Patterson: PNP will bounce back - Won’t back Phillips replacement as Golding hints at leadership ambitions

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Patterson: PNP will bounce back - Won’t back Phillips replacement as Golding hints at leadership ambitions

Though badly bruised from its pummelling at the polls on September 3, the People’s National Party (PNP) will recover from its worst electoral beating in 40 years, elder statesman P.J. Patterson has said. But the former prime minister and party...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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