WESTERN BUREAU: LOCAL GOVERNMENT Minister Desmond McKenzie has vowed that an educational campaign will be launched in the next two weeks to help educate Jamaicans on the roles and functions of municipal councillors, as well as to educate.
The general secretaries of the country’s two major political parties are oozing with confidence ahead of the political showdown on Monday when Jamaicans will decide who holds the reins in the 13 parish municipalities and the Portmore city.
Just days before the majority of the island’s electors get a chance to cast ballots in the long-overdue local government elections, Jamaica’s two main political parties remain in a dogfight. The battle for the 228 divisions and a single mayorship.
With the allocation of $1.7 billion by the Government to facilitate a little more than two million electors to exercise their franchise in the local government elections, which take place today and Monday, Chairman of Citizens Action for Free and.
The 34 independent candidates vying for office in the local government elections have been labelled as “fodder” in the election process by political commentator Lloyd B. Smith, who asserts that their campaigns will be fruitless. His comment comes.