As a race for the next president of The U.S.A goes on, Jamaica is also having its own.
This race is for the new leader of the JLP. The two contenders being Bruce Golding and Pearnel Charles.
I would think that they would take the election seriously and seize every opportune moment to voice their main objectives and strategies. In recent Gleaner interviews they do nothing but regurgitate the equivalent insipid facts we hear repeatedly.
Bruce Golding
Hailing from Ginger Ridge St. Catherine, Mr. Golding’s ‘main arguments’ appear to be centred around narratives that some of us have come to be familiar with by hearing them from our parents.
“We had tanks at the back and fetched water to bring it into the house. Bedrooms had a washstand, a big enameled basin and what we called, ahmm a goblet, and an outside toilet. That’s how we grew up!”
“When I was 7, my mom got a job at Alpha and that’s why we moved to Kingston. My father bought a house there and that’s where we lived.”
Off the record, Mr. Golding, lost in the moment stated that in the morning, while his mom dropped him to school, she would occasionally take a hanky, swabbed with some of her saliva and proceed to wipe his ashy forehead and white squall if he had forgotten to lotion properly.
Bruce making at least one valuable point in why he would be a good candidate was that it was in his blood and it was his late father, former Speaker of the house, Tacious Nathaniel Golding who enthused him, by taking him to political meetings at night.
Pearnel Charles
A fellow Social Activist like my self, the zebra striped Pearnel Charles takes the family approach. Ever boasting about his seven children all who have reputable achievements- three Medical Doctors, a dentist, one lawyer and a PhD candidate…. the last child probably illegitimate as he/she was not mentioned.
“If a person can manage and properly run a family, you can do it for a nation. My children are products of careful development, from day one, even the toys that they played with where carefully chosen”
Seeing that no hardcore evidence has been given to us voters to help make a decision lets see how the contender’s stack up to an important over looked facto, popularity and moral standing.
Conclusion
Pearnel Charles wins for the said reasons:
Pearnel undeniably has the young vote, gained for being fashionably conscious for so long, as it has to do with hair styling. He also gets props for managing to develop seven outstanding kids. One Dr. in the family is good, but three, and a lawyer?
Golding is a very controversial figure. Hailed as a traitor when he left the JLP to form his own party in direct opposition to his past associates. Also deemed as a “Ginnal” and probably has an agenda to alter the structure of the JLP. Shady character.
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