ST JAMES, Jamaica — Former President of the People’s National Party (PNP), Dr Peter Philips, one of the main speakers at the party’s mass rally in Sam Sharp Square Sunday night, said he had to be there as a show of unity.

“I would not miss this meeting for anything. I am here tonight as a living embodiment that the People’s National Party is united and marching together for progress,” he said.

He told the throng of cheering Comrades that the PNP won all three national debates recently hosted by the Jamaica Debates Commission.

“Markie G tek the fellow outside and beat and teach him,” Phillips said in reference to the final debate between PNP President Mark Golding and Jamaica Labour Party leader, Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness.

Phillips also dismissed remarks made by education minister Dana Morris Dixon who, in the economy debate, said the PNP had taken a wrecking ball to the economy.

Phillips said it was the JLP that wrecked the economy during the Bruce Golding Administration of 2007-2011 and that it was the Portia Simpson Miller Administration of 2012-2016 in which he served as finance minister that fixed it.

-Horace Hines