ST THOMAS, Jamaica — Things are heating up at Morant Bay Primary in St Thomas Eastern where supporters of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) clashed with police on Friday.

Shaneka Green, a supporter and election day worker, was among several vocal JLP supporters who alleged that all was not above board in the voting process now underway.

“[It’s] problems because they want to thief us out because we see unknown faces going in the polling station and when we lash out about it, they try to tell us that we can’t stay down at the gate area and we’re not taking any losses today. When we getting victory, is so they behave,” Green told Observer Online.

Noting that she is popular in the St Thomas community, Green alleged that some of the individuals at the polling stations were not from the Morant Bay Division.

She was also sceptical of the police who were insisting that the supporters maintain a 100 yard distance required by law.

“Every year is here so we deh…so I don’t know why now the police are telling us that we can’t stay down here. They’re telling us that we have to go up,” Green said.

Officers who were observed insisting that supporters maintain the distance declined to comment on the allegations.

JLP’s Winston Downie and the People’s National Party’s Rosemarie Shaw are battling it out for the Morant Bay Division which has been without a councillor since May this year.

— Alicia Dunkley-Willis