People’s National Party President Mark Golding says the decision to hold the party’s annual conference in Westmoreland is a signal of solidarity with communities still recovering from Hurricane Melissa.
Golding, speaking at the PNP’s 88th Anniversary Thanksgiving Church Service at Negril New Testament Church of God Sunday morning, said the move demonstrates the party’s focus on putting the people first, as, according to him, it stands shoulder to shoulder with those still bearing the scars of Hurricane Melissa.
“It’s easy for us in the east of the island, in the Corporate Area, and elsewhere… to think that life is totally normal, and things are back to the way we’re accustomed to them being,” he noted, but quickly asserted, “that is not the case for everybody, and the institutions that they may belong to, whether it be churches, whether it’s schools, whether it’s service clubs, whatever it may be, many of them are also reeling still from the effects of that terrible hurricane.”
Accordingly, he told the Westmoreland residents in attendance, that the PNP was “in solidarity with all of you, because we feel for you and we feel with you, we decided to come down this side.”
The PNP President said the party will also be making visits to two sites where it has been active in the recovery of two structures.
“One is to fix the roof… of a basic school, and the other is the construction of a house for somebody who needed a house as a result of the hurricane. So we’ll be passing both of those projects… to show, again, that… we do care,” he said.