TUFTON

Former President of Generation 2000 (G2K) Senator Dr. Chris Tufton, has taken issue with recent statements made by the People's National Party Youth Organisation (PNPYO) at a forum at the University of the West Indies, suggesting that the PNP was the best choice for Jamaica.

Speaking at a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) conference for the Braes River Division in North East St. Elizabeth on Sunday, Senator Tufton, the JLP caretaker for South West St. Elizabeth, suggested that the PNPYO was "stifling their conscience" to make such a statement and that the JLP and G2K will enforce no such restrictions on its conscience, in order to effectively counter the propaganda and misinformation that such a view, held by the PNPYO, will likely facilitate in the run up to the next general elections.

True to themselves

According to Senator Tufton, if the young comrades were true to themselves and to the Jamaican youth they would accept that the most glaring failure of the PNP administration over the last 18 years has been their ineffective leadership and management of the development of the country's youth. Referring to a recent statement made by Dr. Peter Phillips, the Minister of National Security, concerning the failure of the education system to adequately prepare the country's young people.

Dr. Tufton said this was so obvious that even the senior leaders within the PNP have recognised that the Government has not responded adequately in providing hope and opportunity for the country's young people.