Buchanan

Newly-elected general secretary of the People's National Party (PNP), Donald Buchanan, says he is not concerned about taking up the post at such a critical time when the party is preparing for a general election.

Mr. Buchanan was elected as the 12th general secretary of the PNP during the party's National Executive Council at the Jamaica Con-ference Centre in downtown Kingston.

"I am not fazed by the fact that a general election is due by October of next year," he told The Gleaner yesterday.

Mr. Buchanan said that after the party lost the 1980 General Election he became deputy general secretary and subsequently saw the party win the 1986 Local Government Elections and the 1989 General Elec-tions. In 1990, the party also won the Local Government Elections before he relinquished the post.

Mr. Buchanan replaces Colin Campbell, who resigned from the post after the Trafigura scandal which saw the party admitting to receiving $31 million as a "gift" from a Dutch company which was in business arrangements with the Government.