KINGSTON, Jamaica – The People’s National Party is today set to host the first of two public sessions with all its candidates, ahead of the November 28 local government election.

Today’s public session is slated to take place at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston, and will feature Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller as the main speaker.

The second public session is set for November 9 in Montego Bay.

Simpson Miller last week welcomed the announcement of the date for the local government election and 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,” she said.