PNP General Secretary Dr. Dayton Campbell
By Kimone Witter
The People's National Party says it will be fielding candidates for the municipal by-elections in the Morant Bay and Aenon Town divisions.
But General Secretary Dr. Dayton Campbell maintains that the party will not be contesting parliamentary by-elections in Trelawny Southern and St. Andrew North Western.
The party made a similar decision in September when it did not contest the by-election in St. Ann North Eastern.
Dr. Campbell adds that Jamaicans should speak out against the reinstatement of Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert as the JLP's standard bearer for Trelawny Southern, despite eight outstanding criminal charges arising from her allegedly making a false statement in her statutory declarations to the Integrity Commission.
He says the move is highly contemptuous of the country's judicial system.
"Now if that person were to win the election on November 22 and the courts rule on December 5...for the criminal charges against her, what would be the position that the country would be in? It seems awfully contemptuous of the court and, you know, smacks with a level of arrogance, disregard for process that one would have resigned and be returned without the resolution of the matter. So we are not participating in those," asserted Dr. Campbell Thursday on the Morning Agenda.
Mrs. Dalrymple-Philibert had omitted a Mercedes-Benz motor vehicle from her filings to the Integrity Commission between 2015 and 2021.
She stated that the omission of the vehicle was a genuine oversight.
She is to return to court on December 6 when Parish Court judge Leighton Morris will decide whether the Integrity Commission's case against her should be thrown out or proceed to trial.
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