TRELAWNY, Jamaica – Two former members of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) were today nominated to contest parish council divisions in Trelawny on the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP’s) ticket.

Former JLP candidate for Trelawny North Christopher Jobson will contest the Wakefield Division for the PNP against the JLP’s Jonathan Bartley, while Lloyd Gillings will contest the Albert Town Division on behalf of the PNP.

Gillings won the division for the JLP in the 2012 Local Government Election, but crossed the floor to the PNP just over a year.

He unsuccessfully contested the Trelawny Southern seat against the JLP’s Marissa Dalrymple Phillibert in the General Elections earlier this year.

Meanwhile, former PNP Trelawny Northern Member of Parliament Wendell ‘Bull,Bull’ Stewart has been nominated to contest the Duncans Division on the PNP’s ticket.

In the last local government elections the then ruling PNP won four of the nine divisions up for grabs in Trelawny, the JLP four, while independent Paul Patmore won the other.

The elected councillors then voted for the PNP’ s Garth Wilkinson (Falmouth Division) to become mayor of Falmouth, and Colin Gager, a former mayor, who won the Warsop Division on the JLP’s ticket, as his deputy, effectively giving the PNP control of the council.

Mark Cummings