JLP, PNP ready for nomination day

Both major political parties are expressing confidence that they are ready for Nomination Day today as Jamaica inches closer to electing a new Government on February 25.

With two late changes to their lists of candidates, JP White will be making way for Victor Wright as the standard bearer for the People's National Party (PNP) in Northern Trelawny, while the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has replaced Peter Abrahams with Kerensia Morrison in North Central St Catherine.

Dr Peter Phillips, the PNP's campaign director, told THE STAR yesterday that no more changes were anticipated.

"We are overwhelmingly well-prepared," he declared.

Meanwhile, JLP chairman, Robert Montague, also expressed certainty that there would be no additional changes from his party on Nomination Day today.

"We have 63 candidates. They are all in place, they have all checked with the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ), they have got their instructions from the party, they are ready, and they have got specific times," he said, adding that all of the JLP's 63 standard bearers are scheduled to be

nominated by 1:30 p.m.

-R.G.