PNP optimistic it can win 10 of 15 seats in Kingston and St Andrew

The People’s National Party (PNP) will sweep the five constituencies in the eastern end of Kingston and St Andrew, the party’s Region Three chairman, Dennis Gordon, has predicted.

Three of those constituencies, St Andrew East Central; St Andrew South East; and East Kingston and Port Royal, are already represented by PNP members of parliament (MP).

The other two, St Andrew Eastern and St Andrew East Rural, are represented by the Jamaica Labour Party’s Fayval Williams and Juliet Holness, respectively.

However, Gordon said he is confident the PNP’s Patricia Duncan Sutherland will unseat Williams, who is also Finance Minister, and that Patrick Peterkin will defeat Holness, the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Gordon will be the PNP representative in St Andrew East Central, currently represented by outgoing MP and former PNP president, Dr Peter Phillips.

“I can account for East Central St Andrew,” he said during a PNP rally in Papine, St Andrew, on Wednesday.

“I am now accounting for East Rural St Andrew and I have checked the box for Eastern St Andrew,” he said to wild applause from party supporters.

Gordon also predicted that Kingston Central will return to the column of the PNP, bringing to nine the number of constituencies he said the PNP will win in Kingston and St Andrew.

Retired Senior Superintendent of Police Steve McGregor is the PNP’s representative in Kingston Central.

He is expected to face incumbent, the JLP’s Donovan Williams, who pulled off a surprise victory in the 2020 general election in a constituency dominated by the PNP.

The other Corporate Area constituencies held by the PNP are St Andrew South, represented by the party’s President Mark Golding; St Andrew South West, represented by PNP chairman Dr Angela Brown Burke; and St Andrew Western, represented by Anthony Hylton.

General elections are due in September.

“We now have six and we have captured East Rural (St Andrew), Eastern (St Andrew) and Central Kingston so we are now at nine,” Gordon said.

“But I have more good news for you because I am optimistic that I can get 10 because West Rural St Andrew is also on the list,” he said.

West Rural St Andrew is represented by the JLP’s Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn, who is also junior minister for National Security.

- Livern Barrett

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