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Outgoing G2K president calls for united JLP
Floyd Green (centre) salutesLabourites at Newell High Schoolafter being introduced byOpposition Leader AndrewHolness as caretaker for SouthWest St Elizabeth.(PHOTO: RICHARD HAMILTON)
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BY PAUL HENRY henryp@jamaicaobserver.com  
February 14, 2015

Outgoing G2K president calls for united JLP

G2K says young labourites concerned about state of party

OUTGOING Generation 2000 (G2k) President Floyd Green yesterday called for unity within his Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), which has been rocked by the recent court ruling that party leader Andrew Holness used two pre-signed resignation letters to unconstitutionally oust two Opposition senators.

“I am now more confident now that the Labour Party has the knowledge, has the talent, has the ability… to lead our country toward prosperity,” Green told a G2K youth conference on the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies.

But, saying that he must be “brutally honest”, Green said the Opposition JLP was being prevented from attaining “greatness” because of the “inability to show unity”.

“We can’t afford for what is good for Jamaica to be stalled by egos and perception of disunity,” Green said, with party leader Holness sitting to his right at the platform.

“Most importantly,” Green continued, “we owe it to the people of Jamaica to ensure that we present a Jamaica Labour Party that can form the next Government and that will lead us to prosperity”.

He urged Labourites to work together so that Jamaica can get the Government it deserves.

Green’s comment was made amid his announcement that he will not seek re-election for the leadership of the G2K — the young professional affiliate of the JLP — so he can “focus his energies” on campaigning for the South West St Elizabeth constituency in the general election, constitutionally due in 2016.

The JLP, which has a history of airing its dirty laundry publicly, has been in a fractious state since the leadership race of 2013 that pitted Audley Shaw against Holness. The fallout was further widened with the ouster of Christopher Tufton and Arthur Williams from the Senate and with what has been described by political watchers as a move by Holness to rid the party of people who supported Shaw in the race against him.

Tufton was scheduled to attend yesterday’s youth conference, but was a no-show. He later told the Jamaica Observer that the event clashed with another and that he had informed Green last week that he would miss the conference.

Meanwhile, G2K senior Vice-President Matthew Samuda told the conference that young JLP members were concerned about the current state of the party, but boasted that the JLP, on its worst day, is better than the PNP on its best day.

Holness, who spoke at the conference, didn’t address the matter of party unity as he used his address to reiterate the Opposition’s position on the Caribbean Court of Justice and the need for a referendum for the people to decide.

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