KINGSTON, Jamaica – The People’s National Party Youth Organization (PNPYO) in an open letter to party leader Portia Simpson Miller has called for a change in the political vision being presented to the public beginning with a change in the leader.

According to PNPYO president Andrae Blair, “the premier political movement in Jamaica, finds itself at a crossroads, where the noble institution has lost the faith, trust, and confidence of the majority of Jamaica’s people.”

“On the heels of two major political defeats in the February 25 General Election, and the November 28, Local Government Election, the PNP must now introspect, and must, in the coming months, present to the Jamaican people what I want to call ‘The New Deal for the PNP’. 

“The PNP must present such a new political vision to the Jamaican people. It is as if we were launching a new party and it must begin with a new leader,” Blair insisted. 

He added that before the process commences to launch the “New Deal for the PNP” the current leaders must “stop for a minute with open eyes and ears and quiet mouths take heed to the words of the second party leader Michael Manley when he said ‘realistic vision of change must be based on the notion of empowerment of the people.”