By-election breach

CITIZENS Action for Free and Fair Elections (CAFFE) has joined calls for municipal corporations to hold four overdue by-elections, warning that the prolonged vacancies are leaving constituents without representation and undermining democratic accountability.

Speaking at a Jamaica Observer Press Club at CAFFE’s New Kingston offices last Thursday, former Chairman Dr Lloyd Barnett described the municipalities’ failure to fill the vacancies as a disregard of the law.

“They have completely ignored the law… There are four vacancies now.