‘No more stool man’
ST JAMES, Jamaica — For Janete Mair, the choice is clear for Westmoreland Central’s next Member of Parliament (MP).
She’s backing the People’s National Party’s (PNP) Dwayne Vaz in Wednesday’s general election.
Mair, who travelled from Atlanta, Georgia in the United States on Saturday, has made her way to Sam Sharpe Square to join fellow Comrades in the last mass rally for the PNP ahead of the polls.
She is firmly against returning the Jamaica Labour Party’s George Wright to office. Her decision has been shaped by allegations of domestic violence which included the use of a stool to beat his then common-law partner who he has since married.
Wright has never confirmed nor denied the allegations after a video went viral in April 2021 of a man, believed to be Wright, raining blows on a woman with both his fists and a stool in a public parking lot.
He resigned from the party less than two months later and sat in the Parliament as an independent MP until he was welcomed back into the fold of the JLP in February this year and subsequently named as the JLP candidate to again contest the seat he won in a major upset in 2020. The party said he underwent counselling but did not state what the counselling was for.
“We don’t want no stool man,” Mair told Observer Online Sunday.
“Vaz is the one we want,” she insisted.
Wright became only the second JLP candidate to win the Westmoreland Central seat long considered a PNP bastion. Mair said she expects Vaz to bring the seat back into the winning column for the PNP.
