SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland — Though councillor for the Savanna-la-Mar Division Julian Chang has resigned from the People’s National Party (PNP), she is reassuring faithful supporters that she is not abandoning them.

“I’m not leaving the people behind. I’m here to serve. I will stay with them,” she told the Jamaica Observer Monday.

Elected on an Opposition party ticket, she has had a torrid time since then. Now an independent councillor, she has promised to speak more, at a later date, on what led to Monday’s letter to the PNP general secretary in which she tendered her resignation with immediate effect.