Candidate to contest JTA president-elect poll results
KINGSTON, Jamaica—The Jamaica Teachers’ Association after preliminary counts done on Tuesday announced a new president-elect but later withdrew that declaration after a candidate sought to contest the result.
A release from the association said that Georgia Waugh Richards, principal of Harmon’s Primary School in Manchester triumphed over four other candidates to secure 6,079 of the 15,092 votes cast.
However, president of JTA Mark Nicely later disclosed that one of the president-elect candidates is to contest the preliminary results that were announced by the association.
Waugh would have succeeded the current JTA president-elect Doran Dixon who vacates the post in August to take up duties as president for the 2014/2015 year.
Waugh said that if she won, she would “lobby the Government to do an audit of unutilised Government lands and to make these lands available at minimal costs to teachers for housing solutions”.
Additionally she would, “lobby the Ministry of Education to regularly screen students beginning at the Early Childhood level, to determine special needs and to prescribe appropriate intervention,” among other things.
