SANDY BAY, Hanover – Mayor of Kingston Desmond McKenzie has warned residents in Hanover to vote for the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in the upcoming general elections or suffer the consequences.

Addressing supporters at a rally in Sandy Bay in the parish Friday night, Mckenzie said neither of the People’s National Party’s (PNP) candidates, DK Duncan in Eastern Hanover, nor Ian Hayles in Western Hanover, meant them any good and were only seeking power.

But McKenzie reserved most of his venom for Duncan describing him as having a dark past and saying he would bring “terror and dishonesty” to the parish.

He told the large crowd not to laugh at Duncan’s chances, saying the PNP candidate “was a part of a system that destroyed” Jamaica.

“He was a part of a system that brought terror, that brought fear in the hearts and the homes of Jamaican people,” McKenzie said.

According to the Kingston mayor, Duncan “presided over a ministry that was called the Ministry of Mobilisation that was there to terrorise poor people”.

“Here is a man with a radical background, a man who up until today has not repented for the sins, for the crimes that he has committed against the Jamaican people,” McKenzie said.

The PNP, McKenzie said, had taken Duncan “out of the junkyard, used a vacuum cleaner and vacuumed him down, put a coat of orange paint on him” and imposed “him on the people of Eastern Hanover”.

“[He needs] to tell the Jamaican people why he presided over a ministry that was of great concern to all Jamaicans, ask him to explain the movie that he starred in Spanish Town in the 1980 general elections, ask him why (former PNP president and Prime Minister) Michael Manley run him out of the PNP. Ask him why. one of the safest PNP seats in Kingston and St Andrew. he had to run leave that Constituency,” McKenzie said.

Friday night, the mayor also told the voters in Hanover to ask Duncan “what role he played for another party in the 1997 general elections”.

Duncan was an advisor to Bruce Golding while he was president of the National Democratic Movement (NDM), leading up to and during the 1997 general elections.

McKenzie warned the voters not to elect Duncan saying, “the same level of terror and dishonesty that he brought in Kingston is the same thing him gwine deliver pon you here if you make the mistake to make him the MP.”

The mayor was also dismissive of Hayles, saying he was dishonest as he told people everywhere he went that he was born in that parish.

“If he saw the truth naked in front of him he would not know the truth and that is what the PNP has sent to Western Hanover,” Mckenzie said.

“Him is not a Comrade. Him wasn’t even a true Labourite, but is a man who love power and will do anything possible, humanly possible to hold on to power,” the mayor added.

The Sandy Bay rally marked the end of the JLP’s week-long tour of western Jamaica. The tour began in Savanna-La-Mar last Sunday, moved to Falmouth on Tuesday, and Cambridge on Thursday before making its way to Hanover on Friday.