Peter Phillips blasts Government on by-election stance

Dr Peter Phillips, former President of the People's National Party, has described the calling of a by election in St Ann as a slap in the face of constituents long without political representation in other parts of the country.

Electors of North East St Ann will go to the polls on Monday September 30 to choose a new political representative following the resignation of the Jamaica Labour Party's Marsha Smith on September 3.

Trelawny South has been without a Member of Parliament since last September after the JLP's Marissa Dalrymple Phillibert resigned and the Morant Bay Division has been without a councillor following the death of the PNP's Rohan Bryan in May.

Dr Phillips, addressing Sunday’s Public Session of the PNP’s Annual Conference, said the responsibility of calling a by election should not rest with the political directorate.

Dr Phillips also declared that the PNP is committed to building a better country, adding that the quest for power is with the aim of ensuring the lives of all Jamaicans are better.