PHOTOS: PNP campaigners defy Political Ombudsman
KINGSTON, Jamaica – OBSERVER ONLINE received photos from a reader who witnessed people, clad in orange shirts, erecting orange flags on utility poles along Mona Road in the Kingston 6 area on Saturday.
The people, who appear to be supporters of the ruling People’s National Party, were observed carrying out an act which has been forbidden by Political Ombudsman Donna Parchment Brown.
Parchment Brown last year instructed the general secretaries of the Jamaica Labour Party and the People’s National Party to desist from using political flags as a part of political campaigns following a conflict in the St Catherine East Central constituency, which left at least two people dead.
This was not the first time that a political ombudsman has ordered the removal of flags, however the problem persists. In 2002 Bishop Herro Blair, the political ombudsman at the time, made a similar appeal to both major political parties.
