The Jamaica Progressive Party, JPP, has unveiled an elaborate manifesto with several plans including repaying all the country’s debt, within 90 days after elections.
The Christian-based political party is led by Gilbert Alexander Edwards, a returning resident from the US.
Mr. Alexander Edwards says the Prime Minister and Leader of the governing Jamaica Labour Party, Andrew Holness, is threatened by the third party.
A minimum wage of over 65-thousand dollars per week, free education, up to the tertiary level, student loan forgiveness and free health care are some of things that will become a reality, if the JPP is elected to form the government in the country’s next general election.
That’s according to JPP president, Gilbert Alexander Edwards.
He says all those initiatives will be financed by his own funds.
The same resources he plans to use to clear all two-trillion dollars of Jamaica’s debts.
He’s also promising to pay Jamaican doctors in line with what their counterparts make in the US.
Mr Alexander Edwards, who toured sections of western Jamaica Monday, says people are very receptive.
In fact, he says both parties view the JPP as a serious threat.
Mr Alexander Edwards says members of both parties know him very well, from 2015 when he was about to join the National Democratic Movement, NDM.
He says he returned to the US to work on liquidating his assets.
When asked why not just donate the funds to the government to solve the nation’s problems, the JPP President had this to say…
