Pryce Cut
PNP officers vote overwhelmingly to remove embattled MP as deputy general secretary
BY HG HELPS Editor-at-Large helpsh@jamaicaobserver.com
Wednesday, January 13, 2016 10 Comments
PRYCE... his supporters flocked PNP headquarters Monday
THE People’s National Party (PNP) officer corps and Parliamentary Group on Monday night voted overwhelmingly to remove St Elizabeth North Eastern Member of Parliament Raymond Pryce as the party’s deputy general secretary, PNP insiders told the Jamaica Observer yesterday.
The decision, taken at a joint meeting of both groups, came hours after busloads of Pryce supporters travelled from his constituency to Kingston, Monday, and flooded the PNP’s Old Hope Road headquarters in a failed last-ditch attempt to have the party’s leadership change its decision regarding who represents the organisation in the next general election.
Pryce, who won the seat in the December 29, 2011 General Election, has been replaced as the candidate for the next poll by St Elizabeth businessman Evon Redman, a powerful figure in the PNP’s St Elizabeth hierarchy. That decision was made last September, following a drawn-out selection process that saw Pryce making a last-minute withdrawal and Redman winning the exercise with 339 ‘yes’ votes of the 467 delegates who cast ballots.
PNP officers vote overwhelmingly to remove embattled MP as deputy general secretary
BY HG HELPS Editor-at-Large helpsh@jamaicaobserver.com
Wednesday, January 13, 2016 10 Comments
PRYCE... his supporters flocked PNP headquarters Monday
THE People’s National Party (PNP) officer corps and Parliamentary Group on Monday night voted overwhelmingly to remove St Elizabeth North Eastern Member of Parliament Raymond Pryce as the party’s deputy general secretary, PNP insiders told the Jamaica Observer yesterday.
The decision, taken at a joint meeting of both groups, came hours after busloads of Pryce supporters travelled from his constituency to Kingston, Monday, and flooded the PNP’s Old Hope Road headquarters in a failed last-ditch attempt to have the party’s leadership change its decision regarding who represents the organisation in the next general election.
Pryce, who won the seat in the December 29, 2011 General Election, has been replaced as the candidate for the next poll by St Elizabeth businessman Evon Redman, a powerful figure in the PNP’s St Elizabeth hierarchy. That decision was made last September, following a drawn-out selection process that saw Pryce making a last-minute withdrawal and Redman winning the exercise with 339 ‘yes’ votes of the 467 delegates who cast ballots.
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