Paul A. Reid, Staff Reporter
WESTERN BUREAU -
A SMALL group of National Democratic Movement supporters staged a quiet protest outside the offices of the St. James North-West Electoral Offices in Montego Bay yesterday to register what NDM Deputy General Secretary, Dennis Meadows, said was the Government's reluctance to institute serious electoral reform.
Just over two dozen NDM supporters marched from their offices on Barnett Street to the Electoral Office where they protested for just over an hour.
Mr. Meadows, who is also the party's spokesperson on youth and community development, told The Sunday Gleaner that the party's quarrel was not with the Electoral Office but with the Government.
An NDM press advisory stated that the party was "registering their disgust at the lack of political will on the Government's part to enforce the law under the Representation of the Peoples Act as it relates to the 8,000 persons who defrauded the electoral system by multiple registration."
Mr. Meadows said the party was also disappointed with the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party, which he said had been vocal about the need for electoral reform two to three years ago but had since been silent and added that maybe the JLP had "vested interest" in the system remaining as it is.
He added that yesterday's protest was the "first of many more to come" and said the NDM was hoping to "sensitize the Jamaican populace about the need for electoral reform" while bringing to the fore the need for urgency in electoral reform.
