PROSPECTIVE CANDIDATES of the governing People's National Party (PNP) in future elections will be subjected to stricter selection criteria, including sitting written examinations.
Yesterday the party's National Executive Council (NEC) at its regular monthly meeting passed its "candidate selection criteria", Maxine Henry-Wilson, the party's General Secretary told The Gleaner last night.
She said that those already selected will not be confirmed until they have "gone through the process".
"It's not just criteria in the sense of honesty and all that. They also have to prove that they have the capability to organise and mobilise the community," she said. "We also have what you could call a course of study...it will be a prescribed course which will be developed specifically for the party," she added.
The course content will look at the party's history, the role of representation, the role of the state "and so forth," Mrs Henry-Wilson said.
