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Caribbean & Central America - December 2015 (ISSN 1741-4458)
Jamaica’s Simpson Miller dithers over election call
Symmetry is against Jamaica’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, but that is a disadvantage she has every chance of overcoming when she eventually names the date for the general election. There had been hints that she was preparing to face the electorate this December, a year before constitutionally necessary, but the latest indications are that she is not yet ready for the encounter, declaring recently that she was waiting for word from above. On 15 November, she told a rally of the People’s National Party (PNP) supporters: “You will be appropriately informed when my master touches me and says ‘my daughter go nigh’.”
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