‘When PNP slays me, I’ll support party’

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‘When PNP slays me, I’ll support party’

Drawing on biblical imagery in a fired-up address on Saturday, People’s National Party (PNP) General Secretary Dr Dayton Campbell cast himself as a modern-day Job under Satanic attack and delivered a rebuke to unnamed members whose support to the...

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