PNP lay preacher says God not pleased with JLP, predicts party’s downfall
Published:Saturday | August 2, 2025 | 12:05 AMAlbert Ferguson/Gleaner Writer
WESTERN BUREAU:
With the countdown to the impending general election now gathering steam, a religious flavour is seemingly creeping into the mix as, while the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) were staging a gospel concert in St Thomas last Sunday, a lay preacher was prophesying destruction on them from a People’s National Party (PNP) platform in Mt Salem, St James.
Businessman Errol Lamey, who was once a PNP aspirant for a seat in the St James Municipal Corporation, was quite fiery in delivering prayers at his party’s event, predicting the downfall of the JLP.
“Some of us didn’t come out to vote in the September 2020 general election and we find ourselves in the same predicament in Babylon, where they are trying to hold us down,” said Lamey. “They are trying to keep us as slaves, but I tell you something, in the darkest of night, there is a sound of victory!”
In an unflinching condemnation of the Dr Andrew Holness-led administration, Lamey drew on fiery biblical imagery in accusing them of not doing right by the Jamaican people.
“The Lord has heard the cry of his people and has said enough is enough. So, he has rejected the current leader of this country. He will not be accepted anymore in this country,” said Lamey, in prophesying the downfall of the JLP and the rise of the PNP.
Lamey claimed that the JLP is using ungodly means to control the Jamaican people, but he said that all they are doing will fail.
“I come to tell them that the weapon of our warfare is not carnal but mighty in Jesus Christ. I command the rejection of this Government, right now in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth!” he declared, before clasping his hands and raising them to the skies while declaring, “I bind and shut down every evil force of this Government, and I decree, and I declare that righteousness shall exalt this nation!”
REDEMPTION POWER
In endorsing PNP President Mark Golding as the man with the redemptive power to save Jamaica, Lamey declared that, “God has heard the cry of the Jamaican people and God is now saying, ‘I will give you a man who will acknowledge the leadership of the Kingdom of Heaven. A man who will not tear down the Constitution that gives rights to the people for free speech, free movement.”
“The People’s National Party shall be the one to make legislation for the freedom of the people of this country. I decree and I declare that the 63 seats shall go home to the People’s National Party, so that we can reverse the curse on the land,” he added.
While the JLP has not been as dramatic in their religious invocations, Holness has not been shy about referencing God on the campaign trail, albeit he has not done so with fiery declarations.
During his presentation at the JLP’s St James West Central conference, in Montego Bay in June, Holness also quoted from Bible, in urging his party supporters not to lose faith in the JLP but to keep believing that the unfulfilled promises will ultimately become a reality.
“The Bible tells us that what is faith – Hebrews 11:1 … ‘Now faith is the substance of things hoped for….’. We are hoping for water, we are hoping for crime to reduce, we are hoping for poverty to reduce, we are hoping for our roads to get fixed … but what else is it (faith)?” asked Holness at the time.
“It is the evidence of things not seen in your community. The crime is going down in a significant way. That is the evidence of the prosperity that is to come. Hold the faith, keep the faith.”