The first of three political debates between the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) got underway last night in the studios of the Creative Production and Training Centre in Kingston.
For 90 minutes the Peoples National Party’s Team (PNP) represented by Dr Dayton Campbell, Lisa Hanna and Raymond Pryce went face to face against the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP’s) Senator Marlene Malahoo Forte, Dr Saphire Longmore and Senator Warren Newby.
In its closing arguments, the JLP, through Malahoo Forte, emphasised the need to end the blame game and highlighted the importance of putting Jamaica first. She added that the JLP boasts “leaders of today for tomorrow”.
In countering the JLP’s appeal, Pryce called on Jamaicans to support the PNP and to ask whether they are better off today than they were four years ago, when the JLP won the general election. He highlighted job losses, foreclosures and hardship on the Jamaican family as reasons why the JLP administration should not be returned to power.
The 90-minute debate focused on social and economic issues, from the perspective of the youth.
Source: jamaicaobserver
