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PNP candidates urged to ‘go wid prayer’ heading into General Election
People's National Party (PNP) supporters gather at PNP's Kingston and St Andrew parish meeting in Cross Roads, St Andrew on Saturday (Photo: Karl Mclarty)
Elections, Latest News, News
August 16, 2025

PNP candidates urged to ‘go wid prayer’ heading into General Election

MANCHESTER, Jamaica– Councillor for the Alligator Pond Division in Manchester Southern, Omar Robinson, is urging all 63 candidates of the People’s National Party (PNP) to go to church to seek prayer as they prepare for the September 3 General Election.

Robinson, who is one of the hosts of the PNP’s Kingston and St Andrew parish meeting in Cross Roads, St Andrew on Saturday, told comrades that their opponents in the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) “gonna try a lot of things”.

“…. Because one man inna green shirt, him say him nah surrender… But guess what comrades? Nutten beat prayer! Nutten beat prayer! And I want all my 63 Members of Parliament (PNP caretakers) fi gah church. Unuh find unuh pastor and mek sure we go wid prayer into the polls,” Robinson urged.

He then urged the disk jockey to play Higher Life by Kranium featuring Chronic Law.

Hundreds of comrades have gathered in Cross Roads for the final in the PNP’s series of parish meetings.

The meeting formally commenced at 6:40 pm with a song and prayer by Councillor for the Kinytre Division in the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation, Vivienne Brown-Bond.

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