NORMAN HORNE, Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Senator, has indicated that he intends to contest the St. Elizabeth south east seat in the 2007 general election.
Mr. Horne had, in October 2002, gone up against John Junor of the People's National Party in Central Manchester but was defeated. He was appointed senator by Opposition Leader Edward Seaga following that defeat.
Last week Mr. Horne was unanimously elected as vice-chairman of the JLP's executive for the St. Elizabeth constituency.
"This is a decisive step towards Horne's candidacy for representing the JLP in this constituency," a release from the executive said.
In his response to the delegates for their overwhelming support, Mr. Horne who recently resigned as caretaker for Central Man-chester, said there was a "difference between where you live and where you belong." He said he belonged in south east St. Elizabeth.
In expressing his vision for the constituency he stated that every person in the south east St. Elizabeth must be touched by the work of the executive. He said the development of the constituency would stand as an example for all other constituencies to replicate.
He said that development has already started.
Having already raised $120,000 for the installation of flush toilets at the Ballard's Primary School in Junction, the senator pledged to rid all the schools in the constituency of pit latrines. In addressing this issue, the senator said that institutions of learning must be places of development and advancement of our youth, not symbols of "backwardness and regression as is demonstrated every time a child uses a pit latrine."
