Voters trickling in to polling stations in Trelawny Southern

Voters have been slowly making their way out to cast their ballots in the by-election in Trelawny Southern where the Jamaica Labour Party's Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert is going up against Lloyd 'Mozy' Gillings

All 96 polling stations in the constituency opened on time.

There were no lines when the Gleaner team visited three of the polling locations.

At Albert Town High School, where there are three polling stations, it was estimated that approximately 20 electors had voted up to 8:20 a.m.

Dalrymple-Philibert, who was last elected in 2020 for her fourth consecutive term, resigned as the constituency's member of parliament at the same time she stepped down as Speaker of the House of Representatives in September 2023 amid a damning Integrity Commission report.

Gillings, who ran on a People's National Party ticket and lost to Dalrymple-Philibert by a margin of 4,084 votes, is facing the electorate as an independent candidate.

- Albert Ferguson

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