KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) spokesperson, Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn, is rejecting as “desperate and unwarranted” a call from the People’s National Party (PNP) for Prime Minister Andrew Holness to demit office immediately.

In a statement on Wednesday, the party maintained that the Integrity Commission (IC) report upon which the PNP premised its call had found the prime minister culpable of no wrongdoing.

“I understand that the PNP out of desperation wants to see the back of the most positively consequential prime minister that Jamaica has seen in recent times, who has skilfully led our country through multiple crises and has not been implicated in unbecoming or unlawful conduct. I expect some PNP affiliated groups which position themselves as civil society to shortly echo the call of the PNP. However, the position taken by the PNP is desperate, baseless and without merit,” Cuthbert-Flynn said.

She said the IC report which extensively examined the financial affairs of the prime minister and did not involve public funds, does not rise to the level of then Office of the Contractor General (OCG) investigation into the alleged ‘Dehring, Bunting and Golding Sweetheart Deal’.

“The fact of the matter is given the findings of the OCG probe, which is on the record of the parliament of Jamaica, it is Peter Bunting and Mark Golding who should immediately demit the post of opposition leader and opposition senate leader. Bunting and Golding’s current posture confirms they should never have been allowed near leadership positions which were assumed by virtue of them being members of a party which claims to take itself seriously but has become an organisation of gimmicks and expediency,” Cuthbert-Flynn said.

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