General Secretary of the Jamaica Labour Party, Dr Horace Chang said today that the People’s National Party's three years in office has been a period of "Pain N Punishment".

JLP Leader Andrew Holness handed over wheelchairs to five families in the constituency of Central Westmoreland when he recently visited to say thank you to Party workers and voters. Having been struck during the campaign by the indigent conditions of a number of persons and families,  the JLP Leader sought to bring some cheer relief during the Christmas Season by visits and handing over several items.

Leader of Opposition Business in the Senate, Senator Tom Tavares–Finson is urging the government to take immediate steps to improve the lax state of security at Gordon House, Jamaica’s Parliamentary building on Duke Street.

Opposition Spokesman on the Environment, Dr. Andrew Wheatley, is today calling for the dismissal of the Natural Resources Conservation Authority’s (NRCA) board of directors following an announcement that they granted approval for two highly controversial off-shore breakwaters to be built in the Long Bay area of Negril, Westmoreland.

The NRCA board is chaired by former PNP MP, Mr. John Junor.  Other directors include former PNP Candidate, Dr. Carol Archer, and PNP Councillor Ms. Kari Douglas, daughter of NHT Board Chairman Mr. Easton Douglas.

General Secretary of the JLP Dr Horace Chang advised that the JLP has re-elected unopposed a slate of officers at its Central Executive meeting convened last Sunday at the Party’s Belmont Rd Headquarters.

The Party Chairman Senator Robert Montague and Deputy Chairman Aundre Franklyn were returned along with himself as General Secretary. Four Deputy General Secretary's were also returned these being: Audley Gordon, Dr Andrew Wheatley, Homer Davis and Richard Creary. Treasurer Phillip Henriques and deputy treasurer Leslie Campbell were also elected unopposed.

Opposition Spokesman on Health, Dr. Kenneth Baugh is expressing serious concerns about the gross mismanagement of the Health portfolio, leading to several incidents that threaten to cripple the sector. His concerns come on the heels of recent reports of attacks on health care workers such as a Patient Care Assistant being beaten at the Bustamante Children's Hospital on Sunday, a nurse being strangled by a patient at the Kingston Public Hospital last Tuesday morning, and similar attacks at the Mandeville regional hospital.

Opposition Leader Andrew Holness is describing Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller's responses to additional questions on the NHT/Outameni affair in Parliament on Tuesday as outrageous and unacceptable.  He said the people of Jamaica deserve more than the evasiveness, lack of knowledge and lack of appreciation of good governance exhibited to date.