SENATOR Dwight Nelson, the president of the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU), who has been in the United States receiving treatment for a heart ailment, is expected to return to Jamaica this evening.

This was confirmed yesterday by leader of opposition, Bruce Golding, while addressing the quarterly luncheon of the JCTU at the Medallion Hall Hotel in Kingston.

“I spoke with him this morning and I was very pleased to hear from him that he is mending well, regaining his strength and rearing to go, he says, perhaps faster than his doctors are willing to permit,” Golding said.

He said that Nelson was expected back next Saturday, but that the senator had advised him yesterday that he would be back in the island this evening.

“I am sure you will all join with me in wishing him a full and complete recovery and his restoration to the battlefront, because that is where he has spent virtually all his life,” Golding said.

Nelson, a senior vice president of the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union and the Opposition’s information spokesman, has been hospitalised in Florida since March 18.