Claudia Gardner, Gleaner Writer

LUCEA, Hanover:

Bruce Golding, the Leader of the Opposition, on Friday chided the Prime Minister for her recent comments about unfair media coverage, as the country's major political parties saturated Hanover's two constituencies with motorcades between Thursday and Saturday.

"When you look at how media work, sometimes we get lick. Sometimes we put out statements and they don't carry it, but we call them and say 'have a review'.

"On my desk is a note from my public relations department pointing to some days when three to four PNP stories are covered and not even one JLP, and another two or three covering government matters, but we don't cuss anybody over it," Golding said.

The Jamaica Labour Party toured sections of Eastern and Western Hanover on Thursday and climaxed with a mass rally in the Lucea bus park on Friday night, while People's National Party President Portia Simpson Miller coasted across the parish with Western Hanover caretaker Ian Hayles and Eastern's Dr. D.K. Duncan yesterday.

The motorcade, which saw hundreds of flag-waving Comrades in tow, started in the western-most community of Orange Bay in Western Hanover, and wended through sections of March Town, Green Island and the major towns of Lucea, Sandy Bay and Hopewell, ending atthe Great River border in the east.

Simpson Miller's greatest reception, however, came in the town of Lucea, where she shook hands and blew kisses, as people ran alongside her vehicle to get handshakes, some trying to get first-time glimpses of the populist Prime Minister.