‘If the PNP should lose a next election dog nyam our supper’
BROMPTON, St Elizabeth — Members of the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) have criticised the Administration over its crime-fighting strategies and a recent suggestion that the police have a sit-down with gangsters to counter crimes, particularly murders, and suggested that a PNP Government can fix the problem.
The suggestion for the crime summit made by state minister in the Office of the Prime Minister Homer Davis got the support from Justice Minister Delroy Chuck, but was opposed by National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang.
“When you look now in St Elizabeth and I have said it to the superintendent that the crime situation that we are seeing now we are not used to it in St Elizabeth…It can’t continue,” said Kern Spencer, chairman of the PNP’s Region Five, in reference to the traditionally low-crime south-central parish.
“We see where the Government seems to have no solution, no crime plan all now and we see where all a likkle mad man (sic) haffi a tek up a hose and gunman a run from him. That person seems to have a better crime fighting plan than even the Government of Jamaica,” Spencer told the party’s Brompton divisional conference in St Elizabeth on Sunday.
At the same time, Ian Hayles, PNP vice-president, said the suggestion for a crime summit with gangsters is a sign of failure by the Government.
“When it comes to crime I hear last week Delroy Chuck and Homer Davis seh the Government have to go and negotiate with gunman. Now Jamaica is not a failed State, but it is getting there. Anytime you see a Government willing to negotiate with gunman… something is wrong,” he said.
The divisional conference was held to endorse O’Neil Buchanan as councillor/caretaker for the Brompton Division, which is currently represented by the Jamaica Labour Party’s Withney Smith.
Meanwhile, Spencer urged PNP supporters to prepare for the local government elections.
“If the PNP should lose a next election in Jamaica, dog nyam our supper. Comrades, if we don’t win this one it is going to be even more difficult to win any more election for the PNP, so I seh you better let us get our acts together,” said Spencer, a former Member of Parliament for St Elizabeth North Eastern.
