The Hyde community currently sits in the Trelawny Northern constituency, which is represented by Victor Wright of the Opposition People's National Party (PNP), but a recent change of the electoral boundaries will see the area forming part of the Trelawny Southern constituency, which is represented by the ruling Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP's) Marissa Dalrymple Philibert.
Dalrymple Philibert showed up with her supporters, along with the JLP councillor for the Sherwood Content Division, Dunstan Harper, while Wright was accompanied by Opposition spokesman for works, Mikhail Phillips, PNP councillor for Martha Brae Division Phillip Service, and other party supporters.
“I, as Member of Parliament [for Trelawny Southern], was awarded the work on the road to be done... Mr Wright, who is the Member of Parliament for [Trelawny Northern] and who I am proud to say he is from South Trelawny, he knows how I operate in South.
However, Dalrymple Philibert, who said she had been invited to visit the project by the contractor, countered that Wright only showed up because he had been informed that the grateful constituents are attributing the road repairs to the JLP.
“That Mr Wright has chosen to come now is because it has filtered to his ears that the people are thankful that a Jamaica Labour Party Government is fixing the roads after 30 years,” Dalrymple Philibert said.
