PRESIDENT of the People's National Party (PNP) Dr Peter Phillips says he has detected a pattern of abuse of power by municipal councils controlled by the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP).
Dr Phillips, in a very brief address at the close of a meeting with his party's candidates for the next general election, at the law faculty building of the Mona campus of The University of the West Indies yesterday, named the St Ann, St James and the Kingston & St Andrew municipal corporations as offenders.
He cited charges against chairman of the St Ann Municipal Council, Mayor Michael Belnavis and the council for spending some $46 million on a parochial sanitisation programme, and the dismissal of two PNP councillors from the St James Municipal Council last week.
“It is a pattern which is also evident from the reports received from the Kingston & St Andrew Municipal Council, where the internal audit committee set up under the previous Administration is being dismantled,” Dr Phillips charged.
Phillips sold the PNP as the party with the best team of candidates to take the country out of a state of constant crisis.
