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Weekly Report - 15 December 2011 (WR-11-50)
JAMAICA: Holness names the date
He will either turn out to be Jamaica’s shortest serving Prime Minister or its youngest elected to the post. Andrew Holness, the 39-year-old education minister who took over from Bruce Golding as leader of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and Prime Minister in October [WR-11-43] has called general elections for 29 December, declaring the need to seek his own mandate (elections were constitutionally due next year). His announcement comes as polls, which had shown Portia Simpson Miller, leader of the opposition People’s National Party (PNP) ahead, put the two candidates on a level pegging, suggesting the vote could go either way.
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