Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) Senator, Lambert Brown, has asserted that the Jamaica Labour Party Government led by Prime Minister Andrew Holness has lost the confidence of the Jamaican people.

Brown made the charge in the Senate on Friday where he chastised the government for its continued postponement of the long-delayed Local Government Elections that must be held no later than February 28.

“A government who carries the electoral system to the last days legally allowed, has truly lost the confidence of the people,” Brown said on Friday in the Senate as he made his contribution to the State of the Nation Debate.

“Time come to get rid a dem,” he declared.

“The people are no longer beguiled or bewitched by the lure of the green Clarks (shoes favoured by Prime Minister Andrew Holness), they’re experiencing a nightmare,” Brown added.

He also remarked that the moniker of Brogad (name given to the prime minister by his devoted followers) “now rings like a bell that has lost its tongue, nobody hearing it. I don’t even think the person who wanted to be called Brogad still wants to be called Brogad”.

“Currently, the self-proclaimed ‘Builder’ is now seen as the demolition man, so quick, they say, to demolish the homes of poor Jamaicans based on flawed intelligence,” Brown continued.

“People remember the declaration in Parliament and they will never forget the bulldozers, supported by the security forces destroying poor people, working women’s (homes) that they worked so hard to build.

“Time come to stop bulldozing poor people house,” said Brown.

He was referring to the October 2022 demolition exercise carried out on several homes in varying stages of construction, under the direction of the security forces in Clifton, which is situated on the Greater Bernard Lodge lands in south St Catherine.

The demolition was carried out days after Holness told the Parliament that intelligence provided by the security forces showed that gangsters aligned to the notorious Klansman gang had captured the land and were selling parcels to unsuspecting persons. He declared them a security threat to the entire the country.

“The National Security Council in reviewing the development plan, has observed an insidious and growing threat in the area, where alleged gangsters were capturing lands in the area adjoining the Clifton community, creating their own informal subdivision, and selling the lands under the false pretext of ownership or building on it themselves,” Holness told the House of Representatives.

Despite those forceful declarations, no gangster has been reported arrested in connection to the illegal sale of the land. A school principal is the lone person arrested; she was picked up by the police shortly after the demolition exercise was carried out.

The principal, Suelyn Ward-Brown, has been hit with up to 12 charges including breaches of the Proceeds of Crime Act and the Law Reform Fraudulent Transactions Special Provisions Act. She is accused of fleecing prospective home owners of over $7 million.

Following her first appearance in court in October 2022, Ward Brown was offered bail in the sum of $2 million. She is booked to return to court on February 17.