CITING some of the actions of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Administration that he deems questionable, Opposition Senator Peter Bunting on Wednesday morning lashed the Government for having “no shame”.

Bunting launched his criticism of the JLP during the second peaceful protest staged by the People’s National Party (PNP) in different parishes dubbed ‘Rescue Jamaica’. Wednesday’s protest was held in Old Harbour, St Catherine.

“This Government has shown that they have no shame. Shame trees don’t grow at Belmont Road,” Bunting said, while listing a number of allegations of impropriety.

“This coming election is an opportunity for everyone to move from concern to action,” he said. “Don’t think you are helpless because you are one person. Your voice and your vote will ensure that the only term this government gets is a prison term.”

For her part, Natalie Neita-Garvey, PNP Member of Parliament (MP) for St Catherine North Central, also threw shade at the Government, and signalled to Jamaicans that the PNP is ready for the next general election, whenever it is that Prime Minister Andrew Holness decides to call it.

The next election is constitutionally due this year.

“Dem coulda drag out this election till God comes. We sidung and we a wait. We ready, we ready, we ready, we ready, we ready,” Neita-Garvey stressed.

“This Government is like a man who a look a woman. When him want a woman, him show all sorts of pretty things. Him tell her how him ago buy house, land and car and how him ago fix her up in pretty wig and nice things. When him get through, him let you down.

“Him nuh remember you. Him gone look about next woman. We naa go get tricked this time. No matter how much ribbon you cut or how much ground you bruk, the bells and the whistles naa go fool we because we have been there, done that. We know you don’t care about the Jamaican people,” she said.

She said the nation’s civil servants are ready to go to the polls, having had their rights and their cries neglected by the current government.

“You give yourselves hundred per cent [salary] increase and don’t remember the ordinary nurse, the teacher and the fireman. At this time, they don’t remember you either. When you did a look about yourself and a talk about choose Jamaica, you never chose Jamaica. You chose yourself. After nine years you come a tell we now seh you choose Jamaica. PNP choose Jamaica long time. Ain’t no stopping us now,” she said.

Meanwhile, Leader of the Opposition Mark Golding said that the end of the Holness-led Government is nigh.

He implored Jamaicans to stand up for justice and not allow the country to be wrecked by a Government which has continually breached what it takes to govern Jamaica in accordance with principle.

“We need money to fix the road network in the country which has been neglected over the nine years of the Jamaica Labour Party and they are scrambling when elections are up on them to spark or to reach, but they can’t spark and dem naa reach because the people of Jamaica done mek up dem mind already that this Government nuh ready and dem have to go down,” Golding said, referencing the Shared Prosperity through Accelerated Improvement to our Road Network (SPARK) and the Relief, Emergency Assistance and Community Help (REACH) programmes.

Golding accused the Government of deceiving the Jamaican people and feeding them constantly with misinformation.

“How can they say that the Cornwall Regional Hospital has been anything but a complete disaster for the people of Jamaica. Over $20 billion of expenditure, seven years of work and it can’t finish and the people of western Jamaica are suffering without a Type A hospital. We see the school system and the under-performance of our bright children and they are doing nothing about improving what is happening. We need a fundamental change in education and that will be a key pillar of People’s National Party’s policy and programmes because we have the brightness and the talent, but we need to nurture it and support it in the right way,“ he said.

“We support good mind, principle, righteousness, upliftment of people, honesty in public life, delivering what the people in Jamaica are asking for,“ he said.