The Editor, Sir:

The JLP's position should be to wish Dr. Phinn well and have no official comment on his prophecies.

What you need to do is ensure that in Area Council One, the campaign (on the part of the JLP) is clean and corruption free. Organise, organise, organise, that is to be your focus. Trust in the Lord and not Dr. Phinn.

Church people are not fools, I am one so I should know. Allow each his or her own choice; the worstthing you could do is to allow yourself to be the fodder of the PNP. The propaganda machine of the PNP could try to make it look as if you are calling the Church samphie and obeah. That is politics in Jamaica. Therefore, the same position that the JLP took with Bill Johnson's polls is the same position to take with Phinn's prophecies (no comment).

If you feel you must, it would be wise to put it something like this: "The Jamaica Labour Party respects the Lord, Jesus Christ, and will do its best to abide by Christian principles, and ensure a respect and a reverence for God in Jamaica and to complete the will of God for this country so that whoever wins, the victory is not just one of a political party but one for all Jamaicans, JLP, PNP and no P."

I am, etc.,

DAMION HESLOP

Mandeville

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