Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) supporters staged a counter protest to the People’s National Party demonstration against the appointment of Dennis Chung as chief technical director of the Financial Investigations Division (FID) at National Heroes Circle in Kingston on Monday morning.

Placard-bearing labourites gathered at the nearby intersection of Wild Street and Marescaux Road. The supporters taunted the PNP with shouts of “third term” and claimed the PNP’s opposition to Chung’s appointment was just about politics.

Prime Minister and JLP Leader Andrew Holness had called on party supporters to protest against what he described as the PNP’s “hypocritical” demonstration against Chung’s appointing, suggesting that the Opposition was being ‘badmind’.

The PNP has insisted that Chung was a “biased and unfit” candidate who lacks the requisite qualifications while pointing out that he has, on several occasions, publicly come to the defence of the prime minister in the wake of damning findings against Holness by the Integrity Commission in its illicit enrichment probe of the head of government.

In pictures: PNP protests against Chung’s FID appointment, says it sends ‘chilling’ message