ALL IS in place for the Local Government elections today, with the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) and Citizens' Action for Free and Fair Elections (CAFFE) reporting that they are ready to go.

Ballot boxes have been packed and ready, the Election Centre is up and running and Election Day workers and CAFFE volunteers have been trained. Both groups were up to yesterday evening fine-tuning plans to ensure success.

"All is ready, we're very prepared," Director of Elections, Danville Walker, said.

He said that "no peculiarities" are expected with the voters' list this time around, especially after foul-ups experienced on Monday when scores of policemen's names were not on the voters' list when they turned out. "We're expecting everything to run smoothly," he said.

For its part CAFFE, the local non-partisan election monitoring group, was yesterday finalising details for volunteer deployment in all parishes and director Fabian Brown said that just about 2,000 volunteers had been trained.

Bibs and identification cards have also been handed out.

"We're hoping to see approximately 1,500 volunteers in polling stations across the island," he said. "We've completed the recruiting and training process, and are trying to ascertain where each of the observers is going to be tomorrow (today)."

Professor Errol Miller, chairman of the Electoral Advisory Committee, had said earlier that the EOJ and EAC were fully prepared for the elections and were approaching them with the same level of seriousness that they did for last year's General Election.

He said that all the necessary logistical arrangements for the elections had been made and he expected them to be even better run than last year's General Election.