The Expected or Unexpected, PNP’s Portia Simpson Miller assigns Spokesperson Council after losing 2016 Jamaica Election

What will the future hold for our political landscape?

Will there be new faces in high places? Or will it be same old, same old?

Well, Jamaicans are intrigued to see how the PNP rallies, from its 2016 election loss and whether they will listen to the ‘articulate minority’.

Many surmise that the leader of the Peoples’ National Party, is obstinate. The ‘mud slinging’ is rife with colorful names, for the PNP president, which I will not repeat here. Jamaicans on every side were ‘up in arms’, when the PNP decided to bow out of the National Debate.

So, will the PNP Executive take time out to analyse, synthesize and exercise some changes?

Who will go and who will stay?

In the mean time, let’s review the PNP’s Portia Simpson led, 2016 Spokesperson Council.

Leader of the Opposition, Defence, Social Transformation, Community Development and Gender Affairs – Portia Simpson-Miller with Deputy Colin Fagan
Finance and Planning – Peter Phillips
Public Service and Public Sector Modernisation – Senator Lambert Brown
Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade – Dr Morais Guy
National Security – Peter Bunting
Energy and Mining (and Leader of Opposition Business in the House of Representatives) – Phillip Paulwell
Industry, Investment and Commerce – Anthony Hylton
Justice and Governance (and Leader of Opposition Business in the Senate) – Senator Mark Golding
Education and Training – Ronald Thwaites with deputy Michael Stewart
Tourism – Dr Wykeham McNeil
Health – Horace Dalley with deputy Dr Lynvale Bloomfield
Information and the Knowledge Economy – Julian Robinson with deputy Dwayne Vaz
Land and the Environment – Senator Sophia Frazer-Binns
Agriculture – Dayton Campbell with deputy Victor Wright
Transport – Mikael Phillips
Works – Richard Azan with deputy Dr Winston Green.
Housing and Rural Development – Luther Buchanan
Labour and Social Security – Fenton Ferguson with deputy Senator Floyd Morris
Youth and Culture – Lisa Hanna
Sport and Entertainment – Natalie Neita Headley
Local Government – Noel Arscott with deputy Denise Daley
Water and Climate Change –Ian Hayles with deputy Evon Redman