Portia urges Comrades to refrain from 'gutter politics'

Simpson Miller gave the order during a spot meeting in Portmore, St Catherine, yesterday after several speakers criticised South Central St Catherine Member of Parliament Sharon Hay-Webster's decision to switch allegiance from the PNP to the governing Jamaica Labour Party.

"I want to warn the People's National Party, our platform must be kept from the gutter. We do not believe in gutter politics," Simpson Miller told a small group of supporters as she kicked off a short tour to introduce the party's prospective candidates in six St Catherine constituencies.

"We must not talk about who people say dem get because who dem get is who the People's National Party Comrades would have rejected," she added, taking her own jab at Hay-Webster.