PNP chides JLP for its manifesto release plan
Comrades to release additions to their document
THE People’s National Party (PNP) says it will soon launch what it calls Manifesto Light, an addition to its recently launched manifesto.
PNP campaign spokesperson Donna Scott-Mottley on Friday told a media briefing at the party’s Old Hope Road, St Andrew, headquarters that the party is set to release the document which will contain plans from its manifesto, “but there are some which we will be introducing for the first time, simply because we know that those who accuse you of copying and pasting do so because they are experts at it”.
Scott-Mottley blasted the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) for planning to distribute its manifesto on Sunday at a mass rally in Sam Sharpe Square, Montego Bay, St James.
“I gather that on Sunday night they have decided to do something which they consider to be quite unique, never done before in another parish apart from Kingston, to persons who are their diehard base. It is not a manifesto for the people of Jamaica but a manifesto to be delivered to their supporters at a mass rally.
“They think that it is something bold. I think that it reflects who they are. We of the People’s National Party are committed to building a Jamaica that works for all of us,” said Scott-Mottley.
In the meantime, fellow PNP campaign spokesperson Cleveland Tomlinson told the media briefing that he didn’t see anything unique or revolutionary about the way in which the JLP plans to launch its manifesto at a campaign rally.
“I don’t see any uniqueness in that. I don’t see the revolutionary nature of that. The manifesto should be made available for the public to assess,” said Tomlinson.
He also criticised the JLP for not publishing a manifesto before the political debates scheduled to begin today.
“We reject this sort of development where we are heading in the first of three political debates without the opportunity to assess the manifesto, policy prescriptions, and the proposals of the Jamaica Labour Party. What it does is reduce the debates to debates of theatre. What they will be talking about are words put together without any substantive, well-structured policy prescription that journalists and members of the public can critically assess,” added Tomlinson.
