‘Sick, lame, dying and dead!’ - Warmington says Michael Manley’s grave under police guard

Controversial Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) member Everald Warmington has once again stirred controversy after launching a savage attack on the Opposition People's National Party (PNP), accusing it of scraping the political graveyard in a bid to stay relevant.

Speaking at a political meeting in St Catherine South Central on Sunday, the JLP stalwart declared that the PNP has become so bankrupt of ideas and fresh faces, they are now relying on what he described as the "sick, lame, dying and dead" to carry their message to the Jamaican people.

"Look pon K.D. Knight!" Warmington said, in reference to the 84-year-old senator, who served as a minister of government in the 1990s and early 2000s.

"Dem tek him offa di hospital bed, put him inna walker fi come come talk," Warmington said.

Knight, who has not been active on the campaign trail, recently appeared at a meeting where his daughter, Stacy-Ann Knight, was unveiled as the PNP's standard-bearer for St Andrew North East.

Warmington's assault on the PNP and its old guard did not stop there.

"Dem go fi Bobby Pickersgill inna di hearse, put him inna wheelchair fi come talk," Warmington said, his voice thick with sarcasm and scorn.

Like Knight, Pickersgill, who retired from politics in 2020, has retreated to the pavilion, but was recently seen at Stacy-Ann Knight's rally.

The jab at Pickersgill is just one part of Warmington's blistering take-down of the opposition. He said former PNP president and prime minister of Jamaica, PJ Patterson, was taken from a "nurses home" to campaign for the party. He also alleged that attempts were also made to get Portia Simpson Miller to the campaign trail.

"Dem go fi poor Portia Simpson [Miller], the husband lock di door and hide har from dem. Him nuh waah dem tek har out go campaign," Warmington said.

He continued: "If yuh go a Heroes Park, there are extra security down there to guard Michael Manley's grave, otherwise dem tek him up and campaign."