WESTERN BUREAU — The People’s National Party this week formally presented their final two candidates to represent St James in the upcoming local government elections.

The first 15 candidates were presented to party supporters inside the Chatwick Gardens conference centre in Montego Bay over a month ago.

The candidates are 33 year-old Montego Bay businessman, Donat Crichton Jr, and 49-year-old hotel administrator, Derrick Robinson.

Crichton will run against the Jamaica Labour Party’s Heroy Clarke in his bid to gain control of the Rose Mount Division while Robinson will go against the Opposition’s Barry Solomon in Spring Gardens.

The duo was presented to party members by campaign director, Vin Lawrence, in Farm Heights Tuesday night.

The other 15 candidates include sitting councillors:

* Glendon Harris for the Maroon Town Division;

* Donald Colomathi, Spring Mount;

* Cebert Stewart, Somerton;

* Michael Troupe, Granville; and

* Gerard Mitchell for the Mount Salem Division.

The other 10 candidates are:

* Administrative assistant, Jackie McBean-Blake, for the Rose Hall Division and Petriena Campbell for MoBay North;

* Accountant, Milton Russell, for MoBay West and businessman, Osmond Erskine, for MoBay Central;

* Businessmen, Gladstone Bent and Anthony Drummond, for the Catadupa and Cambridge Divisions, respectively;

* Doctors Roland Byfield and Lennox Reid for MoBay South and MoBay East Central, respectively; and

* Farmer, George Lawrence, for Welcome Hall and former member of parliament for West Central St James, Patrick Rose Green.