Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller says she will today outline her accomplishments since her appointment as head of the Government and signalled that she would be stepping up her election campaign with the release of a rally song at the People’s National Party’s (PNP’s) National Executive Council (NEC) meeting at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston.

“As we meet tomorrow (today) at our NEC and we will present those candidates already signed off on. I will take the time as well to highlight our achievements since my assumption to the position of prime minister of Jamaica,” she told a PNP Youth Organisation (PNPYO) rally at the Haile Selassie High School auditorium in her South West St Andrew constituency.

“Tomorrow you will see what we have accomplished in the short time that I have been party leader and prime minister of this country.”

Simpson Miller also told the gathering of mostly young people that she would be releasing the party’s rally song today.

“We have a rally song already, and I am going to buss’ it tomorrow at the NEC meeting,” she said.

The prime minister also took a swipe at the large attendance at the Jamaica Labour Party conference last Sunday, saying, “I am so happy that you are here today, even though nobody paid you to be here. I am happy that you are looking at leaders you can trust, at leaders [who] when they speak, you can rely on what they say.

“I remember watching an advertisement that said free education will be offered by a certain political party and the person said ‘you can take my word for it’. Not even two weeks later, we heard that it couldn’t be free again, it would be something else. How can you take their word?”

Her reference was to a JLP ad with that party’s education spokesman Andrew Holness promising free education.

Simpson Miller also sought to reassure her supporters that she has begun to address human rights issues, as promised in her inauguration speech. This, she said, is evident in the fact that the justice system is now being reviewed. “I can say promise made, promise kept,” she said. “Right now, people are busy making trouble all over and just chatting and chatting, we are into the working.”

She also told her audience that she no longer pays attention to the news in both the print and electronic media, as she needed to focus on her job.

“I am not reading any papers…. I don’t listen any news anymore because I have to remain focused,” she said. “Because the same people who might be bashing and lashing, things might come on my desk that I have to take a decision. I want that when I take a decision on behalf of anyone in the country or any sector in this country, it must be balanced. My decision must not be influenced by anything else.”