KINGSTON, Jamaica – Members of the media were on Tuesday barred from entering the compound of the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) Belmont Road headquarters in Kingston, as Opposition parliamentarians arrived for another crucial meeting.

The MPs met at the party’s Belmont Road headquarters for six hours last Friday, in what was said to be attempts to remove embattled party leader Andrew Holness as leader of the Opposition.

Although party officials subsequently denied this, sources have been adamant that there were fresh moves afoot to have Holness removed as leader of the Opposition.

The members of Parliament started arriving shortly before 11, with most of them pausing just outside the gates to allow rushed comments from the crush of media personnel as to what may come out of today’s discussions.

Most were non-committal about what will happen inside.

Among those now inside are: chairman of the parliamentary caucus, Derrick Smith; general secretary, Dr Horace Chang; Daryl Vaz, JC Hutchinson, Audley Shaw, Rudyard Spencer, James Robertson, Pearnel Charles, Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange, Delroy Chuck, Desmond McKenzie, Shahine Robinson, Gregory Mair, Karl Samuda, Mike Henry, Dr Kenneth Baugh, and Andrew Wheatley.

MPs who are absent include: Edmund Bartlett and Marissa Dalrymple Phillibert.

Meanwhile, no official reason has been given as to why the gates were closed, thereby preventing members of the media from entering.