ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica – Chairman of the Selection Panel for the ruling People’s National Party’s (PNP) Region Five (St Elizabeth and Manchester) Hopeton McCatty says his team is ready for delegate selections of constituency leaders in St Elizabeth North East and St Elizabeth South West this weekend.

Member of Parliament and chairman of the PNP’s St Elizabeth North Eastern constituency organisation Raymond Pryce is being challenged by Santa Cruz businessman and former constituency chairman, Evon Redman. Delegates are scheduled to cast their votes at the St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) on Saturday starting at 10:00 am.

In St Elizabeth South Western, MP and constituency chairman Hugh Buchanan is being challenged by businessman and former banker Ewan Stephenson. That delegate vote is set for Sunday at the Black River Primary School also at 10:00 am.

It’s expected that winners of the contests will go forward as candidates for the PNP in parliamentary elections which are constitutionally due late next year but which many analysts are predicting will take place within months.

“Everything is in place, we are going full steam ahead,” McCatty told OBSERVER ONLINE by telephone when asked about arrangements for the scheduled selections.

Garfield Myers