KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Councillor for the Chancery Hall division in St Andrew, Duane Smith, says that the People’s National Party (PNP) tactic to destroy the JLP will not work.

“I am advising the PNP that their practice of attacking the leader of the JLP, to seek to cut off the head of the party and hope that the body will die has never worked and will not work now, especially in a climate in which the JLP has rekindled a hope of prosperity among Jamaicans,” Smith told the party’s Area One Council meeting at the Boy Scouts’ headquarters in South Eastern St Andrew on Sunday.

“It would be better for the PNP to work with the JLP to ensure that the prosperity is wide enough to include supporters of all political parties and ideologies in Jamaica,” the KSAC councillor, who is the son of former JLP minister and spokesman on national security, and current minister without portfolio Derrick Smith, told the meeting.

He said, however, that it is obvious that the Opposition is on a path of “division and partiality”, which is not the kind of behaviour which encourages unity and prosperity.

“I would advise their aspiring leaders to ‘wheel and come again’, if they expect to dislodge the JLP any time in the near future,” he said.

Balford Henry