Weekly Report - 05 January 2012 (WR-12-01)

Calling snap elections was a brave move by Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness. In the event it backfired badly. The People’s National Party (PNP) led by Portia Simpson Miller won an emphatic victory on 29 December: it took 41 of the 63 seats in parliament, 13 more than in 2007. As we go to press Simpson Miller is being sworn in: she had become Jamaica’s first female prime minister in 2006 after PJ Patterson stepped down, but lost power the following year.

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