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Tuesday, August 13, 2013THE Opposition Jamaica Labour Party’s Beverly Prince will return to the fold of the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC) today, when she is sworn in as councillor after winning last week’s by-election in Cassia Park, East Central St Andrew.It will be the fourth term for Prince, representing the very same Cassia Park division. She has never lost the division, but lost her seat in the council in 2012 after she switched to the Hagley Park Division, in the same constituency, to accommodate JLP colleague, Joel Levy, whose Chancery Hall Division in West Rural St Andrew was realigned with North West St Andrew in 2011.Both Levy and Prince lost in 2012, while newcomer Duane Smith, son of former National Security Minister, Derrick Smith, took the newly recreated Chancery Hall Division.Prince’s only other loss in East Central St Andrew was to current Minister of Finance and Planning Dr Peter Phillips in the general election of December 2011.She scored 1,586 votes to the People’s National Party’s candidate Sheryn Bromfield’s 1,176 in last week’s by-election, changing party seating in the council chamber to 25 PNP and 15 JLP councillors.Under the KSAC Act, councillors must be sworn in at the first council meeting following their election. However, their election has to be formally confirmed by the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) before they can be sworn in.Up to yesterday afternoon, KSAC Town Clerk Errol Greene said that he had not yet received the documents. However, Deputy Director of Elections Earl Simpson assured that the documents were on their way to the KSAC and would be there in good time.The council meeting will be chaired by Mayor of Kingston, Councillor Angela Brown Burke.Newly elected Cassia Park councillor Beverly Prince (second right) poses with Member of Parliament Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange (second left) and party supporters before the election results were announced last Thursday. (PHOTO: BRYAN CUMMINGS)
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New Cassia Park councillor to be sworn in today
