PNP gen sec slams Holness over ‘broken promises’
Published:Tuesday | April 29, 2025 | 12:10 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer
People’s National Party’s (PNP) General Secretary Dr Dayton Campbell has blasted Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness, the leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), for not fulfilling several promises he made to the Jamaican electorate.
Most of those promises, Campbell suggested, were made during the campaign leading up to the 2020 general election.
Speaking on Sunday during a divisional conference at the Marcus Garvey Technical High School in St Ann’s Bay, Campbell said Holness was upset about proposals, including for housing and education, that the PNP has put forward to benefit the people of Jamaica.
“What is it that he is upset about? He is upset about the proposals we have put forward to benefit the people of this country,” Campbell told a packed auditorium.
“The man that has made the most unfulfilled promises in Jamaica is now coming to us to tell us that you must be wary of politicians who are making promises. And so tonight I want to ask the prime minister, do you recall the promise that if you win the election we would be able to sleep with our windows and doors open?
“Do you remember the promise that the economy of Jamaica would grow by five per cent in four years? Do you, Mr Prime Minister, remember the promise that you would build 70,000 houses in five years? Do you remember the promise that you would bring big power plants to Jamaica? Do you remember the promise that you would turn Clark’s Town into the third city in Jamaica?
“Do you remember the promise that you were going to build a two-storey market in Highgate, St Mary? Do you remember the promise, Mr Prime Minister, that you were going to turn Portmore into Little Miami or Silicon Valley? Do you remember the promise that you were going to have fixed election dates?
“Do you, Mr Prime Minister, remember the promise that within the first 100 days you were going to introduce term limits to the office of prime minister, two terms maximum? And now here you are, ‘bout yuh campaigning for a third term.
“Do you, Mr Prime Minister, remember your promise that you would give job descriptions to your MPs? And do you, Mr Prime Minister, remember your promise that you would have taken the people from poverty to prosperity?
“You have fulfilled not even one of those promises; but now you come with wha mi granny would a call ‘dry yeye’, waa look at the people of Jamaica and say that they should reward you with another term.
“Well, when the elections are called, in North East, in North West, in South East and South West St Ann, dem ah guh get a beating, dem mus’ get a beating, dem haffi get a beating,” the PNP general secretary declared.