Fayval Williams using message of Marcus Garvey to improve lives in St Andrew Eastern

Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) candidate for St Andrew Eastern Fayval Williams says the decision to pay her nomination fee with 150 $100 notes was to honour Jamaica's first National Hero Marcus Garvey.

Garvey is depicted on the $100 note.

It also came a week after Williams addressed the awards ceremony for the Marcus Garvey Scholarship, which provides full funding to public sector employees to complete tertiary training.

"My team was having a little fun with it. For me, that was the significance. My team had other ideas as well, but the common theme among them was Marcus Garvey," she told journalists after her nomination.

Williams, who left the private sector to enter representational politics, is seeking a third term as Member of Parliament for St Andrew Eastern.

She will be going up against Patricia Duncan Sutherland from the main opposition People's National Party and Carl Cargill from the Jamaica Progressive Party.

Williams said, among other things, she is seeking another term so she can assist residents in completing housing developments that "they have started 10, 15 years ago" and "really want to finish".

"That's what I would love to do for them," she said, noting that there is a significant need for improved housing across the constituency.

Williams, who is also a former education minister, described her time in politics so far as "extremely fulfilling".

She listed the enactment of the Data Protection Act and jump-starting the transformation in the education system as two of her biggest achievements to date.

"There are a whole host of things that I could go through that have been fulfilling," she said.

- Livern Barrett

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