Generation 2000

BY BALFORD HENRY Observer senior reporter balfordh@jamaicaobserver.com
Friday, May 11, 2012

DELANO Seiveright, president of Generation 2000 (G2K) — the young professionals' affiliate of the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) — is retiring from the position.

Seiveright told the Jamaica Observer Wednesday, following a press conference at the JLP's headquarters on Belmont Road in Kingston, that he hopes to relinquish the position by the end of June when a special Annual General Meeting of the organisation will be held to elect a new executive.

Published: Thursday | May 10, 2012
Daraine Luton, Senior Staff Reporter
daraine.luton@gleanerjm.com
Jamaica Gleaner

GENERATION 2000 (G2K), the professional arm of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), is being encouraged to move away from relying overwhelming on its president as the voice of the organisation.

A review committee, which considered the state of the G2K following the JLP's general election defeat in December, identified issues of leadership, tribalism and intolerance as areas which need to be addressed within the organisation.

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