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#JaVotes2020 | Malahoo Forte confident that community work will secure the win

Marlene Malahoo Forte, the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) electoral candidate for the St James West Central seat, is confident that the work she has done in the constituency, including intervention programmes for students and parents, will win...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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