PNP time ‘Dunn’
Norman vows to take back SE St Mary for the JLP
HAVING SUFFERED the agony of being declared the winner on election day and then losing the seat by five votes in the magisterial recount, Dr Norman Dunn is determined to make no mistakes this time around whenever voters in South East St Mary are summoned to the polls.
Dunn, in his first foray into representational politics on a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) ticket in 2016, never accepted the loss to the People’s National Party’s (PNP) Dr Winston Green and had filed an election petition.
But the sudden death of Green, some two weeks ago, has given him another chance at the prize and Dunn is confident that the seat, which was JLP territory from 1967 to 1989, will return to the green column whenever the votes are counted.
“I am absolutely confident that the Jamaica Labour Party will have the seat after the election,” Dunn told The Gleaner during a recent interview.
“The PNP has held the seat for 23 of the past 27 years and you can’t name one institution that has been built over that period. The people of South East St Mary are tired of this politics of mediocrity and what I can say is that the PNP time done now.
“What we want is a developmental type politics ... where the young people have a hope in achieving their dreams. I am offering the people of South East St Mary a chance at a slice of prosperity and a developmental type of politics,” said Dunn.
DEEP ROOTS
Born in Annotto Bay and having spent his formative years there before moving to Dinthill Technical for his secondary education, Dunn, a pharmacist, has deeps roots in the South East St Mary constituency which, he said, he has not left since the general election.
“I came into the political process in the constituency very late in the lead-up to the 2016 general election and although I am known there, it was difficult to get the political machinery running as I would have wanted, but now with the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) showing the people what it can do and with the leadership of Andrew Holness, we are ready for victory,” said Dunn.
“The JLP showed that teamwork and the strength of the party took us home in 2016, and I am sure that the teamwork will be evident in this election,” added Dunn.