JLP describes as shameful PNP President’s failure to condemn statements made by his Executive Committee

The Jamaica Labour Party is describing as shameful the failure of PNP President Mark Golding to condemn statements made by his Executive Committee members, who confessed that the PNP would use delay tactics to stop projects under NaRRA and discussed a potential smear campaign against Major General Antony Anderson despite admitting that the NaRRA CEO has a clean track record.

Jamaica Labour Party Communication Chairman, Senator Abka Fitz-Henley, says: “That the PNP President spent two minutes speaking about the issue but failed to condemn the comments made by his Executive Committee members is shameful and a disgrace. Golding’s comments show that he is not suited for leadership. What Golding cannot deny is that the statements were made in a PNP WhatsApp group called ‘Executive Members.’ He cannot deny that the group has the PNP logo as its display photo and that the vast majority of his Executive Committee, including co-opted individuals, are members of the group. His comments are therefore misleading and a disgrace.” 

Senator Fitz-Henley further commented: “It is not surprising that Mr. Golding failed to condemn the assertion of likely delay tactics made by one of his Executive Committee members and the discussion raised by another about attaching corruption to an honourable Jamaican because both statements are consistent with the modus operandi of the PNP under his leadership.” 

Media reports have indicated that the voice notes were sent in the PNP Executive WhatsApp group on May 27, 2026, shortly after Major General Antony Anderson was announced to head the National Resilience and Reconstruction Authority (NaRRA). In the first piece of leaked audio, a PNP Executive member, who is a sitting PNP councillor, may be heard stating: “Bear in mind that the NaRRA is what the JLP sees as its glory and its savior for a fourth term. So they see NaRRA as a saving grace and they are going to do everything in their power to try to get things done, which means bypassing, like all parish council, which, you know, we probably would do delay tactics and they don’t get it, which is why they did it that way. But safety standards and these things is a concern. So let’s continue to play our ball game of politics.”

 In the second piece of audio, which has gone viral in the public domain, a member of the PNP Executive, who is the Chairman of one of the party’s regional committees, is heard referencing Major General Anderson’s appointment to lead NaRRA and saying: “The concern I’m raising is that Anderson’s track record is not one full of blemishes that it will be so easy to attach certain things to him. The corruption argument is not going to be attached to him so easily, right? In my humble opinion, I think they’ve outsmarted us and put in this man to be a CEO and whatever reality is, we need to ensure that the average Jamaican is saying we don’t care who he is and him could have full integrity like, whoa, he could have been whatever. He’s the man who sorted out all of the hurricane relief that got it to Jamaica, whether we know it or not. So I would love for us to be able to put that information together, package it for the ground so that the average Jamaican can get that information.” -30- Attached: Audio and image of Senator Abka Fitz-Henley.