PETERSFIELD, Westmoreland — Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has warned the electorate not to be fooled by the “empty promises” she claims that members of the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) are going around making.

“I want to tell you to look out for the JLP empty promises. The JLP is now going around and promising to make everything free. I want to warn you these are empty promises. When they were in Government they broke every promise they made to the Jamaican people. They believe that the Jamaican people are fools. I want to tell them something tonight, I want to tell the leader of the Jamaica Labour Party and his team, Jamaican people are wise and I know that the people of Westmoreland are wise,” Simpson Miller said a mass rally in Petersfield Square.

“Their plan is to fool up people and then stop the progress. The people of Jamaica must tell them forward ever, backward never.”

Opposition Leader Andrew Holness, speaking at a recent meeting hosted by the JLP’s Executive Committee of the North West St Andrew constituency, renewed commitment that free tuition for secondary schools will resume when his party forms the next Administration.

Holness had also indicated that, in addition to removing the tuition fees as the JLP did when it assumed power in 2007, the party would also further increase the per capita allocation for each child attending a secondary institution.

On Sunday night, Simpson Miller used the opportunity to trumpet her party’s achievements since it formed Government in January 2012 after defeating the JLP the 2011 polls.

“We have to tell it on the mountain tops what the People’s National party has done to move Jamaica forward,” the PNP president argued.

She also gave another clear indication that a general election is on the horizon.

“Comrades we are getting closer to the time when Jamaica will have to decide if as a country and as a people we go back to the dark days of the Jamaican people or we move forward and step up the progress, a brighter future with the Peoples’ National Party,” Simpson Miller remarked.

“So, comrades when I name the date we will win it. Get ready, get ready, get fit, get your walking shoes, be prepared.”

Simpson Miller gloated over the PNP’s superior gathering in contrast to the a gathering of JLP supporters earlier Sunday at Mannings School in Savanna-la-Mar for an Area Council Four meeting at the Mannings School in Savanna-la-Mar, the Westmoreland parish capital.

“The man (Holness) came down here today. He passed me on his way out of the parish but he was not looking very happy at all. And when I arrived here (Petersfield)I realised why he was looking so sad,” Simpson Miller quipped.

Meanwhile, Ian Hayles, chairman of the PNP Region Six which encompasses the 10 constituencies in the parishes of St James, Hanover and Westmoreland, also poked fun at the small JLP gathering.

“I went to the Campaign Committee meeting on Wednesday and at the meeting they said they wanted to have a meeting in Westmoreland and they said they just wanted a small amount of people, but Lord have mercy, when I look at what’s in Westmoreland tonight and the showing from Region Six I can say to the prime minister whenever you ready, we ready in Region Six also,” Hayles said.