THE mayor of Montego Bay, Hugh Solomon will be given one final opportunity to make good on his commitment to compensate People’s National Party (PNP) activist, Roy “Tenny” Miller who he allegedly assaulted last December.

According to Miller, two deadlines have already passed for the payment of the “paltry” sum of $500,000 settled on, and threatened to take legal action if Solomon fail to honour the agreement.

Miller’s attorney, Noel Donaldson said Thursday that a letter would be sent to Solomon’s attorney, Walter Scott, to inform him of his client’s (Miller’s) position.

They will be given seven days in which to respond, he said.

The letter, he said, would have been sent off yesterday. “It will be indicating that my client, out of consideration for his client’s particular circumstances in the month of October, refrained from taking any action,” the attorney said. “But now that that particular period (general elections) has past, unless the matter is speedily resolved my client will be taking further action.”

Miller has said, however, that he hoped it would not come to that since there were things both he and Solomon, as members of the PNP have to do, in preparation for local government elections.

The last thing the party needs, he said, is a distraction.

“I don’t want to appear as though I am creating mischief. I just want the matter to come to a closure so we can get on with our lives…” he said. “There are things that I have to do and I am sure there are things that he has to do. He has local government elections coming up and other things. Plus, the party, of which we are both apart, don’t necessarily need any kind of distraction at this time, coming out of a general election.”

Neither Solomon nor his attorney could be reached for comment.

On December 18 last year the mayor, who lost in the recent elections to the Jamaica Labour Party’s Clive Mullings, allegedly got into an argument with Miller at a party at the PNP’s regional headquarters in Ironshore.

Miller, it is alleged, subsequently went to the Coral Gardens police station to report the incident and while there, Solomon, who had followed him, allegedly tried to attack him.

The matter was later brought before the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate’s Court on September 18 but neither of the men turned up because they had by then decided to settle the matter out of court.