By:
Erica Virtue, Senior Gleaner Writer
There is little excitement in the Portmore Municipality where the race is on for the only directly-elected Mayor in Jamaica.
The municipality is being contested by incumbent Keith Hinds (JLP) and challenger George Lee (PNP), himself a former mayor.
Independent candidate Alrick Davis is also seeking to become mayor.
Member of Parliament for St Catherine South East Colin Fagan, was among those in the ruling party bolstering support for the councillors in his constituency.
Fagan is expressing confidence ahead of the poll results that Lee will defeat Hinds and Councillor Alrick Campbell in the Edgewater division will be victorious.
Fagan said he expects the other PNP candidates to be successful as well.
The seats in the municipality are divisions in constituencies represented by Fagan, Fitz Jackson and Arnaldo Brown.
erica.virtue@gleanerjm.com
Whoever eventually wins the Red Hills division in the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation would, partly, have done so by satisfying residents that their cries for water will not fall on deaf ears.
Two years ago, Withney Smith quit her day job and returned to her home in Brompton, St Elizabeth, to get involved in politics.
Jamaicans are now preparing for another round of delayed local government elections that seemed set to be kicked further down the road by another administration that would rather have enough political mileage on their opponents before allowing Jamaican