Prime Minister Andrew Holness has a conversation with five-year-old Irene Marrone, who said she had wanted to meet him, at the Jamaica Labour Party St Ann North Eastern constituency conference on Sunday, November 12, 2023. (Photos: Joseph Wellington)
November 18, 2023
5-year-old gets wish to meet PM
PRIME Minister Andrew Holness was less than a minute into his address at the Jamaica Labour Party’s St Ann North Eastern constituency conference on Sunday, November 12 when he was stopped in his tracks.
A little girl who had been hoisted onto the front of the stage beckoned to him. He took her hand, leaned forward, had a short conversation with her after which they took photos.
The little girl, five-year-old Irene Marrone, told the Jamaica Observer that she had long wanted to meet Holness.
Why?
“Because I like him,” she said in response to the Sunday Observer.
Asked to share what she told the the prime minister, the Care Bear pre-preparatory school student said, “I told him he’s doing a great job and he’s doing for Jamaica the right things.”
Five-year-old Irene Marrone takes a picture with Prime Minister Andrew Holness at the Jamaica Labour Party’s St Ann North Eastern constituency conference on Sunday, November 12, 2023. The little girl told the Jamaica Observer that she had long wanted to meet the prime minister.
