JLP Slams PNP Proposal to Tax Imported Food

The governing Jamaica Labour Party, JLP is rejecting as ill-advised and a recipe for disaster, a suggestion by opposition spokesman on agriculture, Dr. Dayton Campbell, that the People’s National Party, PNP, would impose a tax on all imported food items should it form the next government.

Morgan was responding to a story, published by RJR News, in which Dr. Campbell is reported to have made the comments at a PNP meeting in South East St. Elizabeth earlier this week.

According to Morgan, such a move would only cause pain for Jamaicans.

Morgan says the Holness administration would never countenance the idea of taxing all imported food items.

And Marlon Morgan says remarks by Dr. Dayton Campbell that a PNP administration will ban the importation of Irish potato and onions, will only serve to drive up the price of the commodities for local consumers.

Morgan says the JLP has a fundamentally different philosophy from the PNP concerning the issue of taxation.

Marlon Morgan, a member of the JLP’s Communications Task Force.