Gathering up the green for the candidate
Published:Sunday | October 30, 2011 | 12:00 AM
WESTERN BUREAU: A cross section of the Montego Bay business community and young professionals came out last Saturday to support attorney Sharon Ffolkes-Abrahams as the People's National Party (PNP) candidate for West Central St James.
The gathering, which took the form of a cocktail reception at Seawind Club in the Montego Freeport area, had former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson as the specially invited guest.
"I told your candidate at Ben Clare's funeral that I was going to be giving her one hundred per cent support," Patterson said.
"I have a very special reason which I will admit. When I left Somerton (St James) and went to Calabar, my teacher of geography, in second form, was Eugene Ffolkes ... and from then he was known as a man committed to the People's National Party."
Eugene Ffolkes is the father of the PNP West Central St James candidate.
Mrs Fflokes-Abrahams also had the support of her husband, Peter, and younger brother, Eugene Jr.
The other attendees were Senator Noel Sloley; former Tourism Minister Frank Pringle; former Senator Janet Madden; Aloun Assamba; Councillor Avrie Rosegreen of the Mount Salem division in St James; caretaker for the Spring Gardens division, Stacey-Ann Campbell Scott; Donat Crichton; George Wallace; Race Morrison; Sonya Hamilton; attorneys Nicole Allen and Stephanie Young; and three former PNP members of parliament for West Central St James - Patrick Rosegreen; Francis Tulloch and Arthur Nelson.