Spencer

People's National Party (PNP) candidate for North East St. Elizabeth, Kern Spencer, has urged constituents not to retaliate for Saturday's stabbing of Clenna Sloley, the party secretary for the constituency.

Sloley, who is also a Justice of the Peace, was attacked by a masked man at her house just as she drove home about 4 o'clock, Saturday.

Emergency meeting

According to the Santa Cruz police, Sloley was stabbed several times all over her body with an ice pick before the robber sped off with her car. She was hospitalised, but has since been released.

Spencer on Sunday called an emergency meeting of the constituency executive to issue the warning.

Not to rush

"In the constituency now there is some disquiet," he told The Gleaner/Power 106 on Sunday. "There are some persons who believe that it may have been politically motivated and there are some persons who have indicated that it is straight robbery.

"I am trying to speak to the comrades of North East St. Elizabeth and tell them not to rush to any judgement and to allow the police to do their work and to maintain calm within the political organisation," he said.