PNP to introduce Senior-Smith in NE St Catherine

The People’s National Party (PNP) is set to introduce well-known attorney Oswest Senior-Smith as its candidate for St Catherine north east in the next General Elections.

Senior-Smith will be introduced by PNP President Dr Peter Phillips during a rally scheduled to take place tomorrow at the Riverside Community Centre in Riverside, St Catherine.

He is returning to representational politics eleven years after losing to the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) Shahine Robinson in St Ann north east in the 2007 polls.

“North east St Catherine is crying out for effective representation,” Senior-Smith told The Gleaner this afternoon.

The JLP’s Leslie Campbell is the incumbent Member of Parliament.

The PNP standard-bearer said over the past 20 years the constituency has thrown its support behind the JLP, but lamented the level of development across the various communities as “abysmal.”

Citing examples, he said the road network throughout north east St Catherine is “awful” and charged that piped water is “absent in the three divisions that make up the constituency.”

“I saw a man who said he was in his 70s carrying a pan with water on his head and one in his hand,” he said.

Senior-Smith charged, too, that the closure of the postal service that served the communities has forced residents to travel to Linstead in the parish or Highgate in St Mary to collect their mails.

“It is in those respects that I offer myself as a candidate to assist the citizens with not just the physical development of the constituency, but to improve their livelihood,” he said.

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