 19, has embarked on a training programme for its polling division workers, according to Delano Dowdie, Region 6 Political Organiser with special responsibility for training. He was speaking to The Gleaner at the Petersfield Primary School last Wednesday where he was conducting a training exercise for PD workers from the Petersfield division.

Mr Dowdie said that the polling division workers have a special and critical role to play so that the PNP returns victorious in this region. He said the PD workers have helped the party to be victorious at the polls in 1997, 1998 and in 2002. He believes this election will not be an easy one, so polling division workers will have to do their work well in the field, taking a scientific approach so that come June 19 all the PNP supporters in the region will go out and vote.

He said he was very pleased with the training exercise at Petersfield Primary and was equally impressed with the turnout of workers and their level of participation in the training.

"It's now up to the PD workers to go out there in their respective communities and to put in practice what was imparted to them here this afternoon," he said.

Currently the PNP control four of the seven polling divisions in Hanover while in Westmoreland they control all 14 divisions.

Region 6 comprise of Hanover, St. James and Westmoreland.