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Portia, NEC rap critics of Phinn's 'prophecy'
ERICA VIRTUE, Observer writer
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
PRESIDENT of the ruling People's National Party (PNP) Portia Simpson Miller and her National Executive Council (NEC) have criticised critics of a recent "prophecy" by Rev Phillip Phinn that the government will be returned to power in the upcoming general election.
Simpson Miller, the prime minister, and her NEC, which met in Clarendon on Sunday, said there were no such critics of Phinn's "prophecy" when in 2005 he said Bruce Golding would have been elected as leader of the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP).
According to the PNP, Phinn's "prophecy" would be assessed when elections, due within six months, are held.
Members of the PNP NEC said they found it hypocritical that the JLP and its supporters had criticised Phinn because his prophecy was 'anti-JLP'.
In the meantime, Simpson Miller said she would remain firm on her position to "keep her connection with the church", saying it was part of her religious upbringing.
She told NEC members that irrespective of how unpopular it had made her, she had not lost faith in the church and would remain 'connected'.
She also told the NEC that the PNP must remain the people's party, in keeping with the mandate of its founding fathers.
"The party president reminded us that first of all the PNP is the people's party. From the very beginning, the PNP was organised to serve the interest and masses of Jamaicans, coming out of the whole colonial era where people were not entitled to a vote," said Donald Buchanan, general secretary of the PNP.
ERICA VIRTUE, Observer writer
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
ERICA VIRTUE, Observer writer
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
PRESIDENT of the ruling People's National Party (PNP) Portia Simpson Miller and her National Executive Council (NEC) have criticised critics of a recent "prophecy" by Rev Phillip Phinn that the government will be returned to power in the upcoming general election.
Simpson Miller, the prime minister, and her NEC, which met in Clarendon on Sunday, said there were no such critics of Phinn's "prophecy" when in 2005 he said Bruce Golding would have been elected as leader of the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP).
According to the PNP, Phinn's "prophecy" would be assessed when elections, due within six months, are held.
Members of the PNP NEC said they found it hypocritical that the JLP and its supporters had criticised Phinn because his prophecy was 'anti-JLP'.
In the meantime, Simpson Miller said she would remain firm on her position to "keep her connection with the church", saying it was part of her religious upbringing.
She told NEC members that irrespective of how unpopular it had made her, she had not lost faith in the church and would remain 'connected'.
She also told the NEC that the PNP must remain the people's party, in keeping with the mandate of its founding fathers.
"The party president reminded us that first of all the PNP is the people's party. From the very beginning, the PNP was organised to serve the interest and masses of Jamaicans, coming out of the whole colonial era where people were not entitled to a vote," said Donald Buchanan, general secretary of the PNP.
ERICA VIRTUE, Observer writer
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
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