By Damion Mitchell, Staff Reporter 
Golding
BRUCE GOLDING, chairman of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has said that the organisation would soon be moving to address its leadership squabbles.
He was addressing party supporters at a joint conference of the Llandewey and Yallahs parish council divisions at the Yallahs Primary School in St. Thomas on Wednesday.
"There are things happening within the party now that we have to break up and manage," he said adding that "over the next couple of days, a number of initiatives will be taken to calm whatever feathers have been ruffled."
However, he did not outline the initiatives and when questioned by The Gleaner, he was still tight-lipped. "I would not want to go into any details. We are going to be a strong party, we are going to be a united party, (but) it requires strong leadership and we are going to do it," he said.
In his address, JLP General-Secretary Karl Samuda also said there were struggles within the party. "All is not well, in the JLP and it makes no use that we try to hide it," he said. "What we want is for everybody in the JLP to stifle their own personal interest to defeat the PNP."
Mr. Samuda also urged party supporters to help their councillors to further build the organisation at the grassroots level.
Within the last few weeks, widespread discussions have been generated over the JLP leadership following the decision of party leader Edward Seaga to chair the party's influential Selection Committee a position the party chairman traditionally held.
DISRUPTED
On Sunday, members of the Central Executive should have voted to decide who should chair the committee but the meeting was reportedly disrupted by the behaviour of a senior party member.
On Monday, the party's standing committee voted to accept the recommendation of the Constitutional Committee that Mr. Seaga should head the Selection Committee.
Another matter which has provoked widespread discussions was Mr. Seaga's announcement on Monday that Central Clarendon Member of Parliament, Mike Henry, and North Central Clarendon MP, Pearnel Charles, have been designated to observe and report to him, happenings within the party.
