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‘A house divided will not stand’

In a no-holds-barred address to Comrades at the People’s National Party’s (PNP) 83rd annual conference on Sunday, former president P.J. Patterson called for all hostilities within the organisation to cease as he delivered a sharp rebuke to warring...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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