Holness's failure to deliver on promises will cost him election, says Phillips

 

People's National Party Vice President Mikael Phillips has asserted that Prime Minister Dr. Andrew Holness's failure to deliver on promises to the people of Jamaica will cost him in the upcoming general election.

 

Mr. Phillips asserted that the date for the parliamentary poll has not yet been announced out of fear that the Jamaica Labour Party will suffer a loss.

 

Addressing a town hall in St. Catherine South Western on Sunday, Mr. Phillips, who is also a member of Parliament for Manchester North Western, accused the Prime Minister of using a delay tactic.

 

"I can say that we are ready in Manchester for whenever the Prime Minister call it. And people keep asking why doesn't he call it? Well, if he thought that he could win, he would have called it. And because he realised that him not going to win, he's trying to delay it. But them say when fire deh a muss-muss tail, him think a cool breeze. Time has come," Mr. Phillips warned. 

 

He called for Jamaicans to reject the Prime Minister's attempt at shifting blame for the challenges in the country to the previous PNP administration.

 

"We have accepted that there are things that we could have done differently. But we know that we have done our best, not for ourselves, but for the people of Jamaica that we represent. He had to come to the public recently to apologise for his own failings that his administration has not delivered to the people of Jamaica. Well, Prime Minister, if after nine years and you have not been able to deliver, if you got another five, you're still not going to deliver because your heart is not in the right place for the people of Jamaica," claimed Mr. Phillips.