KINGSTON, Jamaica – President of the People’s National Party (PNP) Portia Simpson Miller has welcomed the announcement of the date for the local government election.

Simpson Miller in a news release Thursday afternoon said that the move by the Jamaica Labour Party administration to make the election on November 28, gives the people an opportunity to elect a government that will govern their affairs at the local level.  

“As for the PNP, we have always been with the people and for the people and so we will be out there campaigning and speaking to the people about our track record for local government,” Simpson Miller said, adding that the PNP has a proud and enviable track record where local government is concerned.

“We have consistently placed the people’s government on the agenda of development and this is why we entrenched local government into the Constitution of Jamaica so that no administration can arbitrarily dismantle them.”

The PNP currently controls the 13 parish councils and the Portmore Municipality. “Notwithstanding the tradition of the political party that wins the general election, moves to win the local government, we are going out there to defend and retain all the parish councils.”

Simpson Miller called on PNP councillor candidates, campaign managers, cluster managers, PD captains, outdoor agents, indoor agents, and runners, to go out and tell the people about the work of the PNP and its history with local government.

“We have a strong message and we must tell the people because we are always with the people and for the people,” Simpson Miller insisted.