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PEOPLE’S National Party (PNP) supporters overwhelmingly endorsed the party's former youth leader Damion Crawford as its candidate for East Rural St Andrew in the upcoming election at a rally in Harbour View, St Andrew last night.
Most of the party's top brass led by President and Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller hailed the dreadlocked Crawford as one of the brightest youngsters on the political scene and predicted that he will create history by becoming the first Rastafarian to sit in Gordon House.
But Crawford called on the electorate not to vote for him because of his age, but because the policies of the PNP would develop the country's youth.
"Social change means a street sweeper's son can become a doctor, if he has the ability to become a doctor," he said.
He also spoke about his humble beginnings in paying tribute to his mother "Miss Darkie" Crawford and his late father, whom he said worked on a cement truck.
Meanwhile, Simpson Miller said she was keeping the party's policies close to her chest until after the election.
"Why should I give them the ideas about JEEP? No way," she told the noisy crowd of party faithfuls.
She was referring to the proposed Jamaica Emergency Employment Programme which she announced at the party's annual conference in September.
Several speakers rallied the boisterous crowd gathered on the Harbour View Primary School playfield, by consistently asking if they were better off now than they were when the PNP left office in 2007; ridiculing the government's failed promise to provide more jobs; and highlighting what they described as Jamaica's fall in stature in the international community because of former Prime Minister Bruce Golding's opposition to the extradition request for jailed don Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.
The comrades also characterised new Prime Minister Andrew Holness as a younger but identical version of Golding, who will continue what they said were the governing Jamaica Labour Party's failed policies over the last four years.
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Fashion Dead, Rasta don't shave........Winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else - Vince LombardiComment
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who sey him shave? A nuh everybody have full beardsSolidarity is not a matter of well wishing, but is sharing the very same fate whether in victory or in death.
Che Guevara.Comment
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peter phillips ... by some distance....
Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. Thomas PaineComment
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suh him nuh shave? how him moustache suh full?
Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. Thomas PaineComment
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Maybe i missed it. What's his educational qualification?The only time TRUTH will hurt you...is if you ignore it long enough
HLComment
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Was Peter sitting when he had dreadlocks? Or was only rasta in ideology, Mike Henry could claim same.Solidarity is not a matter of well wishing, but is sharing the very same fate whether in victory or in death.
Che Guevara.Comment
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RSt, DRD, LOTJ
Rasta, Dreadlocks, Lion of the tribe of Judah.Comment
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Mi serious Exile...because the forum (and I am sure the local natives) appear to be all caught up in the frill of him being a dreadlocks.The only time TRUTH will hurt you...is if you ignore it long enough
HLComment
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Don't understand why....too much hype...Beauty Queen, Rasta, ....all distractions.Comment
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Mike Henry nuh rasta still? Every time I see him at a Humble Lions match him look like rasta to me!
BLACK LIVES MATTERComment
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I know!
Meanwhile Danville speaks about his brain, his ability to think, his intellect, his industry, his penchant for making things better. This is one man you won't find dancing a jig on a political stage, much less pon him head top. Leggo beast and virago he ain't!
BLACK LIVES MATTERComment
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him just want a hair cut and a shave, i hear his section of the rasta religion forbids him to shave on weekendsSolidarity is not a matter of well wishing, but is sharing the very same fate whether in victory or in death.
Che Guevara.Comment
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