JLP needs a communications director and chief strategist
Dear Editor,
The People’s National Party yesterday announced Colin Campbell as their communications director. That’s telling me that they don’t have a lot of confidence in Julian Robinson’s leadership — or they are just reinforcing their communications unit by using an unelectable Comrade.
The Jamaica Labour Party kept a low-key central executive meeting last year and no changes were made to the Jamaica Labour Party team. Therefore, I’m calling up on the leader to select new individuals to do the work, since the party seems like it doesn”t want any internal elections.
The Jamaica Labour Party needs a communications manager to assist the general secretary. This person should be a non-parliamentarian.
The Jamaica Labour Party needs also a chief strategist to assist the general secretary. The role of this chief strategist is to be on the ground assisting in candidate changes and meeting with the workers of the party. Potential candidates for communications manager are Matthew Samuda, Marlon Morgan, Warren Newby, Kerensia Morrison, and Pearnel Charles Jr. For chief strategist try Danville Walker, Dennis Meadows, Sharon Hay-Webster, Robert Miller, and Paula Kerr-Jarrett.
Belmont Road is dead and it needs to be alive again.
Many Labourites don’t like me because I’m too straightforward. The party is doing well in Government, but if your party’s machinery is dead, “dawg nyam yuh supper”.
It was Prime Minister Andrew Holness who won the election for the party. Let’s see how long we can ride on Andrew Holness’s back. The People’s National Party won the 2011 election riding on the back of former Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller. We all saw what happened in 2016 .
Teddylee Gray
Ocho Rios, St Ann
teddylee.gray@gmail.com