PEOPLE’S National Party (PNP) caretaker for Kingston Central former cop Steve McGregor is to introduce Run-a-Boat Fridays in the constituency as he moves to keep the vibes high among his supporters.

Addressing his campaign launch on Wednesday, following a tour of the constituency with the party’s President Mark Golding, McGregor declared that while all the signs show him on a path to victory in the general election, he will continue to connect with the people.

“Starting next week we ago have some run-a-boat Friday. So mi ago just drop on a corner and wi sit down with unnuh and we have a reasoning and we eat some little curry chicken…because we no have money like them,” said McGregor to cheers from his supporters.

“The whole idea is that we a go hold a vibes and me ago keep unnuh motivated, and we ago whip them,” added McGregor who is expected to face-off with the sitting Member of Parliament the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) Donovan Williams in the election.

According to McGregor, the support they saw during the tour of the constituency convinced Golding the Kingston Central would be on the winning side for the PNP when the votes are counted after the election but he is taking no chances.

“We nah drop no catch in a Central Kingston. Our workers are ready. We have over 300 and odd workers and we have all of them in place. Our canvas is up to 85 per cent, we just a tweak some little things. In my reconnection walks around this constituency every second door that I knock them say, ‘You know, Mr McGregor, mi never vote in 2020 but guess what, we have somebody to vote for now’.

“You see the turnout that we ago have in Central Kingston, you a go think a when [former Prime Minister] Michael Manley did a run,” declared McGregor.

Manley first won the Kingston Central seat in 1967 with a close 43-vote margin over the JLP’s EK Powell. In 1972 Manley again won the seat this time with an almost 1,700 margin over the JLP’s Errol Anderson.

In the 2020 General Election the JLP’s Williams polled 4,568 votes to defeat the PNP’s Imani Duncan-Price by just over 300 votes.

This is one of the seats that the PNP will believe it will have to take if it is to form the next Government and Golding was upbeat as he took the stage Wednesday evening.

“I believe in Steve and when Steve became available to Central Kingston I said, ‘This is the man we need’. A man of the soil from Franklyn Town, a very respected former police officer in the country, and a man who won the hearts and the minds of the people when he was the police officer in charge.

“A man who working with Comrade [Peter] Bunting in the national security area, a man who can deliver a solid plan and a solid execution of the plan, working with the police force, working with the security force to make Jamaica safe,” said Golding.

“So Comrades, it is very important that we deliver Steve McGregor to Gordon House. It is very important that Central Kingston return to the fold of the People’s National Party in the next election,” added Golding.