New candidates test the waters

People's National Party (PNP) election campaign manager, Dr. Paul Robertson (left), accompanies PNP mayoral candidate, for the new Portmore municipality, George Lee (right) during Nomination Day at the St. Catherine Southern constituency nomination centre at Ascot High School, Greater Portmore, St. Catherine. - Norman Grindley/Staff Photographer

Devon Evans, Gleaner Writer

ST. ANN: THIRTY-FOUR candidates, 11 of whom were women, were nominated last Friday to represent the 16 divisions in the St. Ann Parish Council.

It was mostly peaceful in the four St. Ann constituencies throughout the day with supporters of both major political parties coming out in their numbers. The JLP candidates were the first to hand in nomination papers in both Southeast and Northeast St. Ann constituencies.

Of the 34 candidates, 20 will be facing the polls for the first time, while 10 are sitting councillors along with two Independent candidates including a sitting JLP councillor.

The list in St. Ann, however, excluded both Charles Tait and Luther Spence, both Mayor of St. Ann's Bay and deputy mayor, respectively. The two were rejected by delegates at recent conferences in the Bamboo and Claremont divisions, respectively.