CLAREMONT:
A PEOPLE'S National Party (PNP) councillor lost his seat last week because of delinquency in attending meetings of the St. Ann Parish Council.
He is Kawayne Cunningham of the Bensonton Division, St. Ann South East.
As a result of the vacancy created by the loss of the seat, the number of PNP seats in the St. Ann Parish Council has been reduced from 13 to 11. Another PNP councillor lost her seat in similar circumstances about three months ago.
Information about Mr. Cunningham's delinquency was given to councillors attending the monthly meeting of the St. Ann Parish Council, St. Ann's Bay, on Thursday.
Dorothy Delgado, Secretary/Manager of the Parish Council, told the meeting that Councillor Cunningham had missed six consecutive monthly meetings of the Council, having last attended in September 2002. She said that under section 102 of the Parish Council Act his seat had automatically become vacant.
On December 12, 2002, Councillor Merline Millen of the Brown's Town Division, St. Ann North West, had her seat declared vacant after missing six consecutive meetings.
The PNP won 13 of the 16 divisions in the St. Ann Parish Council in the last Local Government Elections in 1998.
